Journal ArticleCirculation · February 6, 2024
Multiple applications for machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in cardiovascular imaging are being proposed and developed. However, the processes involved in implementing AI in cardiovascular imaging are highly diverse, varying by imaging moda ...
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Journal ArticleJACC Cardiovasc Imaging · November 2022
Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) was created to standardize reporting system for patients undergoing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and to guide possible next steps in patient management. The goal of this updated 2022 CAD-RADS 2 ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Coll Radiol · November 2022
Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) was created to standardize reporting system for patients undergoing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and to guide possible next steps in patient management. The goal of this updated 2022 CAD-RADS 2 ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Cardiothorac Imaging · October 2022
Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) was created to standardize reporting system for patients undergoing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and to guide possible next steps in patient management. The goal of this updated 2022 CAD-RADS 2 ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Med Inform Decis Mak · April 15, 2022
BACKGROUND: There is progress to be made in building artificially intelligent systems to detect abnormalities that are not only accurate but can handle the true breadth of findings that radiologists encounter in body (chest, abdomen, and pelvis) computed t ...
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Journal ArticleChest · February 2022
BACKGROUND: Interstitial lung abnormalities (ILA) may represent undiagnosed early-stage or subclinical interstitial lung disease (ILD). ILA are often observed incidentally in patients who subsequently develop clinically overt ILD. There is limited informat ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Artif Intell · January 2022
PURPOSE: To design multidisease classifiers for body CT scans for three different organ systems using automatically extracted labels from radiology text reports. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective study included a total of 12 092 patients (mean age, ...
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ConferenceProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2022
Despite the potential of weakly supervised learning to automatically annotate massive amounts of data, little is known about its limitations for use in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD). For CT specifically, interpreting the performance of CAD algorithms can ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · 2022
Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) was created to standardize reporting system for patients undergoing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and to guide possible next steps in patient management. The goal of this updated 2022 CAD-RADS 2 ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · June 2021
Infection with SARS-CoV-2 ranges from an asymptomatic condition to a severe and sometimes fatal disease, with mortality most frequently being the result of acute lung injury. The role of imaging has evolved during the pandemic, with CT initially being an a ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · March 2021
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is defined by a mean pulmonary artery pressure greater than 20 mm Hg and classified into five different groups sharing similar pathophysiologic mechanisms, hemodynamic characteristics, and therapeutic management. Radiologists pl ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · March 2021
Use of molecular targeting agents and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has increased the frequency and broadened the spectrum of lung toxicity, particularly in patients with cancer. The diagnosis of drug-related pneumonitis (DRP) is usually achieved by ...
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Journal ArticleChest · March 2021
Use of molecular targeting agents and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has increased the frequency and broadened the spectrum of lung toxicity, particularly in patients with cancer. The diagnosis of drug-related pneumonitis (DRP) is usually achieved by ...
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Journal Article · February 4, 2021
Purpose: To develop high throughput multi-label annotators for body (chest,
abdomen, and pelvis) Computed Tomography (CT) reports that can be applied
across a variety of abnormalities, organs, and disease states.
Approach: We used a dictionary approach t ...
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Journal ArticleMed Image Anal · January 2021
Machine learning models for radiology benefit from large-scale data sets with high quality labels for abnormalities. We curated and analyzed a chest computed tomography (CT) data set of 36,316 volumes from 19,993 unique patients. This is the largest multip ...
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Journal ArticleEur Respir J · January 2021
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is defined by a mean pulmonary artery pressure greater than 20 mmHg and classified into five different groups sharing similar pathophysiologic mechanisms, haemodynamic characteristics, and therapeutic management. Radiologists pl ...
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Journal ArticleJ Med Imaging (Bellingham) · January 2021
Purpose: Quantifying stenosis in cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA) images remains a difficult task, as image noise and cardiac motion can degrade image quality and distort underlying anatomic information. The purpose of this study was to develo ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · 2021
BACKGROUND: Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and contrast-enhanced thoracic CT (CECT) are distinctly different diagnostic procedures that involve intravenous contrast-enhanced CT of the chest. The technical component of these procedures is reimbursed at the ...
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Journal ArticleCirculation · February 6, 2024
Multiple applications for machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in cardiovascular imaging are being proposed and developed. However, the processes involved in implementing AI in cardiovascular imaging are highly diverse, varying by imaging moda ...
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Journal ArticleJACC Cardiovasc Imaging · November 2022
Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) was created to standardize reporting system for patients undergoing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and to guide possible next steps in patient management. The goal of this updated 2022 CAD-RADS 2 ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Coll Radiol · November 2022
Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) was created to standardize reporting system for patients undergoing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and to guide possible next steps in patient management. The goal of this updated 2022 CAD-RADS 2 ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Cardiothorac Imaging · October 2022
Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) was created to standardize reporting system for patients undergoing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and to guide possible next steps in patient management. The goal of this updated 2022 CAD-RADS 2 ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Med Inform Decis Mak · April 15, 2022
BACKGROUND: There is progress to be made in building artificially intelligent systems to detect abnormalities that are not only accurate but can handle the true breadth of findings that radiologists encounter in body (chest, abdomen, and pelvis) computed t ...
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Journal ArticleChest · February 2022
BACKGROUND: Interstitial lung abnormalities (ILA) may represent undiagnosed early-stage or subclinical interstitial lung disease (ILD). ILA are often observed incidentally in patients who subsequently develop clinically overt ILD. There is limited informat ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Artif Intell · January 2022
PURPOSE: To design multidisease classifiers for body CT scans for three different organ systems using automatically extracted labels from radiology text reports. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective study included a total of 12 092 patients (mean age, ...
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ConferenceProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2022
Despite the potential of weakly supervised learning to automatically annotate massive amounts of data, little is known about its limitations for use in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD). For CT specifically, interpreting the performance of CAD algorithms can ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · 2022
Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) was created to standardize reporting system for patients undergoing coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and to guide possible next steps in patient management. The goal of this updated 2022 CAD-RADS 2 ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · June 2021
Infection with SARS-CoV-2 ranges from an asymptomatic condition to a severe and sometimes fatal disease, with mortality most frequently being the result of acute lung injury. The role of imaging has evolved during the pandemic, with CT initially being an a ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · March 2021
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is defined by a mean pulmonary artery pressure greater than 20 mm Hg and classified into five different groups sharing similar pathophysiologic mechanisms, hemodynamic characteristics, and therapeutic management. Radiologists pl ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · March 2021
Use of molecular targeting agents and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has increased the frequency and broadened the spectrum of lung toxicity, particularly in patients with cancer. The diagnosis of drug-related pneumonitis (DRP) is usually achieved by ...
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Journal ArticleChest · March 2021
Use of molecular targeting agents and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has increased the frequency and broadened the spectrum of lung toxicity, particularly in patients with cancer. The diagnosis of drug-related pneumonitis (DRP) is usually achieved by ...
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Journal Article · February 4, 2021
Purpose: To develop high throughput multi-label annotators for body (chest,
abdomen, and pelvis) Computed Tomography (CT) reports that can be applied
across a variety of abnormalities, organs, and disease states.
Approach: We used a dictionary approach t ...
