Doctors may use MRI to help make a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. (Photo Credit: Cavan Images/Getty Images) McDonald Criteria for MS The McDonald criteria, named for neurologist Ian McDonald, is a set of measures doctors follow to help them diagnose MS more accurately and quickly. First publis...
Design and intervention Patients with inflammatory back pain of [less than or equal to]2 years' duration were included. Coronal MRI scans of each sacroiliac joint were scored for inflammation, defined as low signal intensity on T1-weighted spin echo, high signal intensity on short tau inversion ...
MRI is the best tool doctors have to both diagnose and monitor MS. It can detect even small changes in your brain, spinal cord, or other body parts. MS lesions show up on MRI scans as either white spots or darkened areas. MRIs can reveal more than just the presence (or absence) of ...
On MRI, an intussusception can best be visualized on a fluid sensitive sequence, which would demonstrate hyperintense intraluminal fluid with low-to-intermediate signal intensity of the bowel wall (Figure 10).3Surrounding perienteric edema would also be present, as soft-tissue contrast is greater on...
True or False? An EEG uses ultrasound to diagnose brain dysfunctions. Suppose a girl developed generalized seizures. A CT scan revealed a single brain lesion consistent with a tumor. Biopsy of the lesion showed a cysticercus. The p...
A medical intern is required to diagnose and manage clinically common diseases encountered in clinical practice and make timely decisions for a referral to higher levels. A medical intern is responsible for rendering services and effectively communicating with patients and the community. Scroll down to...
A lumbar puncture (LP) or spinal tap involves inserting a hollow needle near the spinal cord to collect a small amount of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and diagnose meningitis, hemorrhage, multiple sclerosis, and tumors. Alumbar puncture(LP) is also called aspinal tap. It involves the insertion of...
An MRI can't diagnose migraines, cluster, ortension headaches, but it can help doctors rule out other medical conditions that may cause your symptoms, such as: A brain tumor. An infection in your brain, called an abscess. Is basilar migraine a disability?
In this review, we explore new ways in which diagnostic imaging can enhance our ability to visualize and diagnose fibrosis, and how the same modalities can improve our diagnosis of cancer. Commonalities at the molecular level between these diseases will allow us to employ technologies developed for...
AI might be utilized to diagnose nanomaterial engineering with image recognition[22]. A deep neural network is utilized for data in games to create a specialized AI such as AlphaGo[23]. Deep-learning technology has enabled live-cell superresolution imaging[24]. AI is applied in clinical ...