Vol 12, No 3 (March 01, 2022) - Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery

Original Article

Pharmaco-mechanical catheter-directed thrombolysis versus recanalization and stenting for post thrombotic syndrome after lower limb deep vein thrombosis: a comparative study

Giovanni Gautier, Frederic Douane, Arthur David, Christophe Perret, Marc-Antoine Pistorius, Yann Goueffic, Jerôme Connault, Mathieu Artifoni, Cecile Durant, Gaëtan Ploton, Alizee Raimbeau, Guillaume Bergere, Olivier Robin, Blandine Maurel, Olivier Espitia

PDF Pages: 1664-1673 Full Text (1268) COI Form Open Access

Volumetric analysis of pulmonary nodules: reducing the discrepancy between the diameter-based volume calculation and voxel-counting method

Sung Hyun Yoon, Jihang Kim, Kyong Joon Lee, Chang-Mo Nam, Junghoon Kim, Kyung Hee Lee, Kyung Won Lee

PDF Pages: 1674-1683 Full Text (1148) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Development and validation of an MRI-based nomogram for the preoperative prediction of tumor mutational burden in lower-grade gliomas

En-Tao Liu, Shuqin Zhou, Yingwen Li, Siwei Zhang, Zelan Ma, Junbiao Guo, Lei Guo, Yue Zhang, Quanlai Guo, Li Xu

PDF Pages: 1684-1697 Full Text (1611) COI Form Open Access

Using air cholangiography to reduce postendoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography cholangitis in patients with malignant hilar obstruction

Qi-Bin He, Ru-Hua Zheng, Yi Wang, Lei Wang, Lu-Xuan Tan, Gui-Xia Meng, Huan Zhong, Jie Duan, Ai-Dong Gu

PDF Pages: 1698-1705 Full Text (1068) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Validity and reliability of a computer-assisted system method to measure axial vertebral rotation

José Hurtado-Avilés, Vicente J. León-Muñoz, Jose Manuel Sanz-Mengibar, Fernando Santonja-Renedo, Pilar Andújar-Ortuño, Mónica Collazo-Diéguez, Vicente Ferrer-López, Joaquín Roca-González, Konstantsin Sergeevich Kurochka, Mercedes Cabañero-Castillo, Joaquín Alcaraz-Belzunces, Nieves Aidé Ruiz-Cambra, Victoria Eugenia Fuentes-Santos, Ana Belén Ponce-Garrido, Miriam González-Ballester, Francisco Javier Sánchez-Martínez, Andrés Campuzano-Melgarejo, Pietro Gino Fiorita, Fernando Santonja-Medina

PDF Pages: 1706-1715 Full Text (1551) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Improved magnetic resonance myelin water imaging using multi-channel denoising convolutional neural networks (MCDnCNN)

Guojun Xu, Yongquan He, Qiurong Yu, Hongjian He, Zhiyong Zhao, Mingxia Fan, Jianqi Li, Dongrong Xu

PDF Pages: 1716-1737 Full Text (938) COI Form Open Access

Evaluation of cartilage degeneration using multiparametric quantitative ultrashort echo time-based MRI: an ex vivo study

Hongda Shao, Jiawei Yang, Yajun Ma, Xiaolian Su, Guangyu Tang, Junjie Jiang, Jiang Du, Jianjun Liu

PDF Pages: 1738-1749 Full Text (2003) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Value of transrectal contrast-enhanced ultrasound with clinical indicators in the prediction of bone metastasis in prostate cancer

Hua Hong, Danyan Liang, Qian Liu, Guozhu Wu, Ran Sun, Juzhen Liu, Feng Wang, Fang Wang

PDF Pages: 1750-1761 Full Text (1154) COI Form Open Access

Comparison of superb microvascular imaging (SMI) quantified with ImageJ to quantified contrast-enhanced ultrasound (qCEUS) in liver metastases—a pilot study

Wolfgang Kratzer, Melanie Güthle, Felix Dobler, Thomas Seufferlein, Tilmann Graeter, Julian Schmidberger, Thomas FE Barth, Jochen Klaus

PDF Pages: 1762-1774 Full Text (1755) COI Form Open Access

Improving segmentation reliability of multi-scanner brain images using a generative adversarial network

