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Tomography, Volume 9, Issue 1

February 2023 - 36 articles

Cover Story: The impacts of metal artifacts (MAs) on the contouring workload for head and neck radiotherapy have not yet been clarified. Therefore, we evaluated the relationship between the contouring time of the MA area and MAs on head and neck radiotherapy treatment planning. The contouring time of MAs showed moderate positive correlations with the MA volume and the number of CT images containing MAs. Interobserver reliability of the extracted MAs volume and contouring time were excellent and poor, respectively. From our results, it was suggested that the contouring time of MA areas is related to individual commitment rather than clinical experience. Therefore, the development of software combining metal artifact reduction methods with automatic contouring methods is necessary for reducing interobserver variability and contouring workload. View this paper
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Articles (36)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,209 Views
10 Pages

19 February 2023

We investigated the effect of post-labeling delay (PLD) on the evaluation of brain tumor blood flow using arterial spin labeling (ASL) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to assess the need for imaging with two PLDs. Retrospective analysis was conducted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,522 Views
16 Pages

Repeatability and Reproducibility Uncertainty in Magnetic Resonance-Based Electric Properties Tomography of a Homogeneous Phantom

  • Alessandro Arduino,
  • Francesca Pennecchi,
  • Ulrich Katscher,
  • Maurice Cox and
  • Luca Zilberti

17 February 2023

Uncertainty assessment is a fundamental step in quantitative magnetic resonance imaging because it makes comparable, in a strict metrological sense, the results of different scans, for example during a longitudinal study. Magnetic resonance-based ele...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,219 Views
7 Pages

16 February 2023

Traumatic optic nerve injury may lead to almost instantaneous blindness. We describe a case of sight loss after a perforating injury to the eye. The case is unusual in that the patient remained conscious and the trauma to the eye was isolated. A full...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,007 Views
15 Pages

14 February 2023

Breast cancer was the most diagnosed cancer around the world in 2020. Screening programs, based on mammography, aim to achieve early diagnosis which is of extreme importance when it comes to cancer. There are several flaws associated with mammography...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,712 Views
11 Pages

[18F]FDG PET/CT: Lung Nodule Evaluation in Patients Affected by Renal Cell Carcinoma

  • Lighea Simona Airò Farulla,
  • Laura Lavinia Travaini,
  • Mariarosaria Cuomo,
  • Domenico Galetta,
  • Francesco Mattana,
  • Samuele Frassoni,
  • Giuseppe Buonsanti,
  • Lorenzo Muraglia,
  • Giulia Anna Zuccotti and
  • Vincenzo Bagnardi
  • + 2 authors

10 February 2023

Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) is generally characterized by low-FDG avidity, and [18F]FDG-PET/CT is not recommended to stage the primary tumor. However, its role to assess metastases is still unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,581 Views
12 Pages

Evaluation of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Repeatability and Reproducibility for Preclinical MRIs Using Standardized Procedures and a Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Phantom

  • Dariya Malyarenko,
  • Ghoncheh Amouzandeh,
  • Stephen Pickup,
  • Rong Zhou,
  • Henry Charles Manning,
  • Seth T. Gammon,
  • Kooresh I. Shoghi,
  • James D. Quirk,
  • Renuka Sriram and
  • Peder Larson
  • + 5 authors

7 February 2023

Relevant to co-clinical trials, the goal of this work was to assess repeatability, reproducibility, and bias of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) for preclinical MRIs using standardized procedures for comparison to performance of clinical MRIs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,306 Views
13 Pages

A Novel Approach to Determining Tumor Progression Using a Three-Site Pilot Clinical Trial of Spectroscopic MRI-Guided Radiation Dose Escalation in Glioblastoma

  • Karthik K. Ramesh,
  • Vicki Huang,
  • Jeffrey Rosenthal,
  • Eric A. Mellon,
  • Mohammed Goryawala,
  • Peter B. Barker,
  • Saumya S. Gurbani,
  • Anuradha G. Trivedi,
  • Alexander S. Giuffrida and
  • Eduard Schreibmann
  • + 8 authors

6 February 2023

Glioblastoma (GBM) is a fatal disease, with poor prognosis exacerbated by difficulty in assessing tumor extent with imaging. Spectroscopic MRI (sMRI) is a non-contrast imaging technique measuring endogenous metabolite levels of the brain that can ser...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,791 Views
10 Pages

‘Ultrasound Examination’ of the Musculoskeletal System: Bibliometric/Visualized Analyses on the Terminology (Change)

  • Carmelo Pirri,
  • Nina Pirri,
  • Carla Stecco,
  • Veronica Macchi,
  • Andrea Porzionato,
  • Raffaele De Caro and
  • Levent Özçakar

2 February 2023

Ultrasound imaging of the musculoskeletal system is paramount for physicians of different specialties. In recent years, its use has become the extension of physical examinations like using a “magnifying glass”. Likewise, the eventual conc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,878 Views
10 Pages

T1-Weighted Contrast Enhancement, Apparent Diffusion Coefficient, and Cerebral-Blood-Volume Changes after Glioblastoma Resection: MRI within 48 Hours vs. beyond 48 Hours

  • Davide Negroni,
  • Romina Bono,
  • Eleonora Soligo,
  • Vittorio Longo,
  • Christian Cossandi,
  • Alessandro Carriero and
  • Alessandro Stecco

2 February 2023

Background: The aim of the study is to identify the advantages, if any, of post-operative MRIs performed at 48 h compared to MRIs performed after 48 h in glioblastoma surgery. Materials and Methods: To assess the presence of a residual tumor, the T1-...

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