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  1. In recent years, the use of MRI in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) has increased. However, few data are available on how MRI parameters of active disease change during treatment with anti-TNF and whether th...

    Authors: Luca Pio Stoppino, Nicola Della Valle, Stefania Rizzi, Elsa Cleopazzo, Annarita Centola, Donatello Iamele, Christos Bristogiannis, Giuseppe Stoppino, Roberta Vinci and Luca Macarini
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:37
  2. Intra-articular ganglion cysts of the knee are rare. Here we report a case of an arthroscopically confirmed ganglion cyst arising from the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) along with preoperative magnetic res...

    Authors: Sayaka Kodaira, Takahito Nakajima, Ryosuke Takahashi, Shingo Moriya, Tomoyuki Nakagawa, Hidenori Ohtake and Yoshito Tsushima
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:36
  3. Studying T1- and T2-mapping for discrimination of acute from chronic myocardial infarction (AMI, CMI).

    Authors: Florian von Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff, Marcel Prothmann, Matthias A. Dieringer, Ralf Wassmuth, André Rudolph, Wolfgang Utz, Julius Traber, Andreas Greiser, Thoralf Niendorf and Jeanette Schulz-Menger
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:35
  4. Post mortem imaging is playing an increasingly important role in perinatal autopsy, and correct interpretation of imaging changes is paramount. This is particularly important following intra-uterine fetal deat...

    Authors: P. Montaldo, S. Addison, V. Oliveira, P. J. Lally, A. M. Taylor, N. J. Sebire, S. Thayyil and O. J. Arthurs
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:34
  5. Age-related brain atrophy has been represented by simple 1-dimensional (1-D) measurements on computed tomography (CT) for several decades and, more recently, with 3-dimensional (3-D) analysis, using brain volu...

    Authors: C. Michael Dunham, Albert J. Cook II, Alaina M. Paparodis and Gregory S. Huang
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:32
  6. We report two cases of anisakiasis lesions that were initially suspected to be recurrence of gynecological cancer by positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT). Both cases were extragastrointest...

    Authors: Yuya Nogami, Yoko Fujii-Nishimura, Kouji Banno, Atsushi Suzuki, Nobuyuki Susumu, Taizo Hibi, Koji Murakami, Taketo Yamada, Hiromu Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Morishima and Daisuke Aoki
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:31
  7. Mobile 3D fluoroscopes have become increasingly available in neurosurgical operating rooms. In this series, the image quality and value of intraoperative 3D fluoroscopy with intravenous contrast agent for the ...

    Authors: Thomas Westermaier, Thomas Linsenmann, György A. Homola, Mario Loehr, Christian Stetter, Nadine Willner, Ralf-Ingo Ernestus, Laszlo Solymosi and Giles H. Vince
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:30
  8. Rectovaginal fistula (RVF) refers to a pathological passage between the rectum and vagina, which is a public health challenge. This study was aimed to explore the clinical value of endoluminal biplane ultrason...

    Authors: Hao-Qiang Yin, Chen Wang, Xin Peng, Fang Xu, Ya-Juan Ren, Yong-Qing Chao, Jin-Gen Lu, Song Wang and Hu-Sheng Xiao
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:29
  9. Pleomorphic hyalinizing angiectatic tumor (PHAT) is a rare soft tissue tumor of low malignant potential, which most often arises in the lower extremities. Lesions occurred in other anatomic locations have been...

    Authors: Zhi-gang Chu, Meng-qi Liu, Zhi-yu Zhu, Fa-jin Lv and Yu Ouyang
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:28
  10. Before performing spine non-fusion surgery that retains the facet joints, choosing an accurate radiographic method to evaluate the degree of facet joint degeneration is extremely important. Therefore, the obje...

    Authors: Xin Zhou, Yuan Liu, Song Zhou, Xiao-Xing Fu, Xiao-Long Yu, Chang-Lin Fu, Bin Zhang and Min Dai
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:27
  11. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 2D phase-contrast flow measurement has been regarded as the gold standard in blood flow measurements and can be performed with free breathing or breath held techniques. We hypo...

