Skip to main content
Fig. 1 | BMC Medical Imaging

Fig. 1

From: Measurement of epicardial adipose tissue using non-contrast routine chest-CT: a consideration of threshold adjustment for fatty attenuation

Fig. 1

Visualization of the EAT in axial images, histograms and volume rendering. The pericardial structure (white arrowhead) in RCCT could be identified as clearly as that in CCTA (a, b). The similar pattern of CT value histograms extracted from pericardium segmentation from CCTA and RCCT both indicate that the adjustment of upper thresholds had a more obvious influence on the precision of fat volume measurements (c, d). The blue and red lines indicate the CT attenuation of − 40 HU (N40) and − 45 HU (N45), respectively. Volume rendering of the EAT and heart are displayed using the same threshold of (− 190 HU, − 30 HU) (e, f)

Back to article page

BMC Medical Imaging

ISSN: 1471-2342

Contact us