Liver segmentation on images acquired using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an important role in clinical management of liver diseases. Compared to MRI, CT are more abundant readily available. However, MRI can provide richer quantitative information the compared CT. Thus, it is desirable achieve unsupervised domain adaptation for transferring learned knowledg...

ct image quality has been affected by many factors such as kvp, ma, exposure time, alogorithm and section thickness. gantry tilt has the main role in visualization of the temporal bone anatomic structures. in this study, we tried to optimize these factors to determine the best gantry tilt. this study was performed on the human skull phantom and then extended to 15 patients. the phantom was made...

Metacognitive awareness is a cognitive set in which negative thoughts/feelings are experienced as mental events, rather than as the self. The authors hypothesized that (a) reduced metacognitive awareness would be associated with vulnerability to depression and (b) cognitive therapy (CT) and mindfulness-based CT (MBCT) would reduce depressive relapse by increasing metacognitive awareness. They f...

Kloub, Mamoun A., Gerard L. Heck, and John A. DeSimone. Evidence suggests that the amiloride-insensitive component Self-inhibition in Ca-evoked taste receptors: a novel tool for (AIC) of the NaCl neural response arises from transduction functional dissection of salt taste transduction mechanisms. J. Neusites along the basolateral membranes of receptor cells, acrophysiol. 79: 911–921, 1998. Rat ...

The influence of the molecular orbitals on charge transfer (CT) reactions is analyzed through wave function-based calculations. Characteristic CT processes in the organic radical 2,5-di-tert-butyl-6-oxophenalenoxyl linked with tetrathiafulvalene and the inorganic crystalline material LaMnO3 show that changes in the inner shells must be explicitly taken into account. Such electronic reorganizati...

In outdoor environments or with space restrictions, it is difficult to transport and use conventional computed tomography (CT) systems. Therefore, there an urgent need for rapid reconstruction of portable cone-beam CT (CBCT) However, owing its portability the characteristics temporary construction environments, high precision spatial location achieve CBCT To overcome these limitations, we propo...

Children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder show executive function (EF) deficits, particularly in self-regulation skills, and abnormalities in brain regions critical for these skills. None of the validated EF interventions for these children has been evaluated with regards to impacts on brain structure. Twenty-nine children with FASD were assigned to either an immediate-treatment (TX) or del...