Background and objectives: Our aim is to determine the diagnostic performance and utility of Diffusion Weighted MR Imaging (DWI) against the routine Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for the evaluation of patients with tendon injuries of the ankle and...
Purpose: To investigate the diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) findings and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value of the thymus in children under the age of 13 who have non-thymic neoplasms. Materials and Methods: From January 2021 to April 2023,...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a widespread and expensive problem globally. The standard diagnostic workup for new TBI includes obtaining a noncontrast computed tomography image of the head, which provides quick information on operative pathologies....
We aimed to use quantitative values derived from perfusion and diffusion-weighted MR imaging (PWI and DWI) to differentiate radiation-induced necrosis (RIN) from tumor recurrence in Glioblastoma (GBM) and investigate the best parameters for improved...
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become the gold standard for evaluating brain injury and development in newborn infants, providing structural, metabolic, and functional information without ionizing radiation. This review comprehensively examines...
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most malignant brain tumor in adults, with a dismal prognosis despite aggressive multi-modal therapy. Immunotherapy is currently being evaluated as an alternate treatment modality for recurrent GBMs in clinical trials. These...
Oesophageal cancer remains a significant global health burden with poor survival outcomes despite multimodal treatment. Recent advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have opened opportunities to improve radiotherapy delivery. This review examin...
The aim of this study is to investigate the possibility of predicting histological grade in patients with endometrial cancer on the basis of intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM)-related histogram analysis parameters. This prospective study included 52...
Background: Strong correlation has been reported between tissue water diffusivity and tissue elasticity in the liver. The purpose of this study is to explore the capability of diffusion–based virtual MR elastography (VMRE) in the characterization of...
We aimed to evaluate the outcome of the disappearance or small remnants of colorectal liver metastases during first-line chemotherapy assessed by hepatobiliary contrast-enhanced and diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DW-MRI). Consecutive patients with at...
Background and objectives: The aim of the study was to assess whether there were differences between apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and diffusion-weighted imaging with background body signal suppressio...
This study evaluated the hypothesis that 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET SUV, obtained via an advanced DL approach, correlates better with MR ADC maps than values from conventional PET-MR. Additionally, we aimed to identify the optimal SUV threshold for maximum cor...
Accurate segmentation of cardiac MR images using deep neural networks is crucial for cardiac disease diagnosis and treatment planning, as it provides quantitative insights into heart anatomy and function. However, achieving high segmentation accuracy...
Despite advances in surgical and medical treatment of glioblastoma (GBM), the medium survival is about 15 months and varies significantly, with occasional longer survivors and individuals whose tumours show a significant response to therapy with resp...
The aim was to explore the performance of dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI and diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) in differentiating the molecular subtypes of adult-type gliomas. A multicenter MRI study with standardized imaging protocols, including...
Objectives: To explore the potential of Radiomics alone and in combination with a diffusion-weighted derived quantitative parameter, namely the apparent diffusion co-efficient (ADC), using supervised classification algorithms in the prediction of out...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a combination of developmental anomalies that causes social and behavioral impairments, affecting around 2% of US children. Common symptoms include difficulties in communications, interactions, and behavioral disabil...
Histopathologically, uveal melanomas (UMs) can be classified as spindle cell, mixed cell and epithelioid cell type, with the latter having a more severe prognosis. The aim of our study was to assess the correlation between the apparent diffusion coef...
Objectives: This study evaluated the utility of adaptive complex signal average (ACSA) diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) specifically in breath-hold (BH) liver imaging, with a focus on signal intensity (SI) improvement, intrahepatic signal homogeneity...
Background: Magnetic resonance relaxometry (MRR) offers highly reproducible pixel-wise parametric maps of T1 and T2 relaxation times, reflecting specific tissue properties, while diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI) is a promising technique for the charact...
Background/Objectives: The non-invasive identification of glioma subtypes is useful for initial diagnosis, treatment planning, and follow-up. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) and dynamic contra...
Background: Patients with locally-advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) have variable responses to (chemo)radiotherapy. A reliable prediction of outcomes allows for enhancing treatment efficacy and follow-up monitoring. Methods: Fift...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer related death worldwide. Radiology has traditionally played a central role in HCC management, ranging from screening of high-risk patients to non-invasive diagnosis, as well as the...
Apparent diffusion coefficient has limits to differentiate solid tumor from normal tissue or edema in glioblastoma (GBM). This study investigated a microstructure model (MSM) in GBM using a clinically available diffusion imaging technique. The MSM wa...
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a malignant brain tumor exhibiting rapid and infiltrative growth, with less than 10% of patients surviving over 5 years, despite aggressive and multimodal treatments. The poor prognosis and the lack of effective pharmacological...
