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  1. Background: Skin injuries can be crucial in judicial decision making. Forensic experts base their classification on subjective opinions. This study investigates whether known classes of simulated skin injuries a...

    Authors: Emil Röhrich, Michael Thali and Wolf Schweitzer
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:32
  2. The advantages of multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) have made it the imaging modality of choice for some patients with suspected cardiothoracic disease, of which pulmonary embolism (PE) is an exponent....

    Authors: Joshua Tambe, Boniface Moifo, Emmanuel Fongang, Emilienne Guegang and Alain Georges Juimo
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:31
  3. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is increasingly used in various diseases as a clinical tool for assessing the integrity of the brain’s white matter. Reduced fractional anisotropy (FA) and an increased apparent ...

    Authors: Ullamari Hakulinen, Antti Brander, Pertti Ryymin, Juha Öhman, Seppo Soimakallio, Mika Helminen, Prasun Dastidar and Hannu Eskola
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:30
  4. Muscle functions are generally assumed to affect a wide variety of conditions and activities, including pain, ischemic and neurological disorders, exercise and injury. It is therefore very desirable to obtain ...

    Authors: Tommy Löfstedt, Olof Ahnlund, Michael Peolsson and Johan Trygg
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:29
  5. Although general anesthesia is widely used in the surgical arena, the mechanisms by which general anesthetics act remain unclear. We previously described alterations in gene expression ratios in hepatic tissue...

    Authors: Tomoyuki Tajima, Keiko Hirakawa, Hiroshi Kawaguchi and Atsuhiro Sakamoto
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:28
  6. Multi-center magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies present an opportunity to advance research by pooling data. However, brain measurements derived from MR-images are susceptible to differences in MR-sequenc...

    Authors: Sima Chalavi, Andrew Simmons, Hildebrand Dijkstra, Gareth J Barker and A A T Simone Reinders
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:27
  7. For some scoliotic patients the spinal instrumentation is inevitable. Among these patients, those with stiff curvature will need thoracoscopic disk resection. The removal of the intervertebral disk with only t...

    Authors: Chevrefils Claudia, Cheriet Farida, Grimard Guy, Miron Marie-Claude and Aubin Carl-Eric
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:26
  8. The CorneaL GrAft Thickness Evaluation (COLGATE) system was recently developed to facilitate the evaluation of corneal graft thickness from OCT images. Graft thickness measurement can be a surrogate indicator ...

    Authors: Melissa HY Wong, Annabel Chew, Hla M Htoon, Beng H Lee, Jun Cheng, Jiang Liu, Donald T Tan and Jodhbir S Mehta
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:25
  9. Bias with regard to participation in epidemiological studies can have a large impact on the generalizability of results. Our aim was to investigate the direction and magnitude of potential bias by comparing he...

    Authors: Lasse-Marius Honningsvåg, Mattias Linde, Asta Håberg, Lars Jacob Stovner and Knut Hagen
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:23
  10. In accordance with European guidelines, mammography screening comprises independent readings by two breast radiologists (double reading). CAD (computer-aided detection) has been suggested to complement or repl...

    Authors: Edward Azavedo, Sophia Zackrisson, Ingegerd Mejàre and Marianne Heibert Arnlind
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:22
  11. Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a valuable and legitimate treatment for patients with end-stage liver disease. Computed tomography (CT) has proven to be an important tool in the process of donor e...

    Authors: Kristina Imeen Ringe, Bastian Paul Ringe, Christian von Falck, Hoen-oh Shin, Thomas Becker, Eva-Doreen Pfister, Frank Wacker and Burckhardt Ringe
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:21
  12. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is associated with dismal prognosis. The detection of small pancreatic tumors which are still resectable is still a challenging problem.

    Authors: Jon Holm, Louiza Loizou, Nils Albiin, Nikolaos Kartalis, Bertil Leidner and Anders Sundin
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:20
  13. To assess repeatability of the Zhongshan Assessment Program (ZAP) software measurement of Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography (ASOCT) images and correlate with graft trephine diameter following Desce...

