Purpose To provide normative data of foveal avascular zone (FAZ) and thickness. Methods In this cross-sectional study both eyes of each normal subject were scanned with optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) for foveal superficial and deep avascular zone (FAZ) and central foveal thickness (CFT) and parafoveal thickness (PFT). Results Out of a total of 224 eyes of 112 volunteers wit...

To quantitate the extent of corpus callosum atrophy in multiple sclerosis, midsagittal corpus callosum areas were determined in 48 controls with normal MR scans and 41 patients with definite multiple sclerosis. The mean midsagittal corpus callosum area was 601 mm2 (range 405-791), 641 mm2, and 561 mm2 for all adult controls, for adult males, and for adult females, respectively. Control values w...

We discussed the value of biexponential diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in predicting the differentiation degree of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Biexponential DWI was applied to 33 cases of nonkeratinizing NPC, which were classified into differentiated group (14 cases) and undifferentiated group (19 cases). The two groups were compared with respect to DWI parameters (ADCstand, ADCslow, ADCf...

PURPOSE To report our clinical experience and 4-year follow-up results of Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) with the suture pull-through insertion technique. METHODS This is a retrospective study of 195 eyes in which a posterior lamellar keratoplasty was performed between 2007 and 2011. The insertion of a folded donor lenticule was performed with a double-armed 10-...

Background In de novo human atherosclerosis, compensatory vessel enlargement limits the effect of intimal plaque formation on lumen narrowing. We hypothesized that arterial remodeling may also play an important role in determining the chronic lumen size after angioplasty and tested this hypothesis using the hypercholesterolemic rabbit iliac artery angioplasty model. Methods and Results Morphome...

PURPOSE To implement a protocol for intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) of the thyroid, to determine base parameters in healthy volunteers, and to provide preliminary experience on clinical applicability in one patient. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eight healthy volunteers underwent 3T MRI using a diffusion weighted echo-planar imaging sequence with 12 different b-values between 0-800 s/mm2. The IVI...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the capability of intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) to assess steatohepatitis and fibrosis determined by histopathology in type 2 diabetic patients. METHODS Fifty-nine type 2 diabetic patients (49 women, 10 men; mean age, 54 ± 9 years) were submitted to liver biopsy for the evaluation of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and und...

The information gathering capacity of the visual system can be specified in units of bits/mm2. The fall-off in sensitivity of the human visual system at high spatial frequencies allows a reduction in the bits/mm2 needed to specify an image. A variety of compression schemes attempt to achieve a further reduction in the number of bit/mm2 while maintaining perceptual losslessness. This paper makes...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have reported that the signal attenuation of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) for normal breast tissue and tumor were well fitted by a monoexponential and a biexponential function, respectively. The aim of this study was to investigate the optimal b-value to detect breast tumors from DWI signal attenuations. METHODS Sixty-four subjects with breas...