In Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Image (DW-MRI) processing a 2nd order tensor has been commonly used to approximate the diffusivity function at each lattice point of the DW-MRI data. It is now well known that this 2nd-order approximation fails to approximate complex local tissue structures, such as fibers crossings. In this paper we employ a 4th order symmetric positive semi-definite (P...

High signal in the cerebral cortex and/or basal ganglia on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) has been described as a good diagnostic marker for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD). We report a case of sCJD with atypical clinical evolution and unusual DW-MRI findings. A 53-year-old man was seen with a 2-year history of a rapidly progressive dementia and cerebellar atax...

BACKGROUND Acute rejection (AR) and acute tubular necrosis (ATN) are main causes of early renal allograft dysfunction. Blood oxygen level-dependent magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD MRI) and Diffusion weighted (DW) MRI can provide valuable information about changes of oxygen bioavailability and water diffusion by measuring R2* or apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) respectively. We aimed to det...

Prostate cancer represents 11% of all cancers in the European Union and 9% of all cancer deaths. Standard MRI for prostate cancer includes high-resolution T2-weighted images, which allow for the assessment of the prostate and the tumour, as tumours arising from the peripheral zone appear dark compared to the expected normally bright peripheral gland tissue. Over the past number of years, the ap...

PURPOSE To assess the optimal b-values range for perfusion-insensitive apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) imaging of abdominal organs using short-duration DW-MRI acquisitions with currently available ADC estimation methods. METHODS DW-MRI data of 15 subjects were acquired with eight b-values in the range of 5-800 s∕mm(2). The reference-standard, a perfusion insensitive, ADC value (ADC(IVIM)...

INTRODUCTION Preoperative staging of bladder cancer using imaging methods has serious limitations. The accuracy of the abdominal diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance (DW-MRI) to predict residual muscle invasion, perivesical and/or lymph node affectation in the cystectomy specimen is evaluated. MATERIAL AND METHODS A prospective study was performed on 20 patients with high grade muscle invasi...

Epidermoid cysts are intradermal lesions that are frequently asymptomatic and can be found in any part of the body. The common sites of presentation in descending order of frequency are head, neck, trunk, extremities and the scalp. Here, we present the diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW MRI) and ultrasound (US) findings in a 20 year-old female patient with perineal swelling, diag...

PURPOSE To present the use of a quality control ice-water phantom for diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI). DW-MRI has emerged as an important cancer imaging biomarker candidate for diagnosis and early treatment response assessment. Validating imaging biomarkers through multicenter trials requires calibration and performance testing across sites. MATERIALS AND METHODS The ph...

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a novel imaging technique that reflects microscopic water diffusion using a pair of strong diffusion gradients. It was developed to map the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) (1). Parallel to the development of DW-MRI, there have been advances in Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCEMRI). Using the MRI signal and pharmacokinetic models, p...