ABTRACT Background: In nuclear medicine, phantoms are mainly used to evaluate the overall performance of the imaging systems and practically there is no phantom exclusively designed for the evaluation of the software performance.  In this study the Hoffman brain phantom was used for quantitative evaluation of reconstruction techniques. The phantom is modified to acquire t...

conclusions bscta is easily accessible, less time consuming, and most importantly, a non-invasive technique for detecting intracranial aneurysms. it is also suitable for patients who have been referred to emergency services. therefore, it can be used in emergency conditions and as a first-line diagnostic method in patients with non-traumatic sah. patients and methods sixty consecutive patients ...

This paper presents a method of image-based 3D modeling for intricately-shaped objects, such as a fur, tree leaves and human hair. We formulate the imaging process of these small geometric structures as volume rendering followed by image matting, and prove that the inverse problem can be solved by reducing the nonlinear equations to a large linear system. This estimation, which we call inverse ...

t his paper presents a new feature selection approach for automatically extracting   ms lesions in 3d mr images. presented method is applicable to different types of ms lesions. in this method, t1, t2 and flair images are firstly preprocessed. in the next phase, effective features to extract ms lesions are selected by using a genetic algorithm. the fitness function of the genetic algorithm is t...

BACKGROUND SPECT/CT has been shown to increase the diagnostic performance of bone scintigraphy for staging of malignancies. A systematic double-bed SPECT/CT of the trunk may allow further improvement. However, this would be balanced by higher dosimetry and longer acquisition time. The objective was to assess the incremental diagnostic utility of a systematic double-bed SPECT/CT acquisition for ...

This study was conducted to determine the use of three-dimensional ultrasonography (3DU) in ocular imaging of the dog and measuring of its optical axis. 12 healthy mixed-breed dogs including 6 males and 6 females were studied. 3DU of the eyes were done using a 5–12 MHz linear trapezoid transducer. 3DU of the eyes were evaluated and the normal optical long axis through a line between the cornea ...

Introduction: The present study aims to evaluate the Three-Dimensional Diffusion-Weighted reversed fast imaging with steady state free precession (3D DW-PSIF) sequence with respect to imaging of the peripheral nerves; the tibial, medial, and lateral plantar nerves in the lower extremity, ulnar and median nerve in the upper extremity, sciatic nerve, brachial plexus, and lumbosacral plexus, and a...