Background: The struggle of humanity with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection, which affected the whole world and caused severe social health crises, continues without deceleration. Objectives: This study aimed to determine relationship between abnormal laboratory parameters upon admission intensity lung involvement using chest computerized tomography severity score (CT-SS). Methods: ...

Flat-Panel Computed Tomography (CT) has found its commonly used applications in the healthcare field by providing an approach of examining 3D structural information of a human’s body. The popular CT reconstruction algorithms are based on a filtered backprojection (FBP) scheme, which would face challenges when imaging the knee. This is because in some views, the X-rays are highly attenuated when...

Power system protective relaying systems are striving to meet the demands of systems which are ever increasing in complexity. . High-speed digital relays must make decisions while the power system is still in transition. Understanding the operation and performance of microprocessor based relays requires new engineering tools. Current transformer (CT) and relay modeling are practical tools to ev...

A 23-day-old preterm baby (1900 g) presenting with severe hypoxemia secondary to a large pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (PAVM), diagnosed by thoracic computed tomography (CT), was referred to our department. He was born at 32 weeks of gestation weighing 1945 g and, after birth, presented with severe hypoxemia (peripheral oxygen saturation [SpO2] 65%). The cardiac assessment was unremarkab...

High-resolution computed tomography (CT) imaging of a live animal within a lead-lined synchrotron light hutch presents several unique challenges. In order to confirm that the animal is under a stable plane of anaesthesia, several physiological parameters (e.g. heart rate, arterial oxygen saturation, core body temperature and respiratory rate) must be remotely monitored from outside the imaging ...

introduction: pulmonary embolism (pe) is a common lethal disease that its clinical symptoms may be seen in many other diseases. computed tomography pulmonary angiography (ctpa) is a valuable diagnostic modality for detection of pe. in addition, it can accurately detect the other diseases with clinical symptoms similar to pe. the aim of this study is to evaluate the frequency of pe and nonemboli...

in present pet/ct scanners, pet attenuation correction is performed by relying on the information given by ct scan. in the ct-based attenuation correction methods, dual-energy technique (dect) is the most accurate approach, which has been limited due to the increasing patient dose. in this feasibility study, we have introduced a new method that can implement dual-energy technique with only a si...

In this paper, the saturation of electrolytes on mass transfer property porous electrodes in non-aqueous lithium air batteries has been studied based digital twin. Herein, we reconstruct cathode X-ray micro-computed tomography (?ct) and quantitatively analyze pore size distribution, specific surface area, triple-phase interface conductivity diffusion coefficient reactants at varying filling deg...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases are the most prevalent cause of morbidity and mortality affecting millions of people globally. The most effective way to counter cardiovascular complications is early diagnosis and the safest non-invasive diagnostic approach is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this study, superparamagnetic ferrite nanoparticles doped with zinc, exhibiting highly enhanced s...

BACKGROUND It is uncertain whether skin pigmentation affects pulse oximeter accuracy at low HbO2 saturation. METHODS The accuracy of finger pulse oximeters during stable, plateau levels of arterial oxygen saturation (Sao2) between 60 and 100% were evaluated in 11 subjects with darkly pigmented skin and in 10 with light skin pigmentation. Oximeters tested were the Nellcor N-595 with the OxiMax...