BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Subdural empyema (SDE), an infection of the subdural space, occurs most often in pediatric patients as a complication of meningitis, sinusitis, or otitis media. Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) has been used in the past to investigate intracerebral infections. The purpose of this study was to determine the signal intensity characteristics of SDE on DWIs as well as the cor...

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the scrotum represents an important supplemental diagnostic tool in the evaluation of scrotal diseases. Diffusion-weighted (DW) MR imaging is a developing technique, proved to improve tissue characterization. We evaluated the feasibility and diagnostic performance of DW MR imaging in the detection and characterization of scrotal lesions. We retrospectively eva...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this work was to evaluate whether diffusion-weighted MR imaging can be used in differentiating residual or recurrent head and neck tumors from postoperative or postradiation changes. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study included 32 patients clinically suspected for recurrent head and neck tumor after surgery (n=3), radiation therapy (n=13), or both (n=16). Di...

OBJECTIVE To propose a new measure for effective monitoring of intraoperative somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) and to validate the feasibility of this measure for evoked potentials (EP) and single trials with a retrospective data analysis study. METHODS The proposed new measure (hereafter, a slope-measure) was defined as the relative slope of the amplitude and latency at each EP peak com...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Does the K-means algorithm do a better job of differentiating benign and malignant neck pathologies compared to only mean ADC? The objective of our study was to analyze the differences between ADC partitions to evaluate whether the K-means technique can be of additional benefit to whole-lesion mean ADC alone in distinguishing benign and malignant neck pathologies. MATER...

Sinusoidal signal can be used as stimulus to test static and dynamic parameters of ADC. A sigma-delta modulation based sinusoidal signal generator for ADC testing in SOC was introduced. The generator was built on the same chip with ADC. A numerical resonator generated a sinusoidal signal which was converted to a single bit stream by a sigma-delta modulator. Due to oversampling, the quantization...

This paper proposes a 1.5 V 12-b CMOS ratio-independent algorithmic analog-to-digital converter (ADC) based on a capacitor-mismatch insensitive technique. A novel switched-capacitor multiplying digital-to-analog converter (MDAC) with an accurate gain of two is proposed for an algorithmic ADC. The proposed MDAC architecture requires only one opamp in four phases to generate the next residue outp...

BACKGROUND Diffusion is a physical process based on the random movement of water molecules known as Brownian movement. Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is a magnetic resonance (MR) technique that provides information about the biophysical properties of tissues such cell organization and density, microstructure and microcirculation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty healthy volunteers and 18 patien...

System-on-a-chip (SOC) requires integration of analog circuits and digital circuits on a single silicon chip to decrease cost, power dissipation, volume and radiant noise from the data bus on the printed circuit board (PCB). For these mixed-signal intergrated circuits, the standard digital CMOS technology is the best choice in view of cost, power dissipation and implementation convenience. The ...

Purpose: To investigate the characteristcs of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) at 3.0T in differentiating prostate cancer and benign prostatic diseases, and to determine the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and normative fractional anisotropy (FA )values of normal prostate tissue. Introduction The feasibility of diffusion tensor imaging of prostate has been confirmed by several studies. Howev...