Fig. 1From: Clinical impact of postoperative loss in psoas major muscle and nutrition index after radical cystectomy for patients with urothelial carcinoma of the bladderRepresentative images for the body composition indexVolume Analyzer SYNAPSE VINCENT image analysis system was used to reconstruct three-dimensional (3-D) images as follow: a, red area indicates abdominal adipose tissue (visceral fat and subcutaneous fat), with the green area indicating the total volume of the psoas major muscle; b, quantification of the partial volume of the psoas major muscle at the level of L3-L4; c, cross-sectional area of the psoas major muscle at the level of L3 (green ovals indicated by yellow arrows); and d, cross-sectional 2-D images at the level of L3 were used to quantify the skeletal muscle index (SMI). The green shadows indicate the abdominal skeletal muscle areasBack to article page