background: so far, non-invasive diagnostic approaches such as ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, or blood tests do not have sufficient diagnostic power for endometriosis disease. lack of a non-invasive diagnostic test contributes to the long delay between onset of symptoms and diagnosis of endometriosis. objective: the present study focuses on the identification of predictive biomarkers i...

calcifying aponeurotic fibroma (caf) is a rare, benign fibroblastic tumor that typically occurs in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, in children and adolescents. due to its infiltrative nature, this tumor can mimic malignancy on preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (mri) and has a predilection for local recurrence. there are very few reports in the literature that describe featur...

Imaging of vascular structures and blood flow with magnetic resonance (MR) has added a new dimension in evaluating patients with suspected intracranial circulatory disturbances [1]. By using appropriate MR pulse sequences, the capability now exists of diagnosing intracranial circulatory abnormalities without the injection of radiographic contrast agents. We report a case of internal carotid art...

Background We evaluated whether quantitative circumferential strain (C-strain) analysis using adenosine triphosphate (ATP)stress/rest 3-Tesla (3-T) tagged magnetic resonance (MR) can depict myocardial ischemia as contractile dysfunction on stress. We evaluated whether it can differentiate nonischemia, myocardial ischemia and infarction. We assessed its diagnostic performance in comparison with ...

Magnetic resonance (MR) acoustic scanner noise may negatively affect the performanceof functional magnetic resonance imaging (±MRI), a problem that worsens at the higher field strengths proposed to enhance ±MRI. We present an overview of the current knowledge on theeffects of confounding acoustic MR noise in fMRI experiments. The principles and effectivenessof various methods to red...

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a progressive, fatal neurological disorder of childhood and early adolescence. In this report, we present brain magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and conventional magnetic resonance MR imaging findings of early-stage (stage II) SSPE in an 8-year-old child. MRS demonstrated increased myo-inositol/creatine and choline/creatine ratios, and a decrea...

The continuous technological progress of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), as well as its widespread clinical use as a highly sensitive tool in diagnostics and advanced brain research, has brought a high demand for the development of magnetic resonance (MR)-compatible robotic/mechatronic systems. Revolutionary robots guided by real-time three-dimensional (3-D)-MRI allow reliable and precise min...

The signals recorded by diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) are dependent on the micro-structural properties of biological tissues, so it is possible to obtain quantitative structural information non-invasively from such measurements. Oscillating gradient spin echo (OGSE) methods have the ability to probe the behavior of water diffusion over different time scales and the potenti...

Most of the existing research in medical image segmentation has focused on magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography (CT). Much less work has been done in the segmentation of X-ray images. Nevertheless, medical specialists often examine X-rays images of spinal columns to determine the presence of abnormalities or dysfunctions and to analyse the vertebral mobility. To help them to establis...