Dr Wieben is a professor in the Departments of Medical Physics and Radiology at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. As an imaging scientist, he pursues methodology …

Background Aortic diameter measurements in patients with a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA)
show wide variation. There is no technique to quantify aortic growth in a three-dimensional …

Burris et al; Three-Dimensional Thoracic Aortic Growth Analysis growth (0.8 mm/y) was
detected at the mid-descending level, which was not clinically suspected but consistent with …

Editor: Our group at the Yale University Center for Thoracic Aortic Disease wishes to
communicate what we believe is an important and easily rectified shortcoming in the …

C OMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) has be-come one of the foremost methods in imaging
thoracic aortic diseases. Although there are advantages and disadvantages in using other …

Aortic imaging is an essential part of a surveillance program for patients with a confirmed or
suspected aortopathy because aortic size is crucial for predicting the risk of death, aortic …

Dominik Fleischmann, MD, is a professor and chief of cardiovascular imaging at Stanford
University School of Medicine, and the medical director of the Stanford 3D and Quantitative …

Imaging techniques play a crucial role in the diagnosis, follow-up and management of aortic
aneurysms. Ultrasound, CT and MRI have strengths and limitations in the assessment of this …

There have been dramatic advances in aortic imaging over the last decade. Some of these
capabilities have been driven by the development of aortic endografts, the need for accurate …

We identified 520 diagnostic imaging tests (MRI, CT, ECHO) performed in 205 patients (79
female 126 male)(age 20–94, mean 63.9) being followed at Yale-New Haven hospital for …