Vol 13, No 7 (July 01, 2023) - Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery

Editorial

An update on liver chemical exchange saturation transfer imaging with a focus on clinical translation

Yi Xiang J. Wáng, Weiqiang Dou, Zhiwei Shen, Yi Zhang

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Original Article

Imaging biomarkers on Angio-CT for predicting the efficacy of transarterial chemoembolization in hepatocellular carcinoma

Haochen Wang, Yanjing Han, Guang Chen, Long Jin

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Nomogram based on quantitative dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, apparent diffusion coefficient, and clinicopathological features for early prediction of pathologic complete response in breast cancer patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Muzhen He, Jiawei Su, Huiping Ruan, Yang Song, Mingping Ma, Fangqin Xue

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Impaired cardiac pump function assessment with normalized cardiac power using cardiac magnetic resonance in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Qing Li, Xuelian Gao, Zhen Zhou, Hongkai Zhang, Wenjie Li, Yifeng Gao, Kairui Bo, Hui Wang, Rui Wang, Zhonghua Sun, Lei Xu

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Morphology of hypertrophied basal septum contributes to left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a retrospective case-control study

Jia Tao, Hui Li, Pan Yang, Qinglong Meng, Fujian Duan, Hao Wang

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T2*-corrected Q-Dixon and reduced-FOV diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) parameters: correlation with QCT-derived bone mineral density (BMD) and ability to identify abnormal BMD and osteoporosis in postmenopausal women

Xiangwen Li, Yiwen Hu, Yuxue Xie, Rong Lu, Qing Li, Robert Grimm, Hongyue Tao, Shuang Chen

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Comparative study of normal condyle and temporomandibular joint prosthesis movement during mouth opening by dynamic magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography

Jun Wang, Jiangshan Hua, Ruoyi Ding, Luxiang Zou, Haoyu Li, Luzhu Zhang, Qi Sun, Dongmei He

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Differentiating angiomatous meningioma from atypical meningioma using histogram analysis of apparent diffusion coefficient maps

Xianwang Liu, Tao Han, Yuzhu Wang, Hong Liu, Xiaoyu Huang, Junlin Zhou

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Clinical evaluation of white matter lesions on 3D inversion recovery ultrashort echo time MRI in multiple sclerosis

Sam Sedaghat, Hyungseok Jang, Yajun Ma, Amir Masoud Afsahi, Benjamin Reichardt, Jody Corey-Bloom, Jiang Du

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Automatic segmentation of the female pelvic floor muscles on MRI for pelvic floor function assessment

Xiaoqin Zhang, Yongjia Xiang, Jie Yao, Xin Hu, Yangyun Wang, Liping Liu, Yan Wang, Yi Wu

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Type 3 bone-disc-bone osteotomy (grade 4+ osteotomy) combined with presurgical halo-pelvic traction: a safe and effective solution to correct severe angular-like kyphoscoliosis

Tianyuan Zhang, Wenyuan Sui, Xiexiang Shao, Yaolong Deng, Zifang Huang, Junlin Yang, Jingfan Yang

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A lightweight neural network for lung nodule detection based on improved ghost module

Liuyang Yang, Hongyu Cai, Xinyu Luo, Jianping Wu, Rui Tang, Yu Chen, Wei Li

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CT characteristics of recurrent acute pancreatitis and acute pancreatitis in different stages—a retrospective cross-sectional study

Ju Zhang, Juan-Juan Du, Wei Tang, Xin-Yu Zhang, Rui Jiang, Guo-Qing Yang, Xiao-Ming Zhang

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A radiomics nomogram for preoperative prediction of nephron-sparing surgery in patients with bilateral Wilms tumor

Zhenwu Li, Jiayi Li, Zonghan Li, Ning Sun, Qifeng Zhang, Hongcheng Song, Weiping Zhang

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A Bi-LSTM and multihead attention-based model incorporating radiomics signatures and radiological features for differentiating the main subtypes of lung adenocarcinoma

Jinjing Ren, Ling Chen, Huilin Xu, Xinlei Zheng, He Ren

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Influence of computed tomography slice thickness on deep learning-based, automatic coronary artery calcium scoring software performance

Suh Young Kim, Young Joo Suh, Hye-Jeong Lee, Hwiyoung Kim, Hyungi Seo, Hee Jun Park, Dong Hyun Yang

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Improvements of the Tada formula in estimating the intracerebral hemorrhage volume based on computed tomography

Zhuang Sha, Xinjie Zhang, Zhanying Li, Jiancheng Feng, Wei Quan, Shiying Dong, Mingqi Liu, Weiwei Jiang, Jiangyuan Yuan, Jinhao Huang, Chuang Gao, Ye Tian, Shuo An, Chunming Li, Yuanquan Wang, Rongcai Jiang

