OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of deltoid ligament and distal tibiofibular syndesmosis injury on 3T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with chronic lateral ankle instability (CLAI). MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty patients (mean age, 35 years) who had undergone preoperative 3T MRI and surgical treatment for CLAI were enrolled. The prevalence of deltoid ligament and syndesmosis inj...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Polymicrogyria is a malformation of cortical development that is often identified in children with epilepsy or delayed development. We investigated in vivo the potential of 7T imaging in characterizing polymicrogyria to determine whether additional features could be identified. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ten adult patients with polymicrogyria previously diagnosed by using 3T...

Introduction Due to its exquisite sensitivity, breast MRI is becoming more and more popular for screening high-risk patients and for detecting high-grade ductal carcinoma in situ [1]. While 3T breast imaging yields clear benefits, such as increased SNR, allowing higher temporal or spatial resolution, it also comes with certain drawbacks. Most importantly, complaints about image shading and impr...

We consider a directed acyclic network with three sources and three terminals such that each source independently generates one symbol from a given field F and each terminal wants to receive the sum (over F ) of the source symbols. Each link in the network is considered to be error-free and delay-free and can carry one symbol from the field in each use. We call such a network a 3-source 3-termi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a neurodegenerative disease involving the upper and lower motor neurons. In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, pathologic changes in the primary motor cortex include Betz cell depletion and the presence of reactive iron-loaded microglia, detectable on 7T MR images as atrophy and T2*-hypointensity. Our purposes were the following: 1) to investi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In the early stages of idiopathic Parkinson disease, motor symptoms are usually asymmetric. We aimed to assess the feasibility of nigrosome 1 detection at 3T MR imaging to analyze the agreement of its asymmetry and clinical laterality. MATERIALS AND METHODS High-resolution 3D multiecho imaging was performed at 3T MR imaging in 13 healthy subjects and 24 patients with id...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The prevalence and topography of small hypointense foci suggesting microbleeds on 3T SWI in various types of dementia have not been systematically investigated. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and topography of SHF on 3T SWI in patients with different dementia subtypes. MATERIALS AND METHODS We included 347 consecutive patients (217 women, 130 ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cavernous sinuses and draining dural sinuses or veins are often visualized on 3D TOF MRA images in patients with dural arteriovenous fistulas involving the CS. Flow signals may be seen in the jugular vein and dural sinuses at the skull base on MRA images in healthy participants, however, because of reverse flow. Our purpose was to investigate the prevalence of flow signal...

Real-time cardiac and coronary MRI at 1.5T is relatively "signal starved" and the 3T platform is attractive for its immediate factor of two increase in magnetization. Cardiac imaging at 3T, however, is both subtly and significantly different from imaging at 1.5T because of increased susceptibility artifacts, differences in tissue relaxation, and RF homogeneity issues. New RF excitation and puls...

PURPOSE To characterize the effect of fat on modified Look-Locker inversion recovery (MOLLI) T1 maps of the liver. The balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) sequence causes water and fat signals to have opposite phase when repetition time (TR) = 2.3 msec at 3T. In voxels that contain both fat and water, the MOLLI T1 measurement is influenced by the choice of TR. MATERIALS AND METHODS ...