LEPTOSPIRES FROM WATER SOURCES AT DIXON SPRINGS AGRICULTURAL CENTER

Holy springs and holy water: underestimated sources of illness?

Use of holy springs and holy water is inherent in religious activities. Holy spring water is also used extensively for personal drinking water, although not assessed according to drinking water standards. Holy water in churches and chapels may cause infections via wetting of lips and sprinkling on persons. Our aim was to assess the microbiological and chemical water quality of holy springs and ...

CS-Dixon: Compressed Sensing for Water-Fat Dixon Reconstruction

Introduction: Water-fat separation is of interest in several MRI applications including fat suppression and fat quantification. Chemical shift imaging allows robust water-fat separation [1, 2], however the acquisition of multiple images results in prolonged scan time. Accelerated water-fat separation using compressed sensing (CS) was partly addressed in [3] by considering the separation as a sp...

[university of Colorado at Colorado Springs,colorado Springs, Colorado]

Multiplex RARE Dixon: a novel multislice RARE sequence applied to simultaneous slice fat-water Dixon imaging

Introduction Multislice excitation methods have been widely used to increase efficiency in volume coverage. In the simultaneous spin-echo refocusing sequence (SER) [1], two or more slices are excited simultaneously and refocused with a train of 180° pulses which act simultaneously on both slices. However, the SER sequence does not fulfil CPMG conditions, and requires special spoiler gradients t...

Diagnostic accuracy of Dixon water fat suppression coronary artery magnetic resonance angiography at 3.0 Tesla

Background X-Ray coronary angiography (XRA) remains the gold standard for assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD) although has associated clinical risk and financial cost. Coronary artery magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA) requires effective fat suppression as the epicardial vessels are embedded within fat. The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic performance of non-contrast en...