Contrast-detail phantom study for x-ray spectrum optimization regarding chest radiography using a cesium iodide-amorphous silicon flat-panel detector.

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the feasibility of mechanical thrombectomy in occluded hemodialysis access shunts by using a newly developed 5F pigtail rotation catheter. METHODS:Thrombosed hemodialysis access shunts were simulated by clotted bovine blood in silicone tubing (diameter 6 mm). After retrograde and a...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Wildberger J,Schmitz-Rode T,Wein BB,Günther RW

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:The effect of breathholding on pulmonary perfusion remains largely unknown. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of inspiratory and expiratory breathhold on pulmonary perfusion using quantitative pulmonary perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS AND RESULTS:Nine healthy v...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Fink C,Ley S,Risse F,Eichinger M,Zaporozhan J,Buhmann R,Puderbach M,Plathow C,Kauczor HU

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Over the recent years, there have been increasing concerns that exposure to gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) may be associated with retention of Gd within the skin, bones, and solid organs in patients with normal renal function, although the clinical implications of this deposition remain to be estab...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Layne KA,Wood DM,Dixon-Zegeye M,Archer JRH,Raja K,Dargan PI

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:To compare technical aspects and neointima formation of a new Nitinol stent and a Wallstent. METHODS:A Nitinol sten and a Wallstent were placed into the iliac arteries of 14 sheep (total of 28 stents) and followed angiographically. Seven sheep were killed after 1 month and 7 after 4.5 months. ...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Schürmann K,Vorwerk D,Kulisch A,Stroehmer-Kulisch E,Biesterfeld S,Stopinski T,Günther RW

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of age and number of previous injections of gadodiamide on the signal intensity of unenhanced T1-weighted (T1w) images of the dentate nucleus and globus pallidus in a large population. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A large, single-center retrospective population sur...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Quattrocchi CC,Errante Y,Mallio CA,Marinelli L,LoVullo G,Giannotti G,Della Sala SW,van der Molen AJ,Beomonte Zobel B

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal abnormalities have been reported on numerous occasions in patients who have received high doses of vitamin A and its derivatives. Recently, a new derivative, isotretinoin (Accutane, Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc.), has become available for the treatment of cystic acne. Ninety-six patients treated for a minimum of four...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Kilcoyne RF,Cope R,Cunningham W,Nardella FA,Denman S,Franz TJ,Hanifin J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perfluoroctylbromide (PFOB), a radiopaque reticuloendothelial system contrast media for computed tomography, has been shown to accumulate in macrophages. In the current study PFOB was tested in rabbits as an abscess imaging agent. Two abscesses were induced in each of 24 rabbits, one in the liver and the other in the ...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Mattrey RF,Andrè M,Campbell J,Mitten R,Multer F,Hackney D,Long DM,Higgins CB

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the amounts of three types of radiographic contrast media (RCM) that could be entrapped in liposomes prepared by the dehydration-rehydration vesicle (DRV) technique. To make DRVs, one initially makes water-containing, small unilamellar vesicles, adds contrast media and lyophilizes the mixture. Upon rehydra...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Seltzer SE,Gregoriadis G,Dick R

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:The aim of the study was to examine the effects of azelastine on proliferation, clonogenic activity, cell-cycle, and migration of human aortic smooth-muscle cells (haSMCs) in vitro. METHODS:HaSMCs were treated for 4 days with azelastine (1 micromol/L, 25 micromol/L, 50 micromol/L). Half of the...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Schöber W,Wiskirchen J,Kehlbach R,Gebert R,Rodegerdts E,Betsch A,Johst U,Feuls R,Claussen CD,Duda SD

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate three-echo T2*-corrected Dixon magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for noninvasively estimating hepatic fat content (HFC) compared with biopsy. MATERIALS AND METHODS:One hundred patients (50 men, 50 women; mean age, 57.7±14.2 years) underwent clinically indicated liver core biopsy (102 valid tiss...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Kühn JP,Evert M,Friedrich N,Kannengiesser S,Mayerle J,Thiel R,Lerch MM,Dombrowski F,Mensel B,Hosten N,Puls R

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the ongoing development of new contrast agents, questions develop concerning the cardiac effects of these drugs. We used the perfused rat heart model to investigate the effects on cardiac and coronary function of hypertonic ionic (sodium chloride) and nonionic (glucose) solutions and conventional and low osmolali...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Fleetwood G,Bettmann MA,Gordon JL

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:The objective is to assess the diagnostic accuracy and interobserver variability of multiphase 3D gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (3D-Gd-MRA) for assessment of abdominal and pelvic vascular disease. METHODS:In 41 patients from two different institutions multiphase 3D-Gd-MRA ...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Schoenberg SO,Essig M,Hallscheidt P,Sharafuddin MJ,Stolpen AH,Knopp MV,Yuh WT

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent publications of the magnetic resonance safety profile of neurostimulators, cardiac pacemakers, and other implanted devices imply that these devices are no longer a contraindication for magnetic resonance imaging. It is very promising that patients who have these implanted devices may in the future no longer be ...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Nitz WR,Brinker G,Diehl D,Frese G

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:To assess the potential of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for evaluating the evolution of tumor necrosis, the authors evaluated 28 VX2 carcinomas inoculated in the thigh muscles of rabbits. METHODS:MRI of VX2 carcinomas at 2.0 T was done with spin-echo technique 1 week (14 tumors) and 3 week...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Choi BI,Lee DH,Han MC

