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Novelty and Challenge in CT Angiography
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Novelty and Challenge in CT Angiography

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 921

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Dr. Lung-Kwang Pan

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Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Science, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Takun, Taichung 406, Taiwan
Interests: radiological science; instrumental optimization; biokinetic model
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This "Novelty and Challenge in CT Angiography" Special Issue aims to assemble papers focused on the practical application of CT angiography to help clinical diagnosis, potential artifact identification, and imaging quality control. We strongly encourage CT angiography studies on clinical diagnostic techniques, syndrome judgment, the spatial resolution of SPECT, the optimal protocol of CT scanning, or any other approaches broadening the application of CT angiography to explore the novelties or challenges in CT angiography. Papers involving the processing or postprocessing of digital images obtained via CT angiography and the respective results of specific studies or practical surveys are welcome. Since CT angiography has unique features in assisting routine diagnosis, we ask authors to address its seamless and comprehensive implementation in clinical surveys. Multiple presumptions, simplifications, and limitations to be considered to fulfill future CT angiography needs are also relevant. Improving diagnostic accuracy and reproducibility from various perspectives is the main goal to be discussed in this Special Issue.

Dr. Lung-Kwang Pan
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Diagnostics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Inverse Problem Algorithm-Based Time-Resolved Imaging of Head and Neck Computed Tomography Angiography Contrast Kinetics with Clinical Testification
by Chih-Sheng Lin, Bing-Ru Peng, Hong-Bing Ma, Ke-Lin Chen, Tsung-Han Lin, Lung-Kwang Pan and Ya-Hui Lin
Diagnostics 2023, 13(21), 3354; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13213354 - 31 Oct 2023
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This study mitigated the challenge of head and neck CT angiography by IPA-based time-resolved imaging of contrast kinetics. To this end, 627 cerebral hemorrhage patients with dizziness, brain aneurysm, stroke, or hemorrhagic stroke diagnosis were randomly categorized into three groups, namely, the original [...] Read more.
This study mitigated the challenge of head and neck CT angiography by IPA-based time-resolved imaging of contrast kinetics. To this end, 627 cerebral hemorrhage patients with dizziness, brain aneurysm, stroke, or hemorrhagic stroke diagnosis were randomly categorized into three groups, namely, the original dataset (450), verification group (112), and in vivo testified group (65), in the Affiliated BenQ Hospital of Nanjing Medical University. In the first stage, seven risk factors were assigned: age, CTA tube voltage, body surface area, heart rate per minute, cardiac output blood per minute, the actual injected amount of contrast media, and CTA delayed trigger timing. The expectation value of the semi-empirical formula was the CTA number of the patient’s left artery (LA). Accordingly, 29 items of the first-order nonlinear equation were calculated via the inverse problem analysis (IPA) technique run in the STATISTICA 7.0 program, yielding a loss function and variance of 3.1837 and 0.8892, respectively. A dimensionless AT was proposed to imply the coincidence, with a lower AT indicating a smaller deviation between theoretical and practical values. The derived formula was confirmed for the verification group of 112 patients, reaching high coincidence, with average ATavg and standard deviation values of 3.57% and 3.06%, respectively. In the second stage, the formula was refined to find the optimal amount of contrast media for the CTA number of LA approaching 400. Finally, the above procedure was applied to head and neck CTA images of the third group of 65 patients, reaching an average CTA number of LA of 407.8 ± 16.2 and finding no significant fluctuations. Full article
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