background: magnetic resonance cholangiography (mrc) has gained popularity for diagnosing primary sclerosing cholangitis (psc). we determined the accuracy of mrc compared with endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (erc) for diagnosing psc. materials and methods: this retrospective case-control study was conducted on patients referred to an outpatient gastroenterology clinic from 2001 to 2013. p...

inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (imt) in the spine or paraspinal area is extremely rare. here, we report a rare case of a 56-year-old man who had pathological-proven spinal epidural imt showing a malignancy-like infiltrative feature on mr imaging with alteration of t2 signal intensity on follow-up from slightly high to low compared with initial mr imaging. to the best of our knowledge, this ...

background studies show that a large proportion of healthcare offered may be inappropriate or unnecessary. magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is a new and expensive diagnostic technology which has been increasingly used all over the world. moreover, this trend has been more rapidly increasing in iran. low back pain is a common disorder all over the world and mri technique is one of the several wa...

conclusions ti is an important parameter to consider in the relationship between si and nanoparticle concentrations. an increase in ti leads to a decrease in the range of linearity. results the results indicate that si depended on the concentration of nanoparticles and ti. in addition, si increased by increasing the tis ranging from 200 to 400 ms for all studied concentrations. the linear relat...

introduction as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) is too expensive and time consuming, its frequent implementation is difficult. the aim of this study is to evaluate repeatability of detecting visual cortex activity in fmri. materials and methods in this study, 15 normal volunteers (10 female, 5 male; mean age±sd: 24.7±3.8 years) attended. functional magnetic resonance images were ob...

background: back pain is a common patients' complaint, and its etiology is important because of different potential treatment approaches (based on causes). for a better diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is widely used in clinical settings that may result in inappropriate requests. this study aims to evaluate the appropriateness of the lumbosacral mri requests in patients with back pai...

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background and aims. although salivary gland tumors are not very common, early diagnosis and treatment is crucial because of their proximity to vital organs, and therefore, determining the efficacy of new imaging procedures becomes important. this study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of magnetic resonance imaging (mri) and color doppler ultrasonography parameters in the diagnosis and differenti...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: thalassemia is an inherited disorder in which repeated blood transfusion is needed. this causes accumulation of iron in various organs. silymarin is a natural medicinal plant that has been used for centuries in the treatment of liver depositions. in this study, magnetic resonance imaging (mri) of liver, which h...

background:  nowadays mri examinations have been widely used in clinical applications for many diagnoses. the use of contrast agent in mri improves lesion detection and characterization and causes more accurate diagnosis.  objectives: the aim of this study was comparing to optimal dose of magnevist contrast agent in modified t1w se (spin echo), t1w fse (fast spin echo) and t1w gre (gradient ech...