Thermal characteristics of primers and coatings can be a useful prediction model on how the material will perform under heat exposure from manufacturing processes and product applications. Two chemistries, poly(vinyl alcohol) and polyethylenimine, have been analyzed using the techniques of Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), TGA coupled to a Mass Spectrometer (TG/MS), TGA coupled to a Fourier Tra...

Brain perfusion imaging using Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging is very promising method since it can be easily implemented as a standard contrast-based MRI procedure. Quantitative brain perfusion description by DSC-MRI data post processing requires validation. Different validation analysis was performed to verify the influence of a bolus dispersion, delay, low SNR and ...

We previously demonstrated that human decidual stromal cells (DSC), the main cellular component of the decidua, are similar in antigen phenotype and structure to myofibroblasts, cells with contractile activity. In this work we isolated and maintained DSC in fibroblast medium, in which these cells show a stable phenotype similar to that of DSC in vivo. Flow cytometric observations showed that mo...

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) and dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are widely used to image cerebral blood flow (CBF) in stroke. This study examined how changes in tissue spin-lattice relaxation-time constant (T(1)), blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability, and transit time affect CBF quantification by ASL and DSC in postischemic hyperperfusion in the same an...

In this paper, the decentralized stabilization control approach based on the dynamic surface control (DSC) is proposed for a class of large-scale interconnected stochastic nonlinear systems. The proposed approach combined the existing dynamic surface control (DSC) with back-stepping technique. This approach can overcome the problem of “explosion of complexity” inherent in the back-stepping meth...