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Journal ArticleMed Image Anal · January 2021
Machine learning models for radiology benefit from large-scale data sets with high quality labels for abnormalities. We curated and analyzed a chest computed tomography (CT) data set of 36,316 volumes from 19,993 unique patients. This is the largest multip ...
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Journal ArticleEur Respir J · January 2021
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is defined by a mean pulmonary artery pressure greater than 20 mmHg and classified into five different groups sharing similar pathophysiologic mechanisms, haemodynamic characteristics, and therapeutic management. Radiologists pl ...
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Journal ArticleJ Med Imaging (Bellingham) · January 2021
Purpose: Quantifying stenosis in cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA) images remains a difficult task, as image noise and cardiac motion can degrade image quality and distort underlying anatomic information. The purpose of this study was to develo ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · 2021
BACKGROUND: Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) and contrast-enhanced thoracic CT (CECT) are distinctly different diagnostic procedures that involve intravenous contrast-enhanced CT of the chest. The technical component of these procedures is reimbursed at the ...
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Journal ArticleChest · November 2020
BACKGROUND: A number of organizations, including the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), recommend lung cancer screening (LCS) with low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging for high-risk current and former smokers. In 2015, Medicare issued a decision to cover LC ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · July 2020
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With more than 900 000 confirmed cases worldwide and nearly 50 000 deaths during the first 3 months of 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has emerged as an unprecedented health care crisis. The spread of COVID-19 has been heterogeneous, ...
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Journal ArticleChest · July 2020
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With more than 900,000 confirmed cases worldwide and nearly 50,000 deaths during the first 3 months of 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has emerged as an unprecedented health care crisis. The spread of COVID-19 has been heterogeneous, ...
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Journal ArticleJ Med Imaging (Bellingham) · March 2020
We sought to characterize local lung complexity in chest computed tomography (CT) and to characterize its impact on the detectability of pulmonary nodules. Forty volumetric chest CT scans were created by embedding between three and five simulated 5-mm lung ...
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ConferenceProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2020
Weakly supervised disease classification of CT imaging suffers from poor localization owing to case-level annotations, where even a positive scan can hold hundreds to thousands of negative slices along multiple planes. Furthermore, although deep learning s ...
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ConferenceProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2020
Lack of annotated data is a major challenge to machine learning algorithms, particularly in the field of radiology. Algorithms that can efficiently extract labels in a fast and precise manner are in high demand. Weak supervision is a compromise solution, p ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Coll Radiol · December 2019
OBJECTIVE: The association between access to CT facilities for lung cancer screening and population characteristics is understudied. We aimed to determine the relationship between census tract-level socioeconomic characteristics (SEC) and driving distance ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Coll Radiol · January 2019
PURPOSE: Spatial access to health care resources is a requisite for utilization. Our purpose was to determine, at a census tract level, the geographic distribution of US smokers and their driving distance to an ACR-accredited CT facility. METHODS: The numb ...
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ConferenceProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2019
Many researchers in the field of machine learning have addressed the problem of detecting anomalies within Computed Tomography (CT) scans. Training these machine learning algorithms requires a dataset of CT scans with identified anomalies (labels), usually ...
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ConferenceProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2019
Our goal is to develop a 2.5D CNN model to detect multiple diseases in multiple organs in CT scans. In this study we investigated detection of 4 common diseases in the lungs, which are atelectasis, edema, pneumonia and nodule. Most existing algorithms for ...
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ConferenceProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2019
Purpose: When conducting machine learning algorithms on classification and detection of abnormalities for medical imaging, many researchers are faced with the problem that it is hard to get enough labeled data. This is especially difficult for modalities s ...
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ConferenceProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2019
Our goal is to investigate using only case-level labels extracted automatically from radiology reports to construct a multi-disease classifier for CT scans with deep learning method. We chose four lung diseases as a start: atelectasis, pulmonary edema, nod ...
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ConferenceProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2019
Purpose To accurately segment organs from 3D CT image volumes using a 2D, multi-channel SegNet model consisting of a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) encoder-decoder architecture. Method We trained a SegNet model on the extended cardiac-Torso (XCAT) ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2019
Imaging the heart and its associated structures is among the most challenging applications for computed tomography. This chapter begins with basic anatomy and key physiological properties of the heart that are important for cardiac CT. The next section foc ...
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Journal ArticleObstet Gynecol · October 2018
BACKGROUND: Portal hypertension in pregnancy is associated with elevated risk of variceal hemorrhage. Ectopic varices, those located outside the esophagus or stomach, are rare but have a high risk of associated maternal morbidity or mortality. CASE: A 31-y ...
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Journal ArticleJ Med Imaging (Bellingham) · October 2018
The purpose of this study is to (1) develop metrics to characterize the regional anatomical complexity of the lungs, and (2) relate these metrics with lung nodule detection in chest CT. A free-scrolling reader-study with virtually inserted nodules (13 radi ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · August 2018
While the looming threat of large-scale disruptive innovation consumes disproportionate attention, incremental innovation remains an important tool for preserving and growing radiology practices within a dynamic marketplace. Incremental innovation, defined ...
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Journal ArticleCatheter Cardiovasc Interv · August 1, 2018
The stimulus to create this document was the recognition that ionizing radiation-guided cardiovascular procedures are being performed with increasing frequency, leading to greater patient radiation exposure and, potentially, to greater exposure for clinica ...
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Journal ArticleCatheter Cardiovasc Interv · August 1, 2018
The stimulus to create this document was the recognition that ionizing radiation-guided cardiovascular procedures are being performed with increasing frequency, leading to greater patient radiation exposure and, potentially, to greater exposure to clinical ...
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Journal ArticleJ Med Imaging (Bellingham) · January 2018
The purpose of this study was to develop a dynamic physical cardiac phantom with a realistic coronary plaque to investigate stenosis measurement accuracy under clinically relevant heart-rates. The coronary plaque model (5 mm diameter, 50% stenosis, and 32 ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · November 2017
These recommendations for measuring pulmonary nodules at computed tomography (CT) are a statement from the Fleischner Society and, as such, incorporate the opinions of a multidisciplinary international group of thoracic radiologists, pulmonologists, surgeo ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · July 2017
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The Fleischner Society Guidelines for management of solid nodules were published in 2005, and separate guidelines for subsolid nodules were issued in 2013. Since then, new information has become available; therefore, the guidelines have been revised to ref ...
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Journal ArticleMed Phys · July 2017
PURPOSE: To explore the characteristics that impact lung nodule detection by peripheral vision when searching for lung nodules on chest CT-scans. METHODS: This study was approved by the local IRB and is HIPAA compliant. A simulated primary (1°) target mass ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · June 2017
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In both the United States and Europe, efforts to reduce soaring health care costs have led to intense scrutiny of both standard and innovative uses of imaging. Given that the United States spends a larger share of its gross domestic product on health care ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Coll Radiol · May 2017
RadiologyInfo.org is a public information portal designed to support patient care and broaden public awareness of the essential role radiology plays in overall patient health care. Over the past 14 years, RadiologyInfo.org has evolved considerably to provi ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · May 2017
In health care organizations, effective investment of precious resources is critical to assure that the organization delivers high-quality and sustainable patient care within a supportive environment for patients, their families, and the health care provid ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · April 2017
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to analyze implementation of the voice-of-the-customer method to assess the current state of image postprocessing and reporting delivered by a radiology department and to plan improvements on the basis of referring ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · February 2017
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Costs direct decisions that influence the effectiveness of radiology in the care of patients on a daily basis. Yet many radiologists struggle to harness the power of cost measurement and cost management as a critical path toward establishing their value in ...
