fundamentals of magnetic resonance imaging

... Jalal et al.: Contribution of magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of talus skip metastases of Ewing’s sarcoma of the calcaneus in a child: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 ... tomography; MRI: magnetic resonance imaging Acknowledgements We wish to acknowledge Prof Arak Abdelfattah for his critical appraisal Author details Department of Radiology, Ibn Tofail Hospital, ... and the distinction often requires extensive evaluation using varied imaging modalities [7] CT can reveal a soft-tissue mass of the foot, such as permeative lytic lesions of the bone with aggressive...

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... http://ccforum.com/content/11/5/230 Figure Magnetic resonance spectroscopy profile of the pons after traumatic brain injury (a) Normal profile The peak of N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA) is higher than the peaks of choline (Cho) ... marker of anaerobic metabolism and therefore of ischaemia [10] As shown in Figure 2, three main pons monovoxel profiles may be observed in patients with TBI Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging ... a distance from the injury Magnetic resonance imaging findings in specific critical neurological conditions Traumatic brain injury Conventional magnetic resonance imaging MRI was first used to...

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... domain of the fiber shaft To this end, novel spleen-to-liver metastatic colorectal cancer mouse model was used and the antitumor efficacy was evaluated with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Page of ... tumors The growth of liver metastasis was analyzed with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Tumors are marked with arrows Picture of liver metastasis of mock treated (PBS) animal (A) day before treatment ... increase tumor specificity without compromising antitumor efficacy in magnetic resonance imaging of colorectal cancer metastases Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:80 ...

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... after operation using a scale of 1–9 with ascending order of effort Score was equivalent to nonawareness of breathing effort at rest Score 1–3 was equivalent of awareness of gentle breathing effort ... The protocol of BH-MR imaging of the chest has been reported in previous published study [5] In brief, fast gradient-recalled echo pulse sequence was used to obtain coronal images of the whole ... consisted of three types (a) cases of Harrington rod on concave side, Luque rod on convex side and Wisconsin wire for the instrumented spinous processes (b) cases of ISOLA instrumentation consisted of...

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... reserved Usage subject to terms and conditions of license 84 132 150 162 164 166 168 Contents VIII Pelvis MRI MRI MRI MRI MRI MRI MRI of of of of of of of the the the the the the the Female Pelvis—Axial ... 37 38 Segments of the lungs Right Lung Apical segment of upper lobe Posterior segment of upper lobe Anterior segment of upper lobe Lateral segment of middle lobe Medial segment of middle lobe ... conditions of license CT of the Thorax 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 1/2 —— = Borders of lung segments Right Lung Apical segment of upper lobe Posterior segment of upper lobe Anterior segment of upper lobe...

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... conditions of license 152 MRI of the Abdomen 45 46 47 48 49 (Numbers indicate liver segments) Right ventricle Diaphragm Right lung (costodiaphragmatic recess) Falciform ligament of liver Right lobe of ... and conditions of license 146 MRI of the Abdomen 29 30 31 32 —— = Peritoneum Moeller, Sectional Anatomy © 2007 Thieme All rights reserved Usage subject to terms and conditions of license Sagittal ... and conditions of license 148 MRI of the Abdomen 28 29 30 31 —— = Peritoneum Moeller, Sectional Anatomy © 2007 Thieme All rights reserved Usage subject to terms and conditions of license Sagittal...

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... MT: A review and new report of medial temporal lobe dysfunction as a vulnerability indicator for schizophrenia: a magnetic resonance imaging morphometric family study of the parahippocampal gyrus ... genetically related to people with schizophrenia Neuroimaging studies of high-risk populations have recently begun to investigate a subgroup of relatives of patients with schizophrenia, sometimes referred ... smoothing using a Gaussian kernel of full width at half maximum (FWHM) mm; mean-based intensity normalisation of all volumes by the same factor; high-pass filter cut-off of 100 s; high-pass temporal...

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... schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of quantitative magnetic resonance imaging studies Schizophr Res 2006, 82:75-88 Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Annals of General Psychiatry 2008, ... testreset reliability of the KID-SCID In Scientific Proceedings of the 44th Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Washington, DC: AACAP; 1997:172-173 Office of Population ... side of the figure represents the right side of the brain; the z coordinate for each axial slice in the standard space of Talairach and Tournoux [38] is given in mm Clusterwise probability of type...

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... duration of more than eight years between the start of symptoms and the diagnosis of AS is reported [3,4] Such a delay is increasingly unwarranted because of the availability of effective treatment Magnetic ... Braun J, Bollow M, Eggens U, Konig H, Distler A, Sieper J: Use of dynamic magnetic resonance imaging with fast imaging in the detection of early and advanced sacroiliitis in spondylarthropathy patients ... History of inflammatory bowel disease present (%) 15 History of uveitis present (%) 15 History of psoriasis present (%) 24 Family history of ankylosing spondylitis present (%) 37 aForty-five of the...

