abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the diagnostic performance of automated coronary atherosclerotic plaque quantification (QCT) by different users (expert/non-expert/automatic). METHODS:One hundred fifty coronary artery segments from 142 patients who underwent coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) and intravascular ultra...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Park HB,Lee BK,Shin S,Heo R,Arsanjani R,Kitslaar PH,Broersen A,Dijkstra J,Ahn SG,Min JK,Chang HJ,Hong MK,Jang Y,Chung N

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To confirm feasibility and assess intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) to differentiate active sacroiliitis and ankylosing spondylitis.. METHODS:Forty-one patients were divided into two groups, an active group (n = 20) and a chronic group (n = 21), according to the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) Disease Act...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Zhao YH,Li SL,Liu ZY,Chen X,Zhao XC,Hu SY,Liu ZH,M S YJ,Chan Q,Liang CH

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess changes in portal and splanchnic arterial haemodynamics in patients undergoing transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) using four-dimensional (4D) flow MRI, a non-invasive, non-contrast imaging technique. METHODS:Eleven patients undergoing TIPS implantation were enrolled. K-t GRAPPA a...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Stankovic Z,Rössle M,Euringer W,Schultheiss M,Salem R,Barker A,Carr J,Langer M,Markl M,Collins JD

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Pre-therapeutic prediction of outcome is important for clinicians and patients in determining whether selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) is indicated for hepatic metastases of colorectal cancer (CRC). METHODS:Pre-therapeutic characteristics of 100 patients with colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) tr...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Fendler WP,Ilhan H,Paprottka PM,Jakobs TF,Heinemann V,Bartenstein P,Khalaf F,Ezziddin S,Hacker M,Haug AR

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidetector computed tomography (CT) plays an important role in the detection, risk stratification and prognosis evaluation of acute pulmonary embolism. This review will discuss the technical improvements for imaging peripheral pulmonary arteries, the methods of assessing pulmonary embolism severity based on CT find...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Zhang LJ,Lu GM,Meinel FG,McQuiston AD,Ravenel JG,Schoepf UJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the interchangeability of zone-specific (peripheral-zone (PZ) and transition-zone (TZ)) multiparametric-MRI (mp-MRI) logistic-regression (LR) models for classification of prostate cancer. METHODS:Two hundred and thirty-one patients (70 TZ training-cohort; 76 PZ training-cohort; 85 TZ temporal vali...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Dikaios N,Alkalbani J,Abd-Alazeez M,Sidhu HS,Kirkham A,Ahmed HU,Emberton M,Freeman A,Halligan S,Taylor S,Atkinson D,Punwani S

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate a new approach for reconstructing angiographic images by application of wavelet transforms on CT perfusion data. METHODS:Fifteen consecutive patients with suspected stroke were examined with a multi-detector CT acquiring 32 dynamic phases (∆t = 1.5s) of 99 slices (total slab thickness 99mm) at 8...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Havla L,Thierfelder KM,Beyer SE,Sommer WH,Dietrich O

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We aimed to estimate the prevalence of combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) and describe the follow-up CT results of CPFE in asymptomatic smokers. METHODS:This study was retrospective, and approved by an institutional review board. CT images of 2,016 current or previous male smokers who underwen...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Chae KJ,Jin GY,Han YM,Kim YS,Chon SB,Lee YS,Kwon KS,Choi HM,Lynch D

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether intrathoracic fat volumes are associated with presence and chronicity of atrial fibrillation (AF) and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) treatment outcome. METHODS:IRB approval was obtained and patient consent was waived for this HIPAA-compliant retrospective study. 169 patients with AF (75 n...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Stojanovska J,Kazerooni EA,Sinno M,Gross BH,Watcharotone K,Patel S,Jacobson JA,Oral H

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Opportunistic screening for osteoporosis using computed tomography (CT) examinations that happen to visualise the spine can be used to identify patients with osteoporosis. We sought to verify the diagnostic performance of vertebral Hounsfield unit (HU) measurements on routine CT examinations for diagnosing o...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Buckens CF,Dijkhuis G,de Keizer B,Verhaar HJ,de Jong PA

