Optimizing computed tomography image reconstruction for focal hepatic lesions: Deep learning image reconstruction vs iterative reconstruction.

Background: Deep learning image reconstruction (DLIR) is a novel computed tomography (CT) reconstruction technique that minimizes image noise, enhances image quality, and enables radiation dose reduction. This study aims to compare the diagnostic performance of DLIR and iterative reconstruction (IR) in the evaluation of focal hepatic lesions.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of 216 focal hepatic lesions in 109 adult participants who underwent abdominal CT scanning at our institution.

Development and validation of a prognostic prediction model including the minor lymphatic pathway for distant metastases in cervical cancer patients.

Unlabelled: To develop and validate a prognostic model, including the minor lymphatic pathway (internal iliac and presacral nodes).

Study Design: Retrospective cohort.

Participants: Locally advanced cervical cancer underwent concurrent chemoradiotherapy.

Evaluation and external validation of minor lymphatic pelvic pathway for distant metastases in cervical cancer patients treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy.

To evaluate and validate the minor lymphatic pathway for distant metastases in cervical cancer. This is a retrospective cohort of cervical cancer patients underwent curative concurrent chemoradiotherapy. We used original dataset from 1 university hospital and validation dataset from 3 university hospitals.

Effect of a 12-week home-based exercise training program on aerobic capacity, muscle mass, liver and spleen stiffness, and quality of life in cirrhotic patients: a randomized controlled clinical trial.

Background: Physical inactivity and sarcopenia are two important predictors associated with increased morbidity and mortality in patients with cirrhosis. At present, the benefit of a home-based exercise training program is not well established in cirrhotic patients. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of a 12-week home-based exercise training program on aerobic capacity in cirrhotic patients.

Clinical, mammographic, and ultrasonographic characteristics of diabetic mastopathy: A case series.

Purpose: Diabetic mastopathy (DMP) is a rare benign breast lesion that mimics breast cancer on ultrasound. Our aims were to identify patient characteristics and imaging features of the disease.

Methods: We conducted retrospective searches of our database for DMP lesions that were pathologically confirmed between January 2004 and November 2015.

A Comparison of Accuracy of Planar and Evolution SPECT/CT Bone Imaging in Differentiating Benign from Metastatic Bone Lesions.

Objective: To compare sensitivity, specificity, accuracy and diagnostic confidence in the differentiation between benign and metastatic bone lesions on whole body planar bone scintigraphy and Evolution SPECT/CT.

Material And Method: Eighty diagnosed or suspected cancer patients with indeterminate lesions on planar scintigraphy were recruited in the present prospective study. Additional whole body Evolution SPECT/CT was performed after whole body planar scintigraphy.

MRI of placenta percreta: differentiation from other entities of placental adhesive disorder.

Objectives: To retrospectively review the MRI findings of placenta percreta and identify those helpful for differentiation from non-placenta percreta.

Materials And Methods: The MRI images of 21 patients with a preliminary diagnosis of placental adhesive disorder scanned between 2005 and 2014 were evaluated. Radiologists blinded to the final diagnosis evaluated six previously described MRI findings of placenta adhesive disorder.

Correlation between the severity of hepatitis B cirrhosis and CT volumetry-based hepatic segmental anatomic changes.

Objective: To study the correlation between the changes of hepatic segmental volumes and the severity of hepatitis B cirrhosis, classified by Child-Pugh score.

Material And Method: The study cohort comprised viral hepatitis B cirrhotic patients with different severity (Child-Pugh score grade A to C) and control subjects who underwent hepatic computed tomographic (CT) scan between February 2006 and May 2012. The volumes of total liver (TLV), right lobe (RV), left medial segment (LMV), left lateral segment (LLV), and caudate lobe (CV) were measured and compared between the control group and Child-Pugh A, B, and C groups.

Renal vascular variants in living related renal donors: evaluation with CT angiography.

Background: Renal vascular variants may complicate the surgical techniques of living related renal transplantation. Renal computed tomographic (CT) angiography is now well accepted for preoperative renal vascular mapping in living related renal donors.

Objective: To study the prevalence of renal vascular variants in living related renal donors using CT angiography.

CT appearances of post-radiation livers in patients with unresectable cholangiocarcinoma.

Objective: To characterize the computed tomographic (CT) findings of post-radiation livers and the interval changes in patients with unresectable cholangiocarcinoma.

Material And Method: Thirteen patients with unresectable cholangiocarcinoma who received concurrent chemoradiation with conformal radiotherapy technique (50 to 66 Gy, 2 Gy/fraction) were included in the present study. CT at pre-radiation and sequential follow-up at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months were retrospectively reviewed by two abdominal radiologists to identify CT characteristics of post-radiation liver and the interval changes.

Computed tomography characteristics of hepatic and splenic abscesses associated with melioidosis: a 7-year study.

Purpose: This study aimed to characterise the CT findings associated with hepatic and splenic melioid abscesses.

Methods: Patients with CT evidence of hepatic and/or splenic abscesses were retrospectively evaluated for clinical evidence of melioidosis over a 7-year period. After blinded review of the CT characteristics of intra-abdominal abscesses (IAA), we conducted a stratified analysis of patients with and without melioid IAA.

Renal artery stenosis: diagnostic performance of balanced fast field gradient echo MRA.

Objective: To compare the diagnostic performance of new B-FFE MR angiography with contrast-enhance MR angiography in diagnosis of renal artery stenosis.

Material And Method: One hundred and fourteen patients suspected of having renal artery stenosi underwent MR angiography with 2D B-FFE technique and 3D post contrast enhancement.

Results: Compared with contrast enhanced MR angiography, B-FFE MR angiography correctly depicte, significant stenotic renal arteries (> or = 50% stenosis) in 13 and 12 renal arteries from 21 renal arteries reviewed by first and second radiologists, respectively.

Surgically relevant normal and variant renal parenchymal and vascular anatomy in preoperative 16-MDCT evaluation of potential laparoscopic renal donors.

Objective: Using 16-MDCT, we describe and quantify the frequency and types of renal anatomic variants and findings relevant for preoperative evaluation and surgical planning for potential laparoscopic renal donors.

Materials And Methods: On 16-MDCT, 126 consecutive potential donors underwent scanning before contrast administration and after i.v.

Utility of 16-MDCT angiography for comprehensive preoperative vascular evaluation of laparoscopic renal donors.

Objective: Our objective was to determine the efficacy of 16-MDCT angiography in preoperative evaluation of vascular anatomy of laparoscopic renal donors.

Methods And Materials: Fifty-five consecutive renal donors (25 men and 30 women) underwent 16-MDCT angiography followed by donor nephrectomy. In the arterial and nephrographic phases, images were acquired with 60% overlap and 0.

Ectrodactyly-ectodermal dysplasia-clefting (EEC) syndrome presenting with a large nephrogenic cyst, severe oligohydramnios and hydrops fetalis: a case report and review of the literature.

Objectives: To report a case of EEC syndrome with a large nephrogenic cyst detected by prenatal ultrasonography.

Methods: Prenatal ultrasonographic detection, genetic counselling, termination of pregnancy, radiographic study, autopsy and ultrastructural study of scalp hair. The literature on EEC syndrome with genitourinary anomalies and prenatal diagnosis was also reviewed.