    Authors: Charlotta Andersson, Johan Kihlberg, Tino Ebbers, Lena Lindström, Carl-Johan Carlhäll and Jan E. Engvall
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:26
  12. A standardized imaging proposal evaluating implanted left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion devices by cardiac computed tomography angiography (cCTA) has never been investigated.

    Authors: Michael Behnes, Ibrahim Akin, Benjamin Sartorius, Christian Fastner, Ibrahim El-Battrawy, Martin Borggrefe, Holger Haubenreisser, Mathias Meyer, Stefan O. Schoenberg and Thomas Henzler
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:25
  13. Three-dimensional (3D) imaging with a mobile C-arm has proven to be a valuable intraoperative tool in trauma surgery. However, little data is available concerning its use in the treatment of elbow fractures. T...

    Authors: Marc Schnetzke, Julia Fuchs, Sven Y. Vetter, Nils Beisemann, Holger Keil, Paul-Alfred Grützner and Jochen Franke
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:24
  14. Facial palsy or paralysis (FP) is a symptom that loses voluntary muscles movement in one side of the human face, which could be very devastating in the part of the patients. Traditional methods are solely depe...

    Authors: Jocelyn Barbosa, Kyubum Lee, Sunwon Lee, Bilal Lodhi, Jae-Gu Cho, Woo-Keun Seo and Jaewoo Kang
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:23
  15. This study was performed to evaluate the ability of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) with time-intensity curve analysis to demonstrate an increased enhancement of the liver parenchyma adjacent to the i...

    Authors: Ryousuke Kawai, Jiro Hata, Noriaki Manabe, Hiroshi Imamura, Ai Iida, Nobuko Koyama and Hiroaki Kusunoki
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:21
  16. Efficacy of reperfusion therapy can be assessed as myocardial salvage index (MSI) by determining the size of myocardium at risk (MaR) and myocardial infarction (MI), (MSI = 1-MI/MaR). Cardiovascular magnetic r...

    Authors: Jane Tufvesson, Marcus Carlsson, Anthony H. Aletras, Henrik Engblom, Jean-François Deux, Sasha Koul, Peder Sörensson, John Pernow, Dan Atar, David Erlinge, Håkan Arheden and Einar Heiberg
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:19
  17. The aim of this study was to use whole body cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (WB CVMR) to assess the heart and arterial network in a single examination, so as to describe the burden of atherosclerosis...

    Authors: Jonathan R. Weir-McCall, Suzanne L. Duce, Stephen J. Gandy, Shona Z. Matthew, Patricia Martin, Deirdre B. Cassidy, Lynne McCormick, Jill J. F. Belch, Allan D. Struthers, Helen M. Colhoun and J. Graeme Houston
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:18
  18. Spondylosis leads to an overestimation of bone mineral density (BMD) with dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) but not with quantitative computed tomography (QCT). The correlation between degenerative change...

    Authors: Astrid Ellen Grams, Rafael Rehwald, Alexander Bartsch, Sarah Honold, Christian Franz Freyschlag, Michael Knoflach, Elke Ruth Gizewski and Bernhard Glodny
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:17
  19. Benign ectopia of prostatic glandular tissue in the seminal vesicles is rare with only three prior cases reported in the literature. Prostate cancer, arising within prostatic ectopia in the seminal vesicles, h...

    Authors: Alexander S. Somwaru, Deepu Alex and Atif Zaheer
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:16

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  20. Lung diseases (resulting from air pollution) require a widely accessible method for risk estimation and early diagnosis to ensure proper and responsive treatment. Radiomics-based fractal dimension analysis of ...

    Authors: Krisztián Szigeti, Tibor Szabó, Csaba Korom, Ilona Czibak, Ildikó Horváth, Dániel S. Veres, Zoltán Gyöngyi, Kinga Karlinger, Ralf Bergmann, Márta Pócsik, Ferenc Budán and Domokos Máthé
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:14
  21. The staging of axillary lymph nodes is critical to the management and prognosis of breast cancer, the most frequent cancer in females. Neoadjuvant therapy and lymph node dissection are recommended when maligna...

    Authors: Caroline De Coninck, Jean-Christophe Noël, Rachel Boutemy and Philippe Simon
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:13
  22. From the viewpoint of the patients’ health, reducing the radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) is highly desirable. However, projection measurements acquired under low-dose conditions will contain much no...

