• [ 9 ] While lesions in immunocompetent patients tend to be solitary, periventricular, and homogenously enhancing, lesions in immunocompromised patients may be cortical or subcortical with a variable enhancement pattern, with ring enhancement most commonly seen. (medscape.com)
  • Visualization of inflammatory, demyelinated, and neoplastic lesions may require enhancement with IV paramagnetic contrast agents (eg, gadolinium). (msdmanuals.com)
  • Magnetic resonance imaging revealed that the lesions were lobulated with iso‑intensity T1‑weighted image signals and slightly long T2‑weighted image signals. (spandidos-publications.com)
  • A radiological assessment with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scan showed diffusely increased leptomeningeal enhancement and multiple numerous enhancing nodules in the scalp. (surgicalneurologyint.com)
  • This increasing CSF results in impaired CSF absorption seen as leptomeningeal enhancement on magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. (eyewiki.org)
  • HaNDL syndrome is characterized by elevated CSF lymphocytosis, neurological deficits, and abnormal neuroimaging such as leptomeningeal enhancement and/or hypoperfusion without a diffusion restriction. (eyewiki.org)
  • In fact, MRI with gadolinium enhancement is considered the best diagnostic tool for detection of brain metastases. (oncolink.org)
  • Gadolinium enhancement is based on a disruption of the blood brain barrier (BBB) in the area of tumour growth. (therapeia.info)
  • In this situation, the late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) pattern is not consistent with what is typical for CAD-related scarring (significant congruent gadolinium uptake in the subendocardial region that follows a coronary artery distribution). (acc.org)
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is widely used to determine the structure of organic molecules in solution and study molecular physics and crystals as well as non-crystalline materials. (wikipedia.org)
  • The frequencies of the time-signal response by the total magnetization (M) of the nuclear spins are analyzed in NMR spectroscopy and magnetic resonance imaging. (wikipedia.org)
  • NMR phenomena are also utilized in low-field NMR, NMR spectroscopy and MRI in the Earth's magnetic field (referred to as Earth's field NMR), and in several types of magnetometers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Analytical chemists often make use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to identify molecules and measure their concentrations. (spectroscopyeurope.com)
  • Nuclear Quadrupole Spectroscopy (NQRS) revealed resonance frequencies close to target values for clinical scanners and showed the relevance of structural order of the Bi centres. (europa.eu)
  • After an RF pulse, precession usually occurs with the nuclei's intrinsic Larmor frequency and, in itself, does not involve transitions between spin states or energy levels. (wikipedia.org)
  • Human infection usually occurs via the oral or transplacental route. (medscape.com)
  • Fetal infection usually occurs in the third trimester, but more severe sequelae may ensue if the fetus is contaminated in the first trimester. (medscape.com)
  • This usually occurs in the presence of a sexually demanding partner. (minddisorders.com)
  • Lhermitte-Duclos disease (LDD), also known system, it is a grade I mixed glioneuronal as dysplastic gangliocytoma of the cere- tumor.2 It usually occurs in patients between bellum, is a rare condition first described by 30 and 50 years of age, both sexes. (bvsalud.org)
  • Human botulism is associated with exposure to BoNT serotypes A, B, E, and F and usually occurs through three clinical forms: intestinal colonization, foodborne, and wound 4 . (cdc.gov)
  • The physical examination findings vary depending on the form of CPPD in a given patient, who may present with an acute arthritis or different patterns of chronic arthritis. (medscape.com)
  • In this review, we presented previous findings for brain regions during meditation and the anatomical changes that occurred in the brain with long-term meditation training. (frontiersin.org)
  • We suggest that the characteristics of the modulation of this activity may depend on the kind of meditation and/or number of years of experience of meditation, which were associated with paradoxical findings among previous studies that investigated pain-related neural activities during meditation. (frontiersin.org)
