• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.402-412
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• 2022

Objective: To evaluate the image quality and lesion detectability of lower-dose CT (LDCT) of the abdomen and pelvis obtained using a deep learning image reconstruction (DLIR) algorithm compared with those of standard-dose CT (SDCT) images. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study included 123 patients (mean age ± standard deviation, 63 ± 11 years; male:female, 70:53) who underwent contrast-enhanced abdominopelvic LDCT between May and August 2020 and had prior SDCT obtained using the same CT scanner within a year. LDCT images were reconstructed with hybrid iterative reconstruction (h-IR) and DLIR at medium and high strengths (DLIR-M and DLIR-H), while SDCT images were reconstructed with h-IR. For quantitative image quality analysis, image noise, signal-to-noise ratio, and contrast-to-noise ratio were measured in the liver, muscle, and aorta. Among the three different LDCT reconstruction algorithms, the one showing the smallest difference in quantitative parameters from those of SDCT images was selected for qualitative image quality analysis and lesion detectability evaluation. For qualitative analysis, overall image quality, image noise, image sharpness, image texture, and lesion conspicuity were graded using a 5-point scale by two radiologists. Observer performance in focal liver lesion detection was evaluated by comparing the jackknife free-response receiver operating characteristic figures-of-merit (FOM). Results: LDCT (35.1% dose reduction compared with SDCT) images obtained using DLIR-M showed similar quantitative measures to those of SDCT with h-IR images. All qualitative parameters of LDCT with DLIR-M images but image texture were similar to or significantly better than those of SDCT with h-IR images. The lesion detectability on LDCT with DLIR-M images was not significantly different from that of SDCT with h-IR images (reader-averaged FOM, 0.887 vs. 0.874, respectively; p = 0.581). Conclusion: Overall image quality and detectability of focal liver lesions is preserved in contrast-enhanced abdominopelvic LDCT obtained with DLIR-M relative to those in SDCT with h-IR.

• 대한치과의사협회지
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• 제58권9호
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• pp.556-562
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• 2020

Neurofibroma is a benign, heterogenous peripheral nerve sheath tumor arising from the connective tissue of peripheral nerve sheaths, especially the endoneurium. Its intraoral occurrence is uncommon and its occurrence within mandible is extremely rare. A case of solitary intraosseous neurofibroma of the mandible involving masticator space in a 8-year-old male is reported. He was referred from a private local clinic with a chief complaint of limitation in opening of the mouth. Panoramic and cone-beam computed tomographic images showed unilocular radiolucent lesion with scalloped border at the right mandibular ramus, connected posteriorly to the enlarged mandibular foramen and anteriorly to the mandibular canal. T1-weighted magnetic resonance images showed soft tissue mass of isointensity compared with muscles. Contrast-enhanced T1-weighted images showed peripheral enhancement and T2-weighted images showed the heterogeneous hyperintense mass with extension between lateral and medial pterygoid muscles. The tumor was surgically removed under general anesthesia and diagnosed to be neurofibroma at the biopsy.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.55-58
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• 2013

