Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common inflammatory arthropathy worldwide, but may be less prevalent in Asian populations causing pain, swelling, stiffness, and loss of function in joints. The spectrum of magnetic resonance imaging findings encountered in the musculoskeletal system in this disease but these images often found non-productive due to noise present in the image and creates tr...

PURPOSE To develop a 4-dimensional computerized magnetic resonance imaging phantom with image textures extracted from real patient scans for liver motion studies. METHODS The proposed phantom was developed based on the current version of 4-dimensional extended cardiac-torso computerized phantom and a clinical magnetic resonance scan. Initially, the extended cardiac-torso phantom was voxelized...

Magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM) makes use of the spectroscopic nature of magnetic resonance to add unambiguous elemental selectivity to scanning probe microscopy. We show isotopic selectivity of MRFM for three nuclei, (1)H, (31)P, and (13)C, in organic materials. We also detect a roughly 1 nm thick layer of naturally occurring adsorbates on a gold surface by measuring the magnetic re...

early detection of breast cancer is the most effective way to improve the survival rate in women. magnetic resonance imaging (mri) offers high spatial resolution and good anatomic details, and its lower sensitivity can be improved by using targeted molecular imaging. in this study, as1411 aptamer was conjugated to fe3o4@au nanoparticles for specific targeting of 4t1 cells that overexpress nucle...

abiotrophia defectiva was previously known as a member of the nutritionally variant streptococcus (nvs). this microorganism is a member of the normal flora of mouth, urogenital and intestinal tracts. it causes various infections such as bacteriemia, brain abscess, septic arthritis and rarely infective endocarditis. only < 1% of all cases of endocarditis are caused by a. defectiva. a 23 year old...

Total variation was recently introduced in many different magnetic resonance imaging applications. The assumption of total variation is that images consist of areas, which are piecewise constant. However, in many practical magnetic resonance imaging situations, this assumption is not valid due to the inhomogeneities of the exciting B1 field and the receive coils. This work introduces the new co...

Most of the existing research in medical image segmentation has focused on magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography (CT). Much less work has been done in the segmentation of X-ray images. Nevertheless, medical specialists often examine X-rays images of spinal columns to determine the presence of abnormalities or dysfunctions and to analyse the vertebral mobility. To help them to establis...

Purpose: To assess the relationship between the severity of coronary arteries involvement and the extent and pattern of myocardial scars in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance of patients with history of remote myocardial infarction. Materials and Methods: The Cardiac Magnetic Resonance images of sixty patients with history of remote ST segment or non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction were ...