Unusual Paraneoplastic Presentation of Cholangiocarcinoma by Aman Opneja, Sonia Mahajan, Sargam Kapoor, Shanthi Marur, Steve Hoseong Yang, Rebecca Manno

“…Immunofluorescence revealed IgM positive cytoid bodies scattered along the epidermal basement membrane zone. PET-CT scanning revealed metabolically active recurrent disease in peripancreatic and periportal region with hypermetabolic lymph nodes. …”
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Airway clearance technique therapy for atelectasis induced by scoliosis surgery: a case report by Rui Zhai, Hairong Su, Yaxu Wu, Rong Tan, Xiaoli Zhang, Ye Tian, Mei Hu

“…Despite receiving medication for expectoration, postoperative symptoms including chest tightness, breathlessness, and ineffective coughing persisted and progressively worsened. Subsequent chest CT scans demonstrated extensive atelectasis, and pharmacological interventions proved to be ineffective. …”
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Review Analysis of the Association between the Prevalence of Activated Brown Adipose Tissue and Outdoor Temperature by Yung-Cheng Huang, Chien-Chin Hsu, Pei-Wen Wang, Yen-Hsiang Chang, Tai-Been Chen, Bi-Fang Lee, Nan-Tsing Chiu

“…Activated BAT is identifiable using F18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (F18-FDG PET/CT). F18-FDG PET/CT scans done between June 2005 and May 2009 in our institution in tropical southern Taiwan and BAT studies from PubMed (2002–2011) were reviewed, and the average outdoor temperatures during the study periods were obtained. …”
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Diagnosing Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm of the Bile Duct with Computed Tomography: A Clinical Case Analysis by Xinzheng WANG, Jinzhi FANG, Dafei YU, Jianbing ZENG, Yuzhong ZHANG, Linning E

“…Notably, the lesions connected to the bile duct, and surrounding bile ducts showed varying degrees of dilation. Enhanced CT scans revealed mild to moderate uneven enhancement within the solid components of all three lesions, while the cystic components displayed no enhancement. …”
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Use of High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy in a Pregnant Woman with Dermatomyositis-Related Interstitial Pneumonia by Tomohiro Shoji, Takeshi Umegaki, Kota Nishimoto, Natsuki Anada, Akiko Ando, Takeo Uba, Munenori Kusunoki, Kanako Oku, Takahiko Kamibayashi

“…Chest computed tomography (CT) scans revealed pulmonary infiltrates along the bronchovascular bundles and ground-glass opacities in both lungs. …”
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Vertebral Stenting and Vertebroplasty Guided by an Angiographic 3D Rotational Unit by Escobar-de la Garma Víctor Hugo, Jorge-Barroso Henry Luis, Padilla-Vázquez Felipe, Balderrama-Bañares Jorge Luis

“…New software programs available nowadays offer the option to make three-dimensional reconstructions with no need of CT scans with the same degree of specificity.…”
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Aortoenteric Fistula as a Complication of Open Reconstruction and Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aorta by Marek Tagowski, Hendryk Vieweg, Christian Wissgott, Reimer Andresen

“…In case of equivocal CT scans and clinical suspicion of AEF, scintigraphy, 67Ga citrate scans or 18F-FDG PET/CT is useful. …”
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Improvement of Depression after Treatment of Dural Arteriovenous Fistula: A Case Report and a Review by Minoru Nakagawa, Kenji Sugiu, Koji Tokunaga, Chihoko Sakamoto, Kenjiro Fujiwara

“…It may be necessary to evaluate cerebral vessels in patients suffering from depression by using MRA or 3D-CTA even if there are not any abnormal findings on plain CT scans.…”
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Multifractal Analysis of Acoustic Emissions during Hydraulic Fracturing Experiments under Uniaxial Loading Conditions: A Niutitang Shale Example by Jingqiang Tan, Jun Xie, Lei Li, Qiao Lyu, Jianqiang Han, Zhengguang Zhao

“…The results were further verified using a time-frequency analysis of the AE signals and micro-CT scanning of the samples. This study demonstrates that the multifractal method is feasible for quantitatively characterizing hydraulic fractures and can aid field hydraulic fracturing operations.…”
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Outcome of Concurrent Occult Hemothorax and Pneumothorax in Trauma Patients Who Required Assisted Ventilation by Ismail Mahmood, Zainab Tawfeek, Ayman El-Menyar, Ahmad Zarour, Ibrahim Afifi, Suresh Kumar, Ruben Peralta, Rifat Latifi, Hassan Al-Thani

“…The presence of hemopneumothorax was confirmed by CT scanning. Hospital length of stay, complications, and outcome were recorded. …”
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Usefulness of Whole-Body Fluorine-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography in Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 1: A Systematic Review by Giorgio Treglia, Silvia Taralli, Francesco Bertagna, Marco Salsano, Barbara Muoio, Pierluigi Novellis, Maria Letizia Vita, Fabio Maggi, Alessandro Giordano

