BACKGROUND Cerebral malaria is a major health hazard, with a high incidence of mortality. The disease is endemic in many developing countries, but with a greater increase in tourism, occasional cases may be detected in countries where the disease in not prevalent. Early diagnosis and evaluation of cerebral involvement in malaria utilizing modern imaging modalities have an impact on the treatmen...

  Background: To determine the most important preoperative factors that affect postoperative coronal parameters of scoliotic curves.   Methods: All Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) patients included in the study were classified according to Lenke and King Classification. The fusion levels were selected according to the rigidity of the existing curves (correction less than 50%), tilt...

Background: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning may lead to hypoxic/anoxic injury and eventually ischemic encephalopathy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has a well-recognized role in assessment of the severity of brain damage caused by CO poisoning. In this study, we aimed to present and analyze the structural abnormalities in the brain MRI and especially in diffusion weighted MRI (DWI) images in ...

PURPOSE To compare, in a cadaveric model, magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques with differing contrast and spatial resolution properties in the evaluation of disruption of the lateral ulnar collateral ligament (LUCL) at the elbow. MATERIALS AND METHODS LUCL tears were surgically created in eight of 28 cadaveric elbow specimens. All specimens underwent 1.5-T MR imaging with the following...

Abstract Small bowel malignancies are rare, though colorectal cancers common. This article reviews the current imaging recommendations for small and malignancies. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) is modality of choice diagnosis/staging/response evaluation/follow-up colonic tumors. Magnetic resonance pelvis with high-resolution T2-weighted images in sagittal, oblique axial, coronal pla...

PURPOSE To assess the detection efficiency of Half-Fourier acquisition single-shot turbo spin-echo (HASTE) diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for cholesteatoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 21 patients with suspected primary (n=16) or recurrent cholesteatoma (n=5) underwent MRI in a 1.5 Tesla scanner using an adapted protocol for cholesteatoma detection that included a co...

PURPOSE To assess whether a single enhanced T1-weighted gradient echo volume sequence, with the appropriate reformatted images, could be equivalent to a more conventional 2D set of MR sequences for the evaluation of cervical extradural degenerative disk disease (bony canal and foraminal stenosis; disk herniation). MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty-one patients evaluated for extradural degenerative ...

BACKGROUND Coronal diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values have gradually become applied (following conventional axial DW-MRI) in the renal analysis. To explore whether data obtained using coronal DW-MRI are comparable with those derived using axial DW-MRI, this preliminary study sought to assess the agreement in renal ADC values be...

The observations from 1998 April 20 taken with the Coronal Diagnostics Spectrometer (CDS) on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) of a coronal loop on the limb have shown that the plasma was multi-thermal along each line of sight investigated, both before and after background subtraction. The latter result relied on Emission Measure (EM) Loci plots, but in this Letter, we used a forwar...

Dear Editor, The ongoing and rapid increase in the number of elderly people in Korea has led to an increasing number of cognitive problems among this population.1 A nationwide survey has estimated the prevalence rates of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia among Koreans aged at least 65 years to be 24.1% and 8.1%, respectively.2 The number of dementia patients is expected to double eve...