1. Three-dimensional computed tomography in the head and neck diseases with bony abnormalities
- Author
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Mamoru Watanabe, Kato T, Takaharu Miyauchi, Kiyoshi Togawa, Noriaki Tomura, Masayoshi Kowada, Hatsuo Miura, Yasuo Seino, Jiro Watarai, and Masaaki Shindo
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Maxillary Sinus Neoplasms ,Contrast Media ,Health Informatics ,Computed tomography ,Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Head and neck ,Orbital Fractures ,Skull Fractures ,Radiological and Ultrasound Technology ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Low dose ,Calcinosis ,Temporal Bone ,Temporal bone fracture ,Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design ,Three dimensional imaging ,Head and Neck Neoplasms ,Ct technique ,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,Radiology ,Bone Diseases ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,business ,Nuclear medicine ,Low Dose Radiation - Abstract
The purpose of this study was to define the role of three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography (CT) in the head and neck diseases with bony abnormalities. Thirty-two patients were examined with a low dose radiation technique. Three-dimensional CT clearly delineated bony lesions in 27 of 32 patients. Three-dimensional CT could not demonstrate subtle bony erosions infiltrated by tumor, a temporal bone fracture, and a blow-out fracture, although two-dimensional (2D) images obtained before the 3D reconstructions clearly depicted those lesions. These two kinds of CT technique were thought to be complimentary.
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- 1993