An Adaptive View Selection Algorithm for Large-scale Cone-Beam CT Reconstruction by Jingsong Lin, Singanallur Venkatakrishnan, Obaidullah Rahman, Gregery T. Buzzard, Amirkoushyar Ziabari, Charles A. Bouman

“… Industrial cone-beam X-ray computed tomography (CT) produces 3D reconstructions of objects using projection measurements taken at multiple predetermined rotation angles around a single axis. …”
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Gastric Glomus Tumor: A Rare Cause of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding by Yoshinori Handa, Mikihiro Kano, Mayumi Kaneko, Naoki Hirabayashi

“…These symptoms combined with severe anemia prompted us to perform an emergency upper endoscopy, which showed bleeding from an ulcerated 30 mm submucosal tumor in the gastric antrum. A computed tomography scan revealed a homogeneously enhanced mass, and endoscopic ultrasonography identified a well-demarcated mass in the third and fourth layers of the gastric wall. …”
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Unusual Benign Middle Ear Tumors: How Does the Presentation Differ from Otitis Media? by Krutika Sonvane, Navnit Makwana, Rahul Gupta, Hardik Patel, R G Aiyer

“…High resolution computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging are important to determine the extent and to help surgical planning in doubtful vascular tumour. …”
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Advanced Renal Pelvic Carcinoma Revealed after Treatment of a Staghorn Calculus by Endoscopic Combined Intrarenal Surgery by Ichiro Tsuboi, Yuki Maruyama, Motoo Araki, Nobuyoshi Ando, Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Ryoji Arata, Noriaki Ono

“…One month later, contrast-enhanced computed tomography showed an advanced renal pelvis carcinoma. …”
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Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage Associated with Edoxaban Therapy by Kenichi Nitta, Hiroshi Imamura, Akihiro Yashio, Satoko Kashima, Katsunori Mochizuki

“…On day 43, she presented with dyspnea. Chest computed tomography scan showed bilateral diffuse ground-glass opacities in the whole lung fields. …”
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Presentation of disseminated neuroblastoma mimicking Bell’s palsy: a case report by Shamaali Gunawardana, Geerthana Jogaprajahpan, Kavinda Dayasiri

“…Contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the abdomen, performed subsequently, showed an intra-abdominal large paravertebral soft-tissue mass. …”
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A rare case of type III popliteal artery entrapment syndrome causing popliteal pseudoaneurysm by Jinshou Yang, Peng Liu, Yingxin Xu, Yan You, Xiao Di, Yuexin Chen

“…Here, we report the case of a 30-year-old male who presented with acute right calf muscle pain. Computed tomography angiography revealed a popliteal artery aneurysm in the midsection. …”
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Ortner's syndrome resulting from aortic pseudoaneurysm owing to intimal sarcoma of the aorta by Akio Shimoji, MD, Naoto Fukunaga, MD, PhD, Tatsuto Wakami, MD, Otohime Mori, MD, Kosuke Yoshizawa, MD, Nobushige Tamura, MD, PhD

“…A fiberoptic laryngoscopy revealed paralytic left vocal cord, indicating the left recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis. Computed tomography angiography revealed a 44-mm aortic pseudoaneurysm with thrombus originating at the left subclavian artery. …”
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Alfa-Fetoprotein-Producing Female Primary Urethral Adenocarcinoma with Neuroendocrine Differentiation by Takao Natsuyama, Yozo Mitsui, Masato Uetani, Shigeyuki Ohta, Masafumi Inoue, Koichiro Akakura

“…The patient was a 65-year-old woman with a 2-year history of urinary frequency and voiding difficulty. Enhanced computed tomography showed an approximately 3.0×5.0-cm mass around the proximal urethra and bladder neck. …”
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Surgical treatment of hepatic Echinococcus granulosus by Waldemar Patkowski, Maciej Krasnodębski, Michał Grąt, Łukasz Masior, Marek Krawczyk

“…Diagnostic protocol included imaging examinations, i.e. ultrasonography and computed tomography of the abdomen. Blood samples where used to proceed sequential enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using Em2plus antigen as well as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect E. granulosus . …”
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Liver laceration as a post-cardiopulmonary resuscitation complication in a person with breast implants: a case report by Min-Jeong Cho

