Rationale and Objectives The relationship between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and atherosclerosis has been suggested; this association may relate to systemic inflammation and endo...

Rationale and Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the diagnostic performance of elastography, B-mode ultrasound (US), and a combination of elastography and B-mode US for t...

Objective To report our clinical experience with a 256-slice multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) with a 270-ms gantry rotation system in performing CT coronary angiograms (CTCA) using both pr...

This is the first edition of a dedicated cardiac imaging case series published by Thieme. Few competing texts are available in this area and the addition of this book is welcome. This is a collabor...

Rationale and Objectives The aims of this study were to retrospectively evaluate whether computed tomographic (CT) parameters were predictors of in-hospital mortality within 30 days of CT imaging ...

Rationale and Objectives The purpose of this study was to perform high-resolution contrast-enhanced peripheral multistation magnetic resonance angiography using a new blood-pool contrast agent (ga...

Interventional Radiology in Women’s Health is a comprehensive yet concise text encompassing the gamut of interventional radiology procedures specific to women. As the emergence of subspecialization...

Open full size image Igor Laufer was a wonderful person, husband and father, kind, friendly, generous, bright, dedicated to his patients, warm to his colleagues, helpful to his students, a diligen...

Purpose To evaluate the effect of levodopa on apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value of the brain parenchyma in patients with idiopathic Parkinson disease (PD). Material and Methods Prospect...

Rationale and Objectives The aims of this study were to evaluate the morphologic characteristics and growth pattern of hepatic tumors in H- ras 12V transgenic (TG) mice using a micro–magnetic reso...