Respiratory failure due to respiratory muscle dysfunction is a common problem in
neuromuscular diseases, 1 and respiratory muscle weakness can be reversible, relapsing, or …

… Ultrasound was performed by a single examiner (DC, certificate of muscle and nerve ultrasound
of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology [DGKN/DEGUM]). The biceps brachii…

Objective. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease with involvement
of the upper and lower motor neurons. Since the loss of fine motor skills is one of the …

Background One problem in the mobilization of patients with neurological diseases, such as
spinal cord injury, is the circulatory collapse that occurs while changing from supine to …

Introduction The revised El Escorial Criteria (rEEC) from 2000 and their amendment, the
Awaji Criteria (AC) from 2008, are widely used diagnostic criteria for amyotrophic lateral …

Objectives: To assess the ability of 3D amide proton transfer weighted (APTw) imaging based
on magnetization transfer analysis to discriminate between multiple sclerosis lesions (MSL…

Diffusion tensor spectroscopy (DTS) combines features of magnetic resonance spectroscopy
and diffusion tensor imaging and permits evaluating cell-type specific properties of …

Radiculopathy can be caused by nerve root irritation and nerve root compression at the level
of the lateral recess or at the level of the intervertebral foramen. T2-weighted (T2w) MRI is …

In the current work two novel parameters, fiber density (FD) and mean diffusion signal (MDS)
are investigated for evaluating neurodegenerative processes in amyotrophic lateral …

Objectives: To compare a novel 3D spiral gradient echo (GRE) sequence with a conventional
2D cartesian turbo spin echo (TSE) sequence for sagittal contrast-enhanced (CE) fat-…