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ConferenceProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2017
The purpose of this study was to develop metrics of local anatomical complexity and compare them with detectability of lung nodules in CT. Data were drawn retrospectively from a published perception experiment in which detectability was assessed in cases e ...
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ConferenceProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2017
The purpose of this study was to quantify the accuracy of coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) stenosis measurements using newly developed physical coronary plaque models attached to a base dynamic cardiac phantom (Shelley Medical DHP-01). Corona ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Coll Radiol · December 2016
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The intent of CAD-RADS - Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System is to create a standardized method to communicate findings of coronary CT angiography (coronary CTA) in order to facilitate decision-making regarding further patient management. The ...
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Journal ArticleClin Hemorheol Microcirc · November 25, 2016
PURPOSE: To evaluate changes in aortoiliac volume after endovascular repair (EVAR) for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in patients with and without endoleaks. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed 137 patients who underwent EVAR for AAA. We ma ...
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Journal ArticleJACC Cardiovasc Imaging · September 2016
The intent of CAD-RADS - Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System is to create a standardized method to communicate findings of coronary CT angiography (coronary CTA) in order to facilitate decision-making regarding further patient management. The ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Intern Med · July 19, 2016
BACKGROUND: PROMISE (PROspective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain) found that initial use of at least 64-slice multidetector computed tomography angiography (CTA) versus functional diagnostic testing strategies did not improve clinica ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · 2016
The intent of CAD-RADS - Coronary Artery Disease Reporting and Data System is to create a standardized method to communicate findings of coronary CT angiography (coronary CTA) in order to facilitate decision-making regarding further patient management. The ...
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Journal ArticleJ Thorac Imaging · March 2015
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Fundamental to the diagnosis of lung cancer in computed tomography (CT) scans is the detection and interpretation of lung nodules. As the capabilities of CT scanners have advanced, higher levels of spatial resolution reveal tinier lung abnormalities. Not a ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · January 2015
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PURPOSE: To determine the effectiveness of radiologists' search, recognition, and acceptance of lung nodules on computed tomographic (CT) images by using eye tracking. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was performed with a protocol approved by the institut ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · November 2014
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Computed tomography (CT) has had a profound effect on the practice of medicine. Both the spectrum of clinical applications and the role that CT has played in enhancing the depth of our understanding of disease have been profound. Although almost 90 000 art ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · July 2014
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PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence of demonstrable stent-graft degradation by using three-dimensional computed tomographic (CT) angiography to assess endoleak and stent-graft migration after endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR). MATERIALS AND METHO ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · June 2014
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Through a marriage of spiral computed tomography (CT) and graphical volumetric image processing, CT angiography was born 20 years ago. Fueled by a series of technical innovations in CT and image processing, over the next 5-15 years, CT angiography toppled ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · March 2014
PURPOSE: To retrospectively assess the use of a combination of cancellous bone reconstructions (CBR) and multiplanar reconstructions (MPRs) for the detection of bone metastases at thoracoabdominal computed tomography (CT) compared with the use of MPRs alon ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Coll Radiol · December 2013
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Coronary heart disease (CHD) is highly prevalent and is the primary cause of death for both men and women, worldwide. Because the disease develops over many years, there are opportunities to intervene and alter the course of CHD, assuming that there are re ...
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Journal ArticleEplasty · 2013
OBJECTIVE: Computed tomographic angiography (CTA) can be used to obtain 3-dimensional vascular images and soft-tissue definition. The goal of this study was to evaluate the reliability, usefulness, and pitfalls of CTA in preoperative planning of microvascu ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph · January 2013
Direct projection of 3D branching structures, such as networks of cables, blood vessels, or neurons onto a 2D image creates the illusion of intersecting structural parts and creates challenges for understanding and communication. We present a method for vi ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Cardiol · October 4, 2012
PURPOSE: To evaluate plaque image characteristics in coronary artery culprit-lesions in subjects with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), we retrospectively compared coronary arterial images by 64-slice CT before conventional-coronary-angiogram with those by i ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Radiol · October 2012
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PURPOSE: To assess the effect of radiation dose reduction on the appearance and visual quantification of specific CT patterns of fungal infection in immuno-compromised patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Raw data of thoracic CT scans (64 × 0.75 mm, 120 kVp, 3 ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · June 2012
PURPOSE: To assess the feasibility and diagnostic performance of time-resolved computed tomographic (CT) angiography in the detection and classification of endoleaks after endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) in high-risk patients. MATERIALS AND METH ...
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Journal ArticleAcad Radiol · February 2012
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RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To determine the accuracy and reproducibility of a remote eye-tracking system for studies of observer gaze while displaying volumetric chest computed tomography (CT) images. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Four participants performed calib ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · January 2012
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of a quality control program on reducing errors in the generation of 3D images. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The average monthly error rate in reports by six 3D technologists (0.5-11 years of experien ...
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Journal ArticleJ Digit Imaging · December 2011
Aortoiliac and lower extremity arterial atherosclerotic plaque burden is a risk factor for the development of visceral and peripheral ischemic and aneurismal vascular disease. While prior research allows automated quantification of calcified plaque in thes ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · December 2011
OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to assess whether there is an association between native thoracic aortic curvature and the development of endoleaks after thoracic endovascular aortic repair. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Quantitative analysis of the nat ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · July 2011
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OBJECTIVE: In this review, we attempt to address many of the issues that are related to ensuring patient benefit in body CT, balancing the use of ionizing radiation and iodinated contrast media. We attempt to not only summarize the literature but also make ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vasc Interv Radiol · July 2011
PURPOSE: To determine the association of native thoracic aortic curvature measured from computed tomographic (CT) angiography categorized by discriminant analysis with the development of endoleaks after thoracic endovascular aortic repair (EVAR). MATERIALS ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph · January 2011
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In three-dimensional medical imaging, segmentation of specific anatomy structure is often a preprocessing step for computer-aided detection/diagnosis (CAD) purposes, and its performance has a significant impact on diagnosis of diseases as well as objective ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cardiovasc Magn Reson · December 30, 2010
BACKGROUND: Coronary wall cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is a promising noninvasive approach to assess subclinical atherosclerosis, but data are limited in subjects over 60 years old, who are at increased risk. The purpose of the study was to eval ...
