…risk of developing CVD appears to be independent of smoking burden. Although CVD is a common comorbid condition within COPD, the nature of its relationships to COPD affection status and…

Carotid imaging is key to effective secondary stroke prevention. It is commonly performed, but is a rather specialist procedure requiring regular practice to maintain acceptable accuracy. Previously the domain of…

…mental abilities. We retested 83 participants of the Scottish Mental Survey of 1932 on a battery of mental tests. Their brains were scanned by magnetic resonance imaging. Three independent ratings…

…tones. Neuropsychological test results indicated that the mild head injured group had mild memory and attention impairments. Analysis of behavioural performance on the three-stimulus ‘oddball’ task showed no difference in…

PURPOSE: To test the hypothesis-given the increasing emphasis on quantitative computed tomographic (CT) phenotypes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-that a relationship exists between COPD exacerbation frequency and quantitative CT…

…common and fastest first-line investigation; MR, used in 51% of centres, mostly after CT, was delayed up to 2 weeks in 26%; 51% of centres omitted blood-sensitive (GRE/T2*) MR sequences….

Several studies have sought to test the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia through analysis of cortical gyrification. However, to date, results have been inconsistent. A possible reason for this is that…

Background: A blood test that quantified the extent of brain damage following ischaemic stroke might be a useful surrogate outcome measure in trials of acute stroke treatments. Measures of neuronal…

…computed tomography or MRI, who had follow-up imaging. A neuroradiologist classified lacunar infarcts progressing to definite or possible cavities on follow-up imaging. We tested associations between cavitation and patient-related, stroke-related,…

…integration with six HealthGrid projects using schizophrenia as a domain-specific test case. It outlines emerging strategies, recommendations and objectives for collaboration on shared ontology-building and harmonization of data for multi-site…

…the noradrenaline transporter (NAT). In vitro testing of these compounds against various mono-amine transporters showed an ortho-iodophenoxy analogue to have excellent affinity (K(i) 8.4 nM) and good selectivity for NAT….

…Committee-approved prospective study, five patients with histologically confirmed NSCLC gave written informed consent to undergo computed tomography (CT) and He-3-MR ventilation imaging 1 week prior to and 3 months after…

…MR images is a highly accurate diagnostic sign for vCJD. FLAIR sequence is more sensitive than other sequences. Positive MR images may obviate more invasive diagnostic tests in most cases….

…imaging, and other tests. Univariate and multivariate analyses determined the bedside features that distinguished stroke from mimic. Results-There were 350 presentations by 336 patients. The final diagnosis was stroke in…

…pyrexia, severe stroke and poor outcome. We tested this hypothesis by measuring brain temperature and lactate concentration with multi-voxel magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging across the acute ischaemic stroke lesion and…