Dear Advanced Visualization Insider,
We've got several advanced visualization feature stories to share with you in this edition, including our coverage of recent research investigating quantitative 3D knee measurements in patients with osteoarthritis (OA).
Seeking to explore the relationship between pain and quantitative measures of the meniscus in knees, the researchers from Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg, Austria, performed a pilot study involving 53 patients with the same radiographic OA grade in both knees but only frequent pain in one. Thanks to the 3D quantitative measurements, they discovered that extrusion of the meniscal body had a relationship with knee pain.
Find out the details, and what it could mean for better understanding of knee pain in patients with OA by clicking here.
In other articles this month in your Advanced Visualization Digital Community, a Swiss group has developed a 2D/3D model-based reconstruction method that accurately measures cup orientation from postoperative radiographs following total hip arthroplasty. The developers believe the approach enables the development of a patient-specific 3D model of the pelvis. You can find out more in staff writer Cynthia Keen's article here.
Also this month, a team from the University Hospital Erlangen in Erlangen, Germany, is reporting success from the combination of flat-detector CT with image fusion to overlay 3D reconstructions on fluoroscopic images. Not only was the technique useful for deciphering the complex anatomy of congenital heart disease, it was occasionally irreplaceable, according to the researchers. Staff writer Eric Barnes has our coverage, which you can access by clicking here.
And learn how intraoperative MRI guidance is improving the chances of removing the entire cancerous tumor during glioma resection by clicking here.