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Journal ArticleCirculation · November 23, 2010
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The American College of Cardiology Foundation, along with key specialty and subspecialty societies, conducted an appropriate use review of common clinical scenarios where cardiac computed tomography (CCT) is frequently considered. The present document is a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Coll Cardiol · November 23, 2010
The American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), along with key specialty and subspecialty societies, conducted an appropriate use review of common clinical scenarios where cardiac computed tomography (CCT) is frequently considered. The present docume ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vasc Interv Radiol · November 2010
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The degree of angulation of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) has emerged as an important factor in assessing eligibility for endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). The authors developed an automatic algorithm that reduces variability of measurement of aorto ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · June 2010
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of incidental extracardiac findings on coronary CT, to determine the associated downstream resource utilization, and to estimate additional costs per patient related to the associated diag ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · May 2010
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PURPOSE: To determine the clinical importance of the bird-beak configuration after thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR). MATERIALS AND METHODS: The institutional review board approved this retrospective study and waived the requirement to obtain inf ...
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Journal ArticleMed Phys · April 2010
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PURPOSE: The authors examine potential bias when using a reference reader panel as "gold standard" for estimating operating characteristics of CAD algorithms for detecting lesions. As an alternative, the authors propose latent class analysis (LCA), which d ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Clin North Am · March 2010
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From technical and interpretative perspectives, upper extremity computed tomographic angiography (CTA) is one of the more challenging vascular CTA applications. Synchronizing the relatively large scan coverage with a single bolus of contrast medium require ...
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Journal ArticleEur Radiol · March 2010
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OBJECTIVE: The diagnostic performance of radiologists using incremental CAD assistance for lung nodule detection on CT and their temporal variation in performance during CAD evaluation was assessed. METHODS: CAD was applied to 20 chest multidetector-row co ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · 2010
The American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), along with key specialty and subspecialty societies, conducted an appropriate use review of common clinical scenarios where cardiac computed tomography (CCT) is frequently considered. The present docume ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing · December 1, 2009
We implemented a system for remote radiology learning which provides immediate feedback to the learner. Using a thin remote client, expert readers are asked to answer questions about specified radiological findings. These scans are presented as realtime 2D ...
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Journal ArticleMed Phys · November 2009
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PURPOSE: The authors develop a method to visualize the abdominal aorta and its branches, obtained by CT or MR angiography, in a single 2D stylistic image without overlap among branches. METHODS: The abdominal aortic vasculature is modeled as an articulated ...
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Journal ArticleProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE · June 15, 2009
We are investigating the feasibility of a computer-aided detection (CAD) system to assist radiologists in diagnosing coronary artery disease in ECG gated cardiac multi-detector CT scans having calcified plaque. Coronary artery stenosis analysis is challeng ...
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Journal ArticleAm Heart J · May 2009
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BACKGROUND: Change in coronary artery calcification is a surrogate marker of subclinical coronary artery disease (CAD). In the only large prospective study, CAD risk factors predicted progression of coronary artery calcium (CAC). METHODS: We measured CAC a ...
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Journal ArticleChin Med J (Engl) · January 20, 2009
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BACKGROUND: Damage to the spinal cord after the treatment of the descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms is an uncommon but devastating complication. The artery of Adamkiewicz (AKA) is the principal arterial supply of the anterior spinal ...
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Book · 2009
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Written by world-renowned experts in both CT angiography and MR angiography, this landmark work is the first comprehensive text on vascular imaging using CT and MR. It provides a balanced view of the capabilities of these modalities and ... ...
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Journal ArticleCirculation · December 16, 2008
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Over the past 10 years, there has been a rapid adoption of new technology that has allowed us to image the vascular system in a noninvasive manner with greater speed and improved resolution. The “gold standard,” catheter-based angiography, is now more ofte ...
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Journal Article · December 1, 2008
Greater scan coverage and faster scanning with multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT) has provided a unique opportunity for noninvasive and accurate imaging of vascular diseases of lower extremities [1]. This chapter describes scanning parameters, c ...
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Journal Article · December 1, 2008
Multidetector computed tomography angiography (MDCTA) is a nonivasive and accurate technique for assessment of many thoracic aortic abnormalities. It offers several advantages over conventional aortography for evaluation of the thoracic aorta. State-of-the ...
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Book · December 1, 2008
MDCT: From Protocols to Practice tackles contemporary and topical issues in MDCT technology and applications. As an updated edition of MDCT: A Practical Approach, this volume offers new content as well as revised chapters from the previous volume. New chap ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Med · November 2008
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BACKGROUND: Small asymptomatic lung nodules are found frequently in the course of cardiac computed tomography (CT) scanning. However, the utility of assessing and reporting incidental findings in healthy, asymptomatic subjects is unknown. METHODS: The samp ...
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Journal ArticleComput Med Imaging Graph · September 2008
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Segmentation of the lungs in chest-computed tomography (CT) is often performed as a preprocessing step in lung imaging. This task is complicated especially in presence of disease. This paper presents a lung segmentation algorithm called adaptive border mar ...
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Journal ArticleHum Mol Genet · August 1, 2008
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A susceptibility locus for coronary artery disease (CAD) at chromosome 9p21 has recently been reported, which may influence the age of onset of CAD. We sought to replicate these findings among white subjects and to examine whether these results are consist ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Coll Radiol · July 2008
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With the growing use of electronic medical records, the trend of diagnostic imaging reporting is toward a more structured format. Advantages include improved quality and consistency of the reporting and ease of data mining. The essential elements of a stru ...
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Journal ArticleHand (N Y) · June 2008
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Computed tomographic angiography (CTA) is a noninvasive modality for evaluating the vascular system and planning treatment strategies. The goal of this study was to validate the clinical utility of CTA in assessment of suspected pediatric extremity traumat ...
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Journal ArticleRadiat Med · May 2008
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PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to establish functional computed tomography (CT) imaging as a method for assessing tumor-induced angiogenesis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Functional CT imaging was mathematically analyzed for 14 renal cell carcinomas by means ...
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Journal ArticleArch Intern Med · April 14, 2008
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BACKGROUND: With the widespread use of cardiac multidetector row computed tomography (MDCT), the issue of incidental findings is receiving increasing attention. Our objectives were to evaluate the prevalence of incidental findings discovered during cardiac ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · April 2008
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Institutional review board approval was obtained for this HIPAA-compliant study. Informed consent was obtained for prospective evaluation in 21 asymptomatic volunteers (10 women, 11 men; mean age, 60 years) but waived for retrospective (10 patients with an ...
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Journal ArticleJACC Cardiovasc Imaging · March 2008
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OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated the hypothesis that impaired nitroglycerin (NTG)-induced coronary vasodilation is associated with advanced coronary atherosclerosis in asymptomatic older patients. BACKGROUND: Atherosclerosis is associated with both structu ...
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Journal ArticleAm Surg · February 2008
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Traditionally, conventional arteriography is the diagnostic modality of choice to evaluate for arterial injury. Recent technological advances have resulted in multidetector, fine resolution computed tomographic angiography (CTA). This study examines CTA fo ...
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Journal ArticleApplied Intelligence · February 1, 2008
Simulated Annealing (SA) is a popular global minimization method. Two weaknesses are associated with standard SA: firstly, the search process is memory-less and therefore can not avoid revisiting regions that are less likely to contain global minimum; and ...
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Journal ArticleJ Comput Assist Tomogr · 2008
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We developed an automated algorithm for bone removal in computed tomographic angiographic images that identifies and deletes connections between bone and vessels. Our automated algorithm is significantly faster than manual methods (2.45 minutes vs 73 minut ...