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has shown that Fe3+, when administered in the proper dose and time sequence, increases the tumor uptake of gallium-67 (67Ga) while decreasing its uptake by normal tissues. The purpose of this series of experiments was to examine further the postulate that the false carrier effect is mediated at the cellu...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Stern PH,Halpern SE,Hagan PL,Chen A

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a new, cineangiographic method to accurately measure the dynamic changes in the internal diameter of human arteries in vivo. Cine films were digitized at a spatial resolution of 4 microns/pixel, using a line image sensor. The vessel edges, with a Gaussian fit to a unilateral profile curve of the vessel, w...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Sugahara T,Yanagihara Y,Uyama C,Maeda H,Takafuchi M,Azumi T

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a very aggressive tumor with a very low 5-year survival rate of 8%. The aims of this study are to determine reference values and physiologic confounders in healthy pancreas and to assess the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound time-harmonic elastography (THE) in the d...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Burkhardt C,Tzschätzsch H,Schmuck R,Bahra M,Jürgensen C,Pelzer U,Hamm B,Braun J,Sack I,Marticorena Garcia SR

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to assess quantitative ultra-high b-value (UHB) diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-derived parameters in comparison to standard clinical apparent diffusion coefficient (SD-ADC-2b-1000, SD-ADC-2b-1500) for the prediction of clinically significant prostate cancer, defined as G...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Tavakoli AA,Kuder TA,Tichy D,Radtke JP,Görtz M,Schütz V,Stenzinger A,Hohenfellner M,Schlemmer HP,Bonekamp D

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of dechelation (transmetallation) in vivo after administration of the linear gadolinium-based contrast agents, and potential safety concerns, is considered on the basis of an extensive, focused literature review. Early indications of potential problems included the high level of excess ligand used in the for...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Runge VM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:The effect of varying exposure parameters on the detectability of a fracture with digital and conventional radiography were examined. METHODS:A macerated fractured skull was imaged by film-screen radiography (FSR) and digital storage phosphor radiography (DR) with various exposure values. Five...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Langen HJ,Klein HM,Wein B,Schiwy-Bochat KH,Stargardt A,Günther RW

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to assess the value of intravoxel incoherent motion and diffusion-weighted imaging for predicting the histologic grade of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Forty patients with surgically diagnosed PNETs who underwent preoperative magnetic resonance im...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Hwang EJ,Lee JM,Yoon JH,Kim JH,Han JK,Choi BI,Lee KB,Jang JY,Kim SW,Nickel MD,Kiefer B

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to compare F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance (MR) (with and without diffusion-weighted imaging [DWI]) to F-FDG PET/computed tomography (CT), with regard to the assessment of nodal and extranodal involvement, in patients with Hodgkin lym...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Giraudo C,Raderer M,Karanikas G,Weber M,Kiesewetter B,Dolak W,Simonitsch-Klupp I,Mayerhoefer ME

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented by whichcomputed tomography scans carried out at a number of energies may be utilized to obtain cross-sectional images of density and atomic number in addition to the conventional array of linear attenuation coefficients. This type of analysis has been carried out for various substances of biolog...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： McDavid WD,Waggener RG,Dennis MJ,Sank VJ,Payne WH

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:Two independent gold standards and diagnoses from three-dimensional computed tomography (CT) images were used to examine the possibility that craniosynostosis is a binary abnormality that potentially may be diagnosed without error. METHODS:Surgical reports, histology of excised sutures, and th...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Pilgram TK,Vannier MW,Marsh JL,Kraemer BB,Rayne SC,Gado MH,Moran CJ,McAlister WH,Shackelford GD,Hardesty RA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:The vasoconstriction of the renal arteries is frequently considered as a crucial factor for radiocontrast-induced nephropathy. A direct effect of iodinated radiographic contrast medium (RCM) on vascular smooth muscle is supposed to be one component of the vascular response. We studied the effec...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Uder M,Humke U,Pahl M,Jansen A,Utz J,Kramann B

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple intravenous injections of contrast media are used in radiology, but information regarding corresponding changes in the serum iodine concentrations and osmolality is lacking. We measured the changes in serum iodine concentration and serum osmolality in rabbits after a series of intravenous injections of contra...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Rubin DI,Kido DK,Morris TW,Fischer HW

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hydration is widely accepted as an effective measure to prevent contrast media (CM)-induced acute kidney injury (AKI). Whether bicarbonate (NaHCO₃) infusion has a greater effect than saline is disputed. Effective prevention of CM-induced AKI by NaHCO₃ has been found by several clinical trials. However, others...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Ladwig M,Flemming B,Seeliger E,Sargsyan L,Persson PB

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) has been most extensively applied to the study of animal models and not humans. The major reason for this extensive animal research is due to the nature of the early magnetic resonance high-field magnets, which only permitted the study of isolated cells, tissues, or small animals....

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Balaban RS

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the efficacy of true fast imaging with steady state precession (true-FISP) compared with T2-weighted fast spin echo (T2W-FSE) in monitoring changes in cyst volume and renal expansion in an ischemia reperfusion (IR) injured PKD1 knockout (IKO) mouse model. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The animal study...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Zhou X,Bao H,Takakura A,Zhou J,Albert M,Sun Y

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of the combination of magnetic resonance (MR)-guided biopsy (MRGB) and diagnostic 3T MR imaging in the localization of local recurrence of prostate cancer (PCa) after external beam radiation therapy (EBRT). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Twenty-four consecuti...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Yakar D,Hambrock T,Huisman H,Hulsbergen-van de Kaa CA,van Lin E,Vergunst H,Hoeks CM,van Oort IM,Witjes JA,Barentsz JO,Fütterer JJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00