conclusions our study revealed that patients with the diagnosis of breast cancer have greater bpe in comparison with control group. the results may be indicative for higher probability of developing breast cancer in patients with higher bpe. therefore, ce-mri could be a useful tool for breast cancer risk assessment. objectives background parenchymal enhancement (bpe) on contrast-enhanced magnet...

introduction breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer among women.  early detection of breast cancer is the key to reducing the associated mortality rate. the presence of microcalcifications clusters (mccs) is one of the earliest signs of breast cancer. due to poor imaging contrast of mammograms and noise contamination, radiologists may overlook some diagnostic signs, specially t...

Functional endothelialized networks constitute a critical building block for vascularized replacement tissues, organ assist devices, and laboratory tools for in vitro discovery and evaluation of new therapeutic compounds. Progress towards realization of these functional artificial vasculatures has been gated by limitations associated with the mechanical and surface chemical properties of common...

The current study examines the impact of different task types on learning prepositions in form and meaning- focused interaction enhancement- based classes. The participants were 57 second Year University students enrolled in three intact lab classes at Tabriz Islamic Azad University.  The first group was provided with form-focused interaction enhancement, the second with the meaning-focused int...

iron oxide minerals in soils provide valuable insights into pedogenic processes. a wealth of such information has been obtained by rock magnetic investigations on temperate soils but similar studies on tropical soils are rare. here, we report rock magnetic data on pristine soil profiles and surficial soils from five catchments in the tropical southern india and throw light on the pedogenic proc...

A nanofluid is a dilute liquid suspension of particles with at least one critical dimension smaller than ~100 nm. Research works so far suggest that nanofluids offer excellent heat transfer enhancement over conventional base fluids. The enhancement depends on several factors such as particle shape, particle size distribution, volume fraction of nanoparticles, temperature, pH, and thermal conduc...

Small lung carcinoma is an endemic disease throughout the world which occurs mainly by cigarette smoking. A mutagenous compound known as nitro benzene is formed in the body due to cigarette smoking which causes mutation in normal tissues of lung and hence they are changed into malignant tissues by over growth of the tissues. Cancer Genome Anatomy Project website developed by National Cancer Ins...

conclusions the automatic bolus-tracking method, results in higher contrast enhancement of the aorta and spleen at the portal phase, but has no effect on liver enhancement. however, bolus tracking is associated with reduced variability for liver enhancement among different patients. results forty-eight patients (23 male, 25 female, mean age=56.4±13.5 years) were included. the contrast enhanceme...

The increase in the number of investigations into biomedical interactions with structured substrates has produced a necessity for transparent, microand nanostructured surfaces. To facilitate research, it must be possible to use these structured surfaces in conjunction with established culturing and imaging apparatus available within a biomedical laboratory. Such surfaces can be produced using a...

RDC: With the huge amount of draft sequence now available, we have seen increased use of the bioinformatics tools already on offer from the HGMP-RC, such as NIX and PIX. NIX is a suite of programs for database screening by BLAST, repeat masking and exon prediction for the identification of genes from genomic sequences. PIX is a protein equivalent of NIX, with BLAST searches, programs for domain...