background: since tumors located in thorax region of body mainly move due to respiration, in the modern radiotherapy, there have been many attempts such as; external markers, strain gage and spirometer represent for monitoring patients’ breathing signal. with the advent of fluoroscopy technique, indirect methods were proposed as an alternative approach to extract patients’ breathing signals. ma...

In this paper, a method is described to automatically estimate the visible body region of a computed tomography (CT) volume image. In order to quantify the body region, a body coordinate (BC) axis is used that runs in longitudinal direction. Its origin and unit length are patient-specific and depend on anatomical landmarks. The body region of a test volume is estimated by registering it only al...

PURPOSE The quantification of body fat plays an important role in the study of numerous diseases. It is common current practice to use the fat area at a single abdominal computed tomography (CT) slice as a marker of the body fat content in studying various disease processes. This paper sets out to answer three questions related to this issue which have not been addressed in the literature. At w...

A current goal in volume graphics is a volume rendering algorithm that provides an elegant and controllable tradeoff between image quality and rendering speed. In this report we propose a slice-based volume rendering algorithm which attempts to address this goal. We describe both the basic algorithm and several ways that it can operate in an incremental and an adaptive manner.

In the evaluation of the left ventricular (LV) function using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a stack of parallel short-axis (SA) cine images is acquired that covers the whole LV. The aim of this study is to quantify the contribution to the LV volume parameters, provided by the most basal image plane that shows the LV wall only in end diastole (ED) but not in end systole (ES). In 57 healthy v...

Earlier cross-sectional studies found that a single magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) slice predicts total visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue (VAT and SAT) volumes well. We sought to investigate the accuracy of trunk single slice imaging in estimating changes of total VAT and SAT volume in 123 overweight and obese subjects who were enrolled in a 24-week CB-1R inverse agonist clinical trial...

In medical visualization, 2D slice images of human volume data are important as well as 3D volume rendering. The slice images are advantageous in focusing on regions of interest, while the volume rendering enables us to easily observe the whole region. In this paper, we propose a method to (1) create a transparent slice image, where its opacity is controllable by a user-defined transfer functio...

An automated retrospective image registration based on mutual information is adapted to a multislice functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) acquisition protocol to provide accurate motion correction. Motion correction is performed by mapping each slice to an anatomic volume data set acquired in the same fMRI session to accommodate inter-slice head motion. Accuracy of the registration para...