BACKGROUND Conducting randomized controlled trials on traditional Chinese non-drug therapies has been limited by factors such as patient preference to specific treatment modality. The aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility of applying a partially randomized patient preference (PRPP) trial model in evaluating the efficacy of two types of traditional Chinese medicine therapies, acupu...

We propose an empirical cupping correction (ECC) algorithm to correct for CT cupping artifacts that are induced by nonlinearities in the projection data. The method is raw data based, empirical, and requires neither knowledge of the x-ray spectrum nor of the attenuation coefficients. It aims at linearizing the attenuation data using a precorrection function of polynomial form. The coefficients ...

BACKGROUND As a common disease in pediatrics, constipation poses a high burden to the community. In this study, we aimed to investigate the efficacy of dry cupping therapy (an Eastern traditional manipulative therapy) in children with functional constipation. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred and twenty children (4-18 years old) diagnosed as functional constipation according to ROME III crite...

A 51-year-old woman had optic disk cupping from optic nerve compression by an intracranial aneurysm. Slit-lamp stereoscopic examination of the living eye immediately post mortem revealed an optic cup vertically oral, elongated superiorly, and indistinguishable from disk changes seen early in glaucoma. The histopathological changes differed from those in glaucoma by showing no glial atrophy. Ins...

In the flat panel detector-based cone beam CT system, the scatter photons which reach the flat panel detector increase the detected signal, produce the image cupping artifact and reduce the image contrast. To conquer the X-Ray scatter problem, this study proposes the beam attenuation grid -based scatter correction algorithm that needs to add a beam attenuation grid (BAG) between the X-Ray sourc...

dry cupping is one of the main procedures in many traditional medicine systems all around the world with its root in antiquity. traditional method of dry cupping is depended on practitioner proficiency and can lead to skin burn if the practitioner is a beginner. on the other hand, zahrawi (11th century ad), the muslim physician from andulus (current spain) presented two novel forms of cup for c...

The traditional and Islamic medicine is based on bringing out the wasted and hazardous materials from the body. For this reason well known ancient physicians used to do phlebotomy, wet cupping, vomiting, administer laxatives, enema and various other methods. Fortunately, wet cupping is known as an effective method in prevention and treatment for numbers of diseases even by medical society nowad...

Cupping nonzero computably enumerable (c.e. for short) degrees to 0′ in various structures has been one of the most important topics in the development of classical computability theory. An incomplete c.e. degree a is cuppable if there is an incomplete c.e. degree b such that a∪b = 0′, and noncuppable if there is no such degree b. Sacks splitting theorem shows the existence of cuppable degrees....