“…Only those studies or subsets in studies including whole-body FDG-PET or PET/CT scans performed in patients with NF1 were included. …”
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3D Analysis of D-RaCe and Self-Adjusting File in Removing Filling Materials from Curved Root Canals Instrumented and Filled with Different Techniques by Neslihan Simsek, Fuat Ahmetoglu, Ali Keles, Elcin Tekin Bulut, Kursat Er

“…The root fillings were first removed with D-RaCe (Step 1), followed by Step 2, in which a SAF system was used to remove the residual fillings in all groups. Micro-CT scans were used to measure the volume of residual filling after root canal filling, reinstrumentation with D-RaCe (Step 1), and reinstrumentation with SAF (Step 2). …”
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Custom-Made Computer-Aided-Design/Computer-Aided-Manufacturing Biphasic Calcium-Phosphate Scaffold for Augmentation of an Atrophic Mandibular Anterior Ridge by Francesco Guido Mangano, Piero Antonio Zecca, Ric van Noort, Samvel Apresyan, Giovanna Iezzi, Adriano Piattelli, Aldo Macchi, Carlo Mangano

“…This study demonstrates that custom-made scaffolds can be fabricated by combining CT scans and CAD/CAM techniques. Further studies on a larger sample of patients are needed to confirm these results.…”
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A rare case of brain hemorrhage secondary to venous angioma in the right parietal lobe: case report and literature review by Juan Manuel Altamirano, Karla Salinas-Barboza, Eduardo Lopez-Ortiz, Luis Miguel Alfonso Fernandez-Gutiérrez

“…Case presentation A 41-year-old woman experienced a sudden and severe headache, dizziness, left-sided hemihypoesthesia followed by seizures. Initial brain CT scans and MRI revealed a right parietal lobe bleed with a nodular hyperintense lesion on T1 and T2 sequences with lobulated borders and a hemosiderin halo on gradient echo sequences, initially suspected to be a cavernoma. …”
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Micro-CT imaging of Thiel-embalmed and iodine-stained human temporal bone for 3D modeling by Sebastian Halm, David Haberthür, Elisabeth Eppler, Valentin Djonov, Andreas Arnold

“…The contralateral temporal bone was used to evaluate segmentation and three-dimensional (3D) modeling after iodine staining and micro-CT scanning. Results The digital and physical stapes measurements differed by 0.01–0.17 mm or 1–19%, respectively, but correlated well with the literature values. …”
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Impact of a Segmented-Scan Strategy on Residual Stress and Fit Accuracy of Dental Prostheses Fabricated via Laser-Beam Powder-Bed Fusion by Yoshio Kobayashi, Atsushi Takaichi, Yuka Kajima, Wenrui Qu, Noriyuki Wakabayashi

“…Residual stress was measured in the X and Y directions at three points using X-ray diffraction, while CT scans were used to count internal microstructures. …”
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Crack propagation and CT imaging of internal cracks in rocks damaged by pre-compression under explosive loading by Qiangqiang Zheng, Pingfeng Li, Ying Xu, Bing Cheng, Hao Hu, Hao Shi, Shoudong Xie

“…A theoretical model for predicting blast-induced crack propagation radius in damaged sandstone is established and validated through integrated laboratory blast experiments, CT scanning, and PFC-2D numerical simulations, demonstrating a prediction error margin below 5%. …”
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Complex congenital heart and lung defects as a cause of hydrops fetalis in French bulldogs –micro-CT with contrast study by Olga Szaluś-Jordanow, Karolina Barszcz, Wojciech Mądry, Michał Buczyński, Michał Czopowicz, Adam Gierulski, Agata Moroz-Fik, Zofia Nowek, Marcin Mickiewicz, Michał Grzegorczyk, Jakub Jaroszewicz, Sylwia Tarka, Tomasz Stępień, Wojciech Święszkowski

“…The hearts and pulmonary vessels were filled with barium contrast, and micro-CT scans of the physiologically connected heart and lungs were performed. …”
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Automatic Aortic Valve Extraction Using Deep Learning with Contrast-Enhanced Cardiac CT Images by Soichiro Inomata, Takaaki Yoshimura, Minghui Tang, Shota Ichikawa, Hiroyuki Sugimori

“…Materials and Methods: A dataset of 32 contrast-enhanced cardiac CT scans was analyzed. The segmentation approach utilized the DeepLabv3+ model, while the object detection approach employed YOLOv2. …”
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Biological age model using explainable automated CT-based cardiometabolic biomarkers for phenotypic prediction of longevity by Perry J. Pickhardt, Michael W. Kattan, Matthew H. Lee, B. Dustin Pooler, Ayis Pyrros, Daniel Liu, Ryan Zea, Ronald M. Summers, John W. Garrett

“…We apply these AI tools to abdominal CT scans from 123,281 adults (mean age, 53.6 years; 47% women; median follow-up, 5.3 years). …”
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