    Authors: Gavin S Tan, Mingguang He, Donald T Tan and Jodhbir S Mehta
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:19
  14. Traditional radiography is limited in its ability to give reliable information on the number and morphology of root canals. The application of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) provides a non-invasive three...

    Authors: Xuan Yu, Bin Guo, Ke-Zeng Li, Ru Zhang, Yuan-Yuan Tian, Hu Wang and Tao Hu DDS
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:18
  15. Presented is the method “Detection and Outline Error Estimates” (DOEE) for assessing rater agreement in the delineation of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions. The DOEE method divides operator or rater assessment ...

    Authors: David S Wack, Michael G Dwyer, Niels Bergsland, Carol Di Perri, Laura Ranza, Sara Hussein, Deepa Ramasamy, Guy Poloni and Robert Zivadinov
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:17
  16. In perfusion magnetic resonance imaging a manual approach to delineation of regions of interest is, due to rater bias and time intensive operator input, clinically less favorable than an automated approach wou...

    Authors: Ivana Galinovic, Ann-Christin Ostwaldt, Carina Soemmer, Helena Bros, Benjamin Hotter, Peter Brunecker and Jochen B Fiebach
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:16
  17. Using high-resolution ultrasonography (US) to measure the median nerve cross-sectional areas (CSAs) such as in the “inching test” conducted in nerve conduction studies is a valuable tool to assess carpal tunne...

    Authors: Shu-Fang Chen, Chi-Ren Huang, Nai-Wen Tsai, Chiung-Chih Chang, Cheng-Hsien Lu, Yao-Chung Chuang and Wen-Neng Chang
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:15
  18. Extent of atherosclerosis measured by amount of coronary artery calcium (CAC) in computed tomography (CT) has been traditionally assessed using thresholded scoring methods, such as the Agatston score (AS). The...

    Authors: C Jason Liang, Matthew J Budoff, Joel D Kaufman, Richard A Kronmal and Elizabeth R Brown
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:14
  19. Leading-edge technology such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) often reveals mammographically and ultrasonographically occult lesions. MRI is a well-documented, effective tool to ...

    Authors: Satoko Nakano, Masahiko Ohtsuka, Akemi Mibu, Masato Karikomi, Hitomi Sakata and Masahiro Yamamoto
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:13
  20. Animal models are frequently used to assess new treatment methods in cancer research. MRI offers a non-invasive in vivo monitoring of tumour tissue and thus allows longitudinal measurements of treatment effects, ...

    Authors: Mikael Montelius, Maria Ljungberg, Michael Horn and Eva Forssell-Aronsson
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:12
  21. Image contrast between normal tissue and brain tumours may sometimes appear to be low in intraoperative ultrasound. Ultrasound imaging of strain is an image modality that has been recently explored for intraop...

    Authors: Tormod Selbekk, Reidar Brekken, Marit Indergaard, Ole Solheim and Geirmund Unsgård
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:11
  22. This paper presents a three-dimensional (3D) method for segmenting corpus callosum in normal subjects and brain cancer patients with glioblastoma.

    Authors: Mohammad-Reza Nazem-Zadeh, Sona Saksena, Abbas Babajani-Fermi, Quan Jiang, Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Mark Rosenblum, Tom Mikkelsen and Rajan Jain
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:10
  23. The ability to measure and quantify myocardial motion and deformation provides a useful tool to assist in the diagnosis, prognosis and management of heart disease. The recent development of magnetic resonance ...

    Authors: Katarina Kindberg, Henrik Haraldsson, Andreas Sigfridsson, Jan Engvall, Neil B Ingels Jr, Tino Ebbers and Matts Karlsson
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:9
  24. The increasing age of coronary artery disease (CAD) patients and the occurrence of sarcopenia in the elderly population accompanied by 'fear of moving' and hospitalization in these patients often results in a ...

