Part 1.
Methodologic Aspects of Automatic Ultrasound Transverse Tomography of the Thyroid Gland

Fig. 1.1—1.3
Evaluation of thyroid volume by ultrasound transverse tomography.
Optical density of thyroid tissue - pixel analysis.
Two-dimensional reconstruction of images of thyroid gland.
Material. Methods

Fig. 2.1—2.2
Thyroid gland. Anterior view. Projection on the frontal plane
Thyroid gland. Left lateral view. Projection on the sagittal plane

Fig. 3.1—3.6
Human anatomic planes and axes in three-dimensional space

Fig. 4.1—4.7
Technical aspects of ultrasound transverse tomography.
Positioning of the patient

Fig. 5.1—5.2
Terminology

Fig. 6.1—6.2
Techniques of the reconstruction of two-dimensional thyroid images
on the base of lobe height, depth and width parameters

Fig. 7.1—7.4
Optical density — Pixel Analysis

Fig. 8.1—8.11
Clinical methods of the thyroid volume evaluation

Fig. 9.1—9.3
Normal thyroid gland according to ultrasound transverse tomography information,
two-dimensional reconstruction of thyroid image and pixel analysis