[Clinical Characteristics of Wilson's Disease: a Retrospective Analysis of Admission Data among 126 Patients].

Objective: To investigate the clinical features of Wilson's disease (WD) for the purpose of avoiding misdiagnosis and therefore improving the prognosis of this rare disease.

Methods: This study enrolled all the patients diagnosed as WD who were admitted to West China Hospital, Sichuan University from Jan 2008 to Dec 2014. Their clinical manifestations, head and abdominal images data were extracted and analyzed.

Value of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging on the follow-up of nasopharyngeal carcinoma after radiotherapy.

Purpose: To explore the value of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on the follow-up of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) after radiotherapy.

Material And Methods: Eighty-three NPC patients after radiotherapy were divided into two groups: 4 cases of residual tumor and 33 cases of non-residual within 6 months, the cases of recurrent and non-recurrent were 5 and 41 over 6 months, respectively. MRI and DWI imaging of these cases were closely analyzed, and the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of the nasopharyngeal residual mass and nasopharyngeal wall thickening, skull base destruction and lateral pterygoid muscle were measured.

Correlation between CT attenuation value and iodine concentration in vitro: discrepancy between gemstone spectral imaging on single-source dual-energy CT and traditional polychromatic X-ray imaging.

Introduction: To assess the relation between CT attenuation value and iodine concentration in vitro, using gemstone spectral imaging (GSI) with single-source dual-energy CT and traditional polychromatic X-ray imaging (TPXI), respectively.

Methods: A polypropylene phantom with eight test tubes in which iodine concentrations of solution were 0.4, 0.

Hepatic veno-occlusive disease after taking Gynura Rhizome: The value of multidetector computed tomography in diagnosing the disease and evaluating the clinical therapeutic effect.

Aim:   We conducted this study to evaluate the role of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) in diagnosing and differential diagnosis hepatic veno-occlusive disease (HVOD), and as well as assessing the clinical therapeutic effects.

Methods:   From 2007 to 2010, 10 inpatients with weight increasing, liver pains, ascites, jaundice and history of taking gynura rhizome before hospitalization were scanned with a 64-MDCT. The data were reconstructed every 0.

Impact of different window settings on colon polyp measurements with CT virtual colonoscopy: a phantom study.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of window settings on measurement of colon polyps with CT virtual colonoscopy with experiment. Twenty-four artificial polyps' diameter were measured and scanned 10 times with identical scan parameters using a 64-multidetector computed tomographic scanner. The diameter of each polyp was measured using lung window and abdominal soft tissue window settings and compared with the actual diameter.

CT virtual colonoscopy in displaying excavated colon lesions.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the relative values of 2D plane view and 3D intracavity view of CT virtual colonoscopy in displaying colon excavated lesions. Cleaned porcine colon with ulcerative lesion was scanned with multidetector CT. The data were reconstructed and reviewed using 2D plane view and 3D volume-rendered images on a GE AW4.