Background: Microwave ablation (MWA) is an effective, minimally invasive therapy for benign thyroid nodules; however, the treatment response varies considerably. Identifying imaging biomarkers that can predict volumetric outcomes may optimize patient...
This review focuses on the role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract (GI MRI), analyzing the major technical advances achieved in this field, such as diffusion-weighted imaging, molecular imaging, motili...
Objective: The assessment of the usefulness of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) when qualifying patients with uterine fibroids (UFs) for magnetic resonance-guided high-intensity ultrasound (MR-HIFU). Material and methods...
Clinico-radiological presentation of granulomatous prostatitis (GP) is quite similar to cancer, and differential diagnosis can be very challenging. The study aims to highlight GP features based on clinical findings and multiparametric magnetic resona...
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has the potential to serve as a biomarker for Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, the type or types of biomarker it could provide remain to be determined. At this time there is not sufficient sensitivity or specificity...
The study aimed to assess central nervous systems in children diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), using the techniques of magnetic resonance (MRI). The analyses considered 200 children, both female and male, aged 6–17 years,...
Background: Brachial plexopathies comprise a diverse array of illnesses with multifactorial etiologies, including trauma, inflammation, neoplasia, and iatrogenic damage, frequently manifesting with nonspecific clinical symptoms. Precise and prompt im...
This paper reports a first application of diffusion tensor imaging with corrections by using the B-matrix spatial distribution method (BSD-DTI) for peripheral artery disease (PAD) detected in the changes of diffusion tensor parameters (DTPs). A 76-ye...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a severe illness imposing an increasing social and economic burden worldwide. Numerous rodent models have been developed to investigate the pathophysiology of MDD. One of the best characterized and most widely used...
Background: We compared the efficiency of two MRI diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) techniques: DWI with SPIR (DWISPIR) and DWI with STIR (DWISTIR), to estimate their eligibility for quantitative assessment of Crohn’s disease activity in childre...
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), especially deep learning (DL), have facilitated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data analysis, enabling AI-assisted medical image diagnoses and prognoses. However, most of the DL models are considered as &ld...
In recent years, various quantitative and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences have been developed and used in clinical practice for the diagnosis of patients with low back pain (LBP). Until now, T2-weighted imaging (T2WI), a visual...
Objectives: This study aimed to investigate whether apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of malignant breast lesions presenting as non-mass enhancement (NME) are associated with the Ki-67 proliferation index. Materials and Methods: This retros...
In recent years, MRI-guided radiotherapy (MRgRT) has taken an increasingly important position in image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers superior soft tissue contrast in anatomical imaging compared to computed tomogr...
(1) Background: For the peripheral zone of the prostate, diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) is the most important MRI technique; however, a high b-value image (hbDWI) must always be evaluated in conjunction with an apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC)...
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Tractography based on multishell diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) can be used to estimate the course of myelinated white matter tracts and nerves, yielding valuable information regarding normal anatomy and variability. DWI is sensi...
Ischemic stroke is a significant public health concern, with its incidence expected to double over the next 40 years, particularly among individuals over 75 years old. Previous studies, such as the DAWN trial, have highlighted the importance of corre...
Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a common occurrence around the world, associated with a variety of blunt force and torsion injuries affecting all age groups. Most never reach medical attention, and the identification of acute injury and later c...
Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain tumor with a propensity for intracranial recurrence. We hypothesized that tumors can be visualized with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) before they are detected on anatomical magnetic resonance (MR) images. We retro...
Magnetic-resonance (MR) imaging is the modality of choice for the evaluation of spinal-cord lesions. However, challenges persist in discriminating demyelinating processes from neoplastic lesions using conventional MR sequences. Consequently, an invas...
MR imaging provides excellent spatial and contrast resolution to stage locally advanced vulvar cancer (LAVC) for tumor and nodal evaluation in order to facilitate the planning of treatment. Although there are no standard indications for how to estima...
Gliomas are a significant health problem with a lot of imaging challenges. The role of imaging is no longer limited to only providing anatomic details, but with the advancement of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques, it now permits the assess...
Objective: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (18F-FDG PET/MR) in the preoperative staging of hypopharyngeal cancer (HPC), compare it with conventional enha...
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and magnetization transfer (MT) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can help detect spinal cord pathology, and tract-specific analysis of their parameters, such as fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity, axial diffus...
Breast MR is the most sensitive imaging modality, but there are cases of malignant tumors that are not detected in MR. This study evaluated the frequency and main causes of malignant breast lesions not detected in dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MR....
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