Simultaneous Visualization of the Thoracic Duct and Blood Vessels Using MRI: A Comparison Between Balanced Turbo-field-echo and Spin-echo.

Objective: Magnetic resonance thoracic ductography (MRTD), concomitant with blood vessel imaging, provides useful anatomical information. The purpose of this study was to assess the visibility of the thoracic duct and blood vessels simultaneously by MRTD using balanced turbo-field-echo (bTFE) and turbo spin-echo (TSE).

Methods: MRTDs concomitant with blood vessel imaging on bTFE and TSE were obtained for 10 healthy volunteers with a 1.

Automatic detection of punctate white matter lesions in infants using deep learning of composite images from two cases.

Punctate white matter lesions (PWMLs) in infants may be related to neurodevelopmental outcomes based on the location or number of lesions. This study aimed to assess the automatic detectability of PWMLs in infants on deep learning using composite images created from several cases. To create the initial composite images, magnetic resonance (MR) images of two infants with the most PWMLs were used; their PWMLs were extracted and pasted onto MR images of infants without abnormality, creating many composite PWML images.

Delayed Enhancement of Ascites after Iodine Contrast Administration Assessed with Dual-energy Computed Tomography: A Case Report.

We report a case of 71-year-old woman with lung cancer and high-attenuation ascites (HAA) due to iodine contrast material (ICM). The patient underwent two sequential CT scans at interval of 4 h between examinations by using ICM. The second scan was obtained by dual-energy CT (DE-CT), yielding the virtual non-contrast (VNC) image and iodine map, which were used to evaluate HAA.