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Assessment of hepatic function employing hepatocyte specific contrast agent concentrations to multifactorially evaluate fibrotic remodeling

Hanns-Christian Breit, Jan Vosshenrich, Tobias Heye, Julian Gehweiler, David Jean Winkel, Silke Potthast, Elmar Max Merkle, Daniel Tobias Boll

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Preoperative CT-guided localization of pulmonary nodules with low-dose radiation

Yanhe Ma, Shizhao Cheng, Jianhui Li, Wei Yuan, Zhenchun Song, Hong Zhang

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Assessment of late on-set fetal growth restriction using SMI (superb microvascular imaging) Doppler

Rocio Garcia-Jimenez, Carlota Borrero González, José Antonio García-Mejido, Ana Fernández-Palacín, Antonio Robles, Francisco Sosa, José Antonio Sainz-Bueno

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Use of left atrial automated functional myocardial imaging to identify patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation at high risk of stroke

Hailan Liu, Lili Chen, Yan Song, Yanlin He, Ruirui Kang, Shengbo Liu, Chunquan Zhang

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Model development and validation of noninvasive parameters based on coronary computed tomography angiography to predict culprit lesions in acute coronary syndromes within 3 years: value of plaque characteristics, hemodynamics and pericoronary adipose tissue

Na Li, Xiaolin Dong, Chentao Zhu, Ke Shi, Nuo Si, Zhenzhou Shi, Hong Pan, Shuting Wang, Min Zhao, Tong Zhang

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Computed tomography (CT) characteristics and pathologic basis of ciliated muconodular papillary tumors of the lung

Xinying Xue, Mei Xie, Xidong Ma, Jialin Song, Jie Gao, Chongchong Wu, Yutong Xie, Yuanyong Wang, Jie Yao, Lei Pan, Jianlin Wu

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Hierarchical K-means clustering method for accelerated Lorentzian estimation (KALE) in chemical exchange saturation transfer-magnetic resonance imaging quantification

Yanrong Chen, Yaozong Sun, Chongxue Bie, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaowei He, Xiaolei Song

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Synthetic high-energy computed tomography image via a Wasserstein generative adversarial network with the convolutional block attention module

Hai Kong, Zhidong Yuan, Haojie Zhou, Ganglin Liang, Zhonghong Yan, Guanxun Cheng, Zhanli Hu

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Burden and distribution of monosodium urate deposition in patients with hyperuricemia and gout: a cross-sectional Chinese population-based dual-energy CT study

Xin-Yu Zhang, Chun-Xiang Tang, Fan Zhou, Pin-Hua Lin, Chang-Qing Yin, Qin-Yue Gao, Lei-Lei Zhou, Chang-Sheng Zhou, Guang-Ming Lu, Long-Jiang Zhang

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The application of contrast-enhanced ultrasound for sentinel lymph node evaluation and mapping in breast cancer patients

Yuanjian Fan, Jia Luo, Ying Lu, Caixin Huang, Manying Li, Yunjian Zhang, Nan Shao, Shenming Wang, Yanling Zheng, Ying Lin, Zhen Shan

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Shear wave elastography-based skin assessment system for systemic sclerosis: a supplement or alternative to conventional ultrasound?

Yujia Yang, Xinyi Tang, Lin Zhong, Lingyan Zhang, Yuanjiao Tang, Yuting Wang, Xiaoyan Lv, Li Qiu

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Gray matter alterations in tremor-dominant Parkinson’s disease after MRgFUS thalamotomy are correlated with tremor improvement: a pilot study

Xiaoyu Wang, Song Wang, Jiaji Lin, Dong Zhang, Haoxuan Lu, Yongqin Xiong, Linlin Deng, Dekang Zhang, Xiangbing Bian, Jiayou Zhou, Longsheng Pan, Xin Lou

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A quantitative heterogeneity analysis approach to molecular subtype recognition of breast cancer in dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic imaging images from radiomics data

Wei Li, Shanshan Wang, Weidong Xie, Chaolu Feng

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Automatic brain structure segmentation for ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance images via deep learning

Zhenxing Huang, Han Liu, Yaping Wu, Wenbo Li, Jun Liu, Ruodai Wu, Jianmin Yuan, Qiang He, Zhe Wang, Ke Zhang, Dong Liang, Zhanli Hu, Meiyun Wang, Na Zhang

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Interaction effect of hypertension and obesity on left atrial phasic function: a three-dimensional echocardiography study

Rui Zhang, Cunying Cui, Shuojing Wang, Ying Wang, Ruijie Liu, Lin Liu

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The role of lumbosacral paraspinal muscle degeneration and low vertebral bone mineral density on distal instrumentation-related problems following long-instrumented spinal fusion for degenerative lumbar scoliosis: a retrospective cohort study