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... McLaughlin S, Einhorn TA, Felson DT: The clinical importance of meniscal tears demonstrated by magnetic resonance imaging in osteoarthritis of the knee J Bone Joint Surg Am 2003, 85A:4-9 Link TM, ... effect of pharmacological interventions on OA disease progression Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows for the precise visualization of joint structures such as cartilage, bone, synovium, ligaments, ... concomitant loss of cartilage volume [13] A large clinical trial assessing the effects of a bisphosphonate on knee OA structural changes was recently completed A subset of 110 of these patients...

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... contrastenhanced magnetic resonance imaging Arthritis Rheum 2003, 48:1374-1384 Offidani A, Cellini A, Valeri G, Giovagnoni A: Subclinical joint involvement in psoriasis: magnetic resonance imaging and ... Claderazzi A, Maddali Bongi S, Cristofani R, Bazzichi L, Eligi C, Maresca M, Ciompi ML: A comparison of ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of temporomandibular joint involvement ... et al Figure Figure Magnetic resonance images of fingers: psoriatic arthritis Shown are T1-weighted (a) precontrast and (b) postcontrast coronal magnetic resonance images of the fingers in a...

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... analyzed for intensity of staining By the use of Quantity One v 4.5.2 software (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA), we determined color densities of 20 randomly selected areas of both the pericellular ... therapy – a review of the literature Acta Med Austriaca 2000, 27:61-68 Trock D, Bollet A, Markoll R: The effect of pulsed electromagnetic fields in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee and ... ± 0.27 ng/ml per µg of hydroxyproline) and the 'pulsed EMF' group (0.9 ± 0.37 ng/ml per µg of hydroxyproline) Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Impairment of chondrocyte activity...

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... Figure Positive correlation of bone marrow edema in histopathological assessment and magnetic resonance imaging (a) Magnetic resonance imaging (T2 imaging sequence) of a zygapophyseal joint with ... Correlation of histopathological findings and magnetic resonance imaging Patient no HLA-B27 Edema (%) Cellular infiltration Microvessel density Edema detected by magnetic resonance imaging Zygapophyseal ... correlation of bone marrow edema in histopathological assessment and magnetic resonance imaging (a) Magnetic resonance imaging of imaging zygapophyseal joints (cyan arrows) without detectable bone marrow...

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... Biomechanics of the patello-femoral joint Part II: A study of the effect of simulated femoro-tibial varus deformity on the congruity of the patellofemoral compartment and movement of the patella ... Wittstein JR, Bartlett EC, Easterbrook J, Byrd JC: Magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of patellofemoral malalignment Arthroscopy 2006, 22:643-649 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Arthritis ... [25] In brief, subjects were recruited from two prospective studies of the quality of life of veterans (one of men and one of women), from clinics at the Veterans Administration Boston Health...

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... permit direct visualization of cartilage) [4-7] In the last decade, remarkable progress in the development of imaging technology has been made Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) now allows not ... predictors of the loss of cartilage volume in the central area of the medial femoral condyles (Table 4) at baseline were (in order of significance) the loss of joint space (JSN), the presence of a ... difference between repeat films of less than 0.1 mm) and 92% achieved excellent to good quality with a difference between repeat films of 0.3 mm Knee magnetic resonance imaging High-resolution, three-dimensional...

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... Connell D: A comparison of magnetic resonance imaging, sonography, and radiography of the hand in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis J Rheumatol 2004, 31:663-675 Page 13 of 13 (page number not ... presence or absence of aforementioned changes by a radiologist experienced in musculoskeletal radiography (MH), who was blinded to clinical and other imaging findings Magnetic resonance imaging parameters ... 38% (6 of 16) and Wakefield and colleagues [16] in 1% (1 of 100) of the examined MCP joints Five of the erosion-like changes found in our study were located at the radial or ulnar side of the...

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... Edmonds J: Computerized measurement of magnetic resonance imaging erosion volumes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a comparison with existing magnetic resonance imaging scoring systems and standard ... change of magnetic resonance imaging and radiographic scoring of structural joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis finger, wrist, and toe joints: a comparison of the OMERACT rheumatoid arthritis magnetic ... the peripheral border of erosions can be difficult to define as signal intensities of erosions and adjacent soft-tissues often are very similar for both CT and magnetic resonance images Generally,...

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... change of magnetic resonance imaging and radiographic scoring of structural joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis finger, wrist, and toe joints: a comparison of the OMERACT rheumatoid arthritis magnetic ... leading to bone erosion The advent of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) allows the demonstration of the early appearance of MRI bone oedema, histologically an ... Reinhold CE, Levine J, Genant HK: Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy of the periarticular inflammatory soft-tissue changes in experimental arthritis of the rat Invest Radiol 1985, 20:813-823...

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