Multiplanar reconstructions and three-dimensional imaging (computed rotational osteography) of complex fractures by using a C-arm system: initial results

• Published in: Radiology Vol. 221; no. 3; p. 843
• Main Authors: El-Sheik, M, Heverhagen, J T, Alfke, H, Froelich, J J, Hornegger, J, Brunner, T, Klose, K J, Wagner, H J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.12.2001
• Subjects: Animals; Foot Injuries - diagnostic imaging; Fractures, Bone - diagnostic imaging; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Spinal Fractures - diagnostic imaging; Swine; Tibial Fractures - diagnostic imaging; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - instrumentation; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods
• ISSN: 0033-8419
• DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2213010606

With use of a calibrated angiographic C-arm system and a postprocessing workstation, the authors acquired volume data sets from two-dimensional digital projection images obtained during a C-arm rotation around the patient axis. Multiplanar reconstruction and three-dimensional images of complex fractures were reconstructed and compared with spiral computed tomographic studies in a cadaveric pig study and in eight patients. Computed rotational osteography provided high-resolution multiplanar reconstruction and three-dimensional images of complex fractures.