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Medical Imaging 2016
October 20-21, 2016
Volume 5, Issue 5(Suppl) OMICS J Radiol
ISSN: 2167-7964 ROA, an open access journal
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October 20-21, 2016 Chicago, USA
International Conference on
Medical Imaging & Diagnosis
Arush Honnedevasthana Arun et al., OMICS J Radiol 2016, 6:5(Suppl)
Effects of exercises on calf muscles in patients with diabetis mellitus as validated by magnetic
resonance imaging
Arush Honnedevasthana Arun, Vatsalya Somashekar, Shivaprasad A Chikop and Sairam Geethanath
Dayananda Sagar Institutions, India
Purpose: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a multi-systemic disease associated with significant complications affecting multiple
organs. Purpose of this work is to evaluate the changes in calf muscles for patients with Diabetic Mellitus (DM) using Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques.
Methods: Time of Flight (TOF) Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP), T1 maps with variable flip angles, T2 weighted spin
echo imaging were performed on 4 volunteers (aged 30±5) and DM patients (aged 32, 68) pre-exercise, on a 1.5 T Siemens
scanner. Total acquisition time was 6 minutes 20 seconds. Each volunteer & DM patient were then requested to perform yoga
postures Supta Padangusthasana, Utkatasana and Calf raises for 6 minutes 30 seconds at maximum effort, outside the scanner
and subsequently rescanned. To calculate significant signal increase, region of interest were drawn on TOF MIP coronal images
in arteries of calf muscles. Student t-tests were performed to determine statistical significance.
Results: Amongst volunteers, significant signal increase in arteries of calf muscles can be noticed, signal intensity graphs are
illustrated. In DM patients, signal increase in TOF MIP, T2 weighted images can be seen in specific arteries (posterior, anterior
tibial, posterior tibial) of calf muscles post-exercise. T1 map depicts fat distribution in calf muscles for DM patients compared
to volunteers.
Discussion: The study indicates that yoga has a positive short term effect on multiple DM related foot complications. This
study depicts that MRI provides a potential insight into the benefits of yoga for DM patients through deriving biomarkers for
preventive medicine relevant to yoga interception.
Biography
Arush Honnedevasthana Arun has completed Master’s in Bio-medical Signal Processing and Instrumentation in Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering and his
research interest is in the development of novel techniques in the domain of medical imaging, such as image processing techniques applied to medical imaging
modalities to enable robust imaging and applications in MR reconstruction. He has 7 conference proceedings and 1 provisional patent filed.