A ranula is a bluish, transparent, and thin-walled swelling in the floor of the mouth. They originate from the extravasation and subsequent accumulation of saliva from the sublingual gland. Ranulas are usually limited to the sublingual space but they sometimes extend to the submandibular space and parapharyngeal space, which is defined as a plunging ranula. A 21-year-old woman presented with a complaint of a large swelling in the left submandibular region. On contrast-enhanced CT images, it dissected across the midline, and extended to the parapharyngeal space posteriorly and to the submandibular space inferiorly. Several septa and a fluid-fluid level within the lesion were also demonstrated. We diagnosed this lesion as a ranula rather than cystic hygroma due to the location of its center and its sublingual tail sign. As plunging ranula and cystic hygroma are managed with different surgical approaches, it is important to differentiate them radiologically.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2019년도 제59차 동계학술대회논문집 27권1호
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• pp.465-467
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 영상생성이 가능한 딥러닝 네트워크를 이용하여 조영증강 CT 영상을 획득하는 연구를 수행하였다. CT는 고해상도 영상을 바탕으로 환자의 질병 및 암 세포 진단에 사용되는 의료영상 기법 중 하나이다. 특히, 조영제를 투여한 다음 CT 영상을 획득되는 영상을 조영증강 CT 영상이라 한다. 조영증강된 CT 영상은 물질의 구성 성분의 영상대비를 강조하여 임상의로 하여금 진단 및 치료반응 평가의 정확성을 향상시켜준다. 하지많은 수의 환자들이 조영제 부작용을 갖기 때문에 이에 해당되는 환자의 경우 조영증강 CT 영상 획득이 불가능해진다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 조영증강 영상을 얻지 못하는 환자 및 일반 환자의 불필요한 방사선의 노출을 최소화 하기 위하여 영상생성 딥러닝 기법을 이용하여 CT 영상에서 조영증강 CT 영상을 생성하는 연구를 진행하였다. 영상생성 딥러닝 네트워크는 generative adversarial network (GAN) 모델을 사용하였다. 연구결과 아무런 전처리도 거치지 않은 CT 영상을 이용하여 영상을 생성하는 것 보다 히스토그램 균일화 과정을 거친 영상이 더 좋은 결과를 나타냈으며 생성영상이 기존의 실제 영상과 영상의 구조적 유사도가 높음을 확인할 수 있다. 본 연구결과 딥러닝 영상생성 모델을 이용하여 조영증강 CT 영상을 생성할 수 있었으며, 이를 통하여 환자의 불필요한 방사선 피폭을 최소하며, 생성된 조영증강 CT 영상을 바탕으로 정확한 진단 및 치료반응 평가에 기여할 수 있을거라 기대된다.

• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.294-298
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• 2021

Extrahepatic biliary tract and gallbladder injuries following blunt abdominal trauma are uncommon. Traumatic cystic duct transection is even rarer, which has frequently caused missed diagnosis and delayed treatment. An 18-year-old female patient with no past medical history was transferred to the Trauma Center of Kyungpook National University Hospital after falling from a height of approximately 20 meters. She became hemodynamically stable after initial resuscitation, and initial contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography (CT) showed right kidney traumatic infarction and multiple intrahepatic contusions with minimal fluid collection but no extravasation of the contrast. She was admitted to the intensive care unit. On the second day of hospitalization, her abdomen became distended, with follow-up CT showing a large collection of intra-abdominal fluid. Laparoscopic exploration was then performed, which revealed devascularization of the gallbladder with complete transection of the cystic duct and artery. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed, as well as primary closure of the cystic duct orifice on the common bile duct using a 4-0 Prolene suture. After surgery, no clinical evidence of biliary leakage or common bile duct stricture was observed.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.152-160
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• 2009

목적: 대동맥궁 상부의 두개강내외 동맥의 협착을 평가함에 있어 3차원 조영증강 자기공명영상 혈관조영술(contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography, CE-MRA), 전산화 단층 혈관 조영술(computed tomographic angiography, CTA),그리고 디지털 감산 혈관조영술(digital subtraction angiography)의 진단 정확도를 비교하고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 총 대동맥궁 상부의 두개강내외 동맥에 대해 CE-MRA (화소크기: $0.66{\times}0.66{\times}1.1$ 혹은 $1.2\;mm^3$), CTA (화소크기: $0.42{\times}0.42{\times}0.63\;mm^3$), 그리고 DSA를 모두 시행한 28명의 환자(남자20명, 여자 8명, 나이: 53-79세)를 대상으로 하였다. 세 영상검사는 40일 이내에 모두 시행되었다 (중앙값 19일, 1-40일). 두명의 경험 있는 영상의학 전문의가 영상에 대한 평가 및 미리 설정된 15개 구간의 동맥 직경의 측정을 후향적으로 시행하였다. 결과: 총 420 구간의 동맥에 대한 평가가 CE-MRA, CTA및 DSA에서 가능하였다. DSA에서 34부위의 협착 혹은 폐색 병변이 관찰되었으며, 이중 19예는 두 개강외에 15예는 두개강내에 위치하였다. DSA를 기준으로 평가하였을 때, 두개강외 혈관에서 70%이상의 혈관협착을 진단하는데 있어 CE-MRA는 민감도 94.7%, 특이도 98.7%, 양성 예측도(PPV) 90.0%, 음성예측도(NPV) 99.3% 였고, CTA는 각각 94.7%, 99.3%, 94.7%, 99.3% 였다. 두개강내 혈관의 50% 이상 혈관 협착을 진단하는데에는 CE-MRA의 민감도가 93.3%, 특이도 98.3%, 양성예측도(PPV) 77.8%, 음성예측도(NPV) 99.6%였고, CTA에서는 각각 86.7%, 97.9%, 72.2%, 99.1%였다. 결론: 대동맥궁 상부의 두개강외와 두개강내의 동맥 협착을 진단함에 있어 CE-MRA는 CTA와 비슷한 정도의 신뢰성을 보이며, 두개강내외의 의미있는 동맥 협착에 대한 선별검사로 효과적이다.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.47-51
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• 2005

