BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE High-resolution MR imaging is an emerging tool for evaluating intracranial artery disease. It has an advantage of defining vessel wall characteristics of intracranial vascular diseases. We investigated high-resolution MR imaging arterial wall characteristics of CNS vasculitis and reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome to determine wall pattern changes during a foll...

Postsystolic shortening and thickening of ischemic and postischemic myocardium are well-recognized phenomena, but their significance is controversial. To discover whether postsystolic shortening and thickening might represent an active process and to establish their place as possible predictors of functional recovery during and after recovery from ischemia, we examined correlations in severely ...

fundal gallbladder abnormalities result from broad spectrum of pathologic that most of them have no pathological significance and normally causes no symptoms. conversely, early incidental detection of malignant lesions is important because symptomatic lesions are often incurable. so use proper imaging to differentiate between them is important. although ultrasound has been the choice screen met...

Chronic constrictive pericarditis is an inflammatory disease of the pericardium, characterized by a fibro-calcareous pericardial thickening. This thickening responsible for impairment ventricular filling, thus defining adiastole (1). almost always affects both ventricles, increasing interventricular interdependence and leading to equalization right left filling pressures. The etiology condition...

OBJECTIVES We developed an automatic quantitative algorithm for the measurement of regional myocardial wall motion and wall thickening from three-dimensional gated technetium-99m sestamibi myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomographic images. BACKGROUND The algorithm measures the motion of the three-dimensional endocardial surface using a modification of the centerline meth...

The aim of this study was twofold, that is the generation of a reliable model for skin barrier disruption and repair and to evaluate recovery of damaged skin after application of vernix caseosa (VC). VC was selected as its wound healing properties were suggested previously, but never clearly demonstrated. Five different levels of barrier disruption in mice, accomplished by tape-stripping, were ...