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study evaluated the predictive role of 1D, 2D and 3D quantitative, enhancement-based MRI regarding overall survival (OS) in patients with colorectal liver metastases (CLM) following intra-arterial therapies (IAT). METHODS:This retrospective analysis included 29 patients who underwent transarterial chem...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Chapiro J,Duran R,Lin M,Schernthaner R,Lesage D,Wang Z,Savic LJ,Geschwind JF

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate thyroid doses and cancer risk for paediatric patients undergoing neck computed tomography (CT). METHODS:We used average CTDI(vol) (mGy) values from 75 paediatric neck CT examinations to estimate thyroid dose in a mathematical anthropomorphic phantom (ImPACT Patient CT Dosimetry Calculator). Patie...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Spampinato MV,Tipnis S,Tavernier J,Huda W

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To prospectively compare reduced-dose (RD) CT colonography (CTC) with standard-dose (SD) imaging using several reconstruction algorithms. METHODS:Following SD supine CTC, 40 patients (mean age, 57.3 years; 17 M/23 F; mean BMI, 27.2) underwent an additional RD supine examination (targeted dose reduction, 70-9...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Lubner MG,Pooler BD,Kitchin DR,Tang J,Li K,Kim DH,Munoz del Rio A,Chen GH,Pickhardt PJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the utility of stretched exponential diffusion model in characterisation of the water diffusion heterogeneity in different tumour stages of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Fifty patients with newly diagnosed NPC were prospectively recruited. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging was ...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Lai V,Lee VH,Lam KO,Sze HC,Chan Q,Khong PL

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To implement a novel voxel-based technique to identify statistically significant local cartilage deformation and analyze in-vivo topographic knee cartilage deformation patterns using a voxel-based thickness map approach for high-flexion postures. METHODS:Sagittal 3T 3D-T1w-FLASH-WE-sequences of 10 healthy k...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Horng A,Raya JG,Stockinger M,Notohamiprodjo M,Pietschmann M,Hoehne-Hueckstaedt U,Glitsch U,Ellegast R,Hering KG,Glaser C

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and validate a decision support tool for mammographic mass lesions based on a standardized descriptor terminology (BI-RADS lexicon) to reduce variability of practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We used separate training data (1,276 lesions, 138 malignant) and validation data (1,177 lesions, 175 malignant...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Benndorf M,Kotter E,Langer M,Herda C,Wu Y,Burnside ES

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the significance of the two-compartment model, considering diffusional anisotropy with conventional diffusion analyzing methods regarding the detection of occult changes in normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) of multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS:Diffusion-weighted images (nine b-values with six d...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Tachibana Y,Obata T,Yoshida M,Hori M,Kamagata K,Suzuki M,Fukunaga I,Kamiya K,Yokoyama K,Hattori N,Inoue T,Aoki S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) can be difficult to detect using CT due to poor and heterogeneous contrast. Dual-energy CT (DECT) allows iodine contrast optimization using noise-optimized monoenergetic extrapolations (MEIs) and iodine maps (IMs). Our aim was to assess whether MEI and IM could improve t...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Bongers MN,Schabel C,Krauss B,Tsiflikas I,Ketelsen D,Mangold S,Claussen CD,Nikolaou K,Thomas C

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We compared carotid plaque calcification detection sensitivity and apparent cross-sectional area on CT as a function of CT beam energy using conventional CT techniques and virtual mono-energetic CT images generated from dual-energy acquisitions. METHODS & MATERIALS:Five ex-vivo carotid endarterectomy (CEA) spe...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Mannelli L,MacDonald L,Mancini M,Ferguson M,Shuman WP,Ragucci M,Monti S,Xu D,Yuan C,Mitsumori LM

