Cao, Le
Liu, Xiang
Qu, Tingting
Cheng, Yannan
Li, Jianying
Li, Yanan
Chen, Lihong
Niu, Xinyi
Tian, Qian
Guo, Jianxin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3655-8914
Funding for this research was provided by:
Key Research and Development Projects of Shaanxi Province (NO. 2020GXLH-Y-026)
Science Development Foundation of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University (2018QN-14)
3D Printing Medical Research Support Project of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University (NO. XJTU1AF-3D-2018-003)
Article History
Received: 24 May 2022
Revised: 22 August 2022
Accepted: 5 September 2022
First Online: 3 October 2022
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Prof. Jianxin Guo from the Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University.
: One author (J.L.) is an employee of GE Healthcare, the manufacturer of the CT scanner and the reconstruction algorithms used in this study. All other authors of this manuscript declare no conflict of Interest with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article. Authors who are not GE Healthcare employees had total control of the data and analysis used in the study.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Informed written consent was obtained from all the patients for undergoing the routine contrast-enhanced abdominal CT scans and for using their CT images in general, but informed consent for this specific retrospective study was waived.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: • retrospective• cohort study• performed at one institution