patient positioning system, which has been engineered to be fully functional Inside the scanner’s magnetic field. It can position the patient for the full range of conventional “lie-down” MRI scanning, or upright for weight-bearing studies. The full length of the spine can be imaged in the...
83,84. Only 2 studies have focused on T2 mapping from 1 hour up to less than 24 hours after a single marathon race in humans34,58. Both reported significantly increased T2 values in knee cartilage, in contrast to all published
In contrast, the present invention provides power FETs, one or more per each of a plurality of coil elements, and thus the present invention can omit combiners-mount one FET amplifier per coil element. In some embodiments, it uses the coil elements for the heat sink of the power amplifiers...
To our knowledge, no other review has exclusively investigated the role of radiomics in the analysis and prediction of bone metastases, particularly the spine localization. Even within the field of radiomics, this is a niche subfield, as is evident from the low number of studies analyzed. This ...
Within one day, the lumbar spine (L1-S1) of each patient was examined in the following consecutive order: 1.5T MRI using clinically conventional protocols, including sagittal and axial T1-weighted and T2-weighted imaging, followed by low-pressure discography (<50 psi) and lastly CT (Table 1)...
Serum sclerostin had moderate positive correlation with BMD at lumbar spine (r = 0.54, p < 0.001) (Figure 1C) and femoral neck (r = 0.40, p < 0.01) (Figure 1D), suggesting that greater BMD is associated with greater serum sclerostin. Furthermore, serum sclerostin was lower in patients ...
The protocol might also include "whole spine" acquisition, as reported in previous literature, to evaluate all the vertebrae in the sagittal plane. In this way, it is possible to improve the accuracy of lesion localizations thanks to a higher spatial resolution, instead of a solely coronal ...
The cranio-vertebral junction (CVJ) has a unique and distinct anatomy from the subaxial cervical spine. The CVJ is composed of the atlanto-occipital and atlanto-axial joints, strengthened by multiple ligamentous attachments and muscles to provide stability and support. In contrast to the atlanto...