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Foramen transversarium enlargement caused by vertebral artery tortuosity: Diagnosis with cone-beam computed tomography and magnetic resonance angiography

  • Omami, Galal
    • Imaging Science in Dentistry
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    • v.51 no.3
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    • pp.329-332
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    • 2021
  • A markedly enlarged foramen transversarium was discovered incidentally on a cone-beam computed tomography scan of a 72-year-old male patient who was referred for dental implant placement. Further evaluation with magnetic resonance angiography revealed that the foramen enlargement was caused by a tortuosity in the course of the vertebral artery. This case report highlights the importance of recognizing significant incidental findings on diagnostic images and the potential need for additional imaging as part of the complete interpretative process.

Patient radiation dose and protection from cone-beam computed tomography

  • Li, Gang
    • Imaging Science in Dentistry
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.63-69
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    • 2013
  • After over one decade development, cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) has been widely accepted for clinical application in almost every field of dentistry. Meanwhile, the radiation dose of CBCT to patient has also caused broad concern. According to the literature, the effective radiation doses of CBCTs in nowadays market fall into a considerably wide range that is from $19{\mu}Sv$ to $1073{\mu}Sv$ and closely related to the imaging detector, field of view, and voxel sizes used for scanning. To deeply understand the potential risk from CBCT, this report also reviewed the effective doses from literatures on intra-oral radiograph, panoramic radiograph, lateral and posteroanterior cephalometric radiograph, multi-slice CT, and so on. The protection effect of thyroid collar and leaded glasses were also reviewed.

Measurement of Spray Distribution of Swirl Injector by Tomography Method at High Pressure Condition (토모그래피 기법을 이용한 고압 조건에서의 스월 분사기의 분무 분포 계측)

  • Park, Gu-Jeong;Cho, Seong-Ho;Chung, Jae-Mook;Kim, Tae-Sung;Yoon, Young-Bin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.66-71
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    • 2011
  • The spray distribution at high pressure condition was measured by the Tomography method. The constructed spray distribution was compared with the images by Indirect Photography method so that the spray size confirmed and took the boundary of the distribution. It confirmed that the Tomography applies to construct the distribution at high pressure.

Isolated tympanic plate fracture detected by cone-beam computed tomography: report of four cases with review of literature

  • Kalaskar, Ashita Ritesh;Kalaskar, Ritesh
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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    • v.43 no.5
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    • pp.356-360
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    • 2017
  • The tympanic plate is a small part of the temporal bone that separates the mandibular condyle from the external auditory canal. Fracture of this small plate is rare and usually associated with other bony fractures, mainly temporal and mandibular bone. There is a limited amount of literature on this subject, which increases the chance of cases being overlooked by physicians and radiologists. This is further supported by purely isolated cases of tympanic plate fracture without evidence of other bony fractures. Cone-beam computed tomography is an investigative three-dimensional imaging modality that can be used to detect fine structures and fractures in maxillofacial trauma. This article presents four cases of isolated tympanic plate fracture diagnosed by cone-beam computed tomography with no evidence of fracture involving other bones and review of the literature.

A rare case of dilated invaginated odontome with talon cusp in a permanent maxillary central incisor diagnosed by cone beam computed tomography

  • Jaya, Ranganathan;Kumar, Rangarajan Sundaresan Mohan;Srinivasan, Ramasamy
    • Imaging Science in Dentistry
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.209-213
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    • 2013
  • It has been a challenge to establish the accurate diagnosis of developmental tooth anomalies based on periapical radiographs. Recently, three-dimensional imaging by cone beam computed tomography has provided useful information to investigate the complex anatomy of and establish the proper management for tooth anomalies. The most severe variant of dens invaginatus, known as dilated odontome, is a rare occurrence, and the cone beam computed tomographic findings of this anomaly have never been reported for an erupted permanent maxillary central incisor. The occurrence of talon cusp occurring along with dens invaginatus is also unusual. The aim of this report was to show the importance of cone beam computed tomography in contributing to the accurate diagnosis and evaluation of the complex anatomy of this rare anomaly.