    Authors: Davood Karimi, Pierre Deman, Rabab Ward and Nancy Ford
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:11
  23. The ‘Cytocam’ is a third generation video-microscope, which enables real time visualisation of the in vivo microcirculation. Based upon the principle of incident dark field (IDF) illumination, this hand held comp...

    Authors: Edward Gilbert-Kawai, Jonny Coppel, Vassiliki Bountziouka, Can Ince and Daniel Martin
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:10
  24. The aim of this study is to present a new methodology for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of coronary arteries and plaque morphology using Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA).

    Authors: Lambros Athanasiou, George Rigas, Antonis I. Sakellarios, Themis P. Exarchos, Panagiotis K. Siogkas, Christos V. Bourantas, Hector M. Garcia-Garcia, Pedro A. Lemos, Breno A. Falcao, Lampros K. Michalis, Oberdan Parodi, Federico Vozzi and Dimitrios I. Fotiadis
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:9
  25. Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis is an uncommon association of common malignancies such as small cell lung carcinoma, testicular teratoma, and breast carcinoma. The nonspecific nature of the clinical present...

    Authors: Vipula R. Bataduwaarachchi and Nirmali Tissera
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:8
  26. Perfusion imaging has become an important image based tool to derive the physiological information in various applications, like tumor diagnostics and therapy, stroke, (cardio-) vascular diseases, or functiona...

    Authors: Frank G. Zöllner, Markus Daab, Steven P. Sourbron, Lothar R. Schad, Stefan O. Schoenberg and Gerald Weisser
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:7
  27. Accurate segmentation of breast tissues is required for a number of applications such as model based deformable registration in breast radiotherapy. The accuracy of breast tissue segmentation is affected by th...

    Authors: Prabhjot Juneja, Philip Evans, David Windridge and Emma Harris
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:6
  28. In preclinical research MatrixgelTM Basement Membrane Matrix (MG) is used frequently for the establishment of syngeneic and xenograft cancer models. Limited information on its influence on parameters including; t...

    Authors: Frederikke P. Fliedner, Anders E. Hansen, Jesper T. Jørgensen and Andreas Kjær
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:5
  29. Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and perfusion-weighted imaging (PWI) abnormalities in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are currently measured by a complex combination of separate procedures. Therefore, t...

    Authors: Alfredo Revenaz, Massimiliano Ruggeri, Marcella Laganà, Niels Bergsland, Elisabetta Groppo, Marco Rovaris and Enrico Fainardi
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:4
  30. The recent implementation of the dual energy technology on CT-scanners has opened new perspectives in tissue and material characterization. This study aims to evaluate whether dual energy CT can be used to ass...

    Authors: Alexandra Platon, Minerva Becker, Christoph D. Becker, Eric Lock, Hans Wolff, Thomas Perneger and Pierre-Alexandre Poletti
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:3
  31. The aim of this study was to compare the properties and feasibility of the glucose analog, 2-18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (18F-FDG), three short 18F-labeled carboxylic acids, 18F-fluoroacetate (18F-FAC), 2-18F-fl...

    Authors: Hongliang Wang, Ganghua Tang, Kongzhen Hu, Tingting Huang, Xiang Liang, Zhifang Wu and Sijin Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:2
  32. Sarcoidosis–lymphoma syndrome (SLS) is a rare disease in which both entities coexist. We aimed to study the role of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) and L–[3-18F] α-methyltyrosine (FAMT) positron emission tomography ...

    Authors: Ryan Yudistiro, Yukiko Arisaka, Azusa Tokue and Takahito Nakajima
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2016 16:1
  33. The term severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) encompasses a heterogeneous group of respiratory illnesses. Grading the severity of SARI is currently reliant on indirect disease severity measures such as re...

    Authors: Emma Taylor, Kathryn Haven, Peter Reed, Ange Bissielo, Dave Harvey, Colin McArthur, Cameron Bringans, Simone Freundlich, R. Joan H. Ingram, David Perry, Francessa Wilson, David Milne, Lucy Modahl, Q. Sue Huang, Diane Gross, Marc-Alain Widdowson…
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2015 15:61
  34. [18F]FDG-PET/CT imaging is broadly used in head and neck cancer (HNSCC) patients. CT perfusion (CTP) is known to provide information about angiogenesis and blood-flow characteristics in tumors. The aim of this...

