Instead, we emphasize the need for future back pain imaging research, while taking care to distinguish between what is of value from a research perspective, and what is ready for translation into actual clinical practice.
Currently there is no evidence that imaging improves LBP outcomes in standard clinical practice; however, without ongoing back pain imaging research, there will be no opportunity for imaging methods and approaches to improve to the point where they can refine clinical decision-making.
17 Even utilising this flushing technique in this animal model, the image acquisition time was limited to only a few seconds, preventing pull-back imaging of long arterial segments.
The longitudinal images shown in Figs. 5 and 6 also exhibit lower lateral resolution and contrast due to the inherent under-sampling of the automated pull-back imaging sequence, as described in the Materials and Methods.
Imaging was performed at an axial scan rate of 50 kHz, with either stationary (no pull-back) radial imaging up to 100 frames per second, or variable pull-back distances of 0-54 mm over 0-5 s.
Bak wrote a rejoinder to the published criticisms and says there is now overwhelming evidence from psychological experiments backed by imaging studies that bilingual and monolingual brains function differently.
An account is given of three explosive detection techniques based on X-ray scatter tomography i.e. coherent scatter computed tomography, energy dispersive X-ray diffraction tomography and Compton back-scatter imaging.
In the most common scenario, PLO is discovered after a pregnant or breastfeeding woman complains of severe back pain, and imaging reveals multiple vertebral fractures.
Ten months after Owen and his colleagues completed the tennis experiment with the vegetative woman, she was brought back to the imaging center and placed in an MRI machine.
Recent publications show that a turn back to older imaging algorithms using chest radiography and perfusion scintigraphy provide diagnostic accuracy similar to CTA [40].
