Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is widely used in protocols for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the female pelvis. It provides functional and structural information about biological tissues, without the use of ionizing radiation or intravenous administration of contrast medium. High signal intensity on DWI with simultaneous low signal intensity on apparent diffusion coefficient maps is usu...

Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and tractography allow the non-invasive study of anatomical brain connectivity. However, a gold standard for validating tractography of complex connections is lacking. Using the porcine brain as a highly gyrated brain model, we quantitatively and qualitatively assessed the anatomical validity and reproducibility of in vitro multi-fiber probabilistic tractography...

OBJECTIVE To determine the diagnostic accuracy of Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DWMRI) in the detection of myometrial invasion in endometrial cancer taking histopathology as gold standard. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional validation study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Radiology, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, from January to December 2012. METHODOLOGY...

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) provides qualitative and quantitative information about the random motion of water molecules in biological tissues and is able to give functional insight into tissue architecture and pathological changes on a cellular level. This technique has the major advantages of not requiring the administration of contrast agents and not exposing the pati...

We hypothesized that pretreatment magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and perfusion-weighted imaging (PWI) lesion volumes may have influenced clinical response to thrombolysis in the Echoplanar Imaging Thrombolytic Evaluation Trial (EPITHET). In 98 patients randomized to intravenous (IV) tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) or placebo 3 to 6 h after stroke onset, we ...

Recent years have seen major advances in the imaging of cerebrovascular disease. Although quantitative positron emission tomography (PET) has continued to be the gold standard in acquiring functional imaging data, with recent developments continuing to bear fruit, it remains a complex, costly, and not readily available technique. The emphasis in this overview is in the development of the newer ...

Motion and deformation are common in prostate diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) during acquisition. These misalignments lead to errors in estimating an apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) map fitted with DWI. To address this problem, we propose an image registration algorithm to align the prostate DWI and improve ADC map. First, we apply affine transformation to DWI to correc...

Diffusion-weighted imaging(DWI)has revealed the reversal ofoften sizeable damage due to brainstem lesions in patients treated within 4.5 hours, and this reversibility of damage was strongly associated with early neurological improvement.1 In posterior circulation stroke, the reversibility of damage due to aDWI-detected lesion ispoorlydocumentedafter intravenous thrombolysis2 or intraarterial th...

Objective: The aim of our study is to investigate probable differences between the incidence target sign detected by diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values metastases hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC).
 Materials Methods: A total 155 lesions obtained from 57 (female/male: 18/39) patients were included in study. Dimensions lesions, ...

The advantage of the higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (3-Tesla) has the possibility of contributing to the improvement of high spatial resolution without causing image deterioration. In this study, we compared SNR and the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value with 3-Tesla as the condition in the diffusion-weighted image (DWI) parameter of the 1.5-Tes...