Honghao Yang, Zhangfu Li, Yong Hai, Hanwen Zhang

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Calcification circumference, area, and location are associated with carotid stent expansion rate: high-resolution magnetic resonance vessel wall imaging study

Yumeng Sun, Haiyang Xu, Lei Kou, Shuo Wang, Zhenjia Wang, Wei Yu

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Renal ectopic lipid deposition in rats with early-stage diabetic nephropathy evaluated by the MR mDixon-Quant technique: association with the expression of SREBP-1 and PPARα in renal tissue

Jin-Mei Cheng, Wei-Xiao Luo, Jian Pan, Jian-Guang Zhang, Hai-Ying Zhou, Tian-Wu Chen

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Comparison of the C-TIRADS, ACR-TIRADS, and ATA guidelines in malignancy risk stratification of thyroid nodules

Yifeng Cai, Ruixuan Yang, Shuhui Yang, Laishun Lu, Rui Ma, Zidong Xiao, Nie Lin, Yuhan Huang, Liwen Chen

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Characteristics of paraspinal muscle fat infiltration in asymptomatic Chinese adults: a cross-sectional study

Fangda Si, Tianyi Wang, Lei Zang, Shuo Yuan, Peng Du, Ning Fan, Qichao Wu, Aobo Wang

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Joint keypoint detection and description network for color fundus image registration

David Rivas-Villar, Álvaro S. Hervella, José Rouco, Jorge Novo

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Association between resting myocardial work indices and stress myocardial perfusion in patients with angina and non-obstructive coronary artery disease

Ji-Chen Pan, Li-Juan Lyu, Quan-De Liu, Wei Yang, Xin-Hao Li, Ye-Ming Han, Jun-Yan Sun, Mei Dong, Peng-Fei Zhang, Mei Zhang

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Distance between the C2 vertical line and the femoral heads: a quasi-invariant global sagittal alignment parameter in both standing and sitting positions for asymptomatic adults

Xin Zhang, Hongda Bao, Shibin Shu, Tianyuan Zhang, Qi Gu, Yong Qiu, Zezhang Zhu

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The efficacy and safety of ¹²⁵I seeds combined with biliary stent placement versus stent placement alone for malignant biliary obstruction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Fulei Gao, Xiangzhong Huang, Yong Wang

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Aberration correction in 2D echocardiography

Svein-Erik Måsøy, Bastien Dénarié, Anders Sørnes, Espen Holte, Bjørnar Grenne, Torvald Espeland, Erik Andreas Rye Berg, Ole Marius Hoel Rindal, Wayne Rigby, Tore Bjåstad

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A dual-center validation of the PIRAMD scoring system for assessing the severity of ischemic Moyamoya disease

Christiaan Hendrik Bas van Niftrik, Martina Sebök, Patrick Nicholson, Leonardo Olijnyk, Patrick Thurner, Lashmi Venkatraghavan, Joanna Schaafsma, Ivan Radovanovic, Joseph A. Fisher, Timo Krings, Zsolt Kulcsár, Michael Tymianski, Luca Regli, David J. Mikulis, Jorn Fierstra

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Comparison of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging findings and histopathological features of macrotrabecular-massive hepatocellular carcinoma

Qishu Gong, Yusen Zhang, Tianchong Wu, Zhiyong Du, Yue Zhang

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Effectiveness and safety of new umbilical paramedian semilunaris approach for transverse abdominis plane block: a prospective, single-arm, observational, evaluation study

Cheng Xu, Zichen Wang, Chengyu Wang, Jie Lu, Quanhong Zhou

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Diagnostic value of endobronchial ultrasound elastography in differentiating between benign and malignant hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes: a retrospective study

Yueming Wang, Zhigang Zhao, Minghui Zhu, Qiang Zhu, Zhen Yang, Liangan Chen

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Development and validation of a nomogram for difficult laryngoscopy at visual laryngoscopy: a prospective nested case-control study

Ming Xia, Chenyu Jin, Bei Pei, Shuang Cao, Ningning Ji, Hong Jiang

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Investigation of functional connectivity in Bell’s palsy using functional magnetic resonance imaging: prospective cross-sectional study

Yifei Wang, Aocai Yang, Zeyu Song, Bing Liu, Yu Chen, Kuan Lv, Guolin Ma, Xiaoying Tang

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Relationship between lumbar disc herniation and Roussouly classification in the sagittal alignment of the spine and pelvis in young people

Xing Chen, Hua-Gang Shi, Dun Wan, Xuan-Geng Deng, Si-Mao Song, Min Cao

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Automated segmentation of the human supraclavicular fat depot via deep neural network in water-fat separated magnetic resonance images

Yu Zhao, Chunmeng Tang, Bihao Cui, Arun Somasundaram, Johannes Raspe, Xiaobin Hu, Christina Holzapfel, Daniela Junker, Hans Hauner, Bjoern Menze, Mingming Wu, Dimitrios Karampinos

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