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Journal ArticleSemin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · 2008
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Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) has become widely accepted as an important option for treatment of thoracic aortic diseases. Cross-sectional radiologic imaging plays a crucial role for evaluating a patient's candidacy for planning of the interv ...
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Journal ArticleMed Phys · December 2007
A challenging problem in image segmentation is preventing boundary leakage through poorly resolved edges because not enough local information can be provided along them. In this article, we propose a new directional distance aided image segmentation method ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Cardiol · September 15, 2007
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Measurement of coronary artery calcium (CAC) has been proposed as a screening tool, but CAC levels may differ according to race and gender. Racial/ethnic and gender distributions of CAC were examined in a randomly selected cohort of 60- to 69-year-old heal ...
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Journal ArticleMed Phys · February 2007
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The tracking of lung nodules across computed tomography (CT) scans acquired at different times for the same patient is helpful for the determination of malignancy. We are developing a nodule registration system to facilitate this process. We propose to use ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Endocrinol Metab · February 2007
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CONTEXT: Leptin is associated with adiposity and insulin resistance and may play a direct role in vascular calcification. It is unclear, however, whether leptin is an independent predictor of atherosclerotic burden. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to ...
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Journal ArticleTech Vasc Interv Radiol · December 2006
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Lower extremity computed tomography angiography (CTA) is an effective, noninvasive, and robust imaging modality that is being used increasingly to evaluate patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD). It is important for vascular and interve ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Radiology, Supplement · December 1, 2006
Multidetector row computed tomography (MDCT) is an effective imaging technology, providing rapid and non-invasive images in three dimensions. Compared with standard computed tomography (CT), MDCT allows faster data acquisition and shorter scan times, with ...
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Journal ArticleJ Digit Imaging · June 2006
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Recent advancements in computed tomography (CT) have enabled quantitative assessment of severity and progression of large airway damage in chronic pulmonary disease. The advent of fast multidetector computed tomography scanning has allowed the acquisition ...
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Journal ArticleMed Phys · May 2006
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We present a system for segmenting the human aortic aneurysm in CT angiograms (CTA), which, in turn, allows measurements of volume and morphological aspects useful for treatment planning. The system estimates a rough "initial surface," and then refines it ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Geriatric Cardiology · March 1, 2006
Objective: To evaluate the visualization of the anterior spinal artery (ASA) and the artery of Adamkiewicz (AKA) as well as the affecting factors for the detection rate using multidetector row CT (MDCT). Methods: Ninety-nine consecutive patients (31 women ...
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Journal Article · January 1, 2006
Greater scan coverage and faster scanning with multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) has provided a unique opportunity for noninvasive and accurate imaging of vascular diseases of lower extremities [1]. This chapter describes scanning parameters, co ...
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Journal Article · January 1, 2006
Multidetector computed tomography angiography (MDCTA) is a noninvasive and accurate technique for assessment of many thoracic aortic abnormalities. It offers several advantages over conventional aortography for evaluation of the thoracic aorta. State-of-th ...
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Book · January 1, 2006
Computed tomography (CT) is the most rapidly evolving medical imaging technology. This book describes current examination techniques and advanced clinical applications of state-of-the-art multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) scanners in chapters contri ...
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Journal ArticleConference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference · 2006
We developed a novel visualization method for providing an uncluttered view of the abdominal aorta and its branches. The method abstracts the complex geometry of vessels using a convex primitive, and uses a sweep line algorithm to find a suboptimal placeme ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vasc Interv Radiol · January 2006
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Lower-extremity computed tomographic (CT) angiography (ie, peripheral CT angiography) is increasingly used to evaluate patients with peripheral arterial disease. It is therefore increasingly important for all vascular specialists to become familiar with th ...
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Journal ArticleConf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · 2006
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We developed a novel visualization method for providing an uncluttered view of the abdominal aorta and its branches. The method abstracts the complex geometry of vessels using a convex primitive, and uses a sweep line algorithm to find a suboptimal placeme ...
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Journal Article · December 1, 2005
A great challenge of multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) is dealing with "data explosion". A single days work in a busy clinic may consist of 30 studies, each requiring several hundred images. For carotid and intracranial CT angiograms, we routine ...
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Book · December 1, 2005
Multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) has advanced the approach to diagnostic assessment of many pathologies and now plays an integral role in imaging of both abdominal and cardiovascular diseases. The possibility to acquire diagnostic images with s ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · December 2005
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OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the accuracy and efficiency of primary interpretation of thoracic MDCT using coronal reformations as compared with transverse images. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Fifty patients (18 females, 32 males; age ran ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vasc Surg · November 2005
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Delayed endograft metallic strut failures detected in vivo with multidetector row computed tomography (MDCT) are reported in two patients who underwent endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair with AneuRx and Talent endografts. In both instances, niti ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Clin North Am · November 2005
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Multidetector CT (MDCT) has improved imaging of the arteries in the lower extremities. The main advantages of this novel technology are the exceptionally fast scan times, high spatial resolution, increased anatomic coverage, and capability to generate high ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · October 2005
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PURPOSE: To retrospectively evaluate multi-detector row computed tomographic (CT) angiography in determining donor- and recipient-site arterial suitability for successful vascularized free-flap transplantation. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The institutional revi ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · September 2005
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PURPOSE: To prospectively determine the range of aortopopliteal bolus transit times in patients with moderate-to-severe peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD) as a guideline for developing injection strategies for computed tomographic (CT) angiograph ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Coll Radiol · June 2005
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Coronary artery disease and other acquired and congenital cardiac diseases are major medical and socio-economic problems. Historically, imaging has had a critical role in the diagnosis and evaluation of acquired and congenital cardiac disease. Advances in ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · February 2005
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PURPOSE: To compare devices for the task of navigating through large computed tomographic (CT) data sets at a picture archiving and communication system workstation. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The institutional review board approved this study, and all subject ...
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Journal ArticleRadiographics · 2005
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The Sunday afternoon Image Interpretation Session has been a high point of the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America for over 65 years. A panel of five experts has been selected, representing the very best from the fields of neurologi ...
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Journal ArticleJ Comput Assist Tomogr · 2005
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OBJECTIVE: Evaluation of left ventricular function using electrocardiogram (ECG)-gated multidetector row CT (MDCT) by using 3 different volumetric assessment methods in comparison to assessment of the left ventricular function by invasive ventriculography. ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Radiol · January 2005
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Multi-detector-row computed tomography (MDCT) enables rapid, noninvasive, high-resolution, and three-dimensional imaging of pediatric vascular diseases. In this paper, we explore the adaptation of the MDCT angiographic principles to pediatric patients for ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · January 2005
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PURPOSE: To compare the performance of radiologists and of a computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm for pulmonary nodule detection on thin-section thoracic computed tomographic (CT) scans. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was approved by the institutiona ...
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Journal ArticleSemin Vasc Surg · December 2004
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Endovascular aneurysm repair has proven to be a valuable alternative to open repair in selected patients. This less invasive procedure, however, requires long-term surveillance for its own set of potential complications, including perigraft leakage, or end ...
