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Radon concentrations were measured with long-term alpha-track radon detectors along with radon scout. Radon gas emanates from the radium content of terrestrial products, like tobacco leaves. Smoking materials contain, beside tobacco, many other additives that may also contain radium traces. These additives aim at exciting smoker’s feeling via chemical reactions, which may be disrupted by alpha ...

The operation of the bowtie filter in x-ray CT is correct if the object being scanned is properly centered in the scanner's field-of-view. Otherwise, the dose delivered to the patient and image noise will deviate from optimal setting. We investigate the effect of miscentering on image noise and surface dose on three commercial CT scanners. Six cylindrical phantoms with different size and materi...

Clinical Images A 21-year-old man presented with symptoms of fatigue that had been progressing for several months. The patient had a history of depression and childhood constipation. Physical examination revealed conjunctival pallor, abdominal distention, and left upper quadrant firmness. Laboratory tests were positive for fecal occult blood test and revealed a serum hemoglobin level of 0.0048 ...

Skeletal and dental data for subadult analyses obtained from dry bones or various types of medical images, such as computed tomography (CT) scans conventional radiographs/x-rays, should be consistent repeatable to ensure method applicability across modalities support combining study samples. The present evaluates observer agreement epiphyseal fusion development stages on CT a U.S. sample the co...

Placing a high profile gay rights case on its agenda for the first time since Romer v. Evans, the U.S. Supreme Court announced on January 14 that it will review the federal constitutional issues decided by the New Jersey Supreme Court in Dale v. Boy Scouts of America, 734 A.2d 1196, 160 N.J. 562 (Aug. 4, 1999). The case will be argued this spring and probably decided by the end of the Court’s t...