background and purpose: disc herniation leading to radiculopathy is one of the important differential diagnosis of low back pain which needs specific medical care. radiculopathies can be initially diagnosed by history taking and physical examination. however role of other diagnostic methods like magnetic resonance imaging (mri) and electromyography (emg) in narrowing differential diagnosis is w...

abstract background cerebral neoplasm arises from brain, spinal cord and meningeal cells. not only malignant cerebral neoplasm also benign tumor could lead to death due to mass effect on vital structures. access to these tumors is difficult, and mri and ct scan could be helpful in determining anatomical location of tumors and distinction of malignant from benign. objective for better and earlie...

conclusions our results have shown that indirect mr arthrography had greater diagnostic accuracy in regards to the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values than conventional mri in knee pathologies. results in all of the pathologies studied, the sensitivity, specificity, and the positive and negative predictive values were evaluated. a high rate of accuracy was foun...

background: accurate brain tissue segmentation from magnetic resonance (mr) images is an important step in analysis of cerebral images. there are software packages which are used for brain segmentation. these packages usually contain a set of skull stripping, intensity non-uniformity (bias) correction and segmentation routines. thus, assessment of the quality of the segmented gray matter (gm), ...

background: the rationale was to develop an ablation approach to destroy regions of tumor resistant to radiation and thus reduce the time required for whole tumor ablation, while improving overall tumor control after radiotherapy. materials and methods: the system is composed of a micro positron emission tomography (mpet), 7t magnetic resonance imaging (mri), and a customized mri-compatible foc...