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Fig. 3 | European Radiology Experimental

Fig. 3

From: Heavy metal in radiology: how to reliably differentiate between lodged copper and lead bullets using CT numbers

Fig. 3

Volume rendering of the Hydra-Shok bullets within the animal cadaver model obtained from the computed tomography scan with 140 kVp (a). The copper/zinc jacket (a, arrowhead; b) of one of the Hydra-Shok bullets (Hydra-Shok number 2) was separated from the lead core of the bullet (a, arrowhead). All Hydra-Shok bullets were heavily deformed; however, they did not hit the femoral bone as no osseous fractures were detected. Metal artifacts are visible as streaks in the panel a, but these streaks disappeared when a window that could precisely visualise the metallic object was selected (b)

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