MRI and Medical Imaging.

04/02/2024

Today, on World Cancer Day, we come together to raise awareness about this disease and the importance of prevention. By educating ourselves and others, we can take crucial steps towards reducing the impacts of cancer on individuals and communities worldwide. Let's work together towards a healthier world for all.

16/01/2024

Different approaches to acquire brain axial T2 of an noncooperative patient, my advice is:
1- Cartesian for normal cases
2- BLADE for uncomfortable patients
3- HASTE for moving and heavily uncooperative patients.
Performed on Siemens Magnetom Aera 1.5T

Credits@ Abdelrahman Khalel ~via linkedin

16/01/2024

An interactive toy is helping to prepare some of the county's youngest patients for hospital scans without the need for sedation or a general anaesthetic.
Read more https:I/Inkd.in/eHKb5Ydx

Credits@ United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust via linkedin

08/01/2024

Mri TMJ's Open and Closed .
Performed on Siemens Magnetom Altea 1.5T🧲

Credits Abobarka via linkedin

07/01/2024

MRE(Magnetic🧲 Resonance Enterography).
Performed on Magnetom Avanto Tim 1.5T 18Channels at Advanced International Hospital Advance Diagnostic Centre .

15/12/2023

The CEA with its expertise on magnets dedicated
to fusion reactors and particle detectors accepted the challenge of building a WB 11.7T magnet for MRI. And after a feasibility study, the Iseult-Inumac project was funded. After nearly twenty years of research and development, prototyping, manufacturing and commissioning, first images were finally successfully obtained in 2021.

15/12/2023

From Magnetic Resonance (1,3) to Ultrasound (2), Photon counting CT (4) and Angiography (5): See how imaging is used to detect liver diseases and treat liver cancer. https://bit.ly/3tnxHDj
via Siemens Healthineers

15/12/2023

Ultra-high field (10.5T) diffusion-weighted MRI of the macaque brain
https://Inkd.in/dKrqfH_H . Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a non- invasive imaging technique that provides information about the barriers to the diffusion of water molecules in tissue. In the brain, this information can be used in several important ways, including to examine tissue abnormalities associated with brain disorders and to infer anatomical connectivity and the organization of white matter bundles through the use of tractography al- gorithms. However, dMRI also presents certain challenges. For example, historically, the biological validation of tractography models has shown only moderate correlations with anatomical connectivity as determined through invasive tract-tracing studies. Some of the factors contributing to such issues are low spatial resolution, low signal-to-noise ratios, and long scan times required for high-quality data, along with modeling challenges like complex fiber crossing patterns.Leveraging the capabilities provided by an ultra-high field scanner combined with denoising, we have acquired whole-brain,0.58 mm isotropic resolution dMRI with a 2D-single shot echo planar imaging sequence on a 10.5 Tesla scanner in anesthetized macaques. These data produced high-quality tractograms and maps of scalar diffusion metrics in white matter. This work demonstrates the feasibility and motivation for in-vivo dMRI studies seeking to benefit from ultra-high fields.

08/11/2023

Happy International Day of Radiology ☢️

21/10/2023

15/08/2023

Stefanie Hajduga, radiology technologist at University Hospital Essen, excels at running remote MRI scans from home. Read how she’s able to maintain a balanced life while giving support to her colleagues. https://bit.ly/44aSRRD

Credits: Siemens Healthineers

09/08/2023

Wearable coil vest could change the game in breast MRI

A new breast-imaging technique known as “panoramic breast MRI” could expand the use of breast MR imaging as a follow-up exam to investigate suspicious mammography findings. The approach is expected to improve image quality, simplify clinical workflow, be more cost-effective and aid image interpretation using a panoramic visualization of breast MR images.

In a step towards clinical adoption of this technology, researchers from the Medical University of Vienna have designed a prototype MRI coil that can be worn like a sports bra. The BraCoil, described in Investigative Radiology, is a vest-like receive-only coil array made of flexible coil elements for 3 T MRI. The design is suitable for a large range of body shapes and breast sizes, sufficiently covering both breasts and allowing for assessment of axillary lymph nodes. Importantly, the BraCoil enables MR imaging in both the supine (patient lying on their back) and prone (patient lying on their front) positions.

The adjustable BraCoil is designed to improve comfort, reduce preparation and acquisition time, and increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the resulting images. The ability to perform supine imaging provides consistency in breast shape with other imaging and therapeutic modalities. To improve the display efficiency, the team proposes using the coil together with a panoramic reconstruction of the images, similar to that commonly employed in panoramic dental X-ray..

Via-Physicsworld.com

09/08/2023

Strange behavior is what caused Brooke, a very popular 376-pound alligator from the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park to undergo a CT scan at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine. Although the scanner has a 78 centimeter bore, Brooke was still too large to have a full-body scan. CT images of only the reptiles head and radiographs of the lungs determined the diagnosis, an ear infection. Read more at https://bit.ly/3Of1YKU.

Via-ASRT

19/04/2023

Mri Brains 🧠 of a patient which shows a huge meningioma!
Credits: Mariano Teyssandier, via LinkedIn.

11/04/2023

MRI Acronyms
Cross-Vendor Comparisons.

10/04/2023

A baby sized MRI system for neonate intensive care units (NICU) on
display by Aspect imaging at RSNA 2022. It is a 1T MRI that is self
shielding and does not require special cooling or electrical. It also allows
any type of equipment to be in the room without issues with ferrous
metals.

10/04/2023

MRI Brain, patient with active MS lesions seen after contrast application.
This time DIR sequence was used instead 3D Flair. MRI Siemens Magnetom Altea 1.5T ,Biocell hospital.

Credits : Predrag pavlovic ,via linkedin