Detection of low-contrast signals. A comparison of observers with and without radiology training.

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study evaluating a cesium iodide-amorphous silicon-based flat-panel detector was to optimize the x-ray spectrum for chest radiography combining excellent contrast-detail visibility with reduced patient exposure. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A Lucite plate with 36 drilled holes of ...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Hamer OW,Völk M,Zorger N,Borisch I,Büttner R,Feuerbach S,Strotzer M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior to the formation of an intravenous digital subtraction angiography (IV-DSA) image, contrast medium passes through the lesser circulation and is diluted by the blood volume of the heart and lungs. If the contrast medium alone influences central blood volume or cardiac output, the shape of the resultant time-conce...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Burbank FH,Thompson WM

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:Interstitial laser photocoagulation (ILP) causes localized tissue necrosis. This study was performed to determine 1) whether the changes seen on computed tomography (CT) correspond to the necrosis pathologically, and 2) which CT technique best shows the necrosis. METHODS:Eighteen Wistar rats h...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Amin Z,Thurrell W,Spencer GM,Harries SA,Grant WE,Bown SG,Lees WR

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:Laser-induced interstitial thermotherapy (LITT) may become an attractive modality for minimally invasive tumor therapy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could be used to assist this procedure. METHODS:A T1-weighted turbo fast low-angle shot (FLASH) sequence for on-line monitoring of the laser-...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Gewiese B,Beuthan J,Fobbe F,Stiller D,Müller G,Böse-Landgraf J,Wolf KJ,Deimling M

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the dependency of tumor contrast enhancement (CE) in regard to protein-binding properties of contrast agents, using 4 different agents with a wide range of protein-binding capacities in a standardized rat brain glioma model. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Sixteen rats with implanted brain gliomas were evalua...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Wintersperger BJ,Runge VM,Tweedle MF,Jackson CB,Reiser MF

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of GE Medical Systems and the AUR represents a unique collaboration between academic radiology and industry that bears important potential for elevating the quality of clinical research in radiology and developing a cadre of high-quality radiologist researchers for the future. The establishment of the ...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Hillman BJ,Fryback DG,Holden RW,McNeil BJ,Molitor RM,Moss AA,Peck PV,Putman CE,Thompson WM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to evaluate a prototype dual-energy computed tomography calcium subtraction algorithm and its impact on luminal visualization in patients with heavily calcified coronary arteries. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Twenty-nine patients (62% male; mean age, 64 ± 7 years) who had undergone dual-e...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： De Santis D,Jin KN,Schoepf UJ,Grant KL,De Cecco CN,Nance JW Jr,Vogl TJ,Laghi A,Albrecht MH

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human gallstones were surgically placed into the gallbladders of 200 swine. Eight of these swine were used as a prospective series to verify that the placement and presence of human gallstones in their gallbladders caused no significant pathologic changes in the gallbladder and that the gallstones were not spontaneous...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Griffith SL,Burney BT,Fry FJ,Franklin TD Jr

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of impaired renal function on gadolinium (Gd) retention in various organs after Gd-based contrast agent injection. MATERIALS AND METHODS:After local animal care and review committee approval, 23 normal mice and 26 with renal failure were divided into 4 tre...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Kartamihardja AA,Nakajima T,Kameo S,Koyama H,Tsushima Y

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening chronic hemodialysis patients (CHD) for acquired cystic disease of the kidneys (ACDK) and its complications (hemorrhage and neoplasm) has become accepted management. We evaluated patients on CHD as well as patients on chronic peritoneal dialysis (CPD) for ACDK. The kidneys of 80 chronic dialysis patients wer...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Jabour BA,Ralls PW,Tang WW,Boswell WD Jr,Colletti PM,Feinstein EI,Massry SG

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Comparison of intravenous Fenestra VC-enhanced computed tomography (CT) with gadopentetate dimeglumine and Ferucarbotran contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the in vivo imaging of hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) in a murine model. MATERIAL AND METHODS:After induction of hepatic ...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Choukèr A,Lizak M,Schimel D,Helmberger T,Ward JM,Despres D,Kaufmann I,Bruns C,Löhe F,Ohta A,Sitkovsky MV,Klaunberg B,Thiel M

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the feasibility of adenosine-stress dynamic myocardial volume perfusion imaging with second generation dual source computed tomography (CT) for the qualitative and quantitative assessment of myocardial blood flow (MBF) compared with stress perfusion and viability magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). ...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Bastarrika G,Ramos-Duran L,Rosenblum MA,Kang DK,Rowe GW,Schoepf UJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to measure the accuracy of a diagnostic imaging technique, the correctness of each observer decision must be determined. This is often difficult in clinical cases, and various strategies are frequently used to approximate the truth. Experiments using chest radiographs as an example are reported to show the pi...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Revesz G,Kundel HL,Bonitatibus M

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-angioplasty restenosis (PARS) in atherosclerotic lesions of medium and small arteries occurs in about one-third of cases in the first year following percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) (early PARS). PARS includes acute spasm, dissection with reclosure, elastic recoil, fibrocellular proliferative response,...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Becker GJ,Lee BI,Waller BF,Barry KJ,Kaplan J,Connolly R,Dreesen RG,Nardella P