  • [2] Thus a diagnosis of vertebral osteomyelitis should be assumed (without the need for a disc space aspiration or another tissue sampling) in a patient with S. aureus bacteremia within the preceding 3 months and compatible spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings. (nih.gov)
  • Pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) confirmed the ultrasound findings: a pseudotumor appearance of the left ovary located retrouterine, measuring 55 x 57 x 67 mm, with an intensely inhomogeneous structure, vascular congestion at the upper pole of the left ovary, a medium amount of intraperitoneal fluid and no abdomino-pelvic lymphadenopathy (Fig. 10). (efsumb.org)
  • if a sample is placed in a non-uniform magnetic field then the resonance frequencies of the sample's nuclei depend on where in the field they are located. (wikipedia.org)
  • Both use applied magnetic fields (B0) of great strength, often produced by large currents in superconducting coils, in order to achieve dispersion of response frequencies and of very high homogeneity and stability in order to deliver spectral resolution, the details of which are described by chemical shifts, the Zeeman effect, and Knight shifts (in metals). (wikipedia.org)
  • Quantum-mechanical simulation programs for the relaxation of Bi-1H-systems have been developed to study the dependence of QRE efficiency on design parameters like quadrupole resonance frequencies, dynamics of the molecules and exchange rate of water molecules with the QN. (europa.eu)
  • Sweden range 2.6 to 49 MHz in the pD range 2 to 11 at 27°C. While the protein-induced relaxation enhancement was similar for the two proteins at high frequencies, it was an order of magnitude smaller for ubiquitin than for BPTI at low frequencies. (lu.se)
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon in which nuclei in a strong constant magnetic field are perturbed by a weak oscillating magnetic field (in the near field) and respond by producing an electromagnetic signal with a frequency characteristic of the magnetic field at the nucleus. (wikipedia.org)
  • In order to interact with the magnetic field in the spectrometer, the nucleus must have an intrinsic nuclear magnetic moment and angular momentum. (wikipedia.org)
  • This occurs when an isotope has a nonzero nuclear spin, meaning an odd number of protons and/or neutrons (see Isotope). (wikipedia.org)
  • The principle of NMR usually involves three sequential steps: The alignment (polarization) of the magnetic nuclear spins in an applied, constant magnetic field B0. (wikipedia.org)
  • The perturbation of this alignment of the nuclear spins by a weak oscillating magnetic field, usually referred to as a radio frequency (RF) pulse. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance was first described and measured in molecular beams by Isidor Rabi in 1938, by extending the Stern-Gerlach experiment, and in 1944, Rabi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work. (wikipedia.org)
  • Russell H. Varian filed the "Method and means for correlating nuclear properties of atoms and magnetic fields", U.S. Patent 2,561,490 on July 24, 1951. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nuclear medicine studies are very sensitive and often detect sites of abnormal metabolic behavior months before radiographic changes occur. (oncolink.org)
  • Characterization and analysis across the scales is by X-ray computed topography (CT), mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP), N2 adsorption/desorption [Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET)], and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). (acs.org)
  • We describe two unusual cases of multifocal MPNST in relation to NF1 occurring in the spinal cord. (surgicalneurologyint.com)
  • 2 ] In this study, we describe two case reports of unusual multifocal MPNST occurring in the background of NF1 with a brief literature review. (surgicalneurologyint.com)
  • This was shown in 2 case reports, one in a 75-year-old woman who presented with neck pain and in whom magnetic resonance imaging showed spondylodiscitis based on contrast enhancement of C5-C6 vertebrae corpus, and the other in a 61-year-old woman with spondylodiscitis at the C5-C6 intervertebral disc. (medscape.com)
  • Magnetic resonance imaging showed enhancement of the conglomeration about 1.5 cm size in diameter in the pancreas. (bioseek.eu)
  • lar enhancement by intravenous contrast (5). (cdc.gov)
  • [2] Fungal vertebral osteomyelitis is rare but can occur in patients in endemic regions (i.e., histoplasmosis, blastomycosis), immunocompromised patients ( Aspergillus ), and intravenous drug users and indwelling intravenous catheters ( Candida and Aspergillus ). (nih.gov)