“…Subsequently, an abdomen-pelvis computed tomography scan revealed a liver injury. The location of the liver injury, between the sternum and spine, suggested it was a compression injury caused by CPR. …”
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Incidental Eosinophilic Chromophobe Renal Cell Carcinoma in Renal Allograft by Abdullah Alharbi, Maram S. Al Turki, Noura Aloudah, Khaled O. Alsaad

“…Abdominal ultrasound and computed tomography scan demonstrated 1.8 cm well-defined, round enhancing lesion, confined to the renal allograft and suspicious for malignancy. …”
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Bone Mineral Density Prediction from CT Image: A Novel Approach using ANN by S. L. Resmi, V. Hashim, Jesna Mohammed, P. N. Dileep

“…Although quantitative computed tomography (QCT) is one of the most widely accepted tools for measuring BMD, it lacks the contribution of bone architecture in predicting BMD, which is significant as aging progresses. …”
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A Simplified Working Classification for Planning and Management of Facial Fractures by Mukesh K. Sharma, Rahul Saini, Bulli B. Boyidi, Vaddi S. Babu

“…With the advent of three-dimensional computed tomography, it has become a lot easier to diagnose and treat them accordingly. …”
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Updates on CAD risk assessment: using the coronary artery calcium score in combination with traditional risk factors by Kiara Rezaie-Kalamtari, Zeinab Norouzi, Alireza Salmanipour, Hossein Mehrali

“…The most applicable method to evaluate CAC is Agatston scoring using computed tomography (CT) scanning. Patients are classified into several subgroups: no evidence of CAD (score 0), mild CAD (score 1–10), minimal CAD (score 11–100), moderate CAD (score 101–400), and severe CAD (score > 400) and higher than1000 as the extreme risk of CVD events. …”
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Risk Factors for Periacetabular Osteolysis and Wear in Asymptomatic Patients with Uncemented Total Hip Arthroplasties by Buster Sandgren, Joakim Crafoord, Henrik Olivecrona, Göran Garellick, Lars Weidenhielm

“…We assessed 206 patients with an uncemented cup, measuring wear and periacetabular osteolysis using computed tomography with a median follow-up of 10 years after surgery (range 7–14 years). …”
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Atypical Fragility Fractures due to Bony or Soft Tissue Phosphaturic Mesenchymal Tumors: A Report of Two Cases by Stephanie M. Clegg, Emily S. Eiel, Sara Fine, Rachel I. Gafni, Mathew J. Most

“…A 68Ga-DOTATATE-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan identified a soft tissue tumor in his plantar foot, which was ultimately excised. …”
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Impact of Pore-Scale Characteristics on Immiscible Fluid Displacement by Nariman Mahabadi, Leon van Paassen, Ilenia Battiato, Tae Sup Yun, Hyunwook Choo, Jaewon Jang

“…In this study, a three-dimensional (3D) tube network model was extracted from 3D X-ray computed tomography images of natural sand. The extracted network model was used to quantitatively outline the phase boundary of the displacement pattern and to examine the displacement efficiency for wide ranges of viscosity ratios and capillary numbers. …”
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Surface Quality Monitoring and Improvement for Dimensional Metrology in Inline CT by Denoising with Neural Networks and Fast Surface Quality Metric by Faizan Ahmad, Ahmed Baraka, César Cardona-Marin, Steffen Kieß, Dominik Wolfschläger, Robert H. Schmitt, Sven Simon

“… Inline computed tomography (CT) is becoming increasingly important for 100% inspection in production technology. …”
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Relation of Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue to Bone Mineral Density in Chinese Women by Ling Wang, Wei Wang, Li Xu, Xiaoguang Cheng, Yimin Ma, Dan Liu, Zhe Guo, Yongbin Su, Qianqian Wang

“…In this cross-sectional study, 320 Chinese women, being divided into two groups according to age ≥55 years and <55 years, were evaluated with quantitative computed tomography (QCT) of the spine to simultaneously evaluate the average trabecular BMD of L2–L4, VAT, and SAT. …”
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