3D medical images are widely used to assist diagnosis and surgical planning in clinical applications, where quantitative measurement of interesting objects in the image is of great importance. Volume rendering is widely used for qualitative visualization of 3D medical images. In this paper, we introduce a volume-rendering-based interactive 3D measurement framework for quantitative analysis of 3...

Objective(s): In this study, we aimed to evaluate the efficacy of thyroid volume measurement using 99mTc pertechnetate single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images, acquired by the standardized uptake value (SUV)-shape scheme designed by our expert team.Methods: A total of 18 consecutive patients with Graves’ disease (GD) were subjected to both ultrasonographic and 99mTc pertechnet...

In 11 patients with blow out fracture of the orbit, measurement of orbital volume using computed tomography (CT) more than 20 days after injury correlated well with enophthalmos measured from the same scans (r = 0.87, p < 0.001, SEE 0.63 mm), with a 1 cm3 increase in orbital volume causing 0.8 mm of enophthalmos. This confirms the cause of enophthalmos after blow out fracture to be increase in ...

Background Stroke work normalized to end diastolic volume derived from pressure volume relationship is regarded as a gold standard for the measurement of the contractile status. Though conductance catheters are widely used to obtain pressure-volume relationships in the heart, they greatly underestimate end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes in mice. MRI on the other hand provides accurate measu...

AIMS To find the simplest method for quantifying pleural effusion volume from CT scans. METHODS Seventy pleural effusions found on chest CT examination in 50 consecutive adult patients with the presence of free pleural effusion were included. The volume of pleural effusion was calculated from a three-dimensional reconstruction of CT scans. Planar measurements were made on CT scans and their t...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The volume of an intracerebral hemorrhage has been shown to be an important independent predictor of mortality in several reports. A technique for estimating hematoma volume, known as the ABC/2 method, has been proven a reliable, simple bedside technique for the volume measurement of intraparenchymal intracerebral hemorrhage. Subdural hematomas also carry a significant mo...

in this paper, nano fibers (engelhard corporation titanosilicate number 10 / polyacrylonitrile) ets-10 / pan, as a composite exchanger to absorb heavy metals, were synthesized and optimized. several parameters were affected on this absorption. results show that the optimization sizes of the nano fibers are about 75 nanometers. structures were analyzed by scanning electron microscope (sem) and e...

Manual volume measurement of intracranial aneurysms from 3D rotational angiography varies on different threshold settings and, therefore, is operator-dependent. We developed and validated a method based on automatic gradient edge detection that is independent on threshold settings and provides an accurate and reproducible volume measurement. This method was compared with manual volume calculati...

BACKGROUND Volume overload and fluid congestion remain primary clinical challenges in the assessment and management of patients with chronic heart failure (HF). SUMMARY The pathophysiology of volume regulation is complex, and the simple concept of passive intravascular fluid accumulation is not adequate. The dynamics of interstitial and intravascular fluid compartment interactions and fluid r...