Effects of enzyme-replacement therapy in patients with Anderson–Fabry disease: a prospective long-term cardiac magnetic resonance imaging study

M Imbriaco, A Pisani, L Spinelli, A Cuocolo, G Messalli… - Heart, 2009 - heart.bmj.com
Background: Anderson–Fabry disease is a multisystem X linked disorder of lipid metabolism
frequently associated with cardiac symptoms, including left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy …

Grey‐scale analysis allows a quantitative evaluation of thyroid echogenicity in the patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis

G Mazziotti, F Sorvillo, S Iorio, A Carbone… - Clinical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Summary objective In the present study we have performed a grey‐scale quantitative
analysis of thyroid echogenicity in the patients affected by Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) …

Detection and quantification of coronary atherosclerotic plaque by 64-slice multidetector CT: a systematic head-to-head comparison with intravascular ultrasound

SL Papadopoulou, LA Neefjes, M Schaap, HL Li… - Atherosclerosis, 2011 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the ability of 64-slice multidetector computed tomography
(MDCT)-derived plaque parameters to detect and quantify coronary atherosclerosis, using …

Robust shape regression for supervised vessel segmentation and its application to coronary segmentation in CTA

M Schaap, T van Walsum, L Neefjes… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a vessel segmentation method which learns the geometry and
appearance of vessels in medical images from annotated data and uses this knowledge to …

Impact of heart rate frequency and variability on radiation exposure, image quality, and diagnostic performance in dual-source spiral CT coronary angiography

AC Weustink, LA Neefjes, S Kyrzopoulos… - Radiology, 2009 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To investigate the effect of heart rate frequency (HRF) and heart rate variability
(HRV) on radiation exposure, image quality, and diagnostic performance to help detect …

Dual-Time-Point 18F-FDG PET/CT Versus Dynamic Breast MRI of Suspicious Breast Lesions

M Imbriaco, MG Caprio, G Limite… - American Journal of …, 2008 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of our study was to compare dual-time-point 18F-FDG PET/CT,
performed with the patient in the prone position, and contrast-enhanced MRI in patients with …

Lung cancer patient who had declined conventional cancer treatment: could the self-administration of 'CBD oil'be contributing to the observed tumour regression?

KL Liew, E Capuano, B Yung - BMJ Case Reports CP, 2021 - casereports.bmj.com
Conventional lung cancer treatments include surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy;
however, these treatments are often poorly tolerated by patients. Cannabinoids have been …

Patient specific 4D coronary models from ECG-gated CTA data for intra-operative dynamic alignment of CTA with X-ray images

CT Metz, M Schaap, S Klein, LA Neefjes… - … Image Computing and …, 2009 - Springer
We present an approach to derive patient specific coronary models from ECG-gated CTA
data and their application for the alignment of CTA with mono-plane X-ray imaging during …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnostic performance of exercise bicycle testing and single-photon emission computed tomography: comparison with 64-slice computed tomography …

AC Weustink, LA Neefjes, A Rossi… - The international journal …, 2012 - Springer
To conduct a comparison of the diagnostic performance of exercise bicycle testing and
single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with computed tomography …

COVID-19: mobilising CT as a frontline management tool

I Syed, S Khan, T Khan, S Syed, T Khan… - The British Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the globe, questions have arisen about the
approach healthcare systems should adopt in order to optimally manage patient influx. With …