conclusions our results have shown that indirect mr arthrography had greater diagnostic accuracy in regards to the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values than conventional mri in knee pathologies. results in all of the pathologies studied, the sensitivity, specificity, and the positive and negative predictive values were evaluated. a high rate of accuracy was foun...

two new potential magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents, gd-hematoporphyrin (gd-h) and gd-tetra-carboranylmethoxyphenyl-porphyrin (gd tcp), were synthesized and applied to nude mice with human melanoma (mm 138) xenografts. these agents showed a high relaxivity because of their greater potential to coordinate water molecules. the reduction of t1 relaxation times of 16 and 21% was observed i...

Göç, paralel metasezgisel optimizasyon algoritmalarının başarılı sonuçlar üretmesini sağlayan başlıca işlem adımıdır. Göç parametreleri olan göç oranı (MR) ve aralığının (MI) doğru olarak belirlenmesi algoritmanın başarısını etkiler. Bu nedenle parametrelerinin değerlerinin üzerine yapılacak çalışmalar önemlidir. çalışmada, MR MI değerleri, yanıt yüzeyi yöntemlerinden biri merkezi kompozit tasa...

Objective(s): To investigate the effects of paeoniflorin (PEF) on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis feedback function of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). cSingle-prolonged stress (SPS) was used to establish a PTSD-like rat model. The contents of plasma corticosterone (CORT), adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH) and cortic...

breast cancer is a major public health problem for women in the iran and many other parts of the world. dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (dce-mri) plays a pivotal role in breast cancer care, including detection, diagnosis, and treatment monitoring. but segmentation of these images which is seriously affected by intensity inhomogeneities created by radio-frequency coils, is a...

breast lesion segmentation in mr images is one of the most important parts of clinical diagnostic tools. pixel classification methods have been frequently used in image segmentation with two supervised and unsupervised approaches up to now. supervised segmentation methods lead to high accuracy, but they need a large amount of labeled data, which is hard, expensive, and slow to be obtained. on t...

Mental retardation (MR) is one of the most frequently found major genetic disorders around the world, affecting 1-3% of the people in the general population. The recent advancement in molecular biology and cytogenetic study has made possible the identification of new genes for a variety of genetic disorders including autosomal recessive MR. Recessive genetic disorders are common in Pakistan due...

OBJECTIVE This review is a primer on the technical aspects of performing a high-quality MRI and MR spectroscopic imaging examination of the prostate. CONCLUSION MRI and MR spectroscopic imaging are useful tools in the localization, staging, and functional assessment of prostate cancer. Performing a high-quality MR spectroscopic examination requires understanding of the technical aspects and l...