Perfusion scintigraphy is the most frequently used method for the regional assessment of pulmonary function in candidates for pulmonary resection with borderline respiratory function. This method provides two-dimensional images, and it considers all the segments of the pulmonary lobes as having the same volume and function, without considering the spatial overlapping of pulmonary areas with dif...

AIM To determine whether three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction from conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is able to accurately detect a meniscal tear, and define the configuration. METHODS Thirty-three patients' 3T MRI scan data were collected and sagittal uni-planar 3D reconstructions performed from the preoperative MRI. There were 24 meniscal tears in 24 patients, and nine controls...

F-18 NaF PET/CT has been shown to have higher sensitivity than planar 99m-Tc MDP bone scanning in several studies. The concomitant acquisition of anatomic images permits immediate correlation of any abnormal findings. Additionally, F-18 NaF PET/CT bone imaging can be quantitated, allowing bone disease to be 'measureable', increasing its utility therapy monitoring. When a consistent F-18 NaF upt...

UNLABELLED Hybrid cameras combining SPECT and spiral CT offer the opportunity to obtain a diagnostic-quality CT image of scintigraphically suggestive lesions that directly correlates with the SPECT image. The field of view of the CT scan can be adapted on the basis of the SPECT findings ("SPECT-guided CT"). The aim of the present study was to investigate the value of SPECT-guided CT in the asse...

In this paper, we study the operation of electrostatically actuated electromechanical resonators having fractal electrodes. Using the spring-mass model, we establish the scaling relationships for pull-in instability , voltage dependent resonance frequency 1 , and pull-in voltage , where is the fractal dimension of the electrode, is the air-gap, and are the resonance frequency at zero and applie...

introduction: the limited resolution of the imaging system causes partial volume effects (pves). these results in spreading of image counts to the neighboring pixels. this phenomenon is called spill-out effect. this study aimed at quantifying pves using imagej. methods:technetium-99m solution of concentration of 74 kbq/ml was filled into spheres a, b and c of diameters: 26 mm, 20 mm and 16 mm r...

let $r$ be a commutative ring with identity‎. ‎we use‎ ‎$varphi (r)$ to denote the comaximal ideal graph‎. ‎the vertices‎ ‎of $varphi (r)$ are proper ideals of r which are not contained‎ ‎in the jacobson radical of $r$‎, ‎and two vertices $i$ and $j$ are‎ ‎adjacent if and only if $i‎ + ‎j = r$‎. ‎in this paper we show some‎ ‎properties of this graph together with planarity of line graph‎ ‎assoc...

the zero-divisor graph of a commutative ring r with respect to nilpotent elements is a simple undirected graph $gamma_n^*(r)$ with vertex set z_n(r)*, and two vertices x and y are adjacent if and only if xy is nilpotent and xy is nonzero, where z_n(r)={x in r: xy is nilpotent, for some y in r^*}. in this paper, we investigate the basic properties of $gamma_n^*(r)$. we discuss when it will be eu...

Modified two-photon laser scanning microscope. We use a locally-designed TPLSM for the studies described here that has been modified to allow delivery of green laser light for photothrombotic clotting (Supplementary Fig. 1). Tightlyfocused 100-fs, 800-nm pulses from the femtosecond laser oscillator (Mira 900-F, Coherent, Inc.) are scanned throughout the brain of the rat using galvanometric scan...

A current limitation of MR spectroscopic imaging of multiple skeletal muscles is prolonged scan duration. A significant reduction in the total scan duration using the echo-planar correlated spectroscopic imaging (EP-COSI) sequence was accomplished using two bipolar readout trains with different phase-encoded echoes for one of two spatial dimensions within a single repetition time (TR). The seco...