Vol 15, No 7 (July 01, 2025): Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery

Original Article

Prognostic value of cardiac CT parameters in patients undergoing surgical correction for tricuspid regurgitation: a prospective study
Young Joo Suh, Seung Hyun Lee, Sak Lee, Aaron Youngjae Kim, Young Jin Kim
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:5940-5954
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Assessing differences in growth and shape between symptomatic and asymptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysms
Drew J. Braet, Timothy J. Baker, Jonathan L. Eliason, C. Alberto Figueroa, Nicholas S. Burris
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:5955-5968
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Pancreatic extracellular volume fraction based on dual-energy computed tomography iodine maps: association with diabetes
Xiaoyi Cai, Bing Zhang, Haijing Sui, Gongbo Xue, Xiaoming Huang, Ling Liu, Guohua Wang, Xiaoran Yan, Hongyan Liu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:5969-5979
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Brain iron deficiency in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder using iterAtive magnetic suscePtibility sources sepARaTion (APART-QSM)
Yufen Li, Huan Wang, Huasong Cai, Shasha Lan, Yan Dai, Boyan Xu, Shu Su, Hongyu Zhang, Zhiyun Yang, Yingqian Chen
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:5980-5990
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Predicting pathogenic DNA damage repair gene mutations in prostate cancer patients: a multi-center magnetic resonance imaging radiomics study
Yuntian Chen, Jinge Zhao, Lei Ye, Diwei Zhao, Sha Zhu, Bangwei Fang, Fengnian Zhao, Ling Yang, Zhenhua Liu, Jindong Dai, Nanwei Xu, Yanfeng Tang, Haolin Liu, Zhipeng Wang, Xiang Tu, Fangjian Zhou, Qiang Wei, Dingwei Ye, Bin Song, Yonghong Li, Yao Zhu, Pengfei Shen, Hao Zeng, Jin Yao, Guangxi Sun
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:5991-6004
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Cervical sliding sign and cervical funneling in the third trimester as predictors of spontaneous preterm birth in singleton pregnancy
Miaomiao Zhang, Shuilan Li, Yanyan Liu, Min Li, Zhuo Meng, Shiyou Liu, Lijie Li, Hongkui Yu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6005-6015
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The impaired white-matter structural network mediates the relationship between the glymphatic system and emotional abnormalities in patients with chronic kidney disease
Wei Du, Yuan Li, Yuhan Jiang, Chun Yang, Yimiao Bao, Jiajun Cao, Yilin Wang, Yanwei Miao
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6016-6031
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Larger nail-shaft gap as a potential risk factor of femoral head varus in patients treated with proximal femoral nail antirotation fixation: a retrospective, observational, single-center study with corresponding numerical simulation
Xiang Zhang, Guoqing Tang, Ji Chen, Xinghua Jiang, Jingchi Li
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6032-6043
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Correlation between ultrasonic features and expression of immunohistochemical factors in invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast
Yan Yang, Lian Cheng
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6044-6052
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Abnormal topological properties and functional-structural coupling of large-scale brain networks in primary angle-closure glaucoma
Yuanyuan Wang, Chan Xiong, Shenghong Li, Jian Li, Bo Wang, Meimei Yan, Jialu Chen, Zhijun Luo, Xianjun Zeng
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6053-6067
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Cortical microstructural changes in minimal hepatic encephalopathy: a gray matter-based spatial statistics study
Hui-Wei Huang, Jing-Yi Zeng, Ying Tang, Dan Li, Jian-Qi Li, Hua-Jun Chen, Li-Min Cai
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6068-6086
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Epicardial adipose tissue provides incremental value in predicting major adverse cardiac events in systemic sclerosis patients without pulmonary arterial hypertension beyond traditional risk factors
Jingfeng Huang, Le Yang, Binhua Xie, Fangjie Shen, Xiaodong Zheng, Qianjiang Ding, Yuning Pan, Xinzhong Ruan
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6087-6101
