BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), reduced magnetization transfer ratios (MTRs) have been reported in white matter that appears normal on studies obtained with conventional imaging techniques. The stage in the disease when this first becomes detectable is unclear. The purpose of this study was to measure the MTR of normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) and lesions i...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE MTS is characterized by gliosis and atrophy of the hippocampus and related limbic structures. However, the damage is not limited to those structures with atrophy and has been reported in extratemporal regions. Because volumetric studies are nonspecific, the pathophysiology of the brain damage remains to be solved. MTI is an MR imaging technique more sensitive to subtle ne...

Mean Trophic Rank (MTR), a new British biological macrophyte-based method for assessing trophic status of rivers was applied in Poland in 2000-2001. The occurrence and abundance of 86 aquatic plant species was recorded at 48 sites on 19 rivers in the lowland part of Poland. Forty-six of these species are MTR scoring taxa used in the British system, but another 40 species were recorded of which ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Magnetization transfer (MT) imaging and measurements of the magnetization transfer ratio (MTR) have extended our capability to depict and characterize pathologic changes associated with multiple sclerosis (MS). We wanted to investigate whether the analysis of other MT parameters, such as magnetization transfer rate (k(for)) and relative measure of water content (T1(free))...

OBJECTIVE To improve the characterization of asymptomatic subjects with brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) abnormalities highly suggestive of multiple sclerosis (MS), a condition named as "radiologically isolated syndrome" (RIS). METHODS Quantitative MRI metrics such as brain volumes and magnetization transfer (MT) were assessed in 19 subjects previously classified as RIS, 20 demographica...

Pathological and imaging data indicate that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a multisystem disease involving several cerebral cortical areas. Advanced quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques enable to explore in vivo the volume and microstructure of the cerebral cortex in ALS. We studied with a combined voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and magnetization transfer (MT) imaging...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Quantitative MR imaging techniques allow detection of subtle tissue changes that occur with brain aging beyond the accumulation of WMH and brain atrophy. To what extent sex and cerebrovascular risk factors impact these changes is largely unknown. We attempted to study these risk factors in the context of the community-based ASPS. MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed MTI in...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to inform an evidence-based management policy for oral dysplastic lesions. METHODS Systematic review was performed with meta-analysis. Studies reporting follow-up of patients with histologically confirmed oral dysplasia were included. Outcome measures included malignant transformation rate (MTR) and time to malignant transformation (TMT). Subgroup analysis...

Introduction Magnetization Transfer (MT) imaging is of increasing interest in neuroimaging, yielding important information, e.g. about myelin integrity in the central nervous system [1, 2]. However, a quantitative analysis of the MT ratio (MTR) is affected by several problems, especially at high field strengths: B1 inhomogeneities influence the MT saturation angle, biasing MTR values. High spec...

A large class of maximum-transition-run (MTR) block codes is presented that is based on a novel lowcomplexity enumerative encoding scheme. This new class of MTR codes is obtained by a general design method to construct capacity-efficient MTR codes with predetermined j and k constraints and reduced error propagation at the decoder. Typically, these codes are designed to improve the distance prop...