Kai Niu, Xueyan Li, Li Zhang, Zhensong Yan, Wei Yu, Peipeng Liang, Yan Wang, Ching-Po Lin, Huimao Zhang, Chunjie Guo, Kuncheng Li, Tianyi Qian

PDF Pages: 1775-1786 Full Text (1185) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

An automated quantification method for the Agatston coronary artery calcium score on coronary computed tomography angiography

Wenjia Wang, Lin Yang, Sicong Wang, Qiong Wang, Lei Xu

PDF Pages: 1787-1799 Full Text (1523) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Diagnosis of steatohepatitis and fibrosis in biopsy-proven nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases: including two-dimension real-time shear wave elastography and noninvasive fibrotic biomarker scores

Jie Zhou, Feng Yan, Jinshun Xu, Qiang Lu, Xianglan Zhu, Binyang Gao, Huan Zhang, Rui Yang, Yan Luo

PDF Pages: 1800-1814 Full Text (1524) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Ultrasonographic index for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Jeong Woo Kim, Chang Hee Lee, Baek-Hui Kim, Young-Sun Lee, Soon-Young Hwang, Bit Na Park, Yang Shin Park

PDF Pages: 1815-1829 Full Text (1350) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Real-world study for identifying the predictive factors of surgical intervention and the value of magnetic resonance imaging in patients with low back pain

Hui Wang, Chang Liu, Zhou Meng, Wenxian Zhou, Tao Chen, Kai Zhang, Aimin Wu

PDF Pages: 1830-1843 Full Text (1020) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

High resolution imaging and quantification of the nailfold microvasculature using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) and capillaroscopy: a preliminary study in healthy subjects

Li-Bin Dong, Ying-Zhao Wei, Gong-Pu Lan, Jia-Tao Chen, Jing-Jiang Xu, Jia Qin, Lin An, Hai-Shu Tan, Yan-Ping Huang

PDF Pages: 1844-1858 Full Text (1292) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Development and testing quantitative metrics from multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging that predict Gleason score for prostate tumors

Rulon Mayer, Charles B. Simone II, Baris Turkbey, Peter Choyke

PDF Pages: 1859-1870 Full Text (668) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Dual-energy CT based monitoring of treatment-induced bone marrow changes in lung cancer patients: preliminary results

Sebastian Werner, Bernhard Krauss, Marius Horger

PDF Pages: 1871-1881 Full Text (975) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Associations between tumor grade, contrast-enhanced ultrasound features, and microvascular density in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma: a retrospective study

Xia Meng, Ran Yang, Shengnan Zhao, Zhixia Sun, Hui Wang

PDF Pages: 1882-1892 Full Text (804) COI Form Open Access

Identifying ¹⁸F-FDG PET-metabolic radiomic signature for lung adenocarcinoma prognosis via the leveraging of prognostic transcriptomic module

Jin Li, Yixin Liu, Wenlei Dong, Yang Zhou, Jingquan Wu, Kuan Luan, Lishuang Qi

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Quantitative analysis of the mouth opening movement of temporomandibular joint disorder patients according to disc position using computer vision: a pilot study

Kug Jin Jeon, Young Hyun Kim, Eun-Gyu Ha, Han Seung Choi, Hyung-Joon Ahn, Jeong Ryong Lee, Dosik Hwang, Sang-Sun Han

PDF Pages: 1909-1918 Full Text (1266) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Analysis of intervertebral disc degeneration in patients with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament

Xi Luo, Kaiqiang Sun, Jian Zhu, Shunmin Wang, Yuan Wang, Jingchuan Sun, Jiangang Shi

PDF Pages: 1919-1928 Full Text (1573) COI Form Open Access

Low-dose computed tomography image reconstruction via a multistage convolutional neural network with autoencoder perceptual loss network

Qing Li, Saize Li, Runrui Li, Wei Wu, Yunyun Dong, Juanjuan Zhao, Yan Qiang, Rukhma Aftab

PDF Pages: 1929-1957 Full Text (1591) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Abnormal interhemispheric functional connectivity in patients with primary dysmenorrhea: a resting-state functional MRI study

