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T2 mapping of the liver is a potential diagnostic tool, but conventional techniques are difficult to perform in clinical practice due to long scan time. We aimed to evaluate the accuracy of a prototype radial turbo-spin-echo (rTSE) sequence, optimized for multi-slice T2 mapping in the abdomen during one breath-hold at 3 T. A multi-sample (fat: 0-35...
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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking (CMR-FT) is an emerging technique for assessing myocardial strain with valuable diagnostic and prognostic potential. However, the reproducibility of biventricular CMR-FT analysis in a large cardiovascular population has not been assessed. Also, evidence of confounders impacting reader reproducibili...
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To evaluate the predictive value of volumetric bone mineral density (BMD) assessment of the lumbar spine derived from phantomless dual-energy CT (DECT)-based volumetric material decomposition as an indicator for the 2-year occurrence risk of osteoporosis-associated fractures. L1 of 92 patients (46 men, 46 women; mean age, 64 years, range, 19-103 ye...
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Radiological anatomical variations, measured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), were evaluated in patients with ipsilateral delayed endolymphatic hydrops (DEH) and unilateral Ménière's disease (MD). The role of anatomical variations in different subtypes of hydropic ear disease was investigated. Twenty-eight patients with ipsilateral DEH, 76 pati...
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To evaluate the impact of the reconstructed field-of-view (FOV) on image quality in computed-tomography angiography (CTA) of the lower extremities. A total of 100 CTA examinations of the lower extremities were acquired on a 2 × 192-slice multidetector CT (MDCT) scanner. Three different datasets were reconstructed covering both legs (standard FOV si...
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Cardiac adaptation in endurance athletes is a well-known phenomenon, but the acute impact of strenuous exercise is rarely reported on. The aim of this study was to analyze the alterations in biventricular and biatrial function in triathletes after an endurance race using novel feature-tracking cardiac magnetic resonance (FT-CMR). Fifty consecutive ...
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QyScore® is an imaging analysis tool certified in Europe (CE marked) and the US (FDA cleared) for the automatic volumetry of grey and white matter (GM and WM respectively), hippocampus (HP), amygdala (AM), and white matter hyperintensity (WMH). Here we compare QyScore® performances with the consensus of expert neuroradiologists. Dice similarity coe...
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Target therapy with BRAF/MEK inhibitors in metastatic melanoma is characterised by a high response rate; however, acquired resistance to treatment develops in many cases. We aimed to investigate if baseline total metabolic tumour volume (TMTV) and therapy-response assessment by [18F]FDG PET/CT have a prognostic role on progression-free survival (PF...
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To determine the early treatment response after microwave ablation (MWA) of inoperable lung neoplasms using the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value calculated 24 h after the ablation. This retrospective study included 47 patients with 68 lung lesions, who underwent percutaneous MWA from January 2008 to December 2017. Evaluation of the lesion...
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To compare the prevalence of pre- and postoperative osseous deformities and intra-articular lesions in patients with persistent pain following arthroscopic femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) correction and to identify imaging findings associated with progressive cartilage damage. Retrospective study evaluating patients with hip pain following arthr...
