A diagnosis can be made clinically – that, is there are no specific scans required, though ultrasound is sometimes used to assess the structure of the tendon.
Two patients chose not to participate due to the number of scans required, and 1 patient chose not to participate because he or she did not wish to undergo chemotherapy.
Retrospectively cataloguing scans required determination of where each participant was in their medical training at the time the scan was performed which unfortunately led to a large number of 'unknown rank' classifications in the data.
The specimen was placed upon its side for the z-axis scan to minimise the number of scans required to scan the entire specimen, with the hook in profile to take into account undercut of the hook.
The advantage of TEM recording during in situ heating is that it provides shorter exposure times (approximately 1 s) relative to the slower scans required by SE in the STEM modes.
The automatic delineation per subject (five CT scans) required 25 min on a 32-bit desktop PC using an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8-GHz CPU with 3.2 GB of RAM, making it three times faster than the manual positioning of ROIs.
