… clinical trial evaluating the short-term results of ureteral stent encrustation in urolithiasis patients undergoing ureteroscopy: micro-computed tomography evaluation

T Yoshida, K Takemoto, Y Sakata, T Matsuzaki… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
… Alternatively, we used a urinary sediment examination to evaluate crystals, which can be …
with an exposure time of 3.5 s based on a preliminary experiment (Supplementary Fig. 2). The …

[HTML][HTML] Porosity in Microtomography and Determination of Hounsfield Units do not Predict Calculi Fragmentation in Extracorporeal Lithotripsy: Analysis of an Study

RC Cavalli, MC Bellote… - The Open …, 2020 - openurologyandnephrologyjournal …
… Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate in vitro … were submitted to micro-computed
tomography (micro-CT), … , we aimed to objectively measure the findings observed in the …

Automated classification of urinary stones based on microcomputed tomography images using convolutional neural network

LA Fitri, F Haryanto, H Arimura, C YunHao, K Ninomiya… - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
… number of urinary stones images is necessary to evaluate the … This preliminary study was
conducted to obtain a correlation … are needed to translate our findings into a clinically useful …

Urinary Stones Clustering on each layer based on Hounsfield Units Values from Micro CT-SkyScan Images

Y Warty, F Haryanto, LA Fitri… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
… , the results of the study found 82 compounds in kidney stones, … Micro-computed tomography
(micro-CT) is a method for non-… of stone sample number 3 and review points in each layer …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative evaluation of encrustations in double-J ureteral stents with micro-computed tomography and semantic segmentation

S Zheng, P Amado, B Kiss, F Stangl, A Haeberlin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… transplantation to avoid obstruction due to edema in the early postoperative … results
highlighted the similarities and differences in stent encrustation patterns between stone and renal

[HTML][HTML] Current clinical applications and potential perspective of micro-computed tomography in cardiovascular imaging: A systematic scoping review

AS Papazoglou, E Karagiannidis, DV Moysidis… - Hellenic Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
assessment score of … -CT imaging in ex vivo evaluation of the human fetal heart is comparable
to traditional histopathological examination 10 , 13 , 14 , 22 , 23 , 31 , 48 . Micro-CT ex vivo

A new parameter for calcium oxalate stones: Impact of linear calculus density on non-contrast computed tomography

JY Jeong, KS Cho, DH Kim, DY Jun, YJ Moon, JY Lee - Medicina, 2023 - mdpi.com
… standard for diagnosing and evaluating urinary calculi [6]. In … pre-treatment urine pH were
also ascertained, and the stone … There are several points to consider about the results of this …

Non-contrast computed tomography characteristics in a large cohort of cystinuria patients

H Warren, D Poon, R Srinivasan, K Thomas… - World Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
… according to a pre-agreed protocol. When multiple … NCCT available for review demonstrated
urinary tract calculi in … the size of the measured stone results in volume-averaging effects …

X-ray micro-computed tomography: an emerging technology to analyze vascular calcification in animal models

SJ Borland, J Behnsen, N Ashton, SE Francis… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
… In this article, we briefly review different rodent models used … As a result, experimental bias
and error can occur by … In contrast, the rotating table µCT is commonly used to image ex vivo

[HTML][HTML] An in vitro bladder model with physiological dynamics: Vesicoureteral reflux alters stent encrustation pattern

S Zheng, P Amado, D Obrist, F Burkhard… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… quantified using micro-Computed Tomography and image segmentation. Our results suggest
… As such, encrustation patterns on the stents were evaluated with respect to VUR. We found …