PURPOSE Maps related to relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) were generated with the use of the T1 effects produced by a low-dose bolus passage of gadopentetate dimeglumine. The T1 maps were evaluated in a tumor population and compared with rCBV maps obtained with T2-weighted measurements. METHODS Imaging was performed in 19 patients with suspected intraaxial brain tumors. For the T1 rCBV ma...

Magnetic resonance imaging is the most important diagnostic method in the investigation of the pituitary lesions. Our aim is to determine whether T2-weighted coronal images may be helpful in the evaluation of the pituitary gland with suspected pituitary adenomas. One hundred and sixty-seven patients were examined prospectively with T2-weighted coronal and T1-weighted coronal images enhanced wit...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Patients undergoing parenteral nutrition and those with portosystemic encephalopathy secondary to chronic liver disease and acquired and congenital portosystemic venous shunts frequently present manganese deposition in the basal ganglia, detected by MR imaging as hyperintense areas on T1-weighted sequences. We also observed similar abnormalities in the basal ganglia of pa...

purpose t1wi (t1 weighted image) was acquired in order to grade bone fusion following the studies by fifa (federation internationale de football associations). research using images other than t1wi has not been reported. the aim of this study is to evaluate the grade of epiphyseal fusion by t2* weighted images (t2*wi) and to investigate new findings on t2*wi as compared with t1wi. methods a tot...

Adnexal masses are spectrum of diseases from benign non neoplastic and neoplastic masses to malignant neoplasms. Endovaginal ultrasonography (US) is the fisrt and invaluable modality for assessment of adnexal masses because it is available and has a high negative predictive value. Important morphologic features are solid (vascularized) tissue, vascular and thick septations, and papillary projec...

PURPOSE To minimize feature loss in T1- and T2-weighted MRI by merging multiple MR images acquired at different TR and TE to generate an image with increased dynamic range. MATERIALS AND METHODS High Dynamic Range (HDR) processing techniques from the field of photography were applied to a series of acquired MR images. Specifically, a method to parameterize the algorithm for MRI data was devel...

PURPOSE Our objective was to identify histologically and intraoperatively verified focal nerve thickening of the distal intrameatal segment on three-dimensional fast spin-echo (FSE) T2-weighted MR images as a new diagnostic criterion in patients with inflammatory peripheral facial nerve palsy. METHODS Twenty-two patients with clinically diagnosed unilateral (n = 20) or bilateral (n = 2) infla...

  Background :Inversion recovery (IR) pulse sequences can generate T1-weighted images with a different range of inversion time (TI) to suppress or null the signal intensity (SI) for a specified tissue. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of TI values on the concentration of the contrast agent, which leads to a minimum signal intensity, using an inversion recovery T1-weighted 3-dim...

MRI is routinely used for in vivo detection of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions. Histopathological correlates of MRI signal alterations are still poorly defined. In the present study, we describe a mouse model of MS presenting with inflammatory brain lesions. During the acute disease phase, two independent lesion patterns were identified by T1- and T2-weighted high-resolution 3D MRI: lesions wit...

MR scans were obtained at 0.5 and 1.0 T in 40 patients with 46 intracerebral hematomas categorized as hyperacute (0-2 days), acute (3-7 days), subacute (8-14 days), and chronic (15 days to 6 years). In a retrospective review, the signal intensity of the lesions was compared with that of normal white matter of the brain on spin-density, T1-, and T2-weighted spin-echo and T1-weighted gradient-ech...