parotid stafne bone defect is a very rare and infrequent variant, which is located on the buccal or lingual surface of the mandibular ascending ramus. in this paper, a case of parotid stafne defect, which was incidentally discovered during dental radiographic examination, is reported. this bone defect was observed as a lucent oval-shaped defect on the lingual aspect of the right mandibular ramu...

introdouction: the aim of this study was to compare information regarding pharyngeal airway sizes in adolescent subjects with different malocclusion classes obtained from lateral cephalograms and 3–dimensional (3d) cone-beam computed tomography (cbct) scans. materials and methods: in this prospective cross-sectional study, cbct scans and lateral cephalograms of 35 subjects, taken within one wee...

for obtaining reservoir petrophysical properties, for example porosity, non-destructive methods such as x-ray computed tomography, ct, seems to be precise and accurate. porosity is deducted from the ct image with a single scan via different techniques, such as pore space detection by image segmentation techniques then correlation with porosity. more than one hundred samples with carbonate litho...

introduction: having knowledge about the anatomy of root canal system is essential for success of endodontic treatment. the present study used cone-beam computed tomography (cbct), to evaluate the prevalence of third root in mandibular first molars in a selected iranian population. methods and materials: a total of 386 cbct images from subjects referred to oral and maxillofacial radiology depar...

Fig. 1. (a) Contrast-enhanced axial computed tomography image at the level of the PA bifurcation demonstrating the dissection flap within the main PA (arrow). (b) Three-dimensional reconstruction of the computed tomography images demonstrating the dissection flap within the main PA (arrow). (c) Intraoperative trans-oesophageal echocardiography showing the main PA with a 5.18 cm diameter and a d...

C tomographic angiography (CTA) of the coronary arteries is in its relative infancy. Newergeneration electron beam computed tomography and the rapid development of multidetector ( 64 slices) computed tomography (MDCT) with increased spatial resolution (0.33 mm) and temporal resolution (50 to 100 ms with multisegment reconstruction), shorter breathhold (5 to 12 seconds), and less contrast (60 to...

Certain deformities of the hip joint seem to predispose the hip to the development of osteoarthrosis. Successful surgical correction of these deformities before the onset of osteoarthrosis requires accurate characterization of the anatomic deviations from normal as the first step in planning corrective osteotomy. Three-dimensional computed tomography (CT) reconstruction in planning reconstructi...

Simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART) [1, 2] is an iterative method for solving inverse problems of form Ax(+n) = b. This type of problems arises for example in computed tomography reconstruction, in which case A is obtained from discrete Radon transform. In this paper, we provide several methods for derivation of SART and connections between SART and other methods. Using these...

We show that discrete tomography (DT) is suitable to increase the possible inspection size of single material oblong objects compared to filtered back projection (FBP) in non-destructive testing (NDT) with 2D X-ray computed tomography (CT). For such objects which are in one dimension larger than the maximum detectable material thickness limited view angles occur and FBP is not suitable for reco...

The paper introduces a novel method for image reconstruction in 3D tomography, called Searchlight Computed Tomography, which reduces the overall radiation exposure when primarily the reconstruction of a specified region of interest is required. To achieve this goal, the Searchlight CT approach restricts the acquisition essentially to X-rays passing through the region of interest of a 3D object,...