L5–S1 disc replacement after tw ...
Following scoliosis surgery, lumbar motion segment degeneration below the level of fusion is not uncommon. Especially long fusions extending to the ...
Surgery versus conservative man ...
The effectiveness of surgery in patients with sciatica due to lumbar disc herniations is not without dispute. The goal of this study was to assess t ...
Closing–opening wedge osteotomy ...
Childhood spinal tuberculosis, especially when associated with severe vertebral destruction of more than two vertebral bodies can end up in severe d ...
Posterior listhesis of a lumbar ...
The management of spinal tuberculosis, especially in children, is controversial. In children, vertebral destruction is more severe than adults becau ...
Results of the European themati ...
Experts in Adapted Physical Activity (APA) for elderly persons from 66 higher education institutions of 29 European countries worked during 3 years ...
Estimation of energy expenditur ...
Over the last few years, the estimation of energy expenditure with accelerometers has become more and more accurate due to improvements in sensor te ...
Ageing and maximal physical per ...
Elite master athletes with long-term devotion to physical training offer an economical means of investigating the effects of ageing and habitual exe ...
A life course approach: researc ...
The need to study lifelong changes in health and functioning has resulted in increasing emphasis on a life course approach in different fields of in ...
Comparison of diagnostic accura ...
Objective To compare the diagnostic accuracy of a standard bi-directional, three-dimensional (3D) CT colonography (CTC) fly-through (standard view, ...
Pilot multi-reader study demons ...
Objective To determine the potential for radiation dose reduction using sigmoidally-blended mixed-kV images from dual energy (DE) hepatic CT. Metho ...
Fibromatosis of the breast in a ...
Fibromatosis is a proliferation of fibroblastic and miofibroblastic cells that primarily originate from the fascia or aponeuroses of the abdominal ...
Chest computed tomography using ...
Purpose To evaluate the image quality of an iterative reconstruction algorithm (IRIS) in low-dose chest CT in comparison with standard-dose filtered ...
Positive contrast visualization ...
Objective MRI has recently been introduced as a promising method of monitoring the transplanted pancreatic islets labelled with superparamagnetic ir ...
Chest computed tomography using ...
Objective To assess noise reduction achievable with an iterative reconstruction algorithm. Methods 32 consecutive chest CT angiograms were reconstru ...
Dynamic contrast-enhanced magne ...
Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI enables noninvasive analysis of prostate vascularization as well as tumour angiogenesis and capillary permeability cha ...
High-resolution 3D non-contrast ...
Objective To determine the diagnostic value of non-contrastenhanced, 3D-high-resolution, ECG-gated, multi-step MR angiography (non-ceMRA) of the low ...
High-pitch dual-source CT angio ...
Purpose To compare image quality and radiation dose of high-pitch computed tomography angiography(CTA) of the aortic valve-aortic root complex with ...
Prostatic arterial supply: demo ...
Objectives To evaluate the prostatic arterial supply with multidetector Angio CT and Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA). Methods DSA was perform ...
Cerebral blood volume imaging b ...
Objective We tested the hypothesis that Flat Detector computed tomography (FD-CT) with intravenous contrast medium would allow the calculation of wh ...
Assessment of tissue perfusion ...
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) with microbubble contrast agents is a new imaging technique for quantifying tissue perfusion. CEUS presents seve ...
Diffusion tensor imaging and fi ...
Objectives To (1) obtain microstructural parameters (Fractional Anisotropy: FA, Mean Diffusivity: MD) of the cervical spinal cord in patients suffer ...
Pulmonary hemorrhage complicati ...
Purpose To assess risk factors and the extent of pulmonary hemorrhage complicating radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of pulmonary neoplasms. Materials ...
Prediction of biochemical recur ...
Objective To retrospectively assess the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) as a predictor of biochemical recurrence (BCR) after surgery in patient ...
Distribution of cerebral blood ...
Objective To investigate the influence of internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis on the distribution of blood flow to the caudate nucleus, lentiform ...
Diffusion weighted imaging in p ...
Diffusion-weighted imaging has generated substantial interest in the hope that it can be developed into a robust technique to improve the accuracy o ...