BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance imaging is an essential tool in the pre-surgical evaluation of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to assess the value of re-imaging patients with focal drug-resistant epilepsy. METHODS Thirty patients with negative or non-conclusive 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging were rescanned with 1.5T and 3T. All of them had previous 1.5 scans...

We describe a study of high-energy Compton beam polarimeters for the future ee linear collider machine TESLA. A segment of the beam delivery system has been identified, which is aligned with the ee collision axis and which has a suitable configuration for high-quality beam polarization measurements. The laser envisaged for the polarimeter is similar to an existing facility at DESY. It delivers ...

Background: Hydatidosis it is a zoonotic disease which is caused by the larval stages of different species of the tapeworms (Cestoda) of genus Echinococcus. Currently, the surgery is most definitive method of treatment for Hydatid Cyst, but always there is the risk of leakage or rupture during the surgery, therefore it is considered unreliable method. Methods: Protoscoleces of hydatid cysts we...

It is sometimes difficult to confirm the location of a microadenoma in Cushing disease. Recently, we experienced an 11-yr-old female case of Cushing disease with hyperprolactinemia. She was referred to our hospital because of decrease of height velocity with body weight gain. On admission, she had typical symptoms of Cushing syndrome. Although no pituitary microadenomas were detected on 1.5 Tes...

Introduction Whole-brain FLAIR is a requirement for most routine clinical neuroimaging. Traditional techniques employ a two-dimensional inversion-recovery turbo spin echo (2D IR-TSE) pulse sequence with the inversion time (TI) chosen to null CSF signal. However, at 7 Tesla (T) and higher whole-brain FLAIR using traditional techniques has not been feasible in an acceptable scan time. The traditi...

Purpose: Generally, high-resolution MRI of the eye is performed with small loop surface coils. The purpose of this phantom and patient study was to investigate the influence of magnetic field strength and receiver coils on image quality in ocular MRI. Materials and Methods: The eyeball and the complex geometry of the facial bone were simulated by a skull phantom with swine eyes. MR images were ...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) myocardial perfusion imaging has the potential to evolve into a method allowing full quantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF) in clinical routine. Multiple quantification pathways have been proposed. However at present it remains unclear which algorithm is the most accurate. An isolated perfused, magnetic resonance (MR) compatible pig hear...

Recent advances in MRI and increasing knowledge on the characterization and anatomical variability of medial temporal lobe (MTL) anatomy have paved the way for more specific subdivisions of the MTL in humans. In addition, recent studies suggest that early changes in many neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases are better detected in smaller subregions of the MTL rather than with whole s...

Tesla turbine and its applications in power generation and fluid flow were demonstrated by Nicholas Tesla in 1913. However, its real-world implementations were limited by the difficulty to maintain laminar flow between rotor disks, transient efficiencies during rotor acceleration, and the lack of other applications that fully utilize the continuous flow outputs. All of the aforementioned limits...

Introduction:  Image  distortion  is  one  of  the  major  problems  of  magnetic  resonance  imaging  (MRI) for use in 3DMRI, velocity MRI, FMRI and radiotherapy treatment planning (RTTP). It is  widely known that the most obvious effect of the inhomogenity of the magnetic fields and the  nonlinearity  of  the  gradient  is  the  Geometric  Distortion  of  MR  tomograms.  In  this  study,  the...