    Authors: Tom Thomaes, Martine Thomis, Steven Onkelinx, Walter Coudyzer, Véronique Cornelissen and Luc Vanhees
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:7
  25. Changes in maximum standardised uptake values (SUVmax) between serial PET/CT studies are used to determine disease progression or regression in oncologic patients. To measure these changes manually can be time co...

    Authors: John Ly, Sabine Garpered, Peter Höglund, Eskil Jönsson, Sven Valind, Lars Edenbrandt and Per Wollmer
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:6
  26. SPECT/CT combines high resolution anatomical 3D computerized tomography (CT) and single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) as functional imaging, which provides 3D information about biological pro...

    Authors: Michael T Hirschmann, Christopher R Wagner, Helmut Rasch and Johann Henckel
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:5
  27. Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich (HWW) syndrome is a very rare congenital anomaly of the urogenital tract involving Müllerian ducts and Wolffian structures, and it is characterized by the triad of didelphys uterus, ob...

    Authors: Riccardo Del Vescovo, Sofia Battisti, Valerio Di Paola, Claudia L Piccolo, Roberto L Cazzato, Ilaria Sansoni, Rosario F Grasso and Bruno Beomonte Zobel
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:4
  28. Video capsule enteroscopy (VCE) has revolutionized small bowel imaging, enabling visual examination of the mucosa of the entire small bowel, while MR enteroclysis (MRE) and CT enteroclysis (CTE) have largely r...

    Authors: Frans-Thomas Fork, Nils Karlsson, Sattar Kadhem and Bodil Ohlsson
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:3
  29. During imaging of the normal esophagus, air is often detected. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between the appearance of air bubbles on imaging and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (G...

    Authors: Alijavad Moosavi, Hanieh Raji, Mojtaba Teimoori and Shadi Ghourchian
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:2
  30. Early diagnosis of osteoporosis can potentially decrease the risk of fractures and improve the quality of life. Detection of thin inferior cortices of the mandible on dental panoramic radiographs could be usef...

    Authors: M S Kavitha, Akira Asano, Akira Taguchi, Takio Kurita and Mitsuhiro Sanada
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2012 12:1
  31. Brain morphometry is extensively used in cross-sectional studies. However, the difference in the estimated values of the morphometric measures between patients and healthy subjects may be small and hence overs...

    Authors: Mahsa Shokouhi, Anna Barnes, John Suckling, Thomas WJ Moorhead, David Brennan, Dominic Job, Katherine Lymer, Paola Dazzan, Tiago Reis Marques, Clare MacKay, Shane McKie, Steven CR Williams, Stephen M Lawrie, Bill Deakin, Steve R Williams and Barrie Condon
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:23
  32. Incremental palmar stimulation of the median nerve sensory conduction at the wrist, the "inching test", provides an assessment with reference to segments proximal and distal to the entrapment. This study used ...

    Authors: Shu-Fang Chen, Cheng-Hsien Lu, Chi-Ren Huang, Yao-Chung Chuang, Nai-Wen Tsai, Chiung-Chih Chang and Wen-Neng Chang
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:22
  33. The current method to determine the efficacy of chemoprevention in TRAMP mouse model of carcinoma of prostate (CaP) is by extracting and weighing the prostate at different time points or by immunohistochemistr...

    Authors: Ali S Arbab, Adarsh Shankar, Nadimpalli RS Varma, Dorrah Deeb, Xiaohua Gao, ASM Iskander, Branislava Janic, Meser M Ali and Subhash C Gautam
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:21
  34. The purpose of this study is to explore how a patient's height and weight can be used to predict the effective dose to a reference phantom with similar height and weight from a chest abdomen pelvis computed to...

    Authors: Robert D Prins, Raymond H Thornton, C Ross Schmidtlein, Brian Quinn, Hung Ching and Lawrence T Dauer
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:20
  35. The application of advanced 3T MRI imaging techniques to study recovery after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is complicated by the presence of image artifacts produced by implanted aneurysm clips. To characteri...

