Imaging is an important tool in the evaluation of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. It plays
a role in diagnosis, assessment of disease activity and follow-up, and as a non-invasive …

In the last years, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become fundamental for the
diagnosis and monitoring of myopathies given its ability to show the severity and distribution …

Objective To show that for the MRI workup of non-specific low back pain and/or lumbar
radiculopathy, the acquisition of T1-weighted sequences in the sagittal plane could be …

Quantitative imaging techniques are emerging in the field of magnetic resonance imaging of
neuromuscular diseases (NMD). T2 of water (T2w) is considered an important imaging …

Abstract The von Willebrand Factor A domain containing 1 protein, encoded by VWA1, is an
extracellular matrix protein expressed in muscle and peripheral nerve. It interacts with …

(1) Background and Purpose: The skeletal muscles of patients suffering from neuromuscular
diseases (NMD) are affected by atrophy, hypertrophy, fatty infiltration, and edematous …

Background Muscle water T2 (T2w) has been proposed as a biomarker to monitor disease
activity and therapy effectiveness in patients with neuromuscular diseases (NMD). Multi …

Objectives To investigate associations between lateral hip muscle size/intramuscular fat
infiltration (MFI) and hip strength in active young adults with longstanding hip/groin pain …

Background: The overlapping clinical presentations of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy
(LGMD) and idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) make clinical diagnosis challenging …

Objectives To generate sagittal T1-weighted fast spin echo (T1w FSE) and short tau
inversion recovery (STIR) images from sagittal T2-weighted (T2w) FSE and axial T1w …