  • We considered 93 brain MR imaging studies on 16 patients that included T1-, T2-, and T2-weighted FLAIR images and predicted voxel wise enhancement after intravenous injection of a gadolinium chelate. (ajnr.org)
  • Magnetic resonance image of a patient with raised intracranial pressure. (cdc.gov)
  • T1-weighted axial brain magnetic resonance image at the level of the basal ganglia in a 24-year-old man with human immunodeficiency virus infection. (medscape.com)
  • Relatively higher poststimulatory enhancement in PRA was found in patients with hyperthyroidism, especially those with low basal PRA, than in those with hypothyroidism. (nel.edu)
  • The poststimulatory changes in PRA depended on the basal PRA. (nel.edu)
  • The brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed symmetric and confluent hyperintense signal abnormalities mainly located in the basal ganglia, internal capsule, external capsule, periventricular, corona radiata, frontal and temporal lobes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated a cystic lesion imaging at the level of the L4-L5 disc. (bvsalud.org)
  • PCNSL occurs at an incidence of 0.47 per 100,000 person-years, accounting for 4%-6% of extranodal lymphomas and 4% of newly diagnosed CNS tumors. (medscape.com)
  • The CD34 protein is a hematopoietic progenitor cell antigen that occurs in a variety of mesenchymal tumors. (medscape.com)
  • They make up 0.3 to 0.5% of female breast tumors [ 1 ] and have an incidence of about 2.1 per million, the peak of which occurs in women aged 45 to 49 years [ 2 , 3 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • It has also been postulated that stromal induction of phyllodes tumors can occur as a result of growth factors produced by the breast epithelium. (hindawi.com)
  • The relaxation data indicate that the internal water molecules of BPTI exchange with bulk water on the time-scale 10-8 to 10-6 second thus lowering the recently reported upper bound on the residence time of these internal water molecules by four orders of magnitude, and implying that local unfolding occurs on the submicrosecond time-scale. (lu.se)
  • Most commonly, however, it affects the knees, and it can involve the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joints and spine, as occurs in patients with primary osteoarthritis. (medscape.com)
  • Thus, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the lumbar spine was performed, which did not show any epidural hematoma. (ahrq.gov)
  • We then used these voxel-level predictions to determine the presence or absence of abnormal enhancement anywhere in the brain. (ajnr.org)
  • LGE depends on contrast between normal and abnormal tissue and this is difficult to achieve when the disease is diffusely distributed in the myocardium, like interstitial fibrosis in the setting of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction or hypertensive heart disease. (acc.org)
  • RGNTs typically occur in young adults between the ages of 25 and 33 and display a preference for the posterior fossa. (surgicalneurologyint.com)
  • A meta-analysis of cases compiled until December 2012 found that out of 85 RGNTs, 80% (68) of them occurred in the posterior fossa while only 15.3% (13) occurred supratentorially. (surgicalneurologyint.com)
  • The eccentric target sign is a ring-shaped alternating zone of peripheral enhancement with an innermost enhancing core, an intermediate hypointense zone, and an outer peripheral hyperintense enhancing rim, with a slight eccentric nodule along the wall (30%), viewed on postcontrast CT or T1-weighted MRI. (medscape.com)
  • In children, priapism is commonly associated with leukemia and sickle cell disease, or occurs secondary to trauma. (minddisorders.com)
  • It is most commonly detected as enhancement on MR imaging performed with contrast agents that are costly and occasionally toxic. (ajnr.org)
  • In adults, most T gondii infections are subclinical, but severe infection can occur in patients who are immunocompromised, such as those who have acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and malignancies. (medscape.com)
  • [ 3 ] and can occur both in immunocompromised patients and in patients who are immunocompetent. (medscape.com)
  • Pseudogout usually involves the knee or the wrist, although almost any joint can be involved, including the first metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint, as occurs in patients with gout. (medscape.com)
  • Despite an 80% prevalence of severe coronary heart disease (CHD) underlying SCD, the majority of cases occur in patients with unknown heart disease, who do not have a current indication for an ICD [1]. (escardio.org)
