Investigative radiology
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Investigative radiology · May 2020
Chest CT Findings in Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Its Relationship With Clinical Features.
The aim of this study was to investigate the chest computed tomography (CT) findings in patients with confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to evaluate its relationship with clinical features. ⋯ The common chest CT findings of COVID-19 are multiple ground glass opacity, consolidation, and interlobular septal thickening in both lungs, which are mostly distributed under the pleura. There are significant correlations between the degree of pulmonary inflammation and the main clinical symptoms and laboratory results. Computed tomography plays an important role in the diagnosis and evaluation of this emerging global health emergency.
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Investigative radiology · May 2020
Ultrafast Intracranial Vessel Imaging With Non-Cartesian Spiral 3-Dimensional Time-of-Flight Magnetic Resonance Angiography at 1.5 T: An In Vitro and Clinical Study in Healthy Volunteers.
Non-Cartesian spiral magnetic resonance (MR) acquisition may enable higher scan speeds, as the spiral traverses the k-space more efficiently per given time than in Cartesian trajectories. Spiral MR imaging can be implemented in time-of-flight (TOF) MR angiography (MRA) sequences. In this study, we tested the performance of five 3-dimensional TOF MRA sequences for intracranial vessel imaging at 1.5 T with qualitative and quantitative image quality metrics based on in vitro and in vivo measurements. Specifically, 3 novel spiral TOF MRA sequences (spiral-TOFs) and a compressed sensing (CS) technology-accelerated TOF MRA sequence (CS 3.5) were compared with a conventional (criterion standard) parallel imaging-accelerated TOF MRA sequence (SENSE). ⋯ Spiral-TOFs may deliver high-quality intracranial vessel imaging thus matching the performance of conventional parallel imaging-accelerated TOFs (such as the SENSE). Specifically, imaging can be performed at unprecedented scan times as short as 1:32 minutes per sequence (70.12% scan time reduction compared with SENSE). Optionally, spiral imaging may also be used to increase spatial resolution while maintaining the scan time of a Cartesian-based acquisition schema. The CNR was decreased in spiral-TOF images.