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Accurate planning and sizing is key to the success of endovascular treatment of aortic disease. Since 2006 we have been using an open-source software named OsiriX running on a standard Apple laptop computer to visualize and analyze the DICOM (digital imaging and communications in medicine) files of patients scheduled for aortic repair. The tools available with OsiriX allow users not only to perform the necessary measurements (diameters, lengths) but also to obtain more accurate oblique and curved multiplanar reconstructions (MPRs), centerline studies, maximum-intensity projections (MIPs), and three-dimensional volume- and surface-rendering details, including detection of the spinal cord blood supply in over 70% of thoracic cases. With this software, advanced post-processing on a given computed tomography (CT) dataset is obtained in a very time- and resource-efficient way.
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Melissano, G., Civilini, E., Chiesa, R. (2011). Preoperative Planning and Sizing for Aortic Endovascular Procedures. In: Chiesa, R., Melissano, G., Zangrillo, A. (eds) Thoraco-Abdominal Aorta. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1857-0_11
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