PURPOSE This study was to investigate whether high pericardial adipose tissue (PAT) volume is related to the presence and severity of coronary artery disease (CAD). METHODS Consecutive patients (310 patients) who underwent both dual-source 64-slice CT and percutaneous coronary angiography were recruited into this study. Waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI), blood biochemical variab...

Atubular glomeruli (AG) have been described in several renal disorders. However, little attention has been paid to AG in diabetic nephropathy (DN). Preliminary studies suggested that tip lesions were frequently present in type 1 diabetic (D) patients with proteinuria. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of AG and their possible relationship with tip lesions in DN. Renal biopsie...

BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been used to acutely visualize radiofrequency ablation lesions, but its accuracy in predicting chronic lesion size is unknown. The main goal of this study was to characterize different areas of enhancement in late gadolinium enhancement MRI done immediately after ablation to predict acute edema and chronic lesion size. METHODS AND RESULTS In a c...

We previously developed a software package called ABLe (analysis of brain lesions) which characterizes brain lesions in terms of lesion volume and intersection with cytoarchitecture (e.g. Brodmann areas). Since our previous publication, there have been significant improvements to this software package which utilize methods standard to the neuroimaging community. These features include spatial n...

PURPOSE Although stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) is widely used therapeutic technique, predictive factors of radiation pneumonitis (RP) after SABR remain undefined. We aimed to investigate the predictive factors affecting RP in patients with primary or metastatic lung tumors who received SABR. MATERIALS AND METHODS From 2012 to 2015, we reviewed 59 patients with 72 primary or m...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Differentiating between infectious and neoplastic focal brain lesions that are detected by conventional structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be a challenge in routine practice. Brain perfusion-weighted MRI (PWI) may be employed as a complementary non-invasive tool, providing relevant data on hemodynamic parameters, such as the degree of angiogenesis of lesions....

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Functional MR (fMR) imaging with blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) contrast enhancement is increasingly used as a noninvasive tool for presurgical mapping in patients with intracranial tumors. Most physiologic studies of task-related BOLD contrast enhancement have involved healthy volunteers. Therefore, it is not known whether BOLD contrast is evoked in the same way in ...

Background: Diabetic nephropathy is one of the causes of end stage renal diseases (ESRD). Increase of IGF-1(insulin like growth factor) and GH (growth hormone) in diabetes induce kidney lesions especially Intraglomerular mesangial expansion, glomerular sclerosis and finally nephron dysfunction. In this research, IGF-1 and GH production inhibition by octreotide and sclerosis inhibition assessed ...

Analysis of chest CT scans can be used in detecting parts lungs that are affected by infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Determining the volume lesions is essential for formulating treatment recommendations and prioritizing patients severity disease. In this article we adopted an approach based on using ensemble deep convolutional neural networks segmentation slices lung scans. Using our mode...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although cerebral white matter lesions (WMLs), silent infarcts (SIs), and microbleeds (MBs) are individually associated with poorer gait and balance, it is unknown if they interact. We studied the interactions of WML volume with SI and MB on gait and postural stability. METHODS Participants in a population-based study aged 60 to 86 years underwent brain MRI, computerize...