BACKGROUND Jaw bone quality plays an essential role in treatment planning and prognosis of dental implants. Regarding several available methods for bone density measurements, they are not routinely used before implant surgery due to hard accessibility. OBJECTIVE An in vitro investigation of correlation between average gray scale in direct digital radiographs and Hounsfield units in CT-Scan pr...

Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL) is still the treatment of choice for most renal and upper ureteric stones; however the outcome depends on multiple factors. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of stone density, as measured by Hounsfield Units (H.U) by non-contrast Computerized Tomography (CT), stone size and stone location on ESWL treatment outcome of urinary ...

background: use of contrast agents (cas) during ct simulation for treatment planing system leads to changes in  electron density. in this study we aimed to investigate the effect on  calculated dose of various concentrations of cas on treatment planing systems in different dose calculation algorithms. materials and methods: contrast agent (0.769 mg/ml iopromid) - water mixtures at concentration...

Introduction: In dual-energy computed tomography (DECT), the Hounsfield values of a substance measured at two different energies are the basic data for finding the chemical properties of a substance. The trends of Hounsfield unit (HU) alterations following the changes in energy are different between the materials with high and low Zeff. The present study aim...

X-ray phase-contrast imaging is a novel technology that achieves high soft-tissue contrast. Although its clinical impact is still under investigation, the technique may potentially improve clinical diagnostics. In conventional attenuation-based X-ray computed tomography, radiological diagnostics are quantified by Hounsfield units. Corresponding Hounsfield units for phase-contrast imaging have b...

Conformal radiotherapy is a therapeutic method requiring medical imaging, generally CT images to obtain Hounsfield number and electronic density data indications. The use of MRI simultaneously with CT imposes to deform CT images and superimpose them on MR images. The aim of this paper is to propose a nonridgid matching method between the two modalities (CT and MRI). The transformation model is ...

The variability assessment of the rib bone mechanical properties during the growth process is still missing. These properties could not be obtained in vivo on children. Relationships have been obtained between Hounsfield Units from computed tomography (CT) and mechanical properties (e.g. for the cortical bone on adults). As a first step for investigation of the mechanical propertie...

Introduction: Cone-beam CT (CBCT) is an imaging system which offers three-dimensional (3D), multiplanar images and has many advantages over computed tomography (CT) including shorter acquisition times for the resolution desired in dentistry, lower radiation dose to the patient, reasonable price and higher spatial resolution but CBCT scanners are unable to display actual Hounsf...