Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer disease, result in cognitive decline and dementia and are a leading cause of mortality in the growing elderly population. These progressive diseases typically have an insidious onset, with overlapping clinical features early in the disease course that make diagnosis challenging. The neurodegenerative diseases are associated with characteristic, alth...

Introduction: A varicocele is the abnormal dilation and tortuosity of venous plexus above the testicles. The pattern of abnormal heat distribution in the scrotum can be detected through thermal imaging, which is a distant, non-contact, and non-invasive method. The aim of the present study is to detect and grade varicocele. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted on 50 patients with high...

ID: 14419 Title: Multi-modality Breast Imaging Systems: Tomo/Ultrasound/Optics, Ultrasound Multimodality Breast Imaging Systems: Tomo/Ultrasound/Optics, Ultrasound/Other Automated 3D ultrasound is being developed extensively to make screening for breast cancer more practical within the US and other medical communities. Ultrasound is sensitive to certain cancers that are not well detected by mam...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the only imaging modality that can deliver information about the molecular structure of an injected compound. Unfortunately, MRI has a relatively low sensitivity compared to other imaging modalities (ultrasound, SPECT, PET), and there is a need to improve the fundamental imaging parameters signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR). Pro...

possible pervasiveness of the effects. Although a gross respiratory change such as a 30-second breath-hold would be unlikely to occur during a conventional fMR imaging experiment, more subtle respiratory changes could accompany some activation paradigms, particularly those with ‘‘surprise’’ components. This could result in MR signal changes secondary to the unanticipated respiratory (or cardiac...