Advances in computed tomography and availability of high performance computing in the last decade have shown importance of iterative reconstruction in combination with statistical methods. An attempt is made to compare two existing iterative methods used for reconstruction namely ART and SART. The results show that ART is a highly computational intensive and time taking process compared to SART...

Computed tomography angiography (CTA) is often used for pre-interventional diagnosis and planning, whereas nowadays, mostly 2D angiograms are acquired for intra-interventional catheter guidance. Spatial information from pre-interventional scans is not transferred to the intervention yet since existing 2D-3D registration methods either require a good initial manual alignment or have rather long ...

Background: This study assessed the optimal timing of computed tomography for detection of metastatic disease in locoregional lymph nodes in patients with rectal cancer who have undergone chemoradiotherapy. Materials and Methods: This observational retrospective study was performed in a single institution. All patients with locally advanced rectal cancer treated with chemoradiotherapy, followed...

A digital brain phantom was created from available primate autoradiographic (AR) data for use in emission computed tomography studies. The tissue was radio-labelled with a functional analogue of the PET agent [18F]-fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG). Following sacrifice of the animal, film records from serial 20 m thickness sections were digitized and calibrated to obtain ground truth 2D spatial distrib...

Introduction: The image quality of computed tomography (CT) can be seriously lowered by metal implants of patients. These implants are known to exert a significant impact on diagnostic accuracy due to artifacts. The current study aimed to assess the usefulness of Metal Artifact Reduction (MAR) software in the reduction of metal artifacts, in comparison to iterative rec...

A Bayesian method is presented for simultaneously segmenting and reconstructing emission computed tomography (ECT) images and for incorporating high-resolution, anatomical information into those reconstructions. The anatomical information is often available from other imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The Bayesian procedure models the ECT r...

We developed a homemade dual-modality imaging system that combines multispectral photoacoustic computed tomography and ultrasound computed tomography for reconstructing the structural and functional information of human finger joint systems. The fused multispectral photoacoustic-ultrasound computed tomography (MPAUCT) system was examined by the phantom and in vivo experimental tests. The imagin...

introduction : one of the key factors in successful endodontic therapy is to adequately fill the root canals. the aim of this in vitro study was to compare the quality of four different root canal obturation techniques: cold lateral condensation (clc), warm vertical condensation (wvc), obtura ii (oii) and gutta flow (gf) by using micro-computed tomography (micro ct). materials and methods: a to...