PURPOSE Prominent hypointense cerebral vessels on susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) and the hyperintense vessel sign (HVS) on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) imaging are considered as markers of compromised tissue perfusion in cerebral ischemia. In this study, we aimed to identify the correlation between HVS on FLAIR and hypointense vessels on SWI, and to determine whether these...

Stereoscopic video quality assessment has become a major research topic in recent years. Existing stereoscopic metrics are predominantly based on image extended to the time domain via for example temporal pooling. These approaches do not explicitly consider motion sensitivity of Human Visual System (HVS). To address this limitation, paper introduces novel HVS model inspired by physiological fin...

INTRODUCTION With the promotion and application of digital imaging technology in the medical domain, the amount of medical images has grown rapidly. However, the commonly used compression methods cannot acquire satisfying results. METHODS In this paper, according to the existed and stated experiments and conclusions, the lifting step approach is used for wavelet decomposition. The physical an...

Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) is a T-cell-specific transforming and oncogenic virus. A protein encoded by HVS known as Tip-484 (for tyrosine kinase interacting protein from HVS strain 484) is required for this transformation. Tip-484 binds specifically to the nonreceptor protein tyrosine kinase p56lck. By transfecting Tip-484 into T cells, we now show that this interaction leads to a several hundre...

OBJECTIVES Conflict between sensory-motor central nervous processing generates somaesthetic disturbances, including pain, in healthy volunteers (HVs). Such conflict has been proposed as a potential cause of pain that occurs in the absence of injury or when the pain response is disproportionate to the injury. Fibromyalgia (FMS) exemplifies the former state. We hypothesized that the artificial ge...

Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) is capable of infecting a range of human carcinoma cell types with high efficiency and the viral genome persists as high copy number, circular, non-integrated episomes which segregate to progeny upon cell division. This allows HVS-based vectors to stably transduce a dividing cell population and provide sustained transgene expression for an extended period of time both ...

Antibody-response patterns to 3 major groups of Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS)associated antigens [early antigens (EA), late antigens (LA), membrane antigens (MA)] in 10 owl monkeys infected with HVS were related to the clinical course of HVS-induced disease. Results are also presented which show that EA is produced 4-8 hours earlier than LA in HVSinfected cells providing further evidence that these...

OBJECTIVE To assess the right-to-left and short-term variability of intraepidermal nerve fiber density (IENFD) at the distal site of the leg. METHODS Patients with possible or probable small fiber neuropathy (SFN) and healthy volunteers (HVs) underwent skin biopsies at the right and left distal leg. A subgroup of participants underwent follow-up biopsies 20 days later. Biopsies were immunosta...

The mitochondrial DNA hypervariable segment I (HVS-I) is widely used in studies of human evolutionary genetics, and therefore accurate estimates of mutation rates among nucleotide sites in this region are essential. We have developed a novel maximum-likelihood methodology for estimating site-specific mutation rates from partial phylogenetic information, such as haplogroup association. The resul...