Assertion: aorta's diameter | /r/HasProperty | figure 3a
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text: When imaging a tortuous thoracic aorta, which is common among the elderly, one must use caution in measuring the aortic diameter on axial images; such images may slice through the aorta off-axis, resulting in a falsely large diameter (Figure 3A).
text: One option is to reconstruct the axial data into 3-dimensional images (ie, CT angiography), with which one can then measure the tortuous aorta in true cross section to obtain an accurate diameter (Figure 3B).