전산화단층검사에서 조영제를 자동주입기를 이용해 주입하여 검사하는 경우에 혈관 외 유출된 성인환자를 대상으로 하였다. 환자의 혈관외유출 사고의 조영제 양은 47 ml로 오른쪽 손목 부위가 부종을 동반하였다. 혈관외유출된 손상부위를 axial 스캔하여 MPR (multi-planar reformation), MIP (maximum intensity protection), volume rendering, SSD (shaded-surface display) 기법으로 구성하였다. 이러한 3D 영상은 조영제의 혈관외유출 환자의 예방 및 사후 조치에 적절한 치료계획의 방법으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제53권5호
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• pp.321-323
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• 2020

We describe the occurrence of acute type A aortic dissection in a patient with situs inversus totalis. A 37-year-old man presented to the emergency department with acute chest pain. Initial chest X-ray findings showed a right-sided heart and a left-sided liver. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography revealed a Stanford type A acute aortic dissection, aortic root dilatation, and situs inversus totalis. All of the thoracic structures were mirror-image reversed and an abnormal coronary artery was observed. The Bentall operation was performed. This report demonstrates that computed tomography and echocardiography were useful for understanding the anatomy and the presence or absence of concurrent anomalies in a patient with situs inversus totalis. The patient's postoperative course was uneventful.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.150-156
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• 2018

This study aims to develop an improved Feldkamp-Davis-Kress (FDK) reconstruction algorithm using anisotropic total variation (ATV) minimization to enhance the image quality of low-dose cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). The algorithm first applies a filter that integrates the Shepp-Logan filter into a cosine window function on all projections for impulse noise removal. A total variation objective function with anisotropic penalty is then minimized to enhance the difference between the real structure and noise using the steepest gradient descent optimization with adaptive step sizes. The preserving parameter to adjust the separation between the noise-free and noisy areas is determined by calculating the cumulative distribution function of the gradient magnitude of the filtered image obtained by the application of the filtering operation on each projection. With these minimized ATV projections, voxel-driven backprojection is finally performed to generate the reconstructed images. The performance of the proposed algorithm was evaluated with the catphan503 phantom dataset acquired with the use of a low-dose protocol. Qualitative and quantitative analyses showed that the proposed ATV minimization provides enhanced CBCT reconstruction images compared with those generated by the conventional FDK algorithm, with a higher contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), lower root-mean-square-error, and higher correlation. The proposed algorithm not only leads to a potential imaging dose reduction in repeated CBCT scans via lower mA levels, but also elicits high CNR values by removing noisy corrupted areas and by avoiding the heavy penalization of striking features.

• 대한영상의학회지
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• 제82권2호
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• pp.487-492
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• 2021

Immunoglobulin G4 (이하 IgG4)연관 질환은 풍부한 IgG4 형질세포 형태의 림프형질 세포 침윤과 현저한 섬유아세포 증식을 특징으로 하는 전신 질환이다. 일반적으로 IgG4 연관 질환의 후복막강 발현은 복부 대동맥을 둘러싸거나, 요관을 압박하여 수신증을 일으키는 연조직의 형태로 나타난다. 우리는 75세 여성 환자에서 발생한 비전형적인 IgG4 연관 질환의 후복막강 발현에 대해 보고하고자 한다. 수술 전 전산화단층촬영에서 정상 해부학적 경계를 넘어서는 침윤성 성질을 가진 불규칙한 형태의 후복막강의 종괴가 관찰되었으며, 이는 악성 혹은 염증성 상태가 의심되었다. 조영증강 촬영에서 종괴는 균일한 점진적인 조영증강을 보였다.