It can be tricky to pinpoint the cause of pain at the base of your skull, the area behind your ... and an MRI to see if there is damage to soft tissue or nerves within the discs.

Besides CT scans of the skull, which serve as a foundation, he needs to know four things: the person’s gender, ethnicity, age, and weight. With that information, he can estimate the depth of tissue in ...

Before an MRI can fully process images, it must first remove the bones surrounding the brain (skull) and other non-brain tissue from the images. This process, termed "skull-striping," allows ...

Megakaryocytes form a three-dimensional (3D) cage composed of laminin and collagen IV connected to the basement membrane surrounding them. This microarchitecture stabilizes megakaryocytes within their ...

Except for removal of extra-axial blood collections that may be compressing ... Direct injury to brain tissue can lead to edema formation as intravascular fluid traverses the damaged blood ...

The temporal bone is part of the skull above the ear. One part of the temporal bone ... The only way to confirm a diagnosis of cancer is to take a small amount of tissue (biopsy) from the abnormal ...

The clustering segmentation method processed MRIs of brain tissue with axial sliced section, in which the original and proposed methods are shown in Figure 3. Tested results, gained by subjective ...

Gardener-Wells skull bone traction: Conventional axial continuous skull traction was applied to ... Patients with severe cervical kyphosis have contracture of the surrounding soft tissue, increased ...

and tissue contrast around the skull. In this study, we proposed a deep-learning-based framework, U-Net, to automatically identify the rodent brain boundaries in MR images. The U-Net method is robust ...

Abstract: High-quality motion estimation is essential in ultrasound elastography (USE) for evaluating tissue mechanical properties and detecting ... unsupervised neural network to estimate both axial ...