in the recent years, interstitial brachytherapy implantation has become the treatment of choice for early stage prostate cancer patients. treatment of prostate cancer with radiation is traced back to 1909. originally this treatment modality was very crude and could not gain much popularity till 1982. advancements in radioactive source designs, introduction of new low energy radioactive sources,...

in this regards first of all cross sectional anatomy of salivary glands and different diagnostic modalities such as ultrasound, cat scan, conventional mri and nuclear studies will be discussed. advanced mri modality such as dce (dynamic susceptibility enhanced) imaging will be introduced. then various pathologies of salivary glands including infectious, benign and malignant neoplastic processes...

Introduction : Multi-modality imaging is becoming a trend in developing new generation in vivo imaging techniques for diagnosis [1]. MRI is a high resolution imaging modality, while optical imaging provides essential functional information such as oxygen saturation in the diseased tissue. In addition, when the contrast agent is administrated, the sensitivity and specificity for each imaging com...

background penile fracture is a relatively rare urologic emergency. it is defined as traumatic rupture in tunica albuginea of corpus cavernosum. traditionally, surgeon explores the penis in full-length by complete degloving of its skin and repairs any defect in the tunica. imaging modalities such as ultrasound and mri may be of help to reveal the exact site of tunica defect preoperatively for t...