Abstract: Many individual papers have been published on MR Imaging artifacts. Most of these focus on specific artifacts (i.e. motion artifacts or trunction artifacts), on specific applications (i.e. cardiac imaging, or ...

Abstract Study Design Literature review Objective The aim of this thesis is to compare the main classification systems available for classifying acute subaxial cervical spinal injury and compare their relative strengths ...

Background and purpose: Medical imaging has come a long way from CT was invented in the 70s to today's CT- and MRI-technology. With today's technology we can produce detailed images of the brain tumor's size and location, ...

Prevalent vertebral fractures indicate a high risk of subsequent fractures, which makes fracture identification play a key role in the management of osteoporosis. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry can provide images for ...

Abstract Background – Traditionally liver lesions are diagnosed by the use of computer tomography (CT), and if the diagnose is still unclear after this examination with CT, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used. ...

PET in presurgical evaluation of epilepsy. Background: Today, at Rikshospitalet PET medical center, FDG is used as a tracer in the PET investigations during the presurgical evaluation of patients with epilepsy. The purpose ...

CT coronary angiography - most appropriate for whom? Heart-vessel-disease is among one of the most common diseases in western society. CT coronary angiography has now proved to be a good study to do on suspicion of coronary ...

Formålet med denne oppgaven er å gi en oversikt over de vanligste bildemodalitetene som brukes for å diagnostisere, evaluere og overvåke primære hjernetumores hos voksne. Oppgaven vil også gi en enkel innføring i det ...

Abstract: Purpose: Ischemic heart disease is one of the leading causes of morbidity and death in Norway and many industrialized countries. In the treatment of this disease, information on size of scar tissue and amount ...

Purpose: CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy is an important tool in diagnosis of one of the most common and severe types of cancer, lung cancer. The purpose of this study has been to enlighten and confirm the problems met ...

BACKGROUND: Lung cancer is a common malignancy and the leading cause of cancer-related death in the Western world. 80 to 85 percent of cases are of the non-small cell histolgical type (NSCLC). Accurate staging is necessary ...

Abstract Background: Electrocardiogram (ECG), stress ECG, myocardial scintigraphy and selective coronary angiography (SCA) are the most frequently used diagnostic tools for examination of patients with suspected ischemic ...

Background: Diaphragmatic injury is an uncommon result of blunt and penetrating trauma. To recognize this injury, the radiologist must be familiar with the imaging manifestations of the injury. The purpose of this study ...

Objective: To evaluate the clinical ability of MRI taken before and after neoadjuvant treatment of locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) to predict the necessary extension of the TME procedure, the surgical outcome and ...

Injury of the thoracic aorta after blunt trauma: Radiological evaluation and management Background: Blunt traumatic thoracic aortic injury is a life-threatening event. The traditional management of these patients has been ...

Establishment of PET/CT in Norway Background: The first dedicated PET/CT-scanner in Norway was installed at Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center (R-R MC) in August 2005. The purpose of this study was to investigate ...

Transcatheter embolotherapy is an alternativ form of treatment in acute arterial GI hemorrhage and supplements conservative medical management, endoscopical coagulation therapy and surgery. The purpose was to evaluate ...

Handbook in Acute Conventional Roentgenology Radiological diagnostic by conventional roentgen examination is quite often performed by a clinical physician alone, without the involvement of a radiologist. With this in ...