Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is the most common chronic spinal cord injury with poor surgical and neurologic recovery in the advanced stages of the disease. DTI parameters can serve as import...
One hundred and five patients with CSM who underwent surgery were included in this study. Patients were assessed using the Modified Japanese Orthopedic Association Score (mJOA) before and one year aft...
Forty-four (41.9%) patients had a good postoperative prognosis, and 61 (58.1%) had a poor prognosis. Univariate analysis showed statistically significant differences in diabetes, number of compression...
Dynamic DTI can predict postoperative outcomes in CSM. Reduced FA in the extension position is a valid predictor of poor postoperative neurological recovery in patients with CSM....
Intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) imaging and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) facilitate noninvasive quantification of tissue perfusion and diffusion. Both are promising biomarkers in various disease...
Despite enormous research interest in diffusion tensor imaging and diffusion kurtosis imaging (DTI; DKI) following mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), it remains unknown how diffusion in white matter ...
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a promising technique for ischemic stroke evaluation; however, acquisition time is longer than DWI. Simultaneous multislice (SMS) imaging acquires multiple slices tog...
Following IRB approval, the departmental stroke protocol was supplemented with SMS DTI on a clinical 1.5T MRI. Cases suspicious for ischemic stroke outside the treatment window were included. Standard...
41 patients were evaluated. SMS-2-DTI decreased DTI time by 132.17 ± 15.33 s, a 45% reduction. SMS-2-DTI reduced image quality (STD-DTI 4.7 ± 0.5...
This study supports using SMS to accelerate DTI for ischemic stroke workup at 1.5T in the non-hyper-acute setting....
This study highlights the feasibility of accelerated multislice DTI for faster diagnostic DTI-trace images capable of ischemic stroke detection....
Magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging (MR-DTI) has been increasingly applied for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) diagnosis, but relatively little is known about the effect of CTS treatment on media...
To assess how structural changes in MR-DTI of the MN correlates with symptom severity, functional status, and electrophysiological parameters in patients suffering from CTS before and after decompress...
Nine wrists were prospectively enrolled to perform MR-DTI pre- and postoperatively. The apparent diffusion coefficients (ADC) and fractional anisotropy (FA) of the MN were examined in three different ...
Postoperatively, mean Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire scores decreased 1.55 points (range = 0.08-3;...
Our study demonstrated that pre- and postoperative proximal FA values are useful biomarkers for the structural evaluation of the MN in patients with CTS. Symptomatic improvement can be better predicte...
We assessed whether brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markers of glymphatic function are altered in patients with migraine and brain white matter hyperintensities (WMHs)....
The glymphatic system is responsible for the outflow of waste products from the brain. An impaired glymphatic system has been associated with WMH; however, this impairment has not been shown in patien...
The present cross-sectional study included consecutive patients with migraine from a single tertiary headache center. Glymphatic function was assessed by measuring the diffusion tensor imaging along t...
We included 147 patients (120 women [81.6%]) with a median (interquartile range [IQR]) age of 45 (36-50) years. In all, 74 (50.3%) patients had WMHs. The median (IQR) ALPS index was similar in patient...
Our results suggest that the presence of WMHs is not associated with an impairment in the glymphatic system in patients with migraine. Although negative and worthy of further confirmation, our finding...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) can lead to systemic inflammatory responses and other cardiovascular disease. Diffusion tensor imaging findings generated by gadolinium-based MRI (DTI-GBMRI) is regarded a...
CKD patients (n = 186) were recruited and underwent diagnosis of renal diffusion tensor imaging findings generated by MRI (DTI-MRI) or DTI-GBMRI to identify the pathological characteristics and depict...
Gadolinium enhanced the diagnosis generated by DTI-MRI in renal fibrosis, renal damage, and estimated glomerular filtration rate. The superiority in sensitivity and accuracy of the DTI-GBMRI method in...
In conclusion, DTI-GBMRI is a potential noninvasive method for measuring renal function, which can provide valuable information for clinical CKD diagnosis....
Glioblastomas are highly infiltrative tumors, and differentiating between non-enhancing tumors (NETs) and vasogenic edema (Edemas) occurring in the non-enhancing T2-weighted hyperintense area is chall...
Data were collected retrospectively from 21 patients with primary glioblastomas, three with metastasis, and two with meningioma as controls. MRI data included T2 weighted images and contrast enhanced ...
Sixteen and 14 VOIs were placed on NETs and Edemas, respectively. The ICVF, ISOVF, FA, and ADC values of NETs and Edemas differed significantly (p < 0.01). Receiver operating characteristic curve anal...
Using NODDI and DTI may prove useful in differentiating NETs from Edemas in the non-contrast T2 hyperintensity region of glioblastomas....
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a widely used method for studying brain white matter development and degeneration. However, standard DTI estimation methods depend on a large number of high-quality m...
Synaptic degeneration, axonal injury, and white matter disintegration are among the pathological events in Alzheimer's disease (AD), for which growth-associated protein 43 (GAP-43) and diffusion tenso...
A total number of 133 participants were enrolled in GAP-43 and DTI values were compared between groups, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally with two and four-year follow-ups. Subsequently, the c...
The CSF level of GAP-43 is negatively correlated with the mean diffusivity measures in Fornix (Cres)/Stria terminals in early and late MCI (r...
Presynaptic marker GAP-43 in combination with DTI can be used as a novel biomarker to identify microstructural synaptic degeneration in the early MCI. In addition, it can be used as a biomarker for tr...
