Imaging the PM/AICD patient; fancy or fanatical?

Imaging the PM/AICD patient; fancy or fanatical?

Background Imaging patients with a pacemaker or AICD has always been taboo in the MRI environment. However, with current improvements in pacemaker lead and generator development along with very vigilant and knowledgeable personnel in pacemaker safety, MRI procedures can be implemented successfully. However, safe performance, not withstanding the risks, leads one to question if the results from ...

Gedankenexperiment or just a flight of fancy?

What’s faster than the speed of light? The speed of thought they say. Not in the strict sense of metres per second taken for an impulse to travel down a neuronal axon, but in metaphor. For in an instant, the human mind can transport itself from terra firma to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, zoom into the tiniest organelle in the tiniest prokaryote, or even just jump onto some entirely alter...

Accidental death--fact, fancy or fable.

The Profile of the Fanatical Terrorist

The text is a partial synthesis of essential knowledge to date, with the author’s own conceptual development, regarding fanaticism, population groups at risk and personality profile of the fanatical terrorist, from a cultural point of view.

MACHINE the reasonable TRANSLATION ▬ middle ground FACT OR FANCY ?

few years ago, a number of news stories appeared here and there announcing "fundamental breakthroughs" in the development of machine translation from Russian into English and declaring that workable machine translation systems, if not already a reality, were just around the corner. Since then, one or two government agencies have begun to operate automatic translation facilities with which some ...