OBJECTIVE In this study, the prevalence of abnormalities in the cervical spine of asymptomatic professional rugby players using both static and dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in order to improve the detection of abnormalities and prevention of related injuries was investigated. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING French professional rugby union clubs, between 2002 and ...

Aim: To assess the role of Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and pelvic organ prolapse quantification (POPQ) system in the evaluation of female pelvic organ prolapse. Design: Prospective study. Setting: Tanta University Hospital. Patients: The study was carried out on 60 patients having clinical manifestations suggesting pelvic floor weakness. Intervention: All the patients were subjected to his...

Introduction: Achieving high spatio-temporal resolutions in dynamic MRI (DMRI) (eg. myocardial perfusion MRI) is often challenging due to the slow nature of MR acquisitions. Recently, several schemes that exploit the low-rank property of dynamic datasets were introduced to accelerate dynamic MRI [eg: 1-3]. These methods exploit the similarity of the voxel time profiles (intensity variations as ...

Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MP-MRI) has emerged as a promising method for the detection of prostate cancer. The functional MRI components of the MP-MRI consist of the diffusion weighted MRI, dynamic contrast enhanced MRI, and magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging. The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature about the use of functional MRI in prostate cancer...

UNLABELLED Bladder cancer is the ninth most common cancer diagnosis worldwide. Early detection of bladder cancer is important, since up to 47% of bladder cancer-related deaths might be avoided. AIM To show our experience in determining the staging of bladder cancer with multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), making comparison of stage accuracy with cont...

BACKGROUND Mammography is the most widely used method of breast imaging. However, its low sensitivity poses a problem. Breast MRI is one of so the called "complementary" breast imaging methods. The purpose of this study was to improve the specificity of breast MRI by combining 2 methods: dynamic and morphologic analysis of enhancing lesions. MATERIAL/METHODS 222 women aged 19-76 years, who un...

Static anatomical and real-time dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (RT-MRI) of the upper airway is a valuable method for studying speech production in research and clinical settings. The test-retest repeatability of quantitative imaging biomarkers is an important parameter, since it limits the effect sizes and intragroup differences that can be studied. Therefore, this study aims to present a f...

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...

BACKGROUND Cervical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold standard exam in the assessment of patients affected by cervical myelopathy and is very useful in planning the operation. Herein we present a series of patients affected by long tract symptoms who underwent dynamic MRI in addition to the static exam. METHODS In the period between March 2010 and March 2012, three-hundred-ten pati...

conclusion our study suggests that breast mri findings of igm have a wide spectrum. rim enhancement patterns are frequently seen on contrast enhanced images, but the imaging findings are nonspecific and cannot be used definitively to distinguish between benign and malignant lesions. patients and methods a retrospective analysis was conducted on 20 patients with igm who had been diagnosed by nee...