INTRODUCTION: Coronary MR angiography benefits from the favorable motion properties of radial k-space sampling [1-2], which allow reducing scan time by use of longer cardiac acquisition windows [3]. However, recovery of epicardial fat signal during the prolonged data acquisition window may impair image quality as radial trajectories repeatedly sample the center of k-space. Moreover, the effecti...

Introduction: For contrast enhanced imaging, non-contrast sources of bright signal should be reduced. This is commonly achieved by fat suppression. At high field, fat suppression can significantly reduce the number of slices per unit time due to SAR limitations. In addition, the most commonly used gradient echo methods result in very bright signal from inflowing blood. This study evaluates the ...

Introduction With higher intrinsic SNR and background suppression tissue due to longer T1, Breast MRI at 3.0T offers higher spatial resolution and greater contrast enhancement than 1.5T1. However, because greater B0 and B1 inhomogeneity, fat suppression, which is important for optimal lesion conspicuity, becomes more challenging2. While there are three choices of fat suppression (FS) commonly a...

PURPOSE Retinal vein occlusion (RVO) and diabetic retinopathy (DR) are two major sight-threatening diseases which may lead to neovascular glaucoma (NVG). The aim of this study was to explore the association between platelet parameters and NVG. METHODS A total of 185 subjects were enrolled for the study from January, 2012 to December, 2015 at the Eye-ENT Hospital of Fudan University. Patients ...

BACKGROUND Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is characterized by repetitive collapse of the upper airway during sleep. Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) increases platelet activation and has been reported as an independent predictor of adverse outcomes in the general population and is believed to be associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. We evaluated RDW, mean plate...

OBJECTIVES Alteration in platelet morphology and functions are associated with pathological processes and increased risk of vascular complications in patients with diabetes. The purpose of the study was to find the correlation between platelet indices with fasting blood glucose, HbA1c and hs-CRP level in pathogenesis of vascular complications in type 2 diabetic patients. METHODOLOGY The study...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) are chronic inflammatory diseases. Many serum biomarkers have been studied for diagnosis and monitoring of disease activity in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Platelets play an important role in inflammation. The aim of the present study is to determine whether platelet indices; mean platelet volume (MPV), platelet distribut...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship of bone marrow lesions (BMLs) with phenomena such as clinical symptoms, histological subchondral bone damage, and development of osteoarthritis, a reliable and reproducible method to localize and quantify BMLs accurately is indispensable. Therefore, the goal of the current study was to develop and validate a novel semiautomated segmentation method based o...

Conventional approaches for fat and water discrimination based on chemical-shift fat suppression have reduced ability to characterize fatty infiltration due to poor contrast of microscopic fat. The multiecho Dixon approach to water and fat separation has advantages over chemical-shift fat suppression: 1) water and fat images can be acquired in a single breathhold, avoiding misregistration; 2) f...