… Hounsfield units on computerized tomography predict stone-free rates after extracorporeal
shock wave lithotripsy… hope that this study will be the start of further investigations in vitro and, …

… urinary tract calculi, and several factors based on CT images have … that the internal structure
of calcium oxalate monohydrate stones on CT images could predict lithotripsy fragility in vitro …

… directly correlate with actual ex vivo stone hardness. Underlying … have used stone density,
as estimated by Hounsfield units (HU) on clinical CT scans, to help predict stone type, stone …

… This opened another direction to use CT to view stone structure, rather … structure observed
by CT and stone fragility in shockwave … lithotripsy (SWL), whereas stones of calcium oxalate …

… in vivo are to predict response to shock wave lithotripsy and … DECT measurements and
urolith fragility rather than urolith … use of singleenergy CT attenuation values in vivo and makes …

… by the mean Hounsfield unit (HU) value measured during non-… with high accuracy with an
in vitro approach using HU and … that SHI can predict uric acid stones, with a cut-off value of …

… HU and Hounsfield density to predict the stone compositions of … However, we identified that
calcium oxalate dihydrate was … density observed by CT scan (HU) and the calculus size from …

… Hounsfield units (HU) of each stone were recorded for the 140 kV … In our ex vivo analysis,
dual source CT technology can … appropriate medical therapy or even predicting stone fragility. …

… The efficacy of ESWL is dependent on the stone composition… % in predicting the composition
of urinary stones in invitro studies. … , and essence/Hounsfield units (HU)).1 According to the …

… vitro studies have shown that calcium oxalate monohydrate … density can be used to predict
stone composition in vitro with … limitations of measurements in Hounsfield units. A dual-source …