We undertook a comparative study of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) vertebral morphometry of thoracic vertebrae of girls with adolescent idiopathic thoracic scoliosis (AIS) and age and gender-matched normal subjects, in order to investigate abnormal differential growth of the anterior and posterior elements of the thoracic vertebrae in patients with scoliosis. Previous studies have suggested t...

Bone scintigraphies are widely applied for detecting bone metastases. The aim of this study was to investigate distribution features of bone metastases in pulmonary and prostate cancers. Bone scintigraphies were performed in 460 patients with pulmonary cancer and 144 patients with prostate cancer. Patients were divided into three groups according to the total number of bone metastases: few bone...

Presacral vertebrae, excluding the atlas and axis, obtained from fifty dried vertebral columns were carefully examined to detect the muscular tubercles derived from the attachments of the paravertebral muscles. On the basis of the divisions of these muscles, the tubercles may be classified as follows : (1) tubercles of the median attachments of the back muscles observed at the tips of the spine...

Objectives- to provide a reference anatomy of the bronchial tree of the Jebeer Gazelle by using computed tomographic modality. Design- Experimental study. Animals- Three female Jebeer Gazelle Procedures- Spiral CT images were taken from the thoracic region perpendicular to long axis of the body. CT windows were adjusted as necessary to have optimized images of pulmonary organ. The images ...

Precise segmentation and identification of thoracic vertebrae is important for many medical imaging applications whereas it remains challenging due to vertebra's complex shape and varied neighboring structures. In this paper, a new method based on learned bone-structure edge detectors and a coarse-to-fine deformable surface model is proposed to segment and identify vertebrae in 3D CT thoracic i...