Accurate capture of encumbered anthropometry is critical to ensure that the analysis and design of military platforms and workspaces account for the additional space required for clothing and PPE equipment. To examine the effect of encumbrance on spatial claim, a method was developed to obtain scan-extracted measures from detailed whole-body shape data. This analysis focused on comparing cross-...

We present a rare case with inguinal iodine-131 (I-131) uptake on whole body scan. The patient was suffering from a painful right inguinal mass during menstrual period, which was later sonographically and histopathologically confirmed to be an inguinal focus of endometriosis. Endometriosis is a previously reported site of radioiodine uptake and detection of radioiodine uptake in the inguinal re...

In September, 2006, a 66-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a 6-week history of nausea, dysphagia to solids, and abdominal discomfort after eating. His appetite was much reduced, and he reported that he felt sated after eating little food; he had lost 10 kg in weight, and was constantly tired. His past medical history included hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and coronary artery disease...

Detectable serum Tg levels associated with negative diagnostic (131)I whole body scan are not infrequently found in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. Several researchers have shown that in these patients the administration of high (131)I activity (100 mCi or more) increases the sensitivity of a posttherapy diagnostic (131)I whole body scan performed a few days later and allows the de...

We present an unusual case of the incidental finding of a penile implant on a whole-body bone scan obtained for back pain in a patient with osteoporosis and vertebral body fractures. On 2 separate occasions, this patient underwent 3-h delayed whole-body bone scanning with (99m)Tc-methylene diphosphonate. The images showed acute and then subacute vertebral body fractures. On both imaging occasio...

Advances in surface scanning technology have made possible the large-scale collection of body shape data. This paper describes methods for creating whole-body human figure models from the 3D scan data using a semi-automated process. Body surface landmark data are used to calculate joint locations and to segment the point cloud. A surface polygon mesh is fit to the point-cloud data for each segm...