Virtual cystoscopy of the bladder based on CT and MRI data

TM Bernhardt, U Rapp-Bernhardt - Abdominal imaging, 2001 - Springer
Carcinoma of the bladder can be a serious and complex condition that is not always easy to
diagnose with radiologic methods. Numerous investigations are available to establish the …

CT urography and virtual endoscopy: promising imaging modalities for urinary tract evaluation

JK Kim, KS Cho - The British Journal of Radiology, 2003 - academic.oup.com
CT urography and virtual endoscopy images are generated from dedicated multislice helical
CT data sets and various three-dimensional reconstruction techniques. These imaging …

A coupled level set framework for bladder wall segmentation with application to MR cystography

C Duan, Z Liang, S Bao, H Zhu, S Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a coupled level set (LS) framework for segmentation of bladder
wall using T 1-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) images with clinical applications to virtual …

Reliability of MR Imaging—based virtual cystoscopy in the diagnosis of cancer of the urinary bladder

M Lämmle, A Beer, M Settles… - American Journal of …, 2002 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. Our purpose was to evaluate MR imaging—based virtual endoscopy in
patients with urinary bladder cancer compared with conventional cystoscopy as the gold …

Virtual cystoscopy of the contrast material—filled bladder in patients with gross hematuria

JK Kim, JH Ahn, T Park, HJ Ahn… - American Journal of …, 2002 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The objective of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of virtual cystoscopy
of the contrast material—filled bladder in evaluating patients with gross hematuria …

Diagnostic accuracy of pneumo-CT-cystography in the detection of bladder rupture in patients with blunt pelvic trauma

M Trinci, V Cirimele, D Cozzi, M Galluzzo, V Miele - La radiologia medica, 2020 - Springer
Purpose To evaluate the diagnostic utility of bladder air distension (pneumo-CT-
cystography) in the detection of bladder rupture in patients with blunt pelvic trauma …

Virtual cystoscopy in the evaluation of bladder tumors

C Yazgan, S Fitoz, C Atasoy, K Turkolmez, C Yagci… - Clinical imaging, 2004 - Elsevier
Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the value of contrast material-filled
virtual cystoscopy in the detection of bladder tumors. Materials and methods: Thirty-nine …

16-MDCT cystoscopy in the evaluation of neoplasms of the urinary bladder

C Tsampoulas, AC Tsili, D Giannakis… - American Journal of …, 2008 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of 16-MDCT cystos-copy in
the detection of urinary bladder neoplasms in a high-risk population. SUBJECTS AND …

Comparison of virtual cystoscopy, multiplanar reformation, and source CT images with contrast material-filled bladder for detecting lesions

JK Kim, SY Park, HS Kim, SH Kim… - American Journal of …, 2005 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The objective of our study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of virtual
cystoscopy, multiplanar reformation, and source CT images for lesion detection in the …

Tree-branch-searching multiresolution approach to skeletonization for virtual endoscopy

D Chen, B Li, Z Liang, M Wan… - … Imaging 2000: Image …, 2000 - spiedigitallibrary.org
One of the most important tasks for virtual endoscopy is path planning for viewing the lumen
of hollow organs. For geometry complex objects, for example the lungs, it remains an …