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Differentiation of breast cancer subtypes and correlation with biological status using functional magnetic resonance imaging: comparison with amide proton transfer-weighted imaging and diffusion-weighted imaging
Mingzhe Xu, Dongqiu Shan, Renzhi Zhang, Jing Li, Lanwei Guo, Xuejun Chen, Jinrong Qu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6102-6117
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Continuous-time random walk and fractional order calculus models histogram analysis of glioma biomarkers, including IDH1, ATRX, MGMT, and TERT, on differentiation
Yujie Ding, Hongquan Zhu, Yuanhao Li, Yufei Liu, Yan Xie, Jiaxuan Zhang, Yan Fu, Shihui Li, Li Li, Nanxi Shen, Wenzhen Zhu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6118-6136
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Accuracy and consistency of subtraction dual-layer spectral computed tomography in diagnosing coronary stenosis: invasive coronary angiography validation study
Xinglu Li, Yilin Xu, Zhixin Sun, Wen Chen, Xingbiao Chen, Chun-Hong Hu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6137-6146
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The diagnostic value of the multiparameter combination diagnostic model based on 2-[18F]FDG PET/CT metabolic parameters and clinical variables in distinguishing non-metastatic cholangiocarcinoma from cholangitis
Jingfeng Zhang, Jianbo Cui, Yun Han, Can Li, Yue Pan, Jiajin Liu, Xiaodan Xu, Yabing Sun, Guanyun Wang, Baixuan Xu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
(7)
:6147-6159
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Association of magnetic resonance imaging glymphatic function with gray matter volume loss and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease: a diffusion tensor image analysis along the perivascular space (DTI-ALPS) study
Qian Zhang, Chao-Gang Wei, Chong Cui, Ting Huang, Shan-Wen Liu, Meng Li, Yu-Qi Zhi, Xiao-Yun Liang, Hua Hu, Zhen Jiang, Jiang-Tao Zhu, Rong Liu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6160-6174
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Beyond direct visualization: a comparative analysis of computed tomography dacryocystographic features in dacryolithiasis, lacrimal sac cysts, and primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction
Xinhan Cui, Binghui Liu, Xing Huang, Jing Zhang, Yan Wang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6175-6184
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Automatic measurement and reference values setting of intracranial cerebrospinal fluid volume: a large-scale analysis of computed tomography images
Ruhang Ma, Jiacheng Hao, Jing Ding, Haomiao Yu, Shuang Xia
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6185-6199
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Evaluation of multiparametric MRI and clinical indicators for renal fibrosis in chronic kidney disease
Chaogang Wei, Rong Liu, Xiaojing Li, Chunshan Zhou, Qing Ma, Yilin Xu, Ye Zhu, Junkang Shen, Ying Zeng, Kai Song, Zhen Jiang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6200-6216
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Preliminary study on the ability of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography radiomics to predict vessels that encapsulate tumor clusters and prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma
Siqi Hu, Qiong Zou, Zijie Shen, Yujie Xie, Shi Li, Ju Jiao, Hong Zhang, Muhua Cheng, Yong Zhang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6217-6233
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Association between intraneural blood flow of the sciatic nerve, peripheral neuropathies, and foot ulcers in patients with diabetes
Shun-Ping Chen, Ruo-Yu Li, Jing Hong, Ting-Ting Ye, Hong Zhu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6234-6251
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Analyzing explainability of YOLO-based breast cancer detection using heat map visualizations
Awika Ariyametkul, May Phu Paing
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6252-6271
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99mTc-MAA SPECT/CT imaging before 90Y-SIRT for reflecting the distribution of 90Y resin microspheres in tumors and the liver: a comparison with 90Y PET/CT verification imaging
Yong Cheng, Feng Wei, Hongkun Yu, Xueying Ling, Bin Guo, JingJie Shang, Qijun Cai, Yingxin Li, Xiaoxin Yang, Bingyu Ran, Mingrong Cao, Chengzhi Li, Hao Xu, Jian Gong
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6272-6286
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Superiority of black-blood computed tomography over conventional computed tomography angiography in the identification of soft plaques: a prospective study
