The ignition of four different PVC-based electric cables was studied using cone calorimeter and the influence charring phenomenon on investigated. thermophysical optical properties sheaths before decomposition were measured. kinetics by photogrammetry. It shown that occurs for three at heat flux lower than 45 kW/m2. is flux, higher char amount ignition. In spite formation, it observed time-to-i...

The scientific goal of our experiments that require glass slits is the measurement of alternating current polarizabilities of clusters. To measure ac cluster polarizabilities, we need to generate and collimate a dense beam of cold clusters. The glass slits reported here were critical in our ability to generate and collimate this beam. For example, these slits made possible our recently reported...

Objective: The current study aimed to determine the efficacy of radioiodine-131 (131I) ablation therapy with thyroid hormone replacement one day before 131I administration in patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Methods: This retrospective study included 29 patients who underwent 131I therapies twice for DTC during 6-12 months.  Since all the patients obviously had residual l...

Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) is one of the most successful direct solid sampling techniques for major, minor and trace element analysis. However, this technique still suffers from matrix dependent ablation characteristics, which makes quantification very difficult. Furthermore, the laser sampled material alters its composition from the sample to the de...

INTRODUCTION Treatment options for small renal masses include partial nephrectomy (PN), ablation and active surveillance. We sought to compare patients who met the criteria for percutaneous ablation but underwent robotic PN to the rest of our robotic PN cohort. This was done in order to detect any safety concerns and to define any risk factors that might contraindicate the use of robotic PN, an...

BACKGROUND Neuroendocrine tumors (NET) represent a therapeutically challenging and heterogeneous group of malignancies occurring throughout the body, but mainly in the gastrointestinal system. PURPOSE To describe magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided laser ablation of NET liver metastases and assess its role within the current treatment options and methods. MATERIAL AND METHODS Two patien...