Volumetric assessment of hepatic grafts using a light detection and ranging system for 3D scanning: Preliminary data
Georgios Katsanos, Konstantina-Eleni Karakasi, Ion-Anastasios Karolos, Athanasios Kofinas, Nikolaos Antoniadis, Vassilios Tsioukas, Georgios Tsoulfas
Georgios Katsanos, Konstantina-Eleni Karakasi, Athanasios Kofinas, Nikolaos Antoniadis, Georgios Tsoulfas, Department of Transplantation, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration General Hospital, Thessaloniki 54642, Greece
Ion-Anastasios Karolos, Vassilios Tsioukas, Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54642, Greece
Author contributions: Katsanos G and Karakasi KE contributed equally to this work; Katsanos G, Karakasi KE, and Tsoulfas G designed the research study; Katsanos G, Karakasi KE, Karolos IA, and Kofinas A performed the research; Antoniadis N and Karakasi KE conducted the data analysis and statistical analysis; Katsanos G, Tsoulfas G, and Tsioukas V analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript; Katsanos G, Kofinas A, and Tsoulfas G revised the manuscript; all authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Supported by the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, No. T1EDK-03599.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Institutional Review Board (Approval No. 3.479).
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors of this manuscript having no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
CONSORT 2010 statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Georgios Tsoulfas, FACS, FICS, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Transplantation, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokration General Hospital, No. 49 Konstantinoupoleos Street, Thessaloniki 54642, Greece. tsoulfasg@gmail.com
Received: January 30, 2022
Peer-review started: January 30, 2022
First decision: March 7, 2022
Revised: April 10, 2022
Accepted: June 27, 2022
Article in press: June 27, 2022
Published online: July 27, 2022