    Authors: Faraz Khursheed, Fiona Rohlffs, Shuichi Suzuki, Dong H Kim and Timothy M Ellmore
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:19
  36. The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and the Society of Nuclear Medicine state that incorporation of attenuation-corrected (AC) images in myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) will improve image qualit...

    Authors: Elin Trägårdh, Karl Sjöstrand, David Jakobsson and Lars Edenbrandt
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:18
  37. There is recent interest in the role of carotid bifurcation anatomy, geometry and hemodynamic factors in the pathogenesis of carotid artery atherosclerosis. Certain anatomical and geometric configurations at t...

    Authors: Richard J Beare, Gita Das, Mandy Ren, Winston Chong, Matthew D Sinnott, James E Hilton, Velandai Srikanth and Thanh G Phan
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:17
  38. Magnetic Particle Imaging is a novel method for medical imaging. It can be used to measure the local concentration of a tracer material based on iron oxide nanoparticles. While the resulting images show the di...

    Authors: Bernhard Gleich, Jürgen Weizenecker and Jörn Borgert
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:16
  39. With the development of increasingly sophisticated three-dimensional volumetric imaging methods, tumor volume can serve as a robust and reproducible measurement of drug efficacy. Since the use of molecularly t...

    Authors: Sanjay Tiwari, Jan H Egberts, Olena Korniienko, Linda Köhler, Anna Trauzold, Claus C Glüer and Holger Kalthoff
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:15
  40. Together with diagnosis and treatment planning, a good knowledge of the root canal system and its frequent variations is a necessity for successful root canal therapy. The selection of instrumentation techniqu...

    Authors: Ke-Zeng Li, Yuan Gao, Ru Zhang, Tao Hu and Bin Guo
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:14
  41. Consolidation with or without ground-glass opacity is the typical radiologic finding of lung metastases of adenocarcinoma from the gastrointestinal tract. Lung excavated metastases from gastrointestinal carcin...

    Authors: Patrizia Seminara, Gaia Manna, Alessandra Emiliani, Alessandro Iannace and Tania Losanno
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:13
  42. Discomfort characterized by pain and warmth are common adverse effects associated with the use of intra-arterial iodinated contrast media (CM). The objective of this review was to pool patient-reported outcome...

    Authors: Peter A McCullough and Patrizio Capasso
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:12
  43. Computational analysis of tissue structure reveals sub-visual differences in tissue functional states by extracting quantitative signature features that establish a diagnostic profile. Incomplete and/or inaccu...

    Authors: Lindsey McKeen-Polizzotti, Kira M Henderson, Basak Oztan, C Cagatay Bilgin, Bülent Yener and George E Plopper
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:11
  44. Functional and morphological changes of the heart influence blood flow patterns. Therefore, flow patterns may carry diagnostic and prognostic information. Three-dimensional, time-resolved, three-directional ph...

    Authors: Johannes Töger, Marcus Carlsson, Gustaf Söderlind, Håkan Arheden and Einar Heiberg
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:10
  45. Soft tissue foreign bodies are a common cause of orthopedic consultation in emergency departments. It is difficult to confirm their existence because conventional radiology only detects radio-opaque foreign bo...

    Authors: Afshin Mohammadi, Mohammad Ghasemi-Rad and Maryam Khodabakhsh
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:9
  46. We have previously proposed the use of Doppler ultrasound to non-invasively stage sinus infection, as we showed that acoustic streaming could be generated in nonpurulent sinus secretions and helped to distingu...

    Authors: Pernilla Sahlstrand-Johnson, Magnus Jannert, Anita Strömbeck and Kasim Abul-Kasim
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:8
  47. Early diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension (PH) can potentially improve survival and quality of life. Detecting PH using echocardiography is often insensitive in subjects with lung fibrosis or hyperinflation. R...

    Authors: Andrew L Chan, Maya M Juarez, David K Shelton, Taylor MacDonald, Chin-Shang Li, Tzu-Chun Lin and Timothy E Albertson
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2011 11:7

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