Heike E Daldrup-Link,Lynne Steinbach
Heike E Daldrup-Link
The role of MR imaging in pediatric arthritis is to detect early manifestations of arthritis, evaluate the extent of disease, and monitor disease activity during treatment. More specifically, MR imaging can characterize the pediatric arthro...
Thomas Ray S Sanchez,Siddharth P Jadhav,Leonard E Swischuk
Thomas Ray S Sanchez
Although plain radiography remains the most important and cost-effective imaging for screening and characterizing osseous injuries, it has been well recognized that pediatric fractures can occur without radiographic abnormalities. The super...
Sumit Pruthi,Mahesh M Thapa
Sumit Pruthi
Osteomyelitis and inflammatory arthritis affect many children. In this article, the authors describe clinical, pathophysiologic, and imaging characteristics of common (and a few not-so-common) conditions in these categories. Emphasis is pla...
Paritosh C Khanna,Mahesh M Thapa
Paritosh C Khanna
Developing hyaline cartilage at ends of long bones consists of the epiphyseal, physeal, and articular cartilage components, each of which has specific imaging characteristics that reflect biochemical and macromolecular composition. Standard...
Alvaro Burdiles,Paul S Babyn
Alvaro Burdiles
This article provides an overview of the current use of MR imaging in the evaluation of pediatric bone marrow disorders, illustrating their appearance on commonly used MR imaging sequences. Recognition of normal developmental bone marrow ch...
Dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging in the evaluation of patients with prostate cancer [0.03%]
动态对比增强MRI在前列腺癌患者评估中的应用
Colm J McMahon,B Nicolas Bloch,Robert E Lenkinski et al.
Colm J McMahon et al.
Prostate cancer is a common tumor among men, with increasing diagnosis at an earlier stage and a lower volume of disease because of screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA). The need for imaging of the prostate stems from a desire to ...
Marianne Moon,Daniel Cornfeld,Jeffrey Weinreb
Marianne Moon
This article discusses the basic principles of dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging (DCE-MR imaging) of the breast, including technical parameters, image acquisition, and image interpretation. Clinical DCE-MR imaging of the breast has under...
Dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging of the liver: current status and future directions [0.03%]
肝脏动态增强MR血管成像：现状和前景
Richard Kinh Gian Do,Henry Rusinek,Bachir Taouli
Richard Kinh Gian Do
Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MR imaging) is emerging as a tool that can quantify changes in liver perfusion that occur in both diffuse and focal liver diseases. Recent data show promise for DCE-MR imaging of the...
Jeffrey M Pollock,Huan Tan,Robert A Kraft et al.
Jeffrey M Pollock et al.
Arterial spin labeling (ASL) imaging soon will be available as a routine clinical perfusion imaging sequence for a significant number of MR imaging scanners. The ASL perfusion technique offers information similar to that provided by convent...
Ashley D Harris,Shelagh B Coutts,Richard Frayne
Ashley D Harris
Diffusion and perfusion MR imaging have proven to be highly useful in the clinical description and understanding of acute and hyperacute ischemic stroke. In this article, the authors give a brief overview of the basic concepts of diffusion ...