X-ray computed tomography

WA Kalender - Physics in medicine & Biology, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Computed tomography became feasible with the development of modern computer
technology in the 1960s, but some of the ideas on which it is based can be traced back to the first …

… and high resolution computed tomography as clinical tools for vertebral endplate topography measurements: comparison with microcomputed tomography

D Oravec, A Quazi, A Xiao, E Yang, R Zauel, MJ Flynn… - Bone, 2015 - Elsevier
… Kurtosis measures the spread of the depth distribution (distribution … lateral regions of the
vertebra are excluded from analysis in the LM view, and the most anterior and posterior regions

Micro-computed tomography—current status and developments

EL Ritman - Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng., 2004 - annualreviews.org
… The recent rapid increase in interest in tomographic imaging of small animals and of human
(and … In biomedical applications, micro-computed tomography (CT) scanners can function as …

Computer analysis of computed tomography scans of the lung: a survey

I Sluimer, A Schilham, M Prokop… - IEEE transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… system that analyzes the lungs and does not work on manually delineated regions of …
scans, such as regional lung volume changes, local changes in air content and the distribution of …

Regression forests for efficient anatomy detection and localization in computed tomography scans

A Criminisi, D Robertson, E Konukoglu, J Shotton… - Medical image …, 2013 - Elsevier
… For a given class c we model the continuous conditional distribution of the vector d(v; c) at
each … Finally, this 2D example enables us to visualize the computed landmark regions. In the …

A method for calculating regional cerebral blood flow from emission computed tomography of inert gas concentrations

P Celsis, T Goldman, L Henriksen… - … assisted tomography, 1981 - journals.lww.com
… scaling the early isotope distribution picture (recorded … distribution principle, and it allows
the estimation of blood flow in ischemic areas. Application to positron emission tomography

Inhomogeneity of lung parenchyma during the open lung strategy: a computed tomography scan study

S Grasso, T Stripoli, M Sacchi, P Trerotoli… - American journal of …, 2009 - atsjournals.org
regions of interest: ventral, medial, and dorsal (Figure 1). The CT histograms of volume
distribution … Histograms of volume distributions of computed tomography (CT) attenuations in the …

X-ray-based attenuation correction for positron emission tomography/computed tomography scanners

PE Kinahan, BH Hasegawa, T Beyer - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2003 - Elsevier
regions (that is, “hot lungs”) and negative tracer concentrations in mediastinal … a tomographic
image reconstruction algorithm, such as FBP, to estimate the two-dimensional distribution

Use of ultrafast computed tomography to quantitate regional myocardial perfusion: a preliminary report

JA Rumberger, AJ Feiring, MJ Lipton… - Journal of the American …, 1987 - Elsevier
… for rapid acquisition computed axial tomography (Imatron C-100) to quantify regional myocardial
… cavity and posterior papillary muscle regions after excluding contrast recirculation and …

Segmentation of X‐ray computed tomography images of porous materials: A crucial step for characterization and quantitative analysis of pore structures

P Iassonov, T Gebrenegus… - Water resources research, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
computed tomography (CT) yield high-resolution, three-dimensional representations of pore
space and fluid distribution … A significant drawback of region growing methods is the need …