background: the purpose of this study was to find the accurate absorbed dose in the femur bone marrow during the x-ray radiography for constant mas and aec techniques. materials and methods: the dosxyznrc was used to simulate radiation doses in two human femurs during diagnostic radiography. egsnrc phantoms produced from actual ct images of human femurs were modified by adding seven micrometre ...

background coronary artery anomalies are not common, but could be very serious. objectives this study determines the frequency of coronary anomalies and normal variants by multi-detector-row computed tomography (mdct). patients and methods the results of cardiac mdct study in 2697 consecutive patients were analyzed retrospectively. acquisition was performed by a 64-detector row ct machine. imag...

coronary heart disease has been one of the main threats of human health. coronary angiography is taken as the “gold standard” for the assessment of coronary artery disease. but sometimes, the images are difficult to interpret visually because of the crossing and overlapping of the vessels in the angiograms. vessel extraction from x-ray angiograms has been a challenging problem for several years...