Publications by authors named "Thorsten Burkhard"
Surgery is currently considered the treatment of choice for patients with colorectal cancer liver metastases (CRLM) when resectable. The majority of these patients can also benefit from systemic chemotherapy. Recently, local or regional therapies such as thermal ablations have been used with acceptable outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of 2 different imaging systems in adult bedside chest radiography and the impact on the visibility of selected diagnostically relevant structures in the images acquired with these systems, with and without an antiscatter grid.
Materials And Methods: We acquired bedside chest radiographs of 103 intensive-care patients (36 women, 67 men; age range, 17-90 years; mean age, 66.4 years) using 4 acquisition techniques (computed radiography [CR] and digital radiography [DR], with and without grid).
Objective: The purpose of this article is to compare the performance of dual-energy CT with that of 3-T MRI with late enhancement for the detection of chronic myocardial infarction during first-pass coronary CT angiography (CTA).
Subjects And Methods: Thirty-six patients underwent coronary CTA for the assessment of coronary bypass graft patency on a first-generation dual-source CT scanner in dual-energy mode. Gray-scale images (100 kV, 140 kV, and blended virtual 120 kV) were assessed for areas of hypodense myocardium during the arterial phase.
Purpose: To evaluate changes in high energy phosphate (HEP) metabolism in patients with hypertension and diastolic dysfunction but with normal LVEF>55% assessed by echocardiography and tissue Doppler.
Material And Methods: 20 patients (16 men and 4 women, mean age 57+/-13 years) were studied with phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy and echocardiography. MRS was performed at 1.