Dear Advanced Visualization Insider,
The use of an automated curved planar reformatting application that presents the ribs in an "unfolded" view can potentially add clinical value, but it's important for users to familiarize themselves with normal appearances and an understanding of the tool's limitations, researchers reported recently at the European Society of Thoracic Imaging (ESTI) annual meeting.
A U.S. team from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, shared the advantages and pitfalls of the commercially available reformatting tool in an e-poster at ESTI 2014, and you can read all about it by visiting here.
In other articles this month in your Advanced Visualization Digital Community, a Dutch team recently found that a new onsite fluid dynamics application shows promise for gauging the severity of coronary disease, offering advantages over a validated fractional flow reserve CT angiography application. Click here for all the details.
A Web-based liver imaging atlas run by radiologists in Switzerland and the U.S. was among the highlights at the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR) congress. In fact, it received the only Magna Cum Laude award. Learn more here.
Also, German researchers have discovered that bidirectional scans can boost the resolution of 3D photoacoustic imaging technology and envision that the bidirectional technique will be used an adjunct to conventional optoacoustic scans. Find out all the details by clicking here.
Do you have an idea for a topic you'd like to see covered? As always, please feel free to drop me a line.