  • The management of patients largely depends on age, comorbidities and reason for implantation (primary vs. secondary prevention). (escardio.org)
  • Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NSF) has occurred in patients with impaired elimination of GBCAs. (nih.gov)
  • Anaphylactoid and other serious hypersensitivity reactions including fatal reactions have occurred particularly in patients with history of allergy or drug reactions. (nih.gov)
  • Acute renal failure has occurred in patients with preexisting renal insufficiency. (nih.gov)
  • The treatment of established neurocys- of subcutaneous cysticerci, which are found in 4% ticercosis is controversial and probably depends to 25% of patients with neurocysticercosis (the on the associated inflammatory reaction as well percentages are higher in Asia than in Latin as clinical and pathologic features. (cdc.gov)
  • Metaplastic theory suggests the differentiation of serosal surfaces or celomic epithelium into endometrial tissue, and arguments given in favour include the fact that endometriosis can also occur in patients with uterine agenesis, gonadal dysgenesis, and Turner syndrome [ 12 ]. (polradiol.com)
  • Activation of the inflammatory system occurs in most patients with advanced heart failure, regardless of etiology, and contributes to the pathophysiological milieu and the progression of the disease. (intechopen.com)
  • The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) defines an ineligible company as "as any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients" and relevant financial relationships as "financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 24 months that create a conflict of interest. (ahrq.gov)
  • however, it also occurs in an increasing number of HIV-negative patients [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • CONQUER has explored quadrupole-enhanced relaxation (QRE) as a fundamentally new contrast mechanism with the potential to push magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) far beyond its limits towards a powerful MI modality. (europa.eu)
  • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an excellent non-invasive modality that helps in non-invasive diagnosis, with excellent delineation of the disease extent, and thus provides a presurgical mapping of the disease, which is helpful for the operating surgeon [ 6 ]. (polradiol.com)
  • QRE exploits magnetic interaction between protons (1H) and high spin quadrupolar nuclei (QN) for contrast agent (CA) design. (europa.eu)
  • Structural imaging with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI in connection with contrast agent (gadolinium) is the structural imaging methodology of choice, being able to detect not only tumour, but also the oedema surrounding many gliomas. (therapeia.info)
  • 16 ] The remaining reported cases were spinal (1) or occurred in more than one location (3). (surgicalneurologyint.com)
  • Typical symptoms of relapses may be referable to demyelinating pathology involving the optic nerves (e.g. optic neuritis), brainstem (e.g. internuclear ophthalmoplegia) or spinal cord (e.g. partial myelitis), although non-specific symptoms referable to the cerebral hemispheres or other brain regions can also occur (Katz Sand and Lublin, 2013). (medscape.com)
  • Gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) en face. (medscape.com)
  • Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) can occur in any gastrointestinal (GI) tract, but it is extremely rare in pancreas. (bioseek.eu)
  • CD is a proliferative disease that runs through all layers of the intestinal wall and it can occur anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract, the most common being the terminal ileum and colon [ 2 , 3 ]. (intechopen.com)
  • For both proteins, the oxygen-17 relaxation depended only very weakly on pD, showing that ionic residues do not perturb hydration water dynamics more than other surface residues. (lu.se)
  • The aim was to synthesise bio-compatible nano-particles (NPs) containing Bismuth (Bi) as QN with high freedom in the design of smart properties, e.g. the ability to switch the contrast on and off by changing the magnetic field (B0) or chemical binding (e.g. targeting). (europa.eu)
  • As predicted by theory the B0 at which the effect appears depends on subtle changes of the chemical structure and also the interaction of the Bi-centres with the molecular environment. (europa.eu)
  • Resonance Group, Chemical of the globular proteins bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) and Center, Lund University ubiquitin in aqueous solution. (lu.se)
  • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is considered superior to computed tomography (CT) scanning in the detection of brain toxoplasmosis . (medscape.com)
  • We firstly overviewed brain regions during meditation and the anatomical changes that occurred in the brain with long-term meditation training. (frontiersin.org)
  • At the whole-brain level, enhancement can be predicted with an AUC of 0.72 (95% CI, 0.62-0.82). (ajnr.org)
  • NMR results from specific magnetic properties of certain atomic nuclei. (wikipedia.org)
  • The oscillation frequency required for significant perturbation is dependent upon the static magnetic field (B0) and the nuclei of observation. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] Rabi, Bloch, and Purcell observed that magnetic nuclei, like 1 H and 31 P , could absorb RF energy when placed in a magnetic field and when the RF was of a frequency specific to the identity of the nuclei. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since the resolution of the imaging technique depends on the magnitude of the magnetic field gradient, many efforts are made to develop increased gradient field strength. (wikipedia.org)
  • These examinations may include biopsies depending on the clinical circumstances, organ and instrumentation used. (oncolink.org)
  • This image was obtained after the patient received 20 days of treatment, with resultant clinical improvement, and shows a low-attenuating mass with minor peripheral ring enhancement. (medscape.com)
  • The observed signals occur close to the B0 of a clinical 3T MRI scanner. (europa.eu)
  • The clinical and pathologic features of neuro- cysticercosis vary, depending on the inflam-matory response around cysticerci, their number, size, and location. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition, the effectiveness of antitoxin treatment may vary depending on circulating toxin levels, so that rapid identification and quantification of BoNT proteins in clinical specimens and food is desirable for optimization of treatment. (cdc.gov)
  • To clarify the underlying mechanisms for this phenomenon, neuroimaging methods, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, and neurophysiological methods, such as magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography, have been used. (frontiersin.org)
  • Diagnosis of glioma is currently corroborated using a combination of structural and functional imaging modalities, depending on institutional availability. (therapeia.info)
  • Enzymatic cleavage assays represent an attractive approach where the functional active toxins are detected by monitoring the cleavage of their target substrates, or peptide mimics in most cases, by means of different techniques, such as immunological detection 18 , 19 , capillary electrophoresis 20 , fluorescence analysis 21 , Forster resonance energy transfer (ALISSA) 22 , and high performance liquid chromatography 23 . (cdc.gov)
  • Sagittal proton density-weighted 3-tesla magnetic resonance image of the right knee shows meniscocapsular separation. (msdmanuals.com)
  • T2-weighted coronal magnetic resonance image at the level of the insulae in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus infection and central nervous system toxoplasmosis (same patient as in the previous 3 images). (medscape.com)
  • Upper GI image obtained during the single contrast enhancement portion shows an incidentally found mass. (medscape.com)
  • Figure 6: Axial T1 weighted image showing intense enhancement of the mass. (blogspot.com)
  • Figure 2: Intense enhancement is noted after contrast administration. (blogspot.com)
  • The extra-dural soft tissue shows intense enhancement on contrast administration. (blogspot.com)
  • Tissue characterization in CMR depends mainly on identifying fibrosis and disrupted myocardial interstitium. (acc.org)
  • This typically occurs in the knee but may be present in the wrists, shoulders, ankles, hands, and feet. (medscape.com)
  • Priapism is the occurrence of any persistent erection of more than four hours duration occurring in the absence of sexual stimulation. (minddisorders.com)
  • Broadly speaking, stochastic resonance is a mechanism by which a system embedded in a noisy environment acquires an enhanced sensitivity towards small external time-dependent forcings, when the noise intensity reaches some finite level. (scholarpedia.org)
  • however, asexual reproduction occurs in secondary hosts, such as rodents, livestock, birds, and humans, culminating in the formation of tissue cysts, which persist for the lifespan of the secondary host. (medscape.com)
