Fig. 2.1 A 23-year-old male professional football player with right knee contact trauma during a game. Sagittal (a, b) and coronal (c) fat-suppressed intermediate-weighted MRI shows fluid within the ACL…
Fig. 3.1 A 22-year-old male competitive downhill skier with thigh injury. Ultrasound images of the right thigh show a complex fluid collection over the right lateral thigh, containing layering fluid…
Fig. 1.1 A 20-year-old male volleyball player with injury to the rectus femoris. Transverse ultrasound image shows “bull’s-eye lesion” (arrows), indicating an injury to the indirect tendon of the rectus…
Fig. 2.1 Intravascular ultrasound image of mid-segment of the left anterior descending artery. The top arrow coincides with the top two IVUS images and the lower arrow with the lower…
Fig. 12.1 Advances in CT scanners Patient Preparation Image quality is optimised by patient preparation prior to image acquisition. Oral or intravenous beta blockers are administered to reduce heart rate…
Fig. 8.1 Normal artery wall. Normal artery wall shows a three-layered architecture, comprising a high backscattering, thin intima, a low backscattering media, and a heterogeneous and/or high backscattering adventitia (Courtesy…
Fig. 9.1 Endarterectomized carotid plaques show temperature heterogeneity Human Ex Vivo Thermography Studies The hypothesis that plaque temperature is a marker of local inflammation was originally proposed on the basis…
Fig. 14.1 This diagram depicts the typical schematic of a bifunctional molecular imaging agent. The imaging moiety (signal generation molecule) on the left connects to a targeting moiety on the…
Fig. 10.1 TVC imaging system, which is a combination NIRS and IVUS system. (a) The console includes two touch-screen monitors displaying the NIRS chemogram and IVUS images (transverse and longitudinal)….
Fig. 7.1 Intravascular ultrasound signal is obtained from the vessel wall (a). Grayscale intravascular ultrasound imaging is formed by the envelope (amplitude) (b) of the radiofrequency signal (c). By grayscale,…
