A whole-body diffusion MRI normal atlas: development, evaluation and initial use.

Background: Statistical atlases can provide population-based descriptions of healthy volunteers and/or patients and can be used for region- and voxel-based analysis. This work aims to develop whole-body diffusion atlases of healthy volunteers scanned at 1.5T and 3T.

Improved geometric accuracy of whole body diffusion-weighted imaging at 1.5T and 3T using reverse polarity gradients.

Whole body diffusion-weighted imaging (WB-DWI) is increasingly used in oncological applications, but suffers from misalignments due to susceptibility-induced geometric distortion. As such, DWI and structural images acquired in the same scan session are not geometrically aligned, leading to difficulties in e.g.

White matter changes should not exclude patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus from shunt surgery.

Introduction: White matter changes (WMC) on brain imaging can be classified as deep white matter hyperintensities (DWMH) or periventricular hyperintensities (PVH) and are frequently seen in patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH). Contradictory results have been reported on whether preoperative WMC are associated with outcome after shunt surgery in iNPH patients. The aim of this study was to investigate any association between DWMH and PVH and shunt outcome in patients with iNPH, using magnetic resonance volumetry.

Extending a Hand: Corruption and Solidarity with the Less Privileged Domestically and Beyond.

Social cohesion, often operationalized using measures of generalized social trust, has received enormous amounts of attention in previous scholarly work. However, another dimension of this broad phenomenon, norms of social solidarity, has meanwhile largely been overlooked in previous research. This study analyzes the association between micro-perceptions of corruption and solidarity with the less privileged both domestically and beyond, and how this association might vary across different societies with different types and forms of corruption.