Abstract Background Breast cancer is one of the leading causes female morbidity and mortality. Management options vary between lesions BIRADS categories 3 4. Therefore, reliable differentiation would improve outcome. Although sonomammography contrast-enhanced breast magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI) remain cornerstone for assessment disease, additional, non-invasive techniques can be used to ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There is uncertainty concerning the etiology of transient global amnesia (TGA). Previous CT and MRI studies have indicated that permanent structural abnormality is rare in TGA. Diffusion-weighted (DW) MRI is very sensitive to early ischemic parenchymal changes and has recently demonstrated embolic infarction in the posterior cerebral artery territory in 2 TGA patients. We...

Diffusion tensor imaging (DT-MRI) is very sensitive to corrupting noise due to the non linear relationship between the diffusion-weighted image intensities (DW-MRI) and the resulting diffusion tensor. Denoising is a crucial step to increase the quality of the estimated tensor field. This enhanced quality allows for a better quantification and a better image interpretation. The methods proposed ...

To assess the usefulness of proton MR-spectroscopy (1H-MRS) and diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) sequences in follow-up CLL-patients with chemotherapy treatment.

Objectives: To assess the usefulness of proton MR-spectroscopy (1H-MRS) and diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) sequences in follow-up CLL-patients with chemotherapy treatment. The monitoring susceptible to treatment is complicated due difficulty assessing response Chemotherapy leads changes bone marrow composition these can be evaluated by functional MR-sequences. Methods: 23 patients diagnosed ...

Diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) has become a popular imaging modality for probing the microstructural properties of white matter and comparing them between populations in vivo. However, the contrast in DW-MRI arises from the microscopic random motion of water molecules in brain tissues, which makes it particularly sensitive to macroscopic head motion. Although this has been known since the intr...

Radiotherapy, particularly the target delineation of cancer based on scanned images, plays a key role in the planning of cancer treatment. Recently, diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) has emerged as a prospective superior procedure compared with intensified computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) in the target delineation of cancer. However, the impli...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the diagnostic value of non-echo planar diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) for primary and recurrent/residual (postoperative) cholesteatoma in adults (≥18 years) after canal wall up surgery. DATA SOURCES We conducted a systematic search in PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane up to October 22, 2014. REVIEW METHODS All studies investigating non-echo plana...

A 56-year-old male patient with locally advanced mucinous rectal cancer underwent neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy. Follow-up imaging with positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) revealed a local response to chemoradiotherapy, whereas diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) showed newly presented sacral bone metastasis. Histopathologically confirmed bone metastasis...