Patient-reported difficulty in activities of daily living and corresponding muscle weakness in elderly patients undergoing haemodialysis.

Aim: Patients undergoing haemodialysis have reduced muscle strength and impaired activities of daily living (ADL). We examined possible relationship between difficult ADL and corresponding muscle weakness in elderly haemodialysis patients.

Methods: This was a single-centre, cross-sectional study.

Reproducibility of quantitative ADC, T1, and T2 measurement on the cerebral cortex: Utility of whole brain echo-planar DWI with compressed SENSE (EPICS-DWI): A pilot study.

Purpose: To assess the reproducibility of ADC, T1, T2, and proton density (PD) measurements on the cortex across the entire brain using high-resolution pseudo-3D diffusion-weighted imaging using echo-planar imaging with compressed SENSE (EPICS-DWI) and 3D quantification with an interleaved Look-Locker acquisition sequence with T2 preparation pulse (3D-QALAS) in normal healthy adults.

Methods: Twelve healthy participants (median age, 33 years; range, 28-51 years) were recruited to evaluate the reproducibility of whole-brain EPICS-DWI and synthetic MRI. EPICS-DWI utilizes a compressed SENSE reconstruction framework while maintaining the EPI sampling pattern.