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Journal ArticleJ Hand Surg Br · October 2004
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Computed tomography angiography is a new technique that provides high-resolution, three-dimensional vascular imaging as well as excellent bone and soft tissue spatial relationships. The purpose of this study was to examine the use of computed tomography an ...
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Journal ArticleCirc J · August 2004
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BACKGROUND: In a previous study the adjusted thresholds at which the diameters of coronary arteries determined by enhanced electron-beam computed tomography (CT) scans are equal to the corresponding quantitative coronary angiography measurements were analy ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Trans Med Imaging · June 2004
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We developed a novel computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm called the surface normal overlap method that we applied to colonic polyp detection and lung nodule detection in helical computed tomography (CT) images. We demonstrate some of the theoretical a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Comput Assist Tomogr · 2004
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Multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) is an essential diagnostic modality for many clinical algorithms. This is particularly true with regard to the evaluation of cardiovascular disease. As a result of increased image acquisition speed, improved spa ...
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Journal ArticleMicrosurgery · 2004
The role of preoperative imaging prior to free fibula flap harvest remains controversial. The standard method of preoperative imaging has been arteriography. However, arteriography is associated with known risks and potential complications to the patient. ...
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Journal ArticleMed Phys · October 2003
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Two-dimensional intensity-based methods for the segmentation of blood vessels from computed-tomography-angiography data often result in spurious segments that originate from other objects whose intensity distributions overlap with those of the vessels. Whe ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · October 2003
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The authors developed and evaluated a method to produce curved-slab maximum intensity projections (MIPs) through blood vessels that semiautomatically excludes soft tissue and bone. Results obtained with the algorithm were compared with those obtained with ...
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Journal ArticlePlast Reconstr Surg · August 2003
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Preoperative angiography is frequently used in the planning of microsurgical reconstruction. However, several potentially devastating complications can result from angiography, including arterial occlusion and pseudoaneurysm. Computed tomographic angiograp ...
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Journal ArticleSemin Roentgenol · April 2003
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Nine years after its introduction, spiral or helical CTA is being embraced as an important noninvasive tool for imaging the thoracic aorta and its branches. The high degree of accessibility and ease with which the studies are performed make it a viable alt ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Radiol · March 2003
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Since its clinical introduction in 1991, volumetric CT scanning using spiral or helical scanners has resulted in a revolution for diagnostic imaging. Helical CT has improved over the past 8 years with faster gantry rotation, more powerful X-ray tubes, and ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Radiol · March 2003
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Without doubt, the greatest challenge of multidetector-row CT is dealing with 'data explosion'. For our carotid/intracranial CT angiograms, we routinely have 375 images to review (300 mm coverage reconstructed every 0.8 mm); for aortic studies we have 450- ...
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Journal ArticleActa Chir Belg · February 2003
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Endovascular grafting of abdominal aortic aneurysms should be offered only to those patients with suitable anatomy. This is especially true at the level of the proximal aortic neck in order to secure long-term proximal fixation. Aortoiliac anatomy is easy ...
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Book · 2003
Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT), also known as multislice, multidetector-row or multisection CT, is the latest breakthrough in CT technology. ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · January 2003
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Eight male heart transplant recipients underwent contrast material-enhanced electron-beam computed tomographic angiography. Coronary artery diameters measured with fixed thresholds and adaptive line density profile (LDP) methods were calculated relative to ...
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Journal ArticleInt Angiol · December 2002
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BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to quantify the degree of aortoiliac tortuosity and determine the relationship between aortoiliac angulation and the need for a secondary procedure following endovascular repair. METHODS: Among 206 patients treated ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vasc Surg · August 2002
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to define changes in aneurysm volume after endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm. METHODS: A total of 154 consecutive patients who underwent endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm with the Medtr ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Clin North Am · July 2002
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CTA has become an important diagnostic tool in the evaluation of vascular diseases in virtually all parts of the body. Whereas CTA is able to provide images depicting exquisite anatomic detail, careful scanning technique and selection of scan parameters ar ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vasc Surg · May 2002
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OBJECTIVE: Endoleaks and endotension are critically important complications of some endovascular aortic aneurysm repairs (EVARs). For the resolution of controversial issues and the determination of areas of uncertainty relating to these complications, a co ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · April 2002
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The authors developed and evaluated a method to automatically create interactive vascular curved planar reformations with computed tomographic (CT) angiographic data. The method decreased user interaction time by 86%, from 15 to 2 minutes. Expert reviewers ...
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Journal ArticleJ Endovasc Ther · February 2002
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PURPOSE: To present a unique demonstration of postoperative perigraft contrast masquerading as an endoleak following endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. CASE REPORT: A 66-year-old man underwent endovascular stent-graft repair of a 4.6-cm i ...
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Journal ArticleJ Comput Assist Tomogr · 2002
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Despite advances in the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral vascular occlusive disease, an ever-aging population continues to provide scores of new cases requiring medical care. While traditional angiography has been the mainstay of diagnosis for many ye ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering · January 1, 2002
The creation of radiology teaching modules has historically required manual offline authoring. Our system can integrate with commercial PACS to allow clinicians to author teaching modules at their clinical PACS workstations without further manual input. Ou ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vasc Surg · October 2001
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of aortoiliac tortuosity, as assessed by observers and 3-dimensional (3D) computer-based methods, on the conduct and outcome of endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms. METHODS: Infra ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · October 2001
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PURPOSE: To assess the patterns of lower extremity arterial inflow and runoff opacification with four-channel multi-detector row computed tomographic (CT) angiography in a cohort of patients with disease warranting imaging of the lower extremity arterial s ...
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Journal ArticleJ Endovasc Ther · October 2001
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PURPOSE: To determine the significance of persistent type-II endoleaks and whether they can be predicted preoperatively in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). METHODS: The charts of all AAA patients treated with the AneuRx stent-graft at a sing ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · August 2001
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PURPOSE: To determine the accuracy of helical computed tomography (CT), projectional angiography derived from CT angiography, and intravascular ultrasonographic withdrawal (IUW) length measurements for predicting appropriate aortoiliac stent-graft length. ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · June 2001
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PURPOSE: To assess the quality of brain computed tomographic (CT) studies obtained with a four-channel multi-detector row CT scanner compared with those obtained with a single-detector row CT scanner. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty-seven patients referred fo ...
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Journal ArticleJpn Circ J · June 2001
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The present study evaluated the usefulness of 3-dimensional volume rendering (VR) images using electron-beam computed tomography (EBCT) in determining the possible causes of ischemia resulting from the anomalous origin of the right coronary artery (RCA) fr ...
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Journal ArticleJpn Circ J · May 2001
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The present study aimed to identify the patency achieved by a bi-directional Glenn shunt procedure by shaded volume rendering (VR) images using electron-beam computed tomography (EBCT). A Damus Kay-Stanzel type procedure was performed on a female with hypo ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · April 2001
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PURPOSE: To determine the relationship between iliac arterial tortuosity and cross-sectional area and the occurrence of iliac arterial injuries following transfemoral delivery of endovascular prostheses for repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms. MATERIALS A ...
