Medical Imaging Research unit

Publications: 2008/9

• Azevedo LB, Lambert MI, Vaughan CL, O’Connor CM, Schwellnus MP, “Biomechanical variables associated with achilles tendinopathy in runners”, British Journal of Sports Medicine, [Epub ahead of print], 2009.
  
• Benatar SR, Vaughan CL, “Global and local forces shaping the research agenda and the governance of research ethics”, South African Journal of Science, 104(11/12): 439-442, 2008.
  
• Douglas TS, Sanders V, Pitcher R, van As AB. Early detection of fractures with low-dose digital x-ray images in a pediatric trauma unit. Journal of Trauma Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 65(1):E4-7, 2008.
  
• Esterhuysen AB, Sanders VM, Smith JM; Human skeletal and mummified remains from the AD1854 siege of Mugombane, Limpopo, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36: 1038–1049, 2009.
  
• Halberstadt W, Douglas TS.  Fuzzy clustering to detect tuberculous meningitis-associated hyperdensity in CT images. Computers in Biology and Medicine 38(2):165-70; 2008.
  
• Hemmerich A, van der Merwe W, Vaughan CL, “Measuring three-dimensional knee kinematics under torsional loading”, Journal of Biomechanics, 42: 183-186, 2009.
  
• Hussein K, Vaughan CL, Douglas TS. Modeling, validation and application of a mathematical tissue-equivalent breast phantom for linear slot-scanning digital mammography. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 54(6): 1533-1553, 2009.
  
• Irving BJ, Maree GJ, Hering E, Douglas TS. Radiation dose from a linear slit scanning x-ray machine with full body imaging capabilities. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 130(4): 482-489; 2008.
  
• Langerak NG, Lamberts RP, Fieggen AG, Peter JC, van der Merwe L, Peacock WJ, Vaughan CL, “A prospective gait analysis study in patients with diplegic cerebral palsy 20 years after selective dorsal rhizotomy,” Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, 1: 180-186, 2008.
  
• Pitcher RD, van As AB, Sanders V, Douglas TS, Wieselthaler N, Vlok A, Paverd S, Kilborn T, Rode H, Potgieter H, Beningfield S. “A pilot study evaluating the "Statscan" digital X-ray machine in paediatric polytrauma”, Emergency Radiology, 15(1):35-42; 2008.
  
• Pitcher RD, Wilde JCH, Douglas TS, van As AB. The use of the "Statscan" digital X-ray unit in paediatric polytrauma: a review. Pediatric Radiology, [Epub ahead of print] DOI 10.1007/s00247-008-1053-0, 2009.
  
• Spottiswoode BS, Carey PD, "Advancing neuroimaging research in South Africa", South African Journal of Radiology, 12(4): 82; 2008.
  
• Spottiswoode BS, Russell JB, Moosa S, Meintjes EM, Epstein FH, Mayosi BM, "Abnormal diastolic and systolic septal motion following pericardiectomy demonstrated by cine DENSE MRI", Cardiovascular Journal of Africa, 19(4): 208-209; 2008.
  
• Spottiswoode BS, Zhong X, Lorenz CH, Mayosi BM, Meintjes EM, Epstein FH, "3D tissue tracking with slice followed cine DENSE MRI", Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 27: 1019-1027; 2008.
  
• Spottiswoode BS, Zhong X, Lorenz CH, Mayosi BM, Meintjes EM, Epstein FH, "Motion guided segmentation for cine DENSE MRI", Medical Image Analysis, 13(1): 105-115; 2009.
  
• Taliep MS, St Clair Gibson A, Gray J, van der Merwe L, Vaughan CL, Noakes TD, Kellaway LA, John LR, “Event-related potentials, reaction time and response selection of skilled and less-skilled cricket batsmen, Perception, 37(1): 96-105, 2008.
  
• van Niekerk SM, Louw Q, Vaughan CL, Grimmer-Somers K, Schreve K, “Photographic measurement of upper-body sitting posture of high school students: A reliability and validity study”, BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, doi:10.1186/1471-2474-9-113, 2008.
  
• Vaughan CL, “Alternatives to the publication subsidy for research funding”, South African Journal of Science, 104(3): 91-96, 2008.
  
• Vaughan CL, Blaszczyk MB “Dynamic similarity predicts gait parameters for Homo         floresiensis and the Laetoli hominins”, American Journal of Human Biology, 20(3): 312-316, 2008.
  
• Vaughan CL,Langerak NG, Lamberts RP, Fieggen AG, Peter JC, van der Merwe L, Peacock WJ, “Selective dorsal rhizotomy and the challenge of monitoring its long-term sequelae: response”, Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, 1: 178-179, 2008.
  
• Zhong X, Epstein FH, Spottiswoode BS, Helm A, Blemker SS, "Imaging two-dimensional displacements and strains in skeletal muscle during joint motion by cine DENSE MR", Journal of Biomechanics, 41(3): 532-540; 2008.