Fig. 1

a Correlation between calcium carbonate (x-axis) dilution (wt/vol%) and Hus (y-axis) using test specimens measured in a CT scan. b Correlation between the volume of freshly prepared alginate spheres (x-axis) and measured volume in CT scan (y-axis). a, b The dots are the individual measurements. The blue line is the correlation. c Volume expansion of the pseudotumor in the porcine tongue in relation to resting days. The blue line shows the LOESS. d Maximum tumor diameter on CT scan according to injected volume. c, d Plots using boxplots and violin plots. Black dots are outliers, and the red dot is the mean. a-d All measurements were made with the 3D Slicer in a CT scan