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Journal ArticleSemin Roentgenol · April 2001
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Aneurysm and type B dissections account for most acute abdominal aortic abnormalities. The postsurgical aorta deserves special attention owing to the risk of complications. Most aortic abnormalities presenting acutely are emergencies that carry a high risk ...
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Journal ArticleTech Vasc Interv Radiol · March 2001
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The introduction of multidetector-row computed tomography (CT) scanners has substantially improved the quality and ease of performing CT angiography. CT angiography is a robust method of volumetric vascular imaging that offers benefits over conventional an ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · February 2001
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PURPOSE: To compare observer performance in the detection of abnormalities on 1,760 x 2,140 matrix (2K) and 3,520 x 4,280 matrix (4K) digital storage phosphor chest radiographs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: One hundred sixty patients who underwent dedicated comp ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vasc Surg · January 2001
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PURPOSE: We conducted a novel quantitative three-dimensional analysis of computed tomography (CT) angiograms to establish the relationship between aortic geometry and age, sex, and body surface area in healthy subjects. METHODS: Abdominal helical CT angiog ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vasc Surg · December 2000
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare duplex ultrasound scanning and computed tomographic (CT) angiography for postoperative imaging and surveillance after endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). METHODS: One hundred consecuti ...
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Journal ArticleJpn Circ J · November 2000
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Three-dimensional imaging using electron-beam computed tomography (EBCT) has been used to assess static anatomical information in heart disease. With volume rendering, differences in objects can be distinguished through selection of the shape of opacity an ...
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Journal ArticleEur J Radiol · November 2000
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The development of multi detector-row CT has brought many exciting advancements to clinical CT scanning. While multi detector-row CT offers unparalleled speed of acquisition, spatial resolution, and anatomic coverage, a challenge presented by these advanta ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Trans Med Imaging · November 2000
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A common challenge for automated segmentation techniques is differentiation between images of close objects that have similar intensities, whose boundaries are often blurred due to partial-volume effects. We propose a novel approach to segmentation of two- ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · July 2000
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PURPOSE: To compare the effects of acquisition parameters on the magnitude and appearance of artifacts between single and multiple detector-row helical computed tomography (CT). MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cylindric (12.7 x 305.0-mm) acrylic rod inclined 45 d ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vasc Surg · July 2000
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OBJECTIVE: Untreated abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) enlarge at a mean rate of 3.9 mm/y with great individual variability. We sought to determine the effect of endovascular repair on the rate of change in aneurysm size. METHODS: There were 110 patients w ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · June 2000
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PURPOSE: To compare single- versus four-channel helical computed tomographic (CT) aortography. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty-eight patients with aortic aneurysm or dissection underwent four- and one-channel CT angiography. Scan pairs covered the thoracic in ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · April 2000
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PURPOSE: To compare computed tomographic (CT) angiography and conventional angiography for determining the success of endoluminal stent-graft treatment of aortic aneurysms. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty patients underwent conventional angiography and CT ang ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · April 2000
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PURPOSE: To compare the costs of performing helical computed tomographic (CT) angiography with three-dimensional rendering versus intraarterial digital subtraction angiography (DSA) for preoperative imaging of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs). MATERIALS A ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · February 2000
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PURPOSE: To compare the uniformity of aortoiliac opacification obtained from uniphasic contrast medium injections versus individualized biphasic injections at computed tomographic (CT) angiography. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty-two patients with an abdomin ...
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Journal ArticleMed Phys · December 1999
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Spiral computed tomography (CT) has revolutionized conventional CT as a truly three-dimensional imaging modality. A number of studies aimed at evaluating the longitudinal resolution in spiral CT have been presented, but the spatially varying nature of the ...
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Journal ArticleJ Comput Assist Tomogr · November 1999
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Since its clinical introduction in 1991, volumetric computed tomography scanning using spiral or helical scanners has resulted in a revolution for diagnostic imaging. In addition to new applications for computed tomography, such as computed tomographic ang ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · May 1999
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The advent of helical CT has changed the practice of uroradiology and has significantly benefited patients. Painful, obstructing ureteral stones can be diagnosed with certainty in less than 1 min without contrast medium. Radiologists can now thoroughly eva ...
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Journal ArticleClin Radiol · May 1999
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AIM: To determine the prevalence and significance of extra-arterial findings detected prospectively on helical computed tomographic angiography (CTA). SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The official reports of 802 consecutive CTAs performed over a 4.5-year period on 62 ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · February 1999
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of our study is to describe the CT findings of fat collections related to the intrahepatic inferior vena cava and to review the literature about this benign incidental finding. CONCLUSION: Focal collections of fat related to the infe ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Trans Med Imaging · January 1999
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Although analyses of in-plane aliasing have been done for conventional computed tomography (CT) images, longitudinal aliasing in spiral CT has not been properly investigated. We propose a mathematical model of the three-dimensional (3-D) sampling scheme in ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · September 1998
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PURPOSE: To determine if the lower milliampere second setting and shorter acquisition time of subsecond spiral computed tomography (CT) affects the image quality of thoracic CT scans. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In 92 consecutive outpatients referred for thorac ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · July 1998
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PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence of unsuspected pulmonary embolism (PE) on routine thoracic helical computed tomographic (CT) scans and to quantify the improvement in PE detection by using a cine-paging mode on a workstation instead of hard-copy review ...
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Journal ArticleMed Phys · May 1998
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In this paper, a novel technique for rapid and automatic computation of flight paths for guiding virtual endoscopic exploration of three-dimensional medical images is described. While manually planning flight paths is a tedious and time consuming task, our ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · March 1998
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Contiguous orthonormal arterial cross sections, segment lengths, and curvature were semiautomatically quantified from helical computed tomographic (CT) angiographic data in phantoms and two patients. Measurements of mean diameter and curvature correlated w ...
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Journal ArticleJ Comput Assist Tomogr · 1998
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PURPOSE: Virtual colonoscopy is a new method of colon examination in which computer-aided 3D visualization of spiral CT simulates fiberoptic colonoscopy. We used a colon phantom containing various-sized spheres to determine the influence of CT acquisition ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · December 1997
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The ability of helical thoracic CT to acquire data rapidly has enabled radiologists to use the dynamics of contrast medium flow more effectively to diagnose subtle abnormalities. In general, these abnormal flow dynamics manifest in two ways: diverted hyper ...
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Journal ArticleSkull Base Surgery · December 1, 1997
PURPOSE: To videoscopically explore the outside and inside of 2 mm and larger blood vessels in the skull base and circle of Willis by simulated computer generated angioscopy (CGA) in normal and aneurysm populations as a diagnostic and preoperative tool. ME ...
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Journal ArticleJ Thorac Imaging · April 1997
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Five years after its introduction (11,36), spiral or helical CTA is being embraced as an important noninvasive tool for imaging the thoracic aorta and its branches. The high degree of accessibility and ease with which the studies are performed make it a vi ...
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Journal ArticleLaryngoscope · January 1997
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Our goal was to use three-dimensional information obtained from helical computed tomographic (CT) data to explore and evaluate the nasal cavity, nasopharynx, and paranasal sinuses by simulated virtual endoscopy (VE). This was done by utilizing a new image ...
