Publications by authors named "Chun-shu Pan"
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- * Researchers analyzed 247 CP patients and used advanced imaging techniques to examine the stones, calculating their quantity and distribution patterns.
- * Results showed that alcoholic CP patients tended to have more uniformly distributed stones compared to those with idiopathic CP, with specific factors influencing stone count and distribution uniformity.
Pathological and metabolic alterations co-exist and co-develop in the progression of chronic pancreatitis (CP). The aim of the present study was to investigate the metabolic characteristics and disease severity of a rat model of CP in order to determine associations in the observed pathology and the metabolites of CP using high-resolution magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (HR-MAS NMR). Wistar rats (n=36) were randomly assigned into 6 groups (n=6 per group).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: To investigate the monoexponential and biexponential apparent diffusion parameters in different anatomical regions of the healthy pancreas using intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) diffusion weighted imaging (DWI).
Methods: Fifty-seven healthy volunteers (age, 45.0 ± 10.
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- Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) typically uses single-shot echo-planar imaging (ss EPI), which helps minimize motion artifacts but limits resolution, especially in abdominal imaging.
- A new technique called reduced Field of View ss EPI (rFOV ss EPI) has shown to produce higher resolution images in carotid arteries and spinal cords but hasn't been applied to pancreas imaging until now.
- In a study comparing full FOV and rFOV DWI for pancreatic tumors and normal tissues, rFOV DWI demonstrated significantly better image quality and improved spatial resolution (from 3.0mm/pixel to 1.25mm/pixel) without substantial differences in ADC values.
The etiology and pathogenesis of pancreatitis remains unclear. In the presence of pancreatic inflammation, metabolite abnormalities appear before transformation of tissue structure and changes in functions occur. Detection of abnormalities in metabolite levels facilitates a greater understanding of the pathophysiological events and aids in the early diagnosis of the disease.
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