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From: Effect of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis on the dual-energy CT quantitative parameters and performance in diagnosing metastatic cervical lymph nodes in patients with papillary thyroid cancer

Fig. 3

Representative images and energy spectrum curves of nonmetastatic lateral lymph nodes in PTC patients with HT (a–d) and without HT (e–h). Nonmetastatic LNs in PTC patient with HT demonstrated higher IC (1.700 vs. 0.900 mg/mL), NIC (0.210 vs. 0.134), Zeff (8.400 vs. 8.000), and λHU (3.381 vs. 1.989) than those in PTC patients without HT in arterial phase. PTC, papillary thyroid cancer; HT, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis; LN, lymph node; IC, iodine concentration; NIC, normalized IC; Zeff, effective atomic number; and λHU, slope of the spectral Hounsfield unit curve

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Cancer Imaging

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