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    Characteristics of plaque progression detected by serial coronary computed tomography angiography

    We previously reported that serial coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) had a potential to evaluate the interval change of plaque morphology of coronary arteries. The aim of this study was to evaluat...

    Hajime Ito, Sadako Motoyama, Masayoshi Sarai, Hideki Kawai in Heart and Vessels (2014)

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    1127 Optimal scanning conditions for whole-heart coronary MR angiography in clinical practice

    Shigehide Kuhara, Satoru Hasebe in Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonan… (2008)

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    Relatively small size linitis plastica of the stomach: multislice CT detection of tissue fibrosis

    Linitis plastica (scirrhous gastric carcinoma) has a poor prognosis due to delay in diagnosis. Pathological feature of this tumor is diffuse fibrosis of the gastric wall. Detection of small fibrotic lesion in ...

    Hideo Matsui, Hirofumi Anno, Ichiro Uyama, Atsushi Sugioka in Abdominal Imaging (2007)

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    Cardiac imaging using 256-detector row four-dimensional CT: preliminary clinical report

    Along with the increase of detector rows on the z-axis and a faster gantry rotation speed, the spatial and temporal resolutions of the multislice computed tomography (CT) have been improved for noninvasive cor...

    Teruhito Kido, Akira Kurata, Hiroshi Higashino, Yoshifumi Sugawara in Radiation Medicine (2007)

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    Automated labeling of bronchial branches in virtual bronchoscopy system

    This paper proposes a method for automated labeling of bronchial branches in virtual bronchoscopy system. Anatomical names of bronchial branches are assigned basing upon a set of rules. If it is possible to as...

    Kensaku Mori, Jun-ichi Hasegawa in Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assis… (1998)

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    Usefulness of helical computed tomography for diagnosis of cystic lesions of the pancreas

    Using helical computed tomography (CT), we evaluated cystic pancreatic lesions in 11 patients and compared the imaging and the histopathologic findings. Helical CT allowed us to assess the tumor vasculature. C...

    Makoto Hayakawa, Shuichi Miyakawa in Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surge… (1996)

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    A fast rendering method using the tree structure of objects in virtualized bronchus endoscope system

    In this report we present a fast rendering method using tree structure of the object and its application to virtualized endoscope system (VBE). VBE enables users to navigate and observe inside the bronchus ext...

    Kensaku Mori, Jun-ichi Hasegawa in Visualization in Biomedical Computing (1996)

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    Automated Extraction and Visualization of Bronchus from 3D CT Images of Lung

    In this paper we present a procedure to extract bronchus area from 3D CT images of lung taken by helical CT scanner and to visualize it as a 3D shaded image. The extraction procedure consists of 3D region grow...

    Kensaku Mori, Jun-ichi Hasegawa in Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robot… (1995)