Yanan Zhang, Yiran Huang, Ni Liu, Zhenjia Wang, Junchen Wu, Wenxun Li, Jing Xia, Zhidan Liu, Yingqiu Li, Ying Hao, Jianwei Huo

PDF Pages: 1958-1967 Full Text (986) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

A national dose analysis of guided tumor destruction: influence of sex, age, localization and destruction technique used

Matthieu Rojo, Aymeric Hamard, Chris Serrand, Hélène de Forges, Jean-Paul Beregi, Joël Greffier, Julien Frandon

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The trajectory characteristics and clinical significance of the left-sided lumbar segmental artery: a prospective cross-sectional radio-anatomical study

Weibo Huang, Ping Zhou, Lin Xie, Zhongxiong Huang, Chaojun Zheng, Xiaosheng Ma, Hongli Wang, Jianyuan Jiang

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Clinical and imaging features of 112 patients with irregular and flat bone osteosarcoma

Zhendong Luo, Jing Li, Genggeng Qin, Hui Zeng, Zilong He, Derun Pan, Yulin Li, Weiguo Chen, Xinping Shen

PDF Pages: 1988-2001 Full Text (1537) COI Form Open Access

Clinical experience of tensor-valued diffusion encoding for microstructure imaging by diffusional variance decomposition in patients with breast cancer

Eun Cho, Hye Jin Baek, Filip Szczepankiewicz, Hyo Jung An, Eun Jung Jung, Ho-Joon Lee, Joonsung Lee, Sung-Min Gho

PDF Pages: 2002-2017 Full Text (1289) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Asynchronous changes of normal lung lobes during respiration based on quantitative computed tomography (CT)

Feihong Wu, Congping Lin, Leqing Chen, Jia Huang, Wenliang Fan, Zhuang Nie, Yiwei Zhang, Wanting Li, Jiazheng Wang, Fan Yang, Chuansheng Zheng

PDF Pages: 2018-2034 Full Text (1057) COI Form Open Access

Cardiac remodeling and subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in adults with uncomplicated obesity: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study

Jing Liu, Jing Li, Huaxia Pu, Wenzhang He, Xiaoyue Zhou, Nanwei Tong, Liqing Peng

PDF Pages: 2035-2050 Full Text (1271) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

The precision study of dual energy X-ray absorptiometry for bone mineral density and body composition measurements in female cynomolgus monkeys

Bin Guo, Qijun Cai, Jinci Mai, Lu Hou, Chunyuan Zeng, Jiefeng Gan, Zhiqiang Tan, Yuefeng Li, Yong Cheng, Jingjie Shang, Yongjin Tang, Xueying Ling, Jian Gong, Lu Wang, Hao Xu

PDF Pages: 2051-2057 Full Text (886) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Brief Report

Slow-flow phenomena following lower limb paclitaxel- and sirolimus-coated balloon angioplasty in the setting of chronic limb threatening ischaemia—a case series

Tjun Y. Tang, Muhammad S. B. Sulaiman, Shereen X. Y. Soon, Charyl J. Q. Yap, Ankur Patel, Tze T. Chong

PDF Pages: 2058-2065 Full Text (1348) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Quantitative magnetic resonance characterization of the effect of physical training on skeletal muscle of the Ts65Dn mice, a model of Down syndrome

Barbara Cisterna, Pietro Bontempi, Anatoly Petrovich Sobolev, Manuela Costanzo, Manuela Malatesta, Carlo Zancanaro

PDF Pages: 2066-2074 Full Text (841) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Review Article

Epicardial and pericardial fat analysis on CT images and artificial intelligence: a literature review

Federico Greco, Rodrigo Salgado, Wim Van Hecke, Romualdo Del Buono, Paul M. Parizel, Carlo Augusto Mallio

PDF Pages: 2075-2089 Full Text (2303) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

‘Healthier Chinese spine’: an update of osteoporotic fractures in men (MrOS) and in women (MsOS) Hong Kong spine radiograph studies

Yì Xiáng J. Wáng, Min Deng, James F. Griffith, Anthony W. L. Kwok, Jason C. S. Leung, Patti M. S. Lam, Blanche Wai Man Yu, Ping Chung Leung, Timothy C. Y. Kwok

PDF Pages: 2090-2105 Full Text (1682) COI Form Open Access