Two Methods to Color Radiology Images of the Brain as an Example: Encoding Hounsfield Units with Hexadecimal Codes to Assign Colors for CT Scan or Using Prism in X-ray Cassatas or CT Detector to Convert the Light to the Real Colors in the X-ray or CT Images
Author(s): ABDULWAHAB F. ALAHMARI
Introduction: All radiology images are gray scale images which does not show colors of the internal organs of the body. Seeing the real representation color of the images will help in diagnosis and prevent the use of autopsy in many cases.
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to assign a color for each Hounsfield unit in order to color CT scan images. The purpose to do such thing is to give real colors as much as possible for medical and forensic applications.
Methods: Two theoretical methods are discussed to see which one might be the better one to see real color representation of inner structure of the human body.
Results: The prism method might be better to have real colors coming out of the body and not assigned. The hexadecimal code needs collection of massive data to assign average degree of colors which is still not the real color.
Conclusion: The color of organs plays an important role in making the diagnosis of many conditions or to stop autopsy by seeing the organ color.
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