BACKGROUND Visceral adipose tissue (VAT), which is linked with the metabolic consequences of obesity, is usually characterized by measuring VAT area at the L4-L5 vertebral interspace. However, the location of the slice with the strongest relation to VAT volume is not established. OBJECTIVE We sought to investigate the relations between cross-sectional VAT areas at different anatomic locations...

Zntroduction Recently, we have demonstrilted the capability of retrospectively mapping a slice image into rin anatomical reference volume (i.e. map-slice-to-volume, MSV) from the same subject using a simple rigid body transformation of $x degrees of freedom (DOF) [l]. In practice, deformation in a sliQe image is often presented as a nonlinear warping problem that his not limited to the imaging ...

Introduction At high magnetic fields of 7 T and above there is a large variation of B1 over the subject due either to the sample-induced inhomogeneities and the frequent use of local Tx/Rx coils in the absence of a transmit body coil. Therefore, accurate tip angle calibration techniques are very important, and simple slice-selective methods which are normally used at lower field strengths can l...

X-ray-computed tomography (CT) successfully underwent a transition from slice-by-slice imaging to volume imaging in the decade after 1990 due to the introduction of spiral scan modes. Later, the transition from single-slice to multislice scanning followed. With the advent of new detector technologies we are now looking forward to circular and spiral scanning using area detectors and the respect...

according to its superficial anatomical location, the thyroid gland is easily accessible by sonography. sonography allows an exact documentation of the size and thyroid volume. the relationship between thyroid volume and anthropometric characteristics is a matter of controversy. the aim of this study was to investigate thyroid volume and its determinants in healthy adult. a cross-sectional stud...

in this paper, we introduce a new concept of volumes difference function of the projection and intersection bodies. following this, we establish the minkowski and brunn-minkowski inequalities for volumes difference function of the projection and intersection bodies.