European journal of radiology
-
The hip and its disorders represent a clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic challenge greater than any other joints. Clinical symptoms are usually non specific and provocative maneuvers are sometimes unreliable, pain might be referred even from other joints and many times accurate assessment need imaging techniques. New surgical options, especially the latest development of hip arthroscopy has open horizons for treating intraarticular disorders. In this review article we will review basic clinical assessment and what we need as orthopeadic surgeons from radiology.
-
Randomized Controlled Trial
Triple-rule-out dual-source CT angiography of patients with acute chest pain: dose reduction potential of 100 kV scanning.
To investigate the dose reduction potential of low kV triple-rule-out dual-source CT angiography (TRO-CTA) in non-obese (BMI ≤ 25 kg/m(2)) patients with acute chest pain. ⋯ TRO-CTA with 100 kV is feasible in non-obese patients and results in diagnostic image quality and significantly reduced radiation dose.
-
Non-traumatic chest pain is a common symptom in patients who present in the emergency department. From a clinical point of view, it is important to differentiate cardiac chest pain from non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP). ⋯ The presentation of pain plays an important role in narrowing the differential diagnosis and initiating further diagnostic management and treatment. As the benign causes tend to recur, and may lead to patient anxiety and great costs, a meticulous evaluation of the patient is necessary to diagnose the underlying disorder or disease.
-
High resolution magnetic resonance imaging (HRMRI) has been used as an imaging modality to depict the intracranial artery wall. The aim of this study was to compare images of the vessel wall between symptomatic and asymptomatic atherosclerotic plaques of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) using HRMRI. ⋯ HRMRI has the potential to distinguish between atherosclerotic plaques in symptomatic and asymptomatic MCA stenoses.
-
To assess the effectiveness of adaptive iterative dose reduction (AIDR) and AIDR 3D in improving the image quality in low-dose chest CT (LDCT). ⋯ AIDR 3D is superior to AIDR. Intra-individual comparisons between SDCT and LDCT suggest that AIDR 3D allows a 64.2% reduction of the radiation dose as compared to SDCT, by substantially reducing the objective image noise and increasing the SNR, while maintaining the overall diagnostic acceptability.