OBJECTIVE To determine common imaging findings of hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma on magnetic resonance images. MATERIALS AND METHODS A search was made of three institutional databases between January 2000 and August 2012. Seven patients (mean age, 47 years; range, 21-66 years; 6 women) with pathology-confirmed diagnosis of hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma who had undergone m...

Concurrent hyperthermia and radiation therapy in treatment of cancer show a strong evidence of a synergistic enhancement. We designed a new self-regulating Thermo-Brachytherapy seed, which serves as a source of both radiation and heat for concurrent administration of brachytherapy and hyperthermia. The Thermo-Brachytherapy seed has a core of ferromagnetic material which produces heat when subje...

AIMS Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients often develop left--ventricular subendocardial ischaemia, a cause of chest symptoms, despite normal epicardial coronary arteries. The aim of this study was to examine whether ultrasonic tissue characterization or late gadolinium enhancement on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging can detect subendocardial ischaemia in patients with HCM. METHODS AN...

The contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signal is rarely a direct measure of contrast concentration: rather it depends on the effect that the contrast agent has on the tissue water magnetization. To correctly interpret such studies, an understanding of the effects of water movement on the magnetic resonance (MR) signal is critical. In this review, we discuss how water difhion wit...

Reconnection is the process by which magnetic fields in a conducting fluid change their topology. This process is essential for understanding a wide variety of astrophysical processes, including stellar and galactic dynamos and astrophysical turbulence. To account for solar flares, solar cycles, and the structure of the galactic magnetic field, reconnection must be fast, propagating with a spee...

Chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids (CLIPPERS) is a newly named condition of pontine-centric inflammatory disorder. 1) The cardinal feature of the disease is punctate gadolinium enhancement " peppering " the pons on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The unique MRI features

*Correspondence: Gary E. Stinchcomb, Department of Geosciences, Watershed Studies Institute, Murray State University, 334 Blackburn Hall, Murray, KY 42071, USA e-mail: gstinchcomb@ murraystate.edu Magnetic susceptibility of soils is a common proxy for rainfall, but other factors can contribute to magnetic enhancement in soils. Here we explore influence of centuryto millennial-scale duration of ...

A 77-year-old man showed bilateral abducens palsies and multiple cranial nerve enhancement on magnetic resonance images (MRI) and aseptic meningitis. He had xerophthalmia and xerostomia. Serum anti-SS-A and anti-SS-B antibodies were present. He had Sjögren's syndrome (SjS) and corticosteroid therapy ameliorated the symptoms. The cranial nerve enhancement and the cerebrospinal fluid findings wer...