OBJECTIVES To determine if tumor vascularity as assessed by three-dimensional (3D) power Doppler ultrasound can be used to discriminate between benign and malignant ovarian tumors, if adding 3D power Doppler ultrasound to gray-scale imaging improves differentiation between benignity and malignancy, and if 3D power Doppler ultrasound adds more to gray-scale ultrasound than does two-dimensional (...

objective: allogeneic transplantation with umbilical cord blood (ucb) in adult recipients is limited mainly by a low cd34+ cell dose. to overcome this shortcoming, human placenta as a novel source of human mesenchymal progenitor cell (mpc)- unrestricted somatic stem cells (ussc)- was incorporated in an attempt to expand cd34+ cells from ucb. to provide a similar environment in vitro, we coated ...

Sexual dimorphism in digit ration is related to genetic differences between species in response to prenatal exposure to hormones. In this study, the development of tetrapod digits, preliminary the ratio between the length of digit II and IV (2D: 4D) was investigated in 34 samples of Darevskia cholorogaster in the North of Iran. The results showed no significant differences between sexes in any ...

Background Three-dimensional (3D) laparoscopy has the advantages and characteristics of more radical procedures in the treatment of gastric cancer. The objective of this research was to investigate the short-term efficacy and safety of 3D laparoscopic procedures in the treatment of advanced distal gastric cancer. Methods We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 124 patients treated wi...

OBJECTIVE To assess OA-related changes in mean compartmental femorotibial cartilage thickness in rat knees by three-dimensional (3D) MRI (7T). METHODS MRI was performed in vivo at 7T on OA and untouched contralateral knee joints. Gradient Echo Fast Imaging 3D MR images were acquired sequentially in surgically induced OA (D0) in 40 Wistar rats (anterior cruciate ligament transection). Mean fem...

Comparison of 3D and 2D speckle tracking performed on standard 2D and triplane 2D datasets of normal and pathological left ventricular (LV) wall-motion patterns with a focus on the effect that 3D volume rate (3DVR), image quality and tracking artifacts have on the agreement between 2D and 3D speckle tracking. 37 patients with normal LV function and 18 patients with ischaemic wall-motion abnorma...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of 2D conventional brachytherapy (CBT) compared to 3D MRI-guided brachytherapy (IGBT) with and without the use of interstitial needles on local control, overall survival, and toxicity in patients treated for cervical cancer with radiation or chemoradiation. Material and methods A retrospective analysis was performed of biopsy-proven ...

magnetotelluric (mt) method is an electromagnetic technique that uses the earth natural field to map the electrical resistivity changes in subsurface structures. because of the high penetration depth of the electromagnetic fields in this method (tens of meters to tens of kilometers), the mt data is used to investigate the shallow to deep subsurface geoelectrical structures and their dimensions....