  • Priapism may also occur secondary to the use of psychotropic drugs, such as chlorpromazine and prazosin. (minddisorders.com)
  • This is because both resolution and sensitivity scale up with a magnetic field used in an NMR spectrometer. (spectroscopyeurope.com)
  • B) Profile of magnetic field magnitude along the axis of the spectrometer. (spectroscopyeurope.com)
  • in practical applications with static magnetic fields up to ca. 20 tesla, the frequency is similar to VHF and UHF television broadcasts (60-1000 MHz). (wikipedia.org)
  • A key feature of NMR is that the resonant frequency of a particular sample substance is usually directly proportional to the strength of the applied magnetic field. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conditions such as melanotic macules , nevi, smoker's melanosis , amalgam and graphite tattoos, racial pigmentation , and vascular blood-related pigments occur with some frequency. (medscape.com)
  • The incident of leaving a foreign body in the surgical field occurs with a frequency of 0.001% to as high as 0.1% per single surgery [ 1 , 2 ]. (polradiol.com)
  • Transplacental infection may occur if the mother acquires the parasite acutely or if a latent infection is reactivated during immunosuppression. (medscape.com)
  • Priapism can occur at any age, but clusters of occurrence are common between the ages of five and 10 years and between the ages of 20 and 50. (minddisorders.com)
  • Synthesis of magnetic (metal) clusters at submicron scale by gas aggregation is based on target atoms evaporating/sputtering into a cooled inert gas flow at relatively high pressure [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Rather than using ionizing radiation, MRI employs radiofrequency pulses in a magnetic field. (oncolink.org)
  • This volume corresponds with the most homogeneous region of the magnetic field, although the magnetic field spans a much larger region and can still adequately polarise the sample outside of the active volume. (spectroscopyeurope.com)
  • The "active volume" (red square) represents a small portion of the sample, but many similar portions are still strongly polarised by the magnetic field. (spectroscopyeurope.com)
  • As-implanted FePt nanoparticles in polyimide films exhibited a blocking temperature of 70 ± 5 K. Thermal annealing in zero and 10 kOe applied magnetic field increased the magnetic anisotropy and coercivity of the samples. (hindawi.com)
  • As expected with increased ICP, sixth-nerve palsies and optic atrophy with transient visual field loss may also occur in HaNDL syndrome. (eyewiki.org)
  • Inflammatory cardiomyopathy can also occur in connection with autoimmune inflammatory diseases. (intechopen.com)
  • it is suggested that the dissociation in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system occurs in hyperthyroid and hypothyroid women. (nel.edu)
  • Methane (CH4) hydrate growth and dissociation in partially water- and gas-saturated Bentheim sandstone were spatially resolved using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), which allows the in situ monitoring of saturation and phase transitions. (acs.org)
  • This is the first time T+H has been used to predict empirical nonmonotonic dissociation behavior, where hydrate dissociation and reformation occurred as parallel events. (acs.org)
  • The incidence of vertebral osteomyelitis differs, depending on the region and population being studied. (nih.gov)
  • FePt nanoclusters have been implanted onto polyimide films and subjected to thermal annealing in order to obtain a special magnetic phase (L1 0 ) dispersed within the polymer. (hindawi.com)
  • In the adult population is common rFeports of pain symptoms and musculoskeletal imbalances, and occur predominantly in the lower back, neck and upper limbs 1 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Growth depends on nutrients and oxygen, and the fetus's main adaptation to lack of these is to slow its rate of cell division, especially in those tissues that are undergoing critical periods at the time. (bmj.com)
  • To reach nanomolar limits of detection one has to use high magnetic fields and cryogenically cooled probes that are beyond the reach of most analytical laboratories. (spectroscopyeurope.com)
  • Moreover, in general, since the activities of the ACC and insula are correlated with pain perception, the increase in neural activities during meditation would be related to the enhancement of pain perception rather than its reduction. (frontiersin.org)
  • Seizures occur more frequently with low-grade tumours than with high-grade tumours. (therapeia.info)