results stereoscopic displays of the nerves were obtained in all 24 elbows by vr, mip, and fiber tractography post-processing methods. the vr/mip post-processing methods were easier to perform compared to fiber tractography. there was no significant difference among the scores of fiber tracking and vr/mip reconstruction for single direction. the imaging quality scores of fiber tractography and ...

We developed a method of velocity-coded color MR angiography using a color code from the data obtained from velocity-phase images of phase-contrast MR angiography in order to add flow direction information to MR angiograms. Phase-contrast MR angiography with reconstruction of velocity-phase images was performed in 30 patients. Two projection images from velocity-phase images of each phase-contr...

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) sensors have reached an essential position in remote sensing. The images they provide speckle noise, making their processing and analysis challenging tasks. We discuss edge detection method based on the fusion of evidences obtained intensity channels hh, hv, vv PolSAR multilook images. consists detecting transition points thinnest possible range da...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES Needle biopsy is currently the only way to confirm prostate cancer. To increase prostate cancer diagnostic rate, needles are expected to be deployed at suspicious cancer locations. High-contrast magnetic resonance (MR) imaging provides a powerful tool for detecting suspicious cancerous tissues. To do this, MR appearances of cancerous tissue should be characterized and l...

early detection of breast cancer is the most effective way to improve the survival rate in women. magnetic resonance imaging (mri) offers high spatial resolution and good anatomic details, and its lower sensitivity can be improved by using targeted molecular imaging. in this study, as1411 aptamer was conjugated to fe3o4@au nanoparticles for specific targeting of 4t1 cells that overexpress nucle...

PURPOSE To analyze the error in contouring the brainstem for patients with head and neck cancer who underwent radiotherapy (RT) based on computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) images. METHODS 20 patients with brain tumor and 17 patients with nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) were randomly selected. Each patient underwent MR and CT scanning. For each patient, one observer contoured the...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Synthetic MR imaging enables the creation of various contrast-weighted images including double inversion recovery and phase-sensitive inversion recovery from a single MR imaging quantification scan. Here, we assessed whether synthetic MR imaging is suitable for detecting MS plaques. MATERIALS AND METHODS Quantitative and conventional MR imaging data on 12 patients with ...

Introduction: All of the Imaging modalities have advantages and disadvantages alone. So if we want to have the best and perfect image, combining these modalities produces something we desired. PET-MR images consist of morphologic and metabolic data. MRI and PET provide high spatial and contrast resolution and high sensitivity and molecular information respectively. Hybrid PET-...

Cardiac imaging is a promising application for combined PET/MR imaging. However, current MR imaging protocols for whole-body attenuation correction can produce spatial mismatch between PET and MR-derived attenuation data owing to a disparity between the two modalities' imaging speeds. We assessed the feasibility of using a respiration-averaged MR (AMR) method for attenuation correction of cardi...