diffusion weighted imaging uses the signal loss associated with the random thermal motion of water molecules in the presence of magnetic field gradients to derive a number of parameters that reflect the translational mobility of the water molecules in tissues. with a suitable experimental set-up, it is possible to calculate all the elements of the local diffusion tensor (dt) and derived paramet...

magnetic resonance imaging (mri) contrast agents most commonly agents used in diagnosing different diseases. several agents have been ever introduced with different peculiar characteristics. they vary in potency, adverse reaction and other specification, so it is important to select the proper agent in different situations. we conducted a systematic literature search in medline/pubmed, web of s...

background: magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is the standard method for observing brain plaques and contrast material injection is necessary for demonstrating the active plaque.this study compared the rate of enhancement of plaques with gadovist and magnevist in relapse phase of ms. methods: in this double blind study, after neurological examination of 62 patients in the attack phase of ms, two...

background: back pain is a common patients’ complaint, and its etiology is important because of different potential treatment approaches (based on causes). for a better diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is widely used in clinical settings that may result in inappropriate requests. this study aims to evaluate the appropriateness of the lumbosacral mri requests in patients with back pai...

conclusion due to the significant improvement in the treatment of early stage of hcc compared to the previous decade, we suggest a fast, non-invasive, more accurate, but more expensive method (haste, op/ip t1w sequences mri combined with dwi) rather than us for the screening of hcc in liver cirrhosis. results combination of limited sequences mri and dwi had the highest accuracy (94.79%) followe...

background previous studies have proven the development of white matter hyperintensities (wmh) in methamphetamine and opioid users. opiates and methamphetamines (ma) are the most common addictive agents in iran. the adverse effects of drugs on the cns is of concern to specialists and researchers, and given that the neurotoxicity associated with methamphetamine is greater than opioids, it is hyp...

purpose this study was performed to introduce and evaluate the potential of kinematic magnetic resonance imaging (kmri) using a high-field open-magnet magnetic resonance (mr) system. methods we attempted to perform kmri of healthy volunteers’ lumbar spine and knee in the lateral position and ankle in the supine position utilizing the superconducting, horizontally opened, 1.2 t mr system (oasis,...

This paper presents a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based virtual cystoscopy system, which extracts the bladder wall from T1-weighted MR images where the wall is enhanced while the urine and surrounding fat tissues are suppressed by a fully non-invasive imaging procedure. The system analyzes the extracted wall and detects abnormal features automatically. Test results are encouraging by FROC ...