    Authors: Carsten Pietsch, Felipe de Galiza Barbosa, Martin W. Hüllner, Daniel T. Schmid, Stephan K. Haerle, Gerhard F. Huber, Gabriela Studer, Thomas F. Hany and Patrick Veit-Haibach
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2015 15:60
  35. Before extracting impacted lower third molars, dentists must first identify the spatial relationship between the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) and an impacted lower third molar to prevent nerve injury from the...

    Authors: Wei-Quan Wang, Michael Y. C. Chen, Heng-Li Huang, Lih-Jyh Fuh, Ming-Tzu Tsai and Jui-Ting Hsu
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2015 15:59
  36. Objective of the study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of novel ultrasonographic modalities in comparison with simultaneously performed liver biopsy.

    Authors: Jan Keller, Tanja Eva-Maria Kaltenbach, Mark Martin Haenle, Suemeyra Oeztuerk, Tilmann Graeter, Richard Andrew Mason, Thomas Seufferlein and Wolfgang Kratzer
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2015 15:58
  37. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a high-resolution sub-surface imaging modality using near-infrared light to provide accurate and high contrast intra-vascular images. This enables accurate assessment of d...

    Authors: Suhail Dohad, John Shao, Ian Cawich, Manish Kankaria and Arjun Desai
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2015 15:57
  38. The minimally invasive, balloon-assisted reduction and cement-augmented internal fixation of the tibial plateau is an innovative surgical procedure for tibial plateau fractures. The close proximity of balloons...

    Authors: Thorsten Jentzsch, Yannick Fritz, Patrick Veit-Haibach, Jürgen Schmitt, Kai Sprengel and Clément M. L. Werner
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2015 15:56
  39. We hypothesized that the contrast medium gadobutrol is not inferior compared to Gd-DTPA in identifying and quantifying ischemic late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), even by using a lower dose.

    Authors: Andre Rudolph, Daniel Messroghli, Florian von Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff, Julius Traber, Johannes Schüler, Ralf Wassmuth and Jeanette Schulz-Menger
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2015 15:55
  40. Lung cancer is the most common cancer which has the highest mortality rate. With the development of computed tomography (CT) techniques, the case detection rates of solitary pulmonary nodules (SPN) has constan...

    Authors: Huijuan Xiao, Yihe Liu, Hongna Tan, Pan Liang, Bo Wang, Lei Su, Suya Wang and Jianbo Gao
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2015 15:54
  41. In recent years, an increased interest has been seen in the area of medical image processing and, as a consequence, Computer Aided Diagnostic (CAD) systems. The basic purpose of CAD systems is to assist doctor...

    Authors: Zobia Suhail, Mansoor Sarwar and Kashif Murtaza
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2015 15:53
  42. In thalassemia patients, R2* liver iron concentration (LIC) measurement is a common clinical tool for assessing iron overload and for determining necessary chelator dose and evaluating its efficacy. Despite th...

    Authors: Pairash Saiviroonporn, Vip Viprakasit and Rungroj Krittayaphong
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2015 15:52
  43. This study evaluated the use of an augmented reality navigation system that provides a markerless registration system using stereo vision in oral and maxillofacial surgery.

    Authors: Hideyuki Suenaga, Huy Hoang Tran, Hongen Liao, Ken Masamune, Takeyoshi Dohi, Kazuto Hoshi and Tsuyoshi Takato
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2015 15:51
  44. Accurate and precise detection of brain lesions on MR images (MRI) is paramount for accurately relating lesion location to impaired behavior. In this paper, we present a novel method to automatically detect br...

    Authors: Dazhou Guo, Julius Fridriksson, Paul Fillmore, Christopher Rorden, Hongkai Yu, Kang Zheng and Song Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2015 15:50
  45. For optimizing and evaluating image quality in medical imaging, one can use visual grading experiments, where observers rate some aspect of image quality on an ordinal scale. To analyze the grading data, sever...

    Authors: S. Ehsan Saffari, Áskell Löve, Mats Fredrikson and Örjan Smedby
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2015 15:49

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