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the automated two-point Dixon screening sequence for the detection and estimated quantification of hepatic iron and fat compared with standard sequences as a reference. METHODS:One hundred and two patients with suspected diffuse liver disease were included in this prospective study. The followin...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Henninger B,Zoller H,Rauch S,Schocke M,Kannengiesser S,Zhong X,Reiter G,Jaschke W,Kremser C

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Evaluate the performance of a robotic system for CT-guided lung biopsy in comparison to the conventional manual technique. MATERIALS AND METHODS:One hundred patients referred for CT-guided lung biopsy were randomly assigned to group A (robot-assisted procedure) or group B (conventional procedure). Size, dist...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Anzidei M,Argirò R,Porfiri A,Boni F,Anile M,Zaccagna F,Vitolo D,Saba L,Napoli A,Leonardi A,Longo F,Venuta F,Bezzi M,Catalano C

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the association between tumour FDG uptake on preoperative PET/CT and axillary lymph node metastasis (ALNM) according to breast cancer subtype. METHODS:The records of 671 patients with invasive breast cancer who underwent (18) F-FDG PET/CT and surgery were reviewed. Using immunohistochemistry, tu...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Kim JY,Lee SH,Kim S,Kang T,Bae YT

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(19)F MRI is emerging as a new imaging technique for cell tracking. It is particularly attractive because of its potential for direct and precise cell quantification. The most important challenge towards in vivo applications is the sensitivity of the technique, i.e. the detection limit in a reasonable imaging time. Op...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Amiri H,Srinivas M,Veltien A,van Uden MJ,de Vries IJ,Heerschap A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine effectiveness of coronary artery calcium score (CACS) alone and combined with Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE) in adult patients for significant coronary artery stenosis by using computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) as reference standard. METHODS:Two thousand twenty-one pat...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Durhan G,Hazırolan T,Sunman H,Karakaya J,Karçaaltıncaba M,Aytemir K,Karaağaoğlu E,Akata D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We sought to determine the relation between major adverse cardiac events (MACE) and anatomical criteria assessed by coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) in patients with an anomalous coronary artery with an interarterial course (ACAIAC). MATERIAL AND METHODS:We selected CCTA studies of patients with...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Ashrafpoor G,Danchin N,Houyel L,Ramadan R,Belli E,Paul JF

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the three-dimensional (3D)-fast spin-echo (FSE)-Cube with a conventional imaging protocol in evaluation of dacryostenosis. METHODS:Thirty-three patients with epiphora underwent examinations using Cube magnetic resonance dacryocystography (MRD) and a conventional protocol, which included 3D fast-r...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Zhang J,Chen L,Wang QX,Liu R,Zhu WZ,Luo X,Peng L,Xiong W

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to retrospectively assess the incidence of bowel wall oedema on computed tomography (CT) in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) treated with sunitinib, and to investigate its association with diarrhoea. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective analysis of all RCC patients trea...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Cornelissen L,Claus F,Wolter P,Dumez H,De Keyzer F,Lerut E,Van Poppel H,Beuselinck B

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the accuracy of CT texture and shape analysis in the differentiation of benign and malignant mediastinal nodes in lung cancer. METHODS:Forty-three patients with biopsy-proven primary lung malignancy with pathological mediastinal nodal staging and unenhanced CT of the thorax were studied retrospecti...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Bayanati H,E Thornhill R,Souza CA,Sethi-Virmani V,Gupta A,Maziak D,Amjadi K,Dennie C

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the feasibility of a newly developed noise reduction technique at coronary CT angiography (CTA) that uses multi-phase data-averaging and non-rigid image registration. METHODS:Sixty-five patients underwent coronary CTA with prospective ECG-triggering. The range of the phase window was set at 7...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Tatsugami F,Higaki T,Nakamura Y,Yamagami T,Date S,Fujioka C,Kiguchi M,Kihara Y,Awai K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate whether iterative reconstruction algorithms improve the diagnostic accuracy of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) for detection of lipid-core plaque (LCP) compared to histology. METHODS AND MATERIALS:CCTA and histological data were acquired from three ex vivo hearts. CCTA images were reconstructed u...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Puchner SB,Ferencik M,Maurovich-Horvat P,Nakano M,Otsuka F,Kauczor HU,Virmani R,Hoffmann U,Schlett CL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate how normal liver parenchyma visibility on 3 T diffusion-weighted images (DWI) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) quantification are influenced by age, gender, and iron content. METHODS:Between February 2011 and April 2013, 86 patients (52 women) with normal livers who underwent respirat...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Metens T,Ferraresi KF,Farchione A,Moreno C,Bali MA,Matos C