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to prospectively compare diagnostic performance and time efficiency of a double-reading paradigm in which a first-reader computer-aided detection (CAD) is followed by a fast 2-dimensional review (DR FR-CAD) with those of a double reading with second-reader CAD (SR CAD). MATER...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Iussich G,Correale L,Senore C,Hassan C,Segnan N,Campanella D,Bert A,Galatola G,Laudi C,Regge D

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial occlusion by direct-current transcatheter electrocoagulation (TCEC) has been developed experimentally and used successfully in clinical situations. The major shortcoming of the technique has been the lengthy time necessary for occlusion of larger arteries. In the present study we attempted to decrease the tim...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Ralston MD,Woodfield S,Halvorsen R,Pizzo SV,Thompson WM

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution real-time ultrasonography (5, 7.5, and 10 MHz) was used to examine the menisci of the knee in ten normal volunteers and in ten patients with knee injuries. The posterior horns of the medial and lateral menisci were easily demonstrated. Normal anatomy and pathologic changes could be imaged in the menisc...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Selby B,Richardson ML,Montana MA,Teitz CC,Larson RV,Mack LA

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of intravenous urography (IVU) on the excretion rate and precipitation of Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein (THG) has been evaluated in 19 patients. Urine samples were collected immediately before the administration of contrast medium (U1) and then during the period of the excretion urogram (U2). The urinary THG: ...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Dawnay AB,Thornley C,Nockler I,Webb JA,Cattell WR

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:The authors developed a two-dimensional breathhold magnetic resonance (MR) technique for the direct imaging of pulmonary emboli. METHODS:In vitro MR imaging was performed to demonstrate the potential generation of clot-blood contrast by in vivo pulmonary embolism (PE). A two-dimensional magnet...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Moody AR,Liddicoat A,Krarup K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:The authors detect activation in the auditory cortex during cochlear electrical stimulation in deaf patients using functional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. METHODS:Stimulating electrode was inserted gently under local anesthesia close to the round window membrane of the cochlea in seven coc...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Berthezène Y,Truy E,Morgon A,Giard MH,Hermier M,Franconi JM,Froment JC

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Magnetic resonance imaging guidance has been sporadically reported for renal tumor cryoablation (CA); therefore, clinical experience with this modality is still limited.The aim of this study is to retrospectively analyze our 10-year experience with renal tumor CA performed on a 1.5 T magnetic resonance imagi...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Cazzato RL,De Marini P,Leonard-Lorant I,Leclerc L,Auloge P,Tricard T,Dalili D,Garnon J,Lang H,Gangi A

更新日期：2020-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiolabeled ioversol was injected intravenously into two male and two female beagle dogs (6.7 to 10.4 kg) at two dose levels each (0.2 and 1.0 g I/kg). Blood levels of radioactivity were monitored at 2, 5, 10, 20, 40, 60, 90, and 120 minutes and at one and two days. Urine and feces were collected in metabolism cages ...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Coveney JR,Robbins MS

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to assess the impact of oral water and intravenous furosemide challenges on blood oxygenation level-dependent magnetic resonance imaging measurements in the kidney and to examine the contribution of R2 (=1/T2) to changes in R2* (=1/T2*). MATERIALS AND METHODS:This Health Insurance ...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Vivier PH,Storey P,Chandarana H,Yamamoto A,Tantillo K,Khan U,Zhang JL,Sigmund EE,Rusinek H,Babb JS,Bubenheim M,Lee VS

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:Echogenic antibody-conjugated anionic liposomes have been developed that allow directed tissue targeting and acoustic enhancement. These are not efficient for gene delivery. A cationic formulation that allows directed gene delivery while retaining acoustic properties may provide more efficient ...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Tiukinhoy SD,Mahowald ME,Shively VP,Nagaraj A,Kane BJ,Klegerman ME,MacDonald RC,McPherson DD,Matsumura JS

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simultaneous inflation of two balloons may be necessary for balloon dilation valvuloplasty in patients with a large annulus. We examined the cardiovascular effects of dilating the pulmonary annulus with two balloons in 18 normal dogs using pulsed Doppler ultrasound and gross and microscopic examination. When the ratio...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Butto F,Burke B,Berry JM,Amplatz K,Bass JL

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:To develop a computer-assisted analysis of complex joint motion based on standard fluoroscopic sequences. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Fluoroscopic sequences of 10 normal shoulders and 20 patients after total shoulder arthroplasty were recorded during abduction and adduction. The analysis of the shou...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Pfirrmann CW,Huser M,Székely G,Hodler J,Gerber C

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:The suitability of paramagnetic complexes as magnetic resonance contrast agents depends on various factors such as their relaxivity, stability, selectivity, and the inertness toward transmetallation by endogenous ions. The transmetallation of a series of 18 gadolinium complexes by the Zn2+ ion ...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Laurent S,Elst LV,Copoix F,Muller RN

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radiographic method for use in the closed-chest dog is described which allows the quantitation of segmental mechanical performance. Previous work has shown that the area of the pressure-length loop (an approximation of a stress-strain integral) is a useful measure of the mechanical work performed by a segment of myo...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Ringertz HG,Carlsson E,Tyberg JV

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Commercially available iodinated contrast media (CM) show significantly different physico-chemical properties. The relevance of the viscosity of CM may be underestimated as a contributing factor for clinically relevant renal failure as suggested by a large registry data analysis (Swedish registry study). The ...

journal_title：Investigative radiology

authors： Jost G,Pietsch H,Sommer J,Sandner P,Lengsfeld P,Seidensticker P,Lehr S,Hütter J,Sieber MA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00