Vol 10, No 3 (March 30, 2020): Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery

Editorial

Spinal dysraphisms: highlighting discrepancies in the current literature and emphasizing on the need for a consensus
Ankit Balani, Chinky Chatur, Asthik Biswas, Ozgur Oztekin, Kshitij Mankad
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
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:549-553
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Technical Note

Generalized parameter estimation in multi-echo gradient-echo-based chemical species separation
Maximilian N. Diefenbach, Chunlei Liu, Dimitrios C. Karampinos
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:554-567
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Original Article

Fully automated lesion segmentation and visualization in automated whole breast ultrasound (ABUS) images
Chia-Yen Lee, Tzu-Fang Chang, Yi-Hong Chou, Kuen-Cheh Yang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:568-584
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Association between advanced interatrial block and small vessel diseases in the brain
Zhaolu Wang, Huiyuan Qin, Guilin Chen, Vincent C. T. Mok, Yan Dai, Yingyuan Cai, Xi Cheng, Yun Qian, Ming Chu, Xiaowei Lu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:585-591
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The optimal monoenergetic spectral image level of coronary computed tomography (CT) angiography on a dual-layer spectral detector CT with half-dose contrast media
Xin Huang, Sizhe Gao, Yue Ma, Xiaomei Lu, Zheng Jia, Yang Hou
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:592-603
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Fast kilovoltage (KV)-switching dual-energy computed tomography hydroxyapatite (HAP)-water decomposition technique for identifying bone marrow edema in vertebral compression fractures
Junhan Pan, Luyou Yan, Hui Gao, Yewen He, Zeya Zhong, Ping Li, Yaxi Zhang, Ying Guo, Liangying Liao, Shuwei Zhou, Kun Zhang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:604-611
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Evaluation of soft-plaque stenoses in coronary artery stents using conventional and monoenergetic images: first in-vitro experience and comparison of two different dual-energy techniques
Tilman Hickethier, Justus Wenning, Grischa Bratke, David Maintz, Guido Michels, Alexander C. Bunck
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:612-623
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Quantitative shear wave elastography in primary invasive breast cancers, based on collagen-S100A4 pathology, indicates axillary lymph node metastasis
Xin Wen, Xiwen Yu, Yuhang Tian, Zhao Liu, Wen Cheng, Hairu Li, Jia Kang, Tianci Wei, Shasha Yuan, Jiawei Tian
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:624-633
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Left ventricular myocardial deformation: a study on diastolic function in the Chinese male population and its relationship with fat distribution
Lan Zhu, Shengjia Gu, Qingrou Wang, Xiaoyue Zhou, Simin Wang, Caixia Fu, Wenjie Yang, Jens Wetzl, Fuhua Yan
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:634-645
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The right atrium in acromegaly—a three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiographic analysis from the MAGYAR-Path Study
Árpád Kormányos, Anita Kalapos, Péter Domsik, Nándor Gyenes, Nóra Ambrus, Zsuzsanna Valkusz, Csaba Lengyel, Attila Nemes
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:646-656
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Diagnostic performance of convolutional neural network-based Tanner-Whitehouse 3 bone age assessment system
Xue-Lian Zhou, Er-Gang Wang, Qiang Lin, Guan-Ping Dong, Wei Wu, Ke Huang, Can Lai, Gang Yu, Hai-Chun Zhou, Xiao-Hui Ma, Xuan Jia, Lei Shi, Yong-Sheng Zheng, Lan-Xuan Liu, Da Ha, Hao Ni, Jun Yang, Jun-Fen Fu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:657-667
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The value of quantified plaque analysis by dual-source coronary CT angiography to detect vulnerable plaques: a comparison study with intravascular ultrasound
Mingyuan Yuan, Hao Wu, Rongxian Li, Mengmeng Yu, Xu Dai, Jiayin Zhang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:668-677
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Combination diagnosis with elastography strain ratio and molecular markers effectively improves the diagnosis rate of small breast cancer and lymph node metastasis
Yi Hao, Guanghui Ren, Wei Yang, Wenyi Zheng, Yuming Wu, WenJing Li, Xin Li, Yingjia Li, Xia Guo
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:678-691
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Development and multicenter validation of a CT-based radiomics signature for discriminating histological grades of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Na Chang, Lingling Cui, Yahong Luo, Zhihui Chang, Bing Yu, Zhaoyu Liu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:692-702
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Growth of common iliac artery aneurysms coexisting with abdominal aortic aneurysms: associated factors and potential role of intraluminal thrombus
Yuting Wang, Chengcheng Zhu, Joseph Leach, Warren Gasper, David Saloner, Michael Hope
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:703-712
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Optical coherence tomography characterizes the roughness and thickness of the heterogeneous layer on cortical bone surface induced by Er:YAG laser ablation at different moisture contents
Wenyan Huang, Chudan Gao, Yintao Lan, Sujuan Zeng, Janak L. Pathak, Miao Zhou, Lihong Ge, Jian Zhang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:713-726
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Amide proton transfer-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of human brain aging at 3 Tesla
Zewen Zhang, Caiqing Zhang, Jian Yao, Fei Gao, Tao Gong, Shanshan Jiang, Weibo Chen, Jinyuan Zhou, Guangbin Wang
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:727-742
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Preoperative PET/CT score can predict complete resection in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: a prospective study
Bingxin Gu, Lingfang Xia, Huijuan Ge, Shuai Liu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:743-753
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Effect of acquisition depth and precompression from probe and couplant on shear wave elastography in soft tissue: an in vitro and in vivo study
Xiuming Wang, Yue Hu, Jia’an Zhu, Junxue Gao, Si Chen, Fang Liu, Wenxue Li, Yiqun Liu, Bilig Ariun
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:754-765
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A hybrid double-density dual-tree discrete wavelet transformation and marginal Fisher analysis for scoring sleep stages from unprocessed single-channel electroencephalogram
Yan Liu, Jie Gao, Wei Cao, Longxiao Wei, Yanyang Mao, Weimin Liu, Wei Wang, Zhenling Liu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:766-778
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Indocyanine green-loaded injectable alginate hydrogel as a marker for precision cancer surgery
Seon Sook Lee, Hyunjin Kim, Dae Kyung Sohn, Joo Beom Eom, Young Seok Seo, Hong Man Yoon, Yongdoo Choi
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:779-788
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Brief Report

Quantitative magnetic susceptibility assessed by 7T magnetic resonance imaging in Alzheimer’s disease caused by streptozotocin administration
Sangwoo Kim, Youngjeon Lee, Chang-Yeop Jeon, Keunil Kim, Youngjae Jeon, Yeung Bae Jin, Sukhoon Oh, Chulhyun Lee
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:789-797
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Letter to the Editor

A call for caution in extrapolating chest CT sensitivity for COVID-19 derived from hospital data to patients among general population
Yì Xiáng J. Wáng
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:798-799
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CT imaging of one extended family cluster of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) including adolescent patients and “silent infection”
Rui Xu, Mingshan Du, Linfeng Li, Zhiming Zhen, Huiyou Wang, Xiaofei Hu
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:800-804
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Editorial Commentary

Advanced liver imaging using MR to predict outcomes in chronic liver disease: a shift from morphology to function liver assessment
Francesco Verde, Valeria Romeo, Simone Maurea
Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery  
2020;
10
(3)
:805-807
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