Evaluation of swallowing has been made possible by cine-Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with high time resolution. However, the spatial resolution in cine-MR imaging remains inadequate for the detection of anatomical structures. Therefore, it is necessary to refer to static MR images in conjunction with cine-MR imaging. The aim of this study was to determine which MR parameters were appropriate...

PURPOSE To measure mean blood flow in individual cerebral arteries (carotid, basilar, anterior cerebral, middle cerebral, and posterior cerebral) using a cine phase contrast MR pulse sequence. METHODS Ten healthy volunteers (22 to 38 years of age) were studied. The cine phase-contrast section was positioned perpendicular to the vessel of interest using oblique scanning planes. This pulse sequ...

BACKGROUND Low-dose oral contraceptives (OC) have been reported to control primary dysmenorrhea. Furthermore, a close relationship between dysmenorrhea and uterine contractions has been visualized with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This study aimed to use cine MR to demonstrate the effects of OC on myometrial contractility during menstruation and to associate the findings with dysmenorrhea....

Two interventions to overcome the deleterious impact irregular breathing has on thoracic-abdominal 4D computed tomography (4DCT) are (1) facilitating regular breathing using audiovisual biofeedback (AVB), and (2) prospective respiratory gating of the 4DCT scan based on the real-time respiratory motion. The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of AVB and gating on 4DCT imaging using t...

There is at present no noninvasive method that reliably measures blood flow in the poorly functioning renal allograft. The present study was designed to evaluate phase-contrast cine magnetic resonance imaging (PC-cine-MRI) for this purpose. We recruited for study 18 patients who had received kidney transplants 13-66 months earlier from closely related living donors. As judged by the glomerular ...

Conventional evaluations of tumor tracking algorithms require inter-observer segmentations from radiation oncologists on the Cine-MRI (2D sagittal MR video). Instead performing intensive manual annotations images, we present a 2D video simulator that uses pre-treatment including breathing model, generates Cine-MR images in parallel with underlined segmentation tumor. We include data seven patie...

INTRODUCTION: Simultaneously achieving high spatial and temporal resolution remains a challenge in 3D cardiac cine imaging. Constrained reconstruction promoting the low rank property of dynamic image matrices has been proposed for accelerated dynamic MRI [1,2]. Recently, locally low rank (LLR) constraint was proposed to exploit spatially-varied local rank-deficiency [3]. Moreover, the combinati...

We propose a novel approach for potential online treatment verification using cine EPID (electronic portal imaging device) images for hypofractionated lung radiotherapy based on a machine learning algorithm. Hypofractionated radiotherapy requires high precision. It is essential to effectively monitor the target to ensure that the tumor is within the beam aperture. We modeled the treatment verif...

BACKGROUND Hydrocephalus in cryptococcal meningoencephalitis is most commonly managed with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt. This study applied cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate initial disease severity on long-term cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow dynamics and associated neuropsychological sequelae in cryptococcal meningoencephalitis patients with and without ventriculoperitoneal shu...

UNLABELLED Anatomical cine cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is widely used to assess the systolic cardiac function because of its high soft tissue contrast. Assessment of diastolic LV function has not regularly been performed due the complex and time consuming procedures. This study presents a semi-automated assessment of the left ventricular (LV) diastolic function using anatomi...