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Open AccessSimultaneous boost radiotherapy versus conventional dose radiotherapy for patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma: a multi-institutional analysis
We compared survival outcomes of high-dose concomitant boost radiotherapy (HDCBRT) and conventional dose radiotherapy (CRT) for newly diagnosed glioblastoma (GB). Patients treated with intensity-modulated radi...
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Computed tomography radiomic feature analysis of thymic epithelial tumors: Differentiation of thymic epithelial tumors from thymic cysts and prediction of histological subtypes
To investigate the value of computed tomography (CT) radiomic feature analysis for the differential diagnosis between thymic epithelial tumors (TETs) and thymic cysts, and prediction of histological subtypes o...
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Open AccessImpact of radiation doses on clinical relapse of biochemically recurrent prostate cancer after prostatectomy
The relationship between radiation doses and clinical relapse in patients receiving salvage radiotherapy (SRT) for biochemical recurrence (BCR) after radical prostatectomy (RP) remains unclear. We identified 2...
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Open AccessPsychological characteristics associated with the brain volume of patients with fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a disease characterized by chronic widespread pain concomitant with psychiatric symptoms such as anxiety and depression. It has been reported that FM patients engage in pain catastrophizin...
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Open AccessDaily irradiation versus irradiation at two- to three-day intervals in stereotactic radiotherapy for patients with 1-5 brain metastases: study protocol for a multicenter open-label randomized phase II trial
Radiobiological daily changes within tumors are considered to be quite different between stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) (e.g., 50 Gy in 4 fractions) and conventional radiotherapy (e.g., 60 Gy in 30 fractions)...
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Open AccessQuantitative relaxometry using synthetic MRI could be better than T2-FLAIR mismatch sign for differentiation of IDH-mutant gliomas: a pilot study
This study aimed to determine whether quantitative relaxometry using synthetic magnetic resonance imaging (SyMRI) could differentiate between two diffuse glioma groups with isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH)-mutan...
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A deep convolutional neural network-based automatic detection of brain metastases with and without blood vessel suppression
To develop an automated model to detect brain metastases using a convolutional neural network (CNN) and volume isotropic simultaneous interleaved bright-blood and black-blood examination (VISIBLE) and to compa...
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Open AccessVolumetric study reveals the relationship between outcome and early radiographic response during bevacizumab-containing chemoradiotherapy for unresectable glioblastoma
Although we have shown the clinical benefit of bevacizumab (BEV) in the treatment of unresectable newly diagnosed glioblastomas (nd-GBM), the relationship between early radiographic response and survival outco...
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Open AccessPredictive values of early head computed tomography for survival outcome after cardiac arrest in childhood: a pilot study
Predicting outcomes of children after cardiac arrest (CA) remains challenging. To identify useful prognostic markers for pediatric CA, we retrospectively analyzed the early findings of head computed tomography...
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Open AccessDiagnostic accuracy for the epileptogenic zone detection in focal epilepsy could be higher in FDG-PET/MRI than in FDG-PET/CT
To examine the utility of FDG-PET/MRI in patients with epilepsy by comparing the diagnostic accuracy of PET/MRI and PET/CT in epileptogenic zone (EZ) detection.
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Pitfalls and Artifacts of Diffusion-Weighted Imaging
There are many inherent artifacts and pitfalls in diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) of the brain that are important to recognize to avoid misinterpretations.
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Intracranial Hemorrhage
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Brain Neoplasm
Treatment section: Radiation therapy is an important component of definitive or adjuvant therapy for both malignant and benign brain tumors. In this section, the role of radiation therapy in the most common ma...
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Vessel-selective 4D-MR angiography using super-selective pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling may be a useful tool for assessing brain AVM hemodynamics
To evaluate the usefulness of 4D-MR angiography based on super-selective pseudo-continuous ASL combined with keyhole and view-sharing (4D-S-PACK) for vessel-selective visualization and to examine the ability o...
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Open AccessNeuroanatomical substrate of chronic psychosis in epilepsy: an MRI study
There may be different neural bases between subjects with epilepsy only (EP) and interictal chronic epilepsy psychosis (EPS). However, there have been few structural MRI studies of EPS. The current study was c...
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Open AccessDifferentiation of high-grade from low-grade diffuse gliomas using diffusion-weighted imaging: a comparative study of mono-, bi-, and stretched-exponential diffusion models
Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) plays an important role in the preoperative assessment of gliomas; however, the diagnostic performance of histogram-derived parameters from mono-, bi-, and stretched-exponentia...
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Open AccessContribution of cortical lesions to cognitive impairment in Japanese patients with multiple sclerosis
Cortical lesions (CLs) have a low prevalence and are associated with physical disabilities in Japanese patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). However, the contribution of CLs to cognitive impairment remains un...
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First-line bevacizumab contributes to survival improvement in glioblastoma patients complementary to temozolomide
First-line bevacizumab (BEV) is now available as a treatment option for glioblastoma patients with severe clinical conditions in Japan. However, the survival benefits remain controversial. To elucidate these p...
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Acceleration-selective arterial spin labeling MR angiography for visualization of brain arteriovenous malformations
To evaluate the performance of acceleration-selective arterial spin labeling (AccASL) MR angiography in the visualization of brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) in comparison with digital subtraction angi...
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Functional connectivity change between posterior cingulate cortex and ventral attention network relates to the impairment of orientation for time in Alzheimer’s disease patients
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients exhibit various cognitive dysfunctions, including impairment of orientation for time (OT). The brain regions underlying OT impairment remain to be elucidated. A previous singl...
