Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and is the second leading cause of cancer death (after lung cancer) in people throughout the world. Today, MRI is being used because of the limitations of x-ray mammography to detect breast cancer. Non-contrast sequences were associated to CE sequences in a breast MRI protocol for the sake of appraising morphologic ...

Introduction: In nuclear medicine imaging, detection of the scattered photons along with the primary photons is one of the major problems that can lead to a decrease in ddiagnostic accuracy. Therefore, use of a suitable scatter correction method can help to improve of the image quality and increase of diagnostic accuracy. The aim of this study is evaluation of five energy wind...

Background Tissues within the dipolar field of superparamagnetic contrast agents experience a frequency shift that enables positive contrast MRI with acquisition schemes using on-resonant saturation (Figure 1a,b). The administration of iron oxide based agents enables a plethora of applications using positive contrast MRI. They have been widely explored and mainly focused on lymphography, angiog...

purpose: to compare acrysof iq and sensar intraocular lens (iols) in terms of spherical aberration and contrast sensitivity.  methods: thirty-four eyes of 34 patients undergoing phacoemulsification cataract surgery were randomly assigned for implantation of acrysof iq or sensar iols. three months postoperatively, best-corrected visual acuity (bcva), spherical aberration (with 4 and 6 mm pupil d...

background: mammography is the primary imaging technique for detection and diagnosis of breast cancer; however, the contrast of a mammogram image is often poor, especially for dense and glandular tissues. in these cases the radiologist may miss some diagnostically important microcalcifications. in order to improve diagnosis of cancer correctly, image enhancement technology is often used to enha...

PURPOSE To evaluate visual outcome and the changes of contrast sensitivity (CS) after diffuse lamellar keratitis (DLK). METHODS Using retrospective chart review, 48 eyes of 25 patients who underwent laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) with Visx S4 (VISX Inc., Santa Clara, CA) and M2 (Moria, France) and who were followed for at least six months were included. They were divided into two groups...

Introduction Various experiments have been performed to use MRI to directly detect magnetic fields produced by neuronal currents (termed ncMRI). However, feasibility of ncMRI has not been completely demonstrated due to limited sensitivity of MRI to neuronal currents. To increase the possibility of detecting ncMRI signal, it is necessary to improve the detection method to achieve higher detectio...

in this research genetic and phenotypic parameters were estimated using linear and threshold models, for reproductive traits, data from 6 large industrial dairy herd of east azerbaijan province collected by agriculture jihad organization during 10 years (2001-2010). best linear unbiased predictions of traits breeding values were estimated using restricted maximum likelihood method by wombat sof...