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare pulmonary high-resolution CT (HRCT) findings in patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia to HRCT findings in patients with Cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonia. METHODS:We studied 124 patients (77 men, 47 women; age range, 20-89 years; mean age, 65.4 years) with P. aeruginosa pneumonia and 44 pat...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Omeri AK,Okada F,Takata S,Ono A,Nakayama T,Ando Y,Sato H,Hiramatsu K,Mori H

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the role of core-needle biopsy (CNB) by comparing the results of CNB and repeated fine-needle aspiration (FNA) for thyroid nodules with initially non-diagnostic FNA results. METHODS:From October 2008 to December 2011, 360 nodules - 180 consecutive repeated FNAs and 180 consecutive CNBs -- from 36...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Choi SH,Baek JH,Lee JH,Choi YJ,Hong MJ,Song DE,Kim JK,Yoon JH,Kim WB

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the optimal imaging delay time of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in women with endometrial cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This prospective single-institution study was approved by the institutional review board, and informed consent was obtained from the participants. T...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Park SB,Moon MH,Sung CK,Oh S,Lee YH

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To demonstrate the feasibility of using chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) imaging to detect Parkinson's disease (PD) in patients at 3 Tesla. METHODS:Twenty-seven PD patients (17 men and 10 women; age range, 54-77 years) and 22 age-matched normal controls (13 men and 9 women; age range, 55-73 year...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Li C,Peng S,Wang R,Chen H,Su W,Zhao X,Zhou J,Chen M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the effect of patient size, body region and modulation strength on tube current and image quality on CT examinations that use automatic tube current modulation (ATCM). METHODS:Ten physical anthropomorphic phantoms that simulate an individual as neonate, 1-, 5-, 10-year-old and adult at various body...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Papadakis AE,Perisinakis K,Damilakis J

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is a new ablation technique that relies on high-voltage electrical pulses. This clinical study evaluates the pathological response of colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) treated with IRE and the clinical safety and feasibility. METHODS:Ten patients with resectable CRLM were...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Scheffer HJ,Nielsen K,van Tilborg AA,Vieveen JM,Bouwman RA,Kazemier G,Niessen HW,Meijer S,van Kuijk C,van den Tol MP,Meijerink MR

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the prognosis of "strict" high-risk nodules (small hepatocellular nodules detected only in the hepatobiliary phase of initial Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR examination) in patients with cirrhosis or chronic hepatitis. METHODS AND MATERIALS:The study included thirty-three patients with 60 "strict" high-ri...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Higaki A,Ito K,Tamada T,Sone T,Kanki A,Noda Y,Yasokawa K,Yamamoto A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Sufficiently sized studies to determine the value of the iliolumbar ligament (ILL) as an identifier of the L5 vertebra in cases of a lumbosacral transitional vertebra (LSTV) are lacking. METHODS:Seventy-one of 770 patients with LSTV (case group) and 62 of 611 subjects without LSTV with confirmed L5 level wer...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Farshad-Amacker NA,Lurie B,Herzog RJ,Farshad M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To analyse the accuracy of dual-energy contrast-enhanced spectral mammography in dense breasts in comparison with contrast-enhanced subtracted mammography (CESM) and conventional mammography (Mx). MATERIALS AND METHODS:CESM cases of dense breasts with histological proof were evaluated in the present study. Fou...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Cheung YC,Lin YC,Wan YL,Yeow KM,Huang PC,Lo YF,Tsai HP,Ueng SH,Chang CJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00