BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To prospectively evaluate the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) improvement in diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) of the spine with the use of a newly developed non-Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (non-CPMG) single-shot fast spin-echo (SS-FSE) sequence and its effect on apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurements. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-four patients were enrolled after w...

BACKGROUND The roots of Sophora flavescens (Leguminosae) have been used in East Asian countries as an herbal medicine and a food ingredient for thousands of years. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of S. flavescens fermentation on endotoxin-induced uveitis (EIU) in rats. METHODS EIU was induced in rats via a footpad injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Immediately ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the diagnostic performance of three-dimensional fast spin-echo (3D FSE-Cube) without fat suppression (NFS) for detecting knee lesions, using comparison to 3D FSE-Cube with fat suppression (FS). MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred twenty-four patients who underwent 1.5T knee magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and 25 subsequent arthroscopic surgeries were retrospectively r...

Background: Fat suppressed FSE T2-weighted imaging is an integral part of an MR pelvic examination. However, fat suppression by conventional technique can be degraded by inhomogeneities of the magnetic field. The problem can be exacerbated when a typical large FOV is used for abdominal and pelvic imaging. Techniques that provide fat-suppressed T2-weighted imaging that is insensitive to field in...

The equipment investment scheme evaluation of enterprise is usually multi-objective optimization problem affected by many factors. Among many optimization methods, the common fuzzy matter element is based on the matter-element analysis and combined with the concepts of fuzzy mathematics, which can reflect the subjective fuzzy judgment; the common entropy weight method makes use of the judgment ...

Hesitant fuzzy set (HFS), which can be accurately and perfectly described in terms of the opinions of decision makers, is considered as a powerful tool to express uncertain information in the process of multi-attribute decision making (MADM) problems. The core of the HFS is the hesitant fuzzy element (HFE).This paper developed a method, which using the interval probabilistic hesitant fuzzy elem...

In this paper, we present a new segmentation method for range images consisting of a set of planar cross-sectional contours. Our approach is novel in that it uses fuzzy criteria for grouping primitives and identifying homogeneous regions. We have tried our method with images provided by a structured light sensor. In this case, the image sequence corresponds to the scene profiles obtained with t...

INTRODUCTION Fast spin echo (FSE) sequence [1] has been widely used in various MR applications, which, like other sequences, can suffer from the inhomogeneous B1 at high field. Parallel transmission of RF pulses [2, 3] has been shown to be quite effective in correcting B1 inhomogeneity. However, no FSE application with parallel transmission has been seen in the literature yet primarily due to t...

We compared the image quality of the newly developed ultra-long echo train length (ETL) 3-D fast spin-echo (FSE) and half-Fourier technique, which is performed in less than 3 minutes, with the conventional 3D-FSE imaging technique, which takes 15 minutes, in assessing MR examinations of the inner ear. The new method's images were almost comparable to the conventional 3D-FSE images in depicting ...