Inexpensive Limited sensitivity, particularly in dense breasts ULTRASOUND Targeted ultrasound very useful for palpable Widespread availability Limited specificity, particularly screening or mammographic findings Good sensitivity Very operator dependent Delineates cystic from solid, and many benign Inexpensive solid abnormalities from malignancies Screening ultrasound controversial due to low po...

Background High-dose dobutamine-stress magnetic resonance (DSMR) and late gadolinium enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance (LGE-CMR) imaging are well established for the detection of significant cardiovascular disease (CAD) and infarction for cylindrical 1.5 T or 3T. Due to the narrow bore, patients (pts) with obesity or claustrophobia usually cannot be studied with conventional MRI scanners. 1.0...

INTRODUCTION: Real-time MRI is indispensable for visualizing fast-evolving processes such as cardiac function. Successful real-time operation also imposes stiff requirements on software and hardware, including the need for efficient pulse sequences, optimized reconstruction routines, tight synchronization between software and scanner, high-speed low-latency data transfer, and an interactive use...

Background. One of the life-threatening diseases among patients with a single kidney is acute purulent pyelonephritis (APP). The disease accompanied by oliguria or anuria and in many cases comes development multiple organ dysfunction. Objectives. To present features clinical manifestations APP solitary kidney, results laboratory examination, role imaging methods (USG, MRI contrast-enhanced CT) ...

OBJECTIVE Anecdotal evidence suggests that MRI frequently underestimates the size of cartilage defects when compared with final lesion size after debridement of all degenerated tissue. This has potential implications for the choice of cartilage repair technique since most treatment algorithms are primarily driven by defect size. We conducted an investigation comparing size estimates based on pr...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is nowadays widely used in medicine for diagnostic imaging and in research studies. The modeling of the human vocal tract acoustics has recently attracted considerable interest. This paper describes the design, realization and first MR scan experiments with a new head probe coil for vocal tract imaging in the open-air MRI equipment working in a weak magnetic fie...

BACKGROUND Adalimumab was effective in treating patients with nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis (nr-axSpA) in the 12-week ABILITY-1 trial. We present long-term efficacy and safety results of adalimumab from the open-label ABILITY-1 extension, including the relationship between clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) remission and impact of sustained clinical remission on physical fu...

Thoracic disk herniation comprises 0.15% of all disk herniation and has various and confusing manifestations.  Among them, radicular pain down the leg could be the rarest presentation, especially if it is the only complaint. On the other hand, finding the relationship between clinical and paraclinical needs require high index of suspension and it is demanding. A 34-year-old patient, who ha...

BACKGROUND This study assessed inflammatory changes using ultrasound (US) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients taking tocilizumab for polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). METHODS Eighteen patients were included in the prospective open-label TENOR study and received three tocilizumab infusions, without corticosteroids. B-mode and power Doppler US and MRI (T1 and T2-short time inversion re...