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Journal ArticleMagn Reson Imaging · 1997
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This study was to evaluate the accuracy of MR angiography (MRA) using a Gd-DTPA-polyethylene glycol polymer (Gd-DTPA-PEG) with a 3D fast gradient echo (3D fgre) technique in diagnosing pulmonary embolism in a canine model. Pulmonary emboli were created in ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · December 1996
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PURPOSE: To determine the effect of varying iodine concentration on arterial enhancement and perivenous artifact during thoracic spiral computed tomographic (CT) scanning. MATERIALS AND METHODS: One hundred thirty-eight outpatients received 15.0 g (n = 76) ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the Symposium on Volume Visualization · December 1, 1996
We present a method for fast rendering of a thin slab bounded by a set of clipping planes oriented perpendicular to the viewing direction. Our implementation allows the user to specify the view direction, slab thickness and slab position within the volume ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering · December 1, 1996
The capability of today's clinical scanners to create large quantities of high resolution and near isotropically sampled volume data, coupled with a rapidly improving performance/price ratio of computers, has created the challenge and feasibility of creati ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering · December 1, 1996
The goal of our work is to help radiologists remove obscuring structures from a large volume of computed tomography angiography (CTA) images by editing a small number of sections prior to three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction. We combine automated segmenta ...
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Journal ArticleSemin Ultrasound CT MR · August 1996
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The renal arteries are among the most challenging of the major aortic branches to image with spiral CT. Optimization of CT acquisition parameters is critical to creating diagnostic renal CT angiograms. When careful attention is paid to prescribing these ex ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · May 1996
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PURPOSE: To use perspective volume rendering (PVR) of computed tomographic (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging data sets to simulate endoscopic views of human organ systems. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Perspective views of helical CT and MR images were rec ...
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Journal ArticleLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) · January 1, 1996
Advanced medical imaging techniques available today, such as CT, MRI, and PET, are capable of producing large quantities of near isotropically-sampled data. These datasets coupled with advanced techniques in Computer graphics can create new ways to explore ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · September 1995
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the value of reformatted noncontrast helical CT in patients with suspected renal colic. We hoped to determine whether this technique might create images acceptable to both radiologists and clinicians an ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Clin North Am · September 1995
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Helical CT promises to improve imaging of the retroperitoneum through the elimination of respiratory misregistration and the minimization of partial volume averaging. The speed of acquisition enables the entire abdomen and pelvis to be imaged in less than ...
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Journal ArticleSurg Clin North Am · August 1995
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Magnetic resonance (MR) angiography and spiral CT angiography are promising new imaging modalities for evaluating patients with lower extremity arterial occlusive disease. Both techniques are less invasive than conventional angiography, and MR angiography ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · May 1995
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PURPOSE: To determine whether spiral computed tomography (CT) can be used to evaluate potential living renal donors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twelve potential living renal donors underwent spiral CT and conventional arteriography. CT angiography was performe ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Clin North Am · January 1995
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Three-dimensional CT angiography is a new modality for minimally invasive vascular imaging. Meticulous attention to technique is critical to optimizing image quality and achieving diagnostic images. In this article, the properties of spiral CT acquisitions ...
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Journal ArticleInvest Radiol · August 1994
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RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Ultrafast gradient-recalled-echo techniques for obtaining high-quality pulmonary magnetic resonance angiograms within a single breath-hold were optimized. METHODS: Fourteen subjects were imaged with both the body coil and a phased ...
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Journal ArticleRadiographics · July 1994
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CT angiography can accurately depict vascular lesions in less time, with less patient morbidity, and at a lower cost than conventional angiography. Meticulous attention to scan technique is required for achieving diagnostic images. Regardless of the three- ...
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ConferenceProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering · May 1, 1994
Spiral computed tomography (CT) is a new technique for rapidly acquiring volumetric data within the body. By combining a continuous gantry rotation and table feed, it is possible to image the entire thorax within a single breath-hold. This eliminates the v ...
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Journal ArticleSemin Ultrasound CT MR · April 1994
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Spiral CT angiography is a technical innovation in vascular imaging that can produce spectacular three-dimensional reconstructions of the abdominal vessels and organs using modified CT scanning techniques. Rapid volume data acquisition allows contrast mate ...
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Journal ArticleWest J Med · March 1994
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Blood flow can be shown as a negative image with magnetic resonance spin-echo techniques or as a positive image with gradient-echo techniques. Phase contrast refers to techniques where structures can be seen because of flow-induced phase shifts. These tech ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · January 1994
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PURPOSE: To evaluate the accuracy of computed tomographic (CT) angiography in the detection of renal artery stenosis (RAS). MATERIALS AND METHODS: CT angiography was performed in 31 patients undergoing conventional renal arteriography. CT angiographic data ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Interventional Radiology · December 1, 1993
Septic thrombosis of the portal vein (STPV) is a rare complication of intra-abdominal infection. We report a case of successful percutaneous drainage in a patient with an infected portal venous clot who failed to respond to antibiotic therapy alone. To our ...
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Journal ArticleJ Vasc Surg · October 1993
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PURPOSE: We sought to apply a new technique of computed tomographic angiography (CTA) to the preoperative and postoperative assessment of the abdominal aorta and its branches. METHODS: After a peripheral intravenous contrast injection, the patient is conti ...
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Journal ArticleJ Comput Assist Tomogr · 1993
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The authors present sliding thin-slab maximum intensity projection (STS-MIP) as a technique for improved visualization of blood vessels and airways from rapidly acquired thin-section CT data. The STS-MIP reconstructions can be computed rapidly and without ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · January 1993
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Spiral computed tomography (CT) is a new technology that couples continuous tube rotation with continuous table feed. This allows compilation of a data set that has continuous anatomic information without the establishment of arbitrary boundaries at sectio ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · November 1992
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The authors describe a technique for obtaining angiographic images by means of spiral computed tomography (CT), preprocessing of reconstructed three-dimensional sections to suppress bone, and maximum intensity projection. The technique has some limitations ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Interventional Radiology · April 1, 1992
A variety of basket designs are available for percutaneous treatment of gallstones, though no systematic evaluation of their relative performance has been made. We evaluated the efficiency of two commercially available baskets and two prototype baskets to ...
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Journal ArticleGastrointest Radiol · 1992
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Over a 3-year period nine patients (mean age of 43 years) with acute abdominal pain and unsuspected abdominal neoplasms were referred for graded compression sonography to rule out appendicitis. Six of the nine patients had right lower quadrant neoplasms in ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Interventional Radiology · December 1, 1989
A unique case of percutaneous drainage of a post-operative periappendiceal abscess that fistulised to the Fallopian tube is presented. Fistulisation may represent the anatomic mechanism by which fertility may be affected by periappendiceal abscesses. Mecha ...
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Journal ArticleBrain Res · January 29, 1986
This paper and the following one describe the effects of L-5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) (after 3 intracisternal injections of 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine (DHT], fenfluramine (FF), p-chloroamphetamine (PCA) and drug combinations on (i) brain regional amine conce ...
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