---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the most effective medical imaging modality that have been used for soft tissue imaging, such as brain and muscles. Over the past several years, although the signal-to-noise ratio, resolution and acquisiti...

Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) is becoming a prospective imaging technique in clinical applications because of its potential for in vivo and non-invasive characterization of tissue organization. However, the acquisition of diffusion-weighted images (DWIs) is often corrupted by noise and artifacts, and the intensity of diffusion-weighted signals is weaker than that of class...

ectopic cervical thymus (ect) is an essentially benign condition that is identified during the development of the thymus, and is rare among the adult population. thymic hyperplasia is another thymus-associated condition, which is known to occur secondary to hyperthyroidism. a 39-year-old woman with hyperthyroidism presented with an enlarging submandibular mass, which was diagnosed as a benign h...

purpose: suitable magnetic resonance imaging (mri) techniques from conventional to new devices can help physicians in diagnosis and follow up of multiple sclerosis (ms) patients. the aim of present research was to compare effectiveness of fluid attenuation inversion recovery (flair) sequence of conventional mri and diffuse weighted imaging (dwi) sequence as a new technique in detection of brain...

nowadays, scientific c findings in the field of regeneration of nervous system have revealed the possibility of stem cell based therapies for damaged brain tissue related disorders like stroke. furthermore, to achieve desirable outcomes from cellular therapies, one needs to monitor the migration, engraftment, viability, and also functional fate of transplanted stem cells. magnetic resonance ima...

aim and background: it has since long been known that there is strong relation between   psychological status and functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid). however, until recently, the nature of this putative relationship was unclear due to a lack of non-invasive methods to investigate the neurobiological mechanisms underlying this relationship.  functional brain imaging has provided a meth...

Cardiac diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) is noise sensitive, and the noise can induce numerous systematic errors in subsequent parameter calculations. This paper proposes a sparse representation-based method for denoising cardiac DT-MRI images. The method first generates a dictionary of multiple bases according to the features of the observed image. A segmentation algorithm ...

This paper proposes a new adaptive wavelet-based Magnetic Resonance images denoising algorithm. A Rician distribution for background-noise modelling is introduced and a Maximum-Likelihood method for the parameter estimation procedure is used. Further discrimination between edgeand noise-related coefficients is achieved by updating the shrinkage function along consecutive scales and applying spa...