BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Blood vessels are usually conspicuous on dynamic CT
perfusion images. The presence of large vessels may lead to overestimation of the quantitative …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To our knowledge, a detailed analysis of MR findings in
spinal hemangioblastoma has not been conducted to date. Our purpose was to elucidate the …

Object The posterior ligamentous complex (PLC) in the thoracic and lumbar spine is one of
the region's important stabilizers. The precise diagnosis of PLC injury is required to evaluate …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Clinical diagnosis of lymphomatoid granulomatosis (LG)
of the brain, in patients without skin or chest lesions, usually is difficult because of the …

Introduction Neuromelanin-sensitive MRI has been reported to be used in the diagnosis of
Parkinson’s disease (PD), which results from loss of dopamine-producing cells in the …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Our purpose was to evaluate the visualization of the artery
of Adamkiewicz (AKA) and the anterior spinal artery (ASA) by using multi-detector row CT. …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of preoperative
percutaneous transhepatic portal vein embolization with ethanol injection. MATERIALS …

Purpose To determine whether diffusion-tensor (DT) imaging can demonstrate microstructural
white matter abnormalities of multiple system atrophy (MSA) and to correlate these …

BACKGROUND: Syringomyelia is a rare disease characterized by abnormal fluid-filled
cavities within the spinal cord, and is associated with Chiari malformations, arachnoiditis, or …

Institutional review board approval and informed consent were obtained. The purpose was
to evaluate the differences in tracer delay–induced effects of various deconvolution …