PURPOSE To evaluate if the use of BLADE sequences might overcome some limitations of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the extracranial head and neck, which is a diagnostically challenging area with a variety of artifacts and a broad spectrum of potential lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS After informed consent and Institutional Review Board approval, two different BLADE sequences with (BLADE ...

INTRODUCTION The etiology of Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome (THS) is still unknown. The initial standard magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may not be sufficient for diagnosis, so dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI may be necessary to demonstrate the presence of lesions. METHODS Seven patients diagnosed with THS according to the International Headache Society criteria (beta version) were included into the stu...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Mamillary body and fornix asymmetry are frequent findings on MR imaging of the brain. We sought to determine the prevalence of asymmetry of the fornix and mamillary body on MR imaging in patients with or without seizures. MATERIALS AND METHODS MR images were retrospectively evaluated for asymmetry of the mamillary body and fornix in 178 patients who had a history of sei...

The authors report a case of chondroblastoma in the unusual location of the temporal bone. CT findings do not differ dramatically from other reports: the lesion appeared as a soft-tissue density mass in the right temporal bone, with bony destruction and thinning of cortical margins. MR findings are more rare: on coronal T1-weighted images the lesion appeared as a mass, isointense to gray matter...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE An increased incidence of intestinal helminthic infections has been observed in patients with viral encephalitis in endemic areas. Both Japanese B encephalitis (JE) and neurocysticercosis (NCC) share some common socio-demographic and ecologic factors, and pigs act as the intermediate carrier for both. Our purpose was to show the coexistence of JE and NCC in brain on MR im...

Gaining new insights into the anatomy of the human hypothalamus is crucial for the development of new treatment strategies involving functional stereotactic neurosurgery. Here, using anatomical comparisons between histology and magnetic resonance images of the human hypothalamus in the coronal plane, we show that discrete gray and white hypothalamic structures are consistently identifiable by M...

Received 28 August 2014; Received in final form 01 October 2014; Accepted 21 October 2014. Figure 1. (A), Axial T1-weighted image shows diffuse cerebral white-matter abnormalities with frontoparietal subcortical cysts (arrows). (B), Axial FLAIR image exhibits subcortical cysts (arrows) in the anterior temporal lobe intermingled with diffuse whitematter hyperintensity. (C) and (D), Axial T2-weig...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to compare the accuracy of rectal cancer restaging after neoadjuvant therapy with 3D CUBE sequence with 2D T2-weighted fast spin-echo (FSE) sequence. METHODS This retrospective study comprised 72 patients with rectal cancer confirmed by colonoscopy and biopsy. After neoadjuvant therapy, all patients underwent pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination at 1....

The aim of this work is to propose the fully automated pathological area extraction from multi-parametric 2D MR images of brain. The proposed method is based on multi-resolution symmetry analysis and automatic thresholding. The proposed algorithm first detects the presence of pathology and then starts its extraction. T2 images are used for the presence detection and the multi-contrast MRI is us...

Studies of MRI-derived volume of the amygdala have been mostly performed on coronal sections where its boundaries with the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex are indistinct. To date, all reports of in vivo amygdala volume have consistently overestimated the size of the structure. We have developed a method for the MRI-based in vivo measurement of the amygdala volume which allows a better sep...