A Study on Simultaneous Analysis of Velocity and Density Distributions for High-Speed $CO_{2}$ Flow (고속 이산화탄소 유동장의 속도 및 밀도 동시 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Kim Yong-Jae;Ko Han Seo;Okamoto Koji
    • 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.12a
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    • pp.40-45
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    • 2005
  • Velocity and density distributions of a high-speed and initial $CO_{2}$ jet flow have been analyzed simultaneously by a developed three-dimensional digital speckle tomography and a particle image velocimetry(PIV). Three high-speed cameras have been used for tomography and PIV since a shape of a nozzle for the jet flow is asymmetric and the initial flow is fast and unsteady, The speckle movements between no flow and $CO_{2}$ jet flow have been obtained by a cross-correlation tracking method so that those distances can be transferred to deflection angles of laser rays for density gradients. The three-dimensional density fields for the high-speed $CO_{2}$ jet flow have been reconstructed from the deflection angles by a real-time tomography method and the two-dimensional velocity fields have been calculated by a PIV method simultaneously and instantaneously.

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Development of a Proton Computed Tomography System with Monte Carlo Simulation (양성자 전산화 단층 촬영 장치 개발에 관한 전산모사 연구)

  • Seo, Jeong-Min;Kim, Chan-Hyeong
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.215-219
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    • 2011
  • Monte Carlo simulation was performed to investigate optimal system of proton computed tomography and to avoid the errors by using data from X ray computed tomography in proton therapy. The informations from two DSSDs to measure position and LYSO scintillation detector to measure the residual energy of proton particle in GEANT4 were used for reconstruction computed tomography.

Electrical Resistance Tomography: Mesh Grouping and Boundary Estimation Algorithms

  • Kim Sin;Cho Hyo-Sung;Lee Bong-Soo
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents the development and application of electrical resistance imaging techniques for the visualization of two-phase flow fields. Two algorithms, the so-called the mesh grouping and the boundary estimation, are described for potential applications of electrical resistance tomography (ERT) and results from extensive numerical simulations are also presented. In the electrical resistance imaging for two-phase flows, numerical meshes fairly belonging to each phase can be grouped to improve the reconstruction performance. In many cases, the detection of phase boundary is a key subject and a mathematical model to estimate phase boundary can be formulated in a different manner. Our results indicated that the mesh grouping algorithm is effective to enhance computational performance and image quality, and boundary estimation algorithm to determine the phase boundary directly.

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Rupturing Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm during Computed Tomography Angiography : Three-Dimensional Visualization of Bleeding into the Septum Pellucidum and the Lateral Ventricle

  • Kim, Ealmaan
    • Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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    • v.55 no.6
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    • pp.357-361
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    • 2014
  • Computed tomography angiography (CTA) is commonly used in setting of subarachnoid hemorrhage, but imaging features of aneurysm rupturing taking place at the time of scanning has rarely been described. The author reports a case of actively rebleeding aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery with intraventricular extravasation on the hyperacute CTA imaging. The rebleeding route, not into the third ventricle but into the lateral ventricles, can be visualized by real-time three-dimensional CT pictures. The hemorrhage broke the septum pellucidum and the lamina rostralis rather than the lamina terminalis.

Fast Image Reconstruction for Positron Emission Tomography Using Time-Of-Flight Information (양전자 방출 단층 촬영기의 비행 시간 정보를 이용한 고속 영상재구성)

  • Lee, Nam-Yong
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.865-872
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    • 2017
  • Recent advance in electronics and scintillators makes it possible to utilize the time-of-flight (TOF) information in improving image reconstruction of positron emission tomography(PET). In this paper, we propose a TOF-based fast image reconstruction method for PET. The proposed method uses the deconvolution of TOF data for each angle view and the rotational averaging of deconvolved images. Simulation results show an improved performance of the proposed method, as compared with filtered backprojection (FBP) method, TOF-FBP, and TOF version of expectation-maximization(EM) methods. Simulation results also show a great potentiality of the proposed method in limited angle tomography applications.