The abdomen and pelvis present an ensemble of problems for MR imaging. 1. There is a problem of contrast; there are an almost infinite variety of disease processes that can occur in the abdomen/pelvis, and no one sequence is ideal for all. 2. There is the problem of signal-to-noise and coverage; evaluation of the abdomen/pelvis often requires a large field-of-view 3. There are problems with com...

BACKGROUND Patient support is frequently required during just one part of a procedure (eg the pelvis for the perineal portion of an abdominoperineal resection of the rectum). This is commonly achieved by placing a gel patient positioner underneath the pelvis. However, this positioner can remain in place for a long time and we had noticed that patients complained occasionally of back pain after ...

Magnetic resonance imaging has been successfully used to demonstrate a variety of primary diseases in the pelvis. There has been a particular emphasis on benign and malignant gynaecological tumours (1-3). MRI has considerable potential in the detection of recurrent and metastatic malignant disease of all kinds of the pelvis in both male and female patients. Fifteen patients with previously trea...

introduction: delivering maximum dose to tumor and minimum dose to normal tissues is the most important goal in radiotherapy. according to icru, the maximum acceptable uncertainty in the delivered dose compared to the prescribed dose should be lower than 5%, and this is because of the relationship between absorbed dose, tumor control and normal tissue damage. absorbed dose accuracy is investiga...

introduction uterine leiomyomas are the most common benign solid tumors of the female pelvis. retroperitoneal myomas are extremely rare and usually malignant with the common location being in the pelvis. case presentation our case involved a woman who was suffering from dysparonia and radiculating right pelvic pain. the pelvic examination revealed a palpable tender mass of about 3-4 cm in size ...