Abnormal Choline Phospholipid Metabolism in Breast and Ovary Cancer:Molecular Bases for Noninvasive Imaging Approaches

Author(s): Franca Podo, Francesco Sardanelli, Egidio Iorio, Rossella Canese, Giulia Carpinelli, Alfonso Fausto and Silvana CanevariPages 123-137 (15) Abstract: Elevated contents of choline phospholipid metabolites are typically detected by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in human and animal tumors. An increase in the intensity of the 1H-MRS profile of total cholinecontaining compounds (tCho, 3.2 ppm) is today considered as a common...

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Viewpoints on Medical Image Processing: From Science to Application

Author(s): Thomas M. Deserno (ne Lehmann), Heinz Handels, Klaus H. Maier-Hein (ne Fritzsche), Sven Mersmann, Christoph Palm, Thomas Tolxdorff, Gudrun Wagenknecht and Thomas WittenbergPages 79-88 (10) Abstract: Medical image processing provides core innovation for medical imaging. This paper is focused on recent developments from science to applications analyzing the past fifteen years of history of the proceedings of the German annual meeting...

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Acoustic Inversion in Optoacoustic Tomography: A Review

Author(s): Amir Rosenthal, Vasilis Ntziachristos and Daniel RazanskyPages 318-336 (19) Abstract: Optoacoustic tomography enables volumetric imaging with optical contrast in biological tissue at depths beyond the optical mean free path by the use of optical excitation and acoustic detection. The hybrid nature of optoacoustic tomography gives rise to two distinct inverse problems: The optical inverse problem, related to the propagation of the excitation...

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The Correspondence Between Magnetic Resonance Images and the Clinical and Intraoperative Status of Patients with Spinal Tumors

Author(s): Grzegorz GuzikPages 149-155 (7) Abstract: Introduction: Surgical treatment of tumors, particularly metastases to the spine, has become increasingly common owing to the progress in anesthesiology and spinal surgery and greater detectability. The patients qualified for surgeries are those with mechanical pain, fracture or at risk of vertebral fracture or neurological complications. The basis for qualification for different types of surgeries...

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