Case of the Month – 3D and Quantitative Imaging Laboratory

5 month old with a congenital aorta abnormality, a double aortic arch. The right arch is larger than the left, measuring 6.5 mm, compared to the left, which measures 2.5 mm at it’s narrowest. The vessels which feed the right side of the body…

June 2015

68 year old male with a history of a stented abdominal aortic aneurysm. CT scan with IV contrast reveals the stent graft placement and aneurysm thrombus. There was also an incidental finding of extensively convoluted right inferior renal artery…

May 2015

Nine year old male with a clinical history of microtia (congenital deformity where the external ear is underdeveloped) and atresia of the external auditory canal (developmental absence of the external auditory canal) was assessed for potential…

April 2015

65 year old male with a family history of sudden cardiac death of a first degree relative and malignant coronary anomaly in a first degree relative. CT scan with IV contrast shows an aberrant, benign left circumflex coronary artery (labeled…

March 2015

Male, 46 Years of age with a history of a stable mass on the right lateral ventricle, and a stable mild midline shift (dashed lines). The patient had a Functional MRI (fMRI) of the brain to check for areas of motor, language, audio,…

February 2015

3D Printing, Case of the Month, Chest

3D printed model generated from a Computed Tomography (CT) scan of a 92 year old patient who had an aortic aneurysm repaired by interventional radiologists using a custom made “stent-graft” to create a new inner wall for the…

January 2015

This patient is a 73 year old male presenting with metastatic prostate cancer to the liver. Interventional Radiologists plan on performing a radioembolization of this patient’s liver to treat the cancer. Radioembolization is a procedure…

December 2014

These are images from a TAVR (Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Replacement). This procedure is done for patients who need a heart valve replacement, but are too frail to undergo open heart surgery. The valve [A] fails to open properly, creating…

November 2014

Case of the Month, Lower Extremity

57-Yearold female with history of ruptured aneurysm, subarachnoid hemorrhage, status post aneurysm clipping and shunt placement. The top left image shows the opening in the skull from the initial surgery and the top right image shows the implanted…

October 2014

38 year old male with right elbow pain. Evaluate for joint bodies. A 3mm joint body (orange arrows) is seen in the olecranon fossa of the disarticulated ulna, and three (1-2 mm) joint bodies (blue arrows) are seen in the trochlear ulnar joint.…

September 2014

Eight year old male with a history of epilepsy. Findings of decreased blood flow within the right temporal lobe of the brain raised concerns for possible epileptogenic focus. Images (1), (2) and (3) above are show EEG electrode grid placement…

August 2014

62 year old male presenting with progressive weight loss and abdominal pain when exercising. CT scan with IV contrast shows no clear origin of the superior mesenteric artery or celiac artery, but rather a single celiomesenteric trunk with…

July 2014

43 year old female, with Loeys Dietz Syndrome- (connective tissue disorder that predisposes to development of aortic aneurysms and other connective tissue defects) presented with headache to rule out aneurysms. CT Angiogram of head and neck…

June 2014

3D visualization of Magnetic Resonance (MR) images acquired from a 54 year old male with elevated prostatic specific antigen (PSA) and prior negative biopsy. The images processed at the 3DQ Lab to identify the prostate glad (brown) and…

May 2014

A 30 year old female presents with a history of neonatal demise and a history of fibroids. The patient was sent for an MR scan of her pelvis to evaluate fibroids. The 3DQ Lab acquired volumetric images to display the fibroids in the uterus…

April 2014

89-Year old male with an endovascular aortic stent graft repair shows change in configuration of the thoracic aortic arch. The distance between origin of the left carotid artery and the stent graft has increased from 15.7mm in January 2013…

March 2014

46 year old with history of left orbital mass. CT volume rendered images (A and B), and MRA volume rendered images (C and D) show a slightly hyperdense circumscribed mass causing mass effect on the optic nerve and globe with proptosis. There…

February 2014

History: 63-year old male under treatment for myocardialinfarction. During the cardiac catheterization, an 8.4 cm Sinus of Valsalva aneurysm was found. Insert: Postsurgical changes show exclusion of the Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm. Producing…

December 2013

68-year-old female with exclusions of three right renal artery aneurysms. The phenomenal 3D staff utilizes Segmentation/Volume Rendered tools on a 3D software to create this image. Volume Rendered image allows the Radiologist and Clinicians…

November 2013

76 year old male presents with a + FOBT(fecal occult blood test) and LLQ dull, mild abdominal pain. This patient preferred a less invasive screening method and therefore was referred to Stanford to perform CT Colonography. After the CT scan…

October 2013