The Value of Integrating Fluorescent Imaging and Immunohistochemistry for Future Anatomical Studies in Aesthetic Surgery: Lessons From the Cerebrospinal Fluid Circulatory System of Human Nerves and Brain.

Background: During their work on the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulatory system of human nerves and brain, the authors applied imaging and tissue techniques that complemented basic anatomical dissection.

Objectives: The authors sought to show how integrating fluorescent imaging and basic immunohistochemistry (IHC) with facial anatomy can address current problems in aesthetic surgery.

Methods: The authors developed an algorithm and a set of principles from their work on the CSF circulatory system and applied these to 3 problems in aesthetic surgery: the functional anatomy of the vermilion-cutaneous junction; chemosis; and the functional anatomy of periosteal fixation.

Novel modification to leaded eyewear results in significant operator eye radiation dose reduction.

Objective: Ocular radiation exposure from fluoroscopically guided interventions (FGIs) can cause cataracts. Standard lead eyewear may not significantly reduce eye radiation dose as the majority of scattered radiation penetrates the operator's eye obliquely. Our aim was to evaluate the efficacy of standard leaded eyewear and a customized eyewear design in lowering eye radiation dose to vascular surgeons.

Patient and operating room staff radiation dose during fenestrated/branched endovascular aneurysm repair using premanufactured devices.

Introduction: Fenestrated endovascular aneurysm repair (FEVAR) is the highest radiation dose procedure performed by vascular surgeons. We sought to characterize the radiation dose to patients and staff during FEVAR procedures with different premanufactured devices.

Methods: A single-center prospective study of FEVARs was performed over 24 months.

Radiation brain dose to vascular surgeons during fluoroscopically guided interventions is not effectively reduced by wearing lead equivalent surgical caps.

Objective: Radiation to the interventionalist's brain during fluoroscopically guided interventions (FGIs) may increase the incidence of cerebral neoplasms. Lead equivalent surgical caps claim to reduce radiation brain doses by 50% to 95%. We sought to determine the efficacy of the RADPAD (Worldwide Innovations & Technologies, Lenexa, Kan) No Brainer surgical cap (0.

Technical Note: Quantitative accuracy evaluation for spectral images from a detector-based spectral CT scanner using an iodine phantom.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quantitative accuracy of spectral images from a detector-based spectral CT scanner using a phantom with iodine-loaded inserts.

Methods: A 40-cm long-body phantom with seven iodine inserts (2-20 mg/ml of iodine) was used in the study. The inserts could be placed at 5.