Fellows’ Journal Club The North American Imaging in Multiple Sclerosis Cooperative steering committee developed a uniform high-resolution 3T MR imaging protocol relevant to the quantification of cerebral lesions and atrophy and implemented it at 7 sites across the United States.
Editor’s Choice The authors evaluated the feasibility of MR permeability imaging by comparison with 11C-methionine-PET, FDG-PET, and DWI for differentiating radiation necrosis from recurrent tumors in 15 patients with 18 lesions following gamma knife radiosurgery. The area under the ROC
Fellows’ Journal Club Conventional 3T MR imaging was used to assess 499 fighters (boxers, mixed martial artists, and martial artists) and 62 controls for nonspecific WM changes, cerebral microhemorrhage, cavum septum pellucidum, and cavum vergae. Fighters had an increased prevalence
Elster AD. Questions and answers in MRI. MRI Questions Web site. http://mriquestions.com/index.html. For radiologists who have devoted their lives and education to medical diagnosis, trying to grasp the advanced physics behind modern MR imaging is like a foray into another
Anderson MW, Fox MG, eds. Sectional Anatomy by MRI and CT. 4th ed. Elsevier; 2016; 624 pp; 1165 ill; $299.99 This 4th edition of Sectional Anatomy by MRI and CT, written by Drs. Anderson and Fox, is heavily weighted to the
Please check out the accompanying podcast of this blog post (discussion of this article begins at 8:30) Glioblastoma is a heterogeneous group of cancers, genetically, molecularly and characteristically on imaging studies. Prior studies have supported the relationship between tumor location
Shellock FG. Reference Manual for Magnetic Response Safety, Implants and Devices: 2016 Edition. Biomedical Research Publishing Group; 2016; 712 pp; $99 No radiologist or MR center should be without quick and easy accessibility to Frank Shellock’s new edition (2016) of the Reference
DeMarco JK, guest ed. Mukherji S, consulting ed. Plaque Imaging. Elsevier, February 2016. Neuroimaging Clinics of North America; vol. 36; no. 1; pgs. 1–186; $360.00 The February 2016 issue of the Neuroimaging Clinics of North America, edited by Dr. J. Kevin DeMarco,
Mamourian A, Lembo J. Top Ten MR Artifacts: Radiology Boards Prep. Oxford; 2015; free on iTunes Dr. Alex Mamourian has provided interested readers a free application through iTunes, entitled Top Ten MR Artifacts: Radiology Boards Prep, which can be downloaded on
Editor’s Choice Editor’s Comment At 7T, 2D multiecho spin-echo T2WI and 3D gradient-echo T2*WI were acquired from 27 formalin-fixed coronal hemispheric brain sections of 15 patients and 4 healthy controls. Proteolipid-stained tissue sections were matched to the corresponding MR images,
