abstract objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between core stability and lower extremity injuries in female athletes through functional tests. decreased core stability has been suggested to contribute to the etiology of lower extremity injuries. so far researches had been used non-functional tests to assess the core stability. material and methods: fifty col...

Diagnostic ultrasound (DUS) pressures have the ability to induce inertial cavitation (IC) of systemically administered microbubbles; this bioeffect has many diagnostic and therapeutic implications in cardiovascular care. Diagnostically, commercially available lipid-encapsulated perfluorocarbons (LEP) can be utilized to improve endocardial and vascular border delineation as well as assess myocar...

INTRODUCTION continuous wave Doppler (CWD) has good discriminatory power at the groin in the assessment of saphenous femoral junction (SFJ); however, it is not as accurate as duplex ultrasound scanning (DUS) in the popliteal fossa for assessment of saphenous popliteal junction (SPJ) in patients with primary short saphenous vein incompetence. AIM the aim of this study was to compare the findin...

BACKGROUND Restenosis after carotid artery stenting (CAS) is a poorly described phenomenon. Studies have reported a variable incidence ranging from 4% to 19.7% at 1 year of follow-up. Doppler Ultrasound (DUS) is now routinely used in the follow-up after CAS and endarterectomy with optimal accuracy in detecting significant restenosis, compared to digital subtraction angiography (DSA). CASE REP...

Sobol’ sequence generators are used actively in financial applications. In this paper, we explore the effect of the uniformity Properties A and A’ on the generator performance in high-dimensional problems. It is shown that these properties provide an additional guarantee of uniformity for highdimensional problems even at a small number of sampled points. By imposing additional uniformity proper...

Background: Different diagnostic modalities to investigate atherosclerotic carotid artery disease (ACAD) are nowadays available. The aim of this study was to test the concordance of the findings of the two most widely used diagnostic modalities namely computed tomography angiography (CTA) and doppler ultrasonography (DUS). Material and methods: 29 patients with acute ischemic stroke were subjec...

Image-based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become a popular tool for the prediction of in vivo flow profiles and hemodynamic wall parameters. Currently, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is most widely used for in vivo geometry acquisition. For superficial arteries such as the carotids and the femoral artery, three-dimensional (3-D) extravascular ultrasound (3-DUS) could be a cost-effect...