Background Axillary lymph node status is important for breast cancer staging and treatment
planning as the majority of breast cancer metastasis spreads through the axillary lymph …

This work proposes a novel MRI method – Intrinsic Diffusivity Encoding of Arterial Labeled
Spin (IDEALS) – for the whole-brain mapping of water permeability in the human brain without …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The pituitary gland is located outside of the blood-brain
barrier. Dynamic T1 weighted contrast enhanced sequence is considered to be the gold …

Background Neuroinflammation has long been theorized to arise from exposures to fine
particulate matter and to be modulated when individuals experience chronic stress, both of …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Cervical spinal cord compression, defined as spinal cord
deformity and severe narrowing of the spinal canal in the cervical region, can lead to severe …

Gliomas are the most common malignant primary brain tumors in adults. The incidence of
primary malignant central nervous system tumors in adults is approximately 7 per 100,000 …

Objective: Contrast-enhanced fat-suppressed T 1 weighted (T1W) two-dimensional (2D)
turbo spin echo (TSE) and magnetization-prepared gradient echo (MPRAGE) sequences with …

Slowed information processing speed is among the earliest markers of cognitive impairment
in multiple sclerosis (MS) and has been associated with white matter (WM) structural …

OBJECTIVE. Depressed regional metabolism and cerebellar blood flow may be caused by
dysfunction in anatomically separate but functionally related regions, presumably related to …

Relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) is associated with persistent blood-brain barrier
(BBB) dysfunction. The impact of this persistent dysfunction in both active and chronic MS …