The relation of metabolic electrolyte disturbance and multi-organ functional disturbance on severe actue mountain sickness patients / 中华内分泌代谢杂志

Electrolyte disturbance was prominent in patients with severe acute mountain sickness. In these patients hypoxia caused water and salt retension together with vasoactive substances and excessive free radicals might play important roles in the development of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS). More attention should be given to electrolyte monitoring in dealing with these severe mountain sickness in field.

3D navigation of CTVE and correction of MinIP methods in non-invasive diagnostic detection.

Navigation is important in Computed Tomography Virtual Endoscopy (CTVE) functions. Existing navigation methods involve planning and pre-calculating of a fixed path before the viewpoint flight inside the targeted organs. This includes path construction, centering, smoothing and multi-branch processing. This paper proposes a 3D navigation method which was achieved by utilizing the compatibility of the 3D navigation and the ray casting 3D rendering method, without the necessity of planning and pre-calculating a fixed path, eliminating the multi-branch problems. In our 3D navigation method, the viewpoint direction and location are tracked in real time when the viewpoint is inside the organs. At the same time it presents and controls the direction changes and location changes of the viewpoint in x, y, z dimensions. With interactive control of the viewpoint, it can fly in any direction in 3D, not only along a fixed path, thus eliminating multi-branch problems. The viewpoint locations and directions will change smoothly and will be used to calculate the current scene of CTVE. Accelerated ray casting is used to render 3D scenes, which is compatible with the 3D navigation method. In Minimum Intensity Projection (MinIP) applications, if the conventional MinIP reconstruction method is used, realistic results cannot be achieved when they are rotated in multi-directions because the Computed Tomography (CT) images always contain empty regions surrounding the tissue regions. The conventional MinIP reconstruction algorithm always chalks up a minimum intensity voxel which relates to the empty regions instead of the tissue regions. To solve such valid voxel searching problems, seed-filling algorithms are used to fill the empty regions of each slice automatically. The empty voxels are labeled automatically and are avoided in MinIP calculation to gain correct results in all directions.

Study of 3D visualization methods on PACS workstation / 生物医学工程学杂志

Based on a discussion on PACS and the way its image workstation obtains scanned sequential images, this paper presented a method of 3D surface construction and visualization on PACS workstation. Guest/Server structure was used between PACS application entities. Image storing and transmission were realized by service classes established by DICOM standards. Relation database was used to arrange the stored sequential images. Image workstation transformed the sequential images obtained from PACS net into volume data field. 3D reconstruction and rendering results were obtained by using surface-rendering and volume-rendering methods, which made the 3D construction results acquire vivid 3D structure details of high fidelity and strong sense of reality. 3 sets of application results were also presented in this paper.

Registration and 3D rendering of serial tissue section images / 生物医学工程学杂志

It is an important morphological research method to reconstruct the 3D imaging from serial section tissue images. Registration of serial images is a key step to 3D reconstruction. Firstly, an introduction to the segmentation-counting registration algorithm is presented, which is based on the joint histogram. After thresholding of the two images to be registered, the criterion function is defined as counting in a specific region of the joint histogram, which greatly speeds up the alignment process. Then, the method is used to conduct the serial tissue image matching task, and lies a solid foundation for 3D rendering. Finally, preliminary surface rendering results are presented.