Tao Zhou, Ying Li, Nannan Sun, Bing Hua, Min Zhang, Zhuangfei Ma, Min Li, Shouqiang Jia
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6287-6300
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Multi-level channel-spatial attention and light-weight scale-fusion network (MCSLF-Net): multi-level channel-spatial attention and light-weight scale-fusion transformer for 3D brain tumor segmentation
Mingzhe Zhou, Jinbao Li, Yahong Guo
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
(7)
:6301-6325
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CMMIQA: a prompt-driven cross-modality multi-organ medical image quality assessment model
Siyi Xun, Yue Sun, Yapeng Wang, Mingwei Wang, Mingxiang Wu, Xiaohong Liu, Tao Tan
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6326-6339
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Application of non-invasive imaging in myocardial infarction: a bibliometric analysis from January 2003 to December 2022
Pei Yang, Xinwen Wu, Yaya Zhao, Qingyou Ye, Mengyao Hu, Yinping Leng, Xuan Xiao, Jiahui Zhang, Haibo Ren, Lianggeng Gong
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6340-6359
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Ophthalmic changes are associated with visual cortex functional network reorganization after 90-day head-down tilt bed rest
Linkun Cai, Ke Lv, Haijun Niu, Pengling Ren, Hongmei Li, Yuan Xie, Yawen Liu, Kai Li, Tingting Zhang, Xia Ma, Yingdi Fu, Zi Xu, Yaqi Shao, Liang Lu, Penggang Qiao, Han Lv, Wei Zheng, Chengjia Yang, Ningli Wang, Linjie Wang, Dehong Luo, Lina Qu, Yinghui Li, Zhenchang Wang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6360-6371
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High-frequency quantitative ultrasound in characterizing human skin aging: an exploration of the non-modeling and modeling approaches
Yuzhen Li, Bingbing He, Xun Lang, Guang Shi, Ningtao Zhang, Zhenyu Guo, Yufeng Zhang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6372-6385
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Coronary computed tomography angiography in suspected acute coronary syndrome patients with intermediate high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I levels: a valuable diagnostic tool
Jing-Wen Ma, Shan Muhammad, Zhi-Hui Hou, Xiao-Ming Su, Yang Wang, Yun-Qiang An, Er-Li Zhang, Ya-Hui Lin, Yan Liang, Wei-Hua Yin, Bin Lu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
(7)
:6386-6398
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Interrater and intrarater reliability of aqueduct CSF flow parameters measured by phase-contrast MRI in healthy adults
Pan Liu, Yann Attekeble, Jiachen Xie, Kimi Owashi, Heimiri Monnier, Serge Metanbou, Cyrille Capel, Olivier Balédent
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6399-6413
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Assessing myocardial hyperemia in acute myocarditis with 3T contrast-enhanced whole-heart magnetic resonance imaging: a feasibility study
Zhiyong Chen, Zhangli Xing, Enshuang Zheng, Yunjing Xue, Bin Sun
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
(7)
:6414-6425
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The utility of MRI-based S1 vertebral bone quality score in assessing bone mineral density for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
Dandan Yang, Chuan Liu, Yaqi Zhu, Jinming Gu, Ting Gao
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
(7)
:6426-6435
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Efficacy and safety of ultrasound-guided percutaneous aspiration-sclerotherapy with anhydrous ethanol for adult simple renal cyst: a multicenter, prospective, randomized controlled trial
Shu Luo, Ping Feng, Yongzhong Li, Shuhua Shi, Lichuan Yang, Yanrong Yang, Rongchen Wang, Xuelian Chen, Jiaojiao Zhou
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
(7)
:6436-6445
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Identification of the optimal threshold for predicting the infiltration degree of T1-stage lung adenocarcinoma using solid component volume and three-dimensional consolidation-to-tumor ratio in threshold segmentation
Wensong Shi, Zhengpan Wei, Yuzhui Hu, Yingli Sun, Ming Li, Guotao Chang, Yulun Yang, He Qian, Liang Zhao, Xiangnan Li, Huiyu Zheng
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6446-6456
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Physiologic hydronephrosis as a cause of emergent right abdominal pain in pregnancy—truth or myth?
