Fetal brain MRI: neurometrics, typical diagnoses, and resolving common dilemmas.

This review presents a practical approach to imaging the fetal brain by MRI. Herein, we demonstrate how to measure brain structures and fluid spaces, and discuss the importance of comparing measurements to normative biometric references at a corresponding gestational age. We present some common imaging dilemmas of the technical aspects of fetal MRI with regard to typical regions of abnormality including the cerebrum, the ventricular system, and the posterior fossa, and discuss how to resolve them.

CT Morphologic Characteristics and Variant Patterns of Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

Purpose: To assess CT features of pulmonary fibrosis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to assess the presence of several distinctive patterns of fibrosis associated with connective tissue disease.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional retrospective analysis was performed. An institutional clinical database was queried for the years of 2005-2015 to identify CT examination reports of patients with SLE and fibrotic lung disease, which yielded 50 patients (median age, 49 years; age range, 22-71 years; 46 women).

Higher Coronary Plaque Burden in Psoriatic Arthritis Is Independent of Metabolic Syndrome and Associated With Underlying Disease Severity.

Objective: To examine the effect of metabolic syndrome and psoriatic disease-related variables on coronary plaque burden in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients.

Methods: Fifty PsA patients without symptoms of coronary artery disease (CAD) (25 with metabolic syndrome and 25 without metabolic syndrome) and 50 age- and sex-matched controls underwent 64-slice coronary computed tomography angiography. Plaque localization, segment involvement score (SIS), segment stenosis score (SSS), and total plaque volume (TPV) were calculated.

Pulmonary fibrosis: tissue characterization using late-enhanced MRI compared with unenhanced anatomic high-resolution CT.

Purpose: We aimed to prospectively evaluate anatomic chest computed tomography (CT) with tissue characterization late gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the evaluation of pulmonary fibrosis (PF).

Methods: Twenty patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and twelve control patients underwent late-enhanced MRI and high-resolution CT. Tissue characterization of PF was depicted using a segmented inversion-recovery turbo low-angle shot MRI sequence.

Imaging in cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis.

Bronchiectasis is defined as a permanent and progressive dilation of the airways, typically as a result of inflammation, infection, and subsequent repair. It typically presents with chronic cough, suppurative sputum production, and airway dilation. High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) is now well established as the primary imaging tool for its investigation.