PURPOSE We compared conventional spin-echo (CSE) with fast spin-echo (FSE) dual-echo MR images to determine which of these sequences was better able to depict spinal cord abnormalities in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS CSE and FSE dual-echo MR images were obtained in 37 patients with MS and in six healthy control subjects, all of whom were examined on a 1.0-T MR unit with a ph...

Constant Modulus Algorithm (CMA), Fractionally-spaced Equalizer (FSE) and Recursive Least Squares (RLS)-CMA are investigated, and a low computational complexity RLS-CMA based on FSE with the simplified cost function of CMA (LRLS-FSE-SCMA) was proposed in this paper. To overcome the instability of RLS-CMA, the cost function of CMA is simplified to meet second norm form and an improved RLS-CMA (R...

INTRODUCTION: MRI with two-dimensional fast spin-echo (2D-FSE) requires multiple acquisition planes because of slice gaps and partial-volume artifacts. Volumetric acquisitions with isotropic resolution overcome these limitations, allowing reformations in arbitrary imaging planes from a single acquisition [1-3]. A 3D isotropic fast spin-echo sequence (3D-FSE-Cube) was compared with conventional ...

it is well known fact that binary relations are generalized mathematical functions. contrary to functions from domain to range, binary relations may assign to each element of domain two or more elements of range. some basic operations on functions such as the inverse and composition are applicable to binary relations as well. depending on the domain or range or both are fuzzy value fuzzy set, i...

In this paper, we define and study fuzzy generalized α-closed sets and r-open sets of a given L-fuzzy topological space and prime element r ∈ P (L) and coprime element α ∈ M(L). The concept of L-fuzzy ropen sets was introduced in [10], and it was proved that all r-open sets for L-fuzzy topological space form a new L-fuzzy topology, which is called stratiform L-fuzzy topology. Making use of the ...

Background Edema-sensitive T2-weighted cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) based on fast spin-echo (FSE) imaging is a useful modality to detect acute myocardial injury. Conventional T2-weighted CMR uses three inversion-recovery (IR) pulses, the first two to null the blood signal, and the last one (STIR) to null fat signal, but suffers from reduced myocardial signal and signal dropout. We compared ...

first we show that the cosets of a fuzzy ideal μ in a bck-algebrax form another bck-algebra  x/μ (called the fuzzy quotient bck-algebra of x by μ). also we show thatx/μ is a fuzzy partition of x and we prove several some isomorphism theorems. moreover we prove that if the associated fuzzy similarity relation of a fuzzy partition p of a commutative bck-algebra iscompatible, then p is a fuzzy quo...

BACKGROUND There appears to be a dearth of published literature on the biopsychosocial predictors of community reintegration (CR) among stroke survivors. This study aims to investigate the clinical and psychosocial predictors of CR among stroke survivors three months post in-hospital discharge. METHODS Fifty-two stroke survivors took part in this prospective exploratory study. The participant...

Fast spin-echo (FSE) pulse sequences enable T2-weighted imaging in a fraction of the time required for T2-weighted conventional spin-echo (CSE) imaging. Due to concerns that the altered contrast characteristics of FSE may interfere with the visualization of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions, the sensitivity of T2-weighted FSE sequences was compared to comparably weighted CSE sequences in the imag...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Echo-planar diffusion-weighted and fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery (FLAIR) imaging have both proved valuable for detecting acute ischemic infarcts, but little is known about the value of diffusion-weighted imaging beyond the acute infarct period. Furthermore, no direct comparison of the techniques has been published. We compared the diagnostic utility of diffusion-wei...