Shlomit Tamir, Dor Hermann, Eliahu Bekhor, Olga Espkina, Tal Livne, Ahuva Grubstein, Mika Shapira Rootman, Eli Atar, Adva Abergel
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6457-6464
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Exploring the incidence rate and imaging differential diagnosis of anterior mediastinal lesions: an 11-year retrospective study based on 2,626 cases
Jiaqi Chen, Linlin Qi, Jianing Liu, Fenglan Li, Shulei Cui, Jianwei Wang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6465-6485
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Effect of respiration-induced motion on a three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging-based adaptive radiotherapy workflow in a 1.5T magnetic resonance linear accelerator
Yongchang Wu, Hang Yu, Qing Xiao, Jing Li, Weige Wei, Lian Duan, Sen Bai, Guangjun Li
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6486-6500
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Altered coupling of cerebral blood perfusion and neuronal activity in children with MRI-negative drug refractory epilepsy
Haifeng Ran, Kexin Huang, Yuxin Xie, Yulun He, Guiqin Chen, Qiane Yu, Xuhong Li, Jie Hu, Tijiang Zhang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
(7)
:6501-6516
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Brief Report

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging parameters of lumbar paraspinal muscles and their relationship to function and ageing in healthy subjects
Viktoria Kokosova, Peter Krkoska, Daniela Vlazna, Marek Dostal, Petra Ovesna, Katerina Matulova, Blanka Adamova
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
(7)
:6517-6525
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Case Report

Application of computer-assisted surgery system in a child with multiple traumas: a case report
Chaojin Wang, Ying He, Jing Zhao, Feifei Wang, Shuai Jiang, Chengzhan Zhu, Haoyu Liang, Bin Wei, Xiwei Hao, Qian Dong
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
(7)
:6526-6534
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Letter to the Editor

Case study of a 47-year-old long COVID patient diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease
Yang Yao, Shichang Liu, Yiyao Zhang, Chang Liu, Jingsong Shi, Binbin Chen, Zhuo Yang, Tao Zhang, Zhanyong Li, Shan Gao
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
(7)
:6535-6540
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Persistent fifth aortic arch complicated by Williams-Beuren syndrome: a case description
Songyu Teng, Hongwu Zeng
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6541-6546
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MRI slow diffusion coefficient (SDC) shows liver pyogenic abscess has faster diffusion than adjacent liver parenchyma
Gong-Hao Ling, Yì Xiáng J. Wáng
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
(7)
:6547-6551
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Ultrasound-guided percutaneous transhepatic duct drainage for decompression in management of afferent loop obstruction caused by anastomotic ulcer following pancreaticoduodenectomy: a case description
Yi Mao, Li Chen, Zhi-Xing Liu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
(7)
:6552-6558
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Successful rescue from acute myocardial infarction in an anemic woman with anomalous origin of the left main coronary artery from the right coronary artery: a case description and literature analysis
Erqiu Du, Jin Pan, Liang Dong, Baofu Chen
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6559-6566
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Surgical anesthesia using a combination of lumbar plexus and sacral plexus block for knee joint compound injury in severe scoliosis: a case description
Cai Cheng, Jie Bai, Jun Jin, Sheng-Hui Huang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6567-6570
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Hereditary transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis with Glu109Lys mutation presenting with low sensitivity to 99mTc pyrophosphate in scintigraphy: a case description
Yun-Peng Wei, Da-Chun Zhao, Xiao Li, Chao Ren, Kai-Ni Shen, Zhuang Tian
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6571-6577
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Transarterial chemoembolization for inoperable primary cardiac angiosarcoma: a description of two cases and literature analysis
Qiaoqi Li, Juan Wu, Hanjun Mo, Cheng Yi, Xiaoqiang Tang, Biao Yang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6578-6583
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Bone scintigraphy and SPECT/CT imaging characteristics in patients with synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, and osteitis syndrome
Xiaohui Wang, Qiwen Li, Peng Yang, Zhenzhen Peng, Chunyan Wang, Ming Chen
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6584-6589
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Relapse of ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm and aortopulmonary fistula after first resection: a case description
Huihui Wu, Ting Gao, Qingdong Zhang, He Liu, Lihong Wang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2025;
15
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:6590-6593
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