PURPOSE To determine whether change of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value could predict early response to chemotherapy in lung cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-five patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer underwent chest MR imaging including DWI before and at the end of the first cycle of chemotherapy. The tumor's mean ADC value and diameters on MR images were calculated...

UNLABELLED The goal of this study was to determine the best predictive factor among image-derived parameters extracted from sequential (18)F-FDG PET scans for early tumor response prediction after 2 cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer. METHODS 51 breast cancer patients were included. Responder and nonresponder status was determined by histopathologic examination according to t...

Objectives: To evaluate the usefulness of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) in women with preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (PPROM) in the prediction of funisitis and early-onset neonatal sepsis (EONS), to determine a CRP cutoff value for their prediction, and to identify other significant risk factors associated with funisitis and EONS. Methods: This was a retrospective study conducted in a ...

AIM To determine the diagnostic value of risk factor analysis (age, duration of menopause, body mass index and physical activities) and radiological imaging (Singh index and cortical index of the femoral neck) in diagnosing osteoporosis in post-menopausal women. METHODS The study was cross sectional on 64 post-menopausal women without secondary risk factor for osteoporosis. They were classifi...

anzali porter is one of the cities that is located in gilan province, is important because it's recreational and tourism attraction in the region. therefore, the study of recreational value can affect prediction requires, shortage removal and recreation expansion in the region. the purpose of current study is to estimate the recreational value of anzali wetland with contingent valuation me...

Lateral neck node metastasis is an important prognostic factor in thyroid carcinoma. We developed a scoring system for use in prediction of lateral neck node metastasis from papillary thyroid cancer. In this study, 161 consecutive patients were included in the training data set. This scoring system, named the Yonsei Estimated Value (YEV) for lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer, wa...

The midbrain dopamine neurons are hypothesized to provide a physiological correlate of the reward prediction error signal required by current models of reinforcement learning. We examined the activity of single dopamine neurons during a task in which subjects learned by trial and error when to make an eye movement for a juice reward. We found that these neurons encoded the difference between th...

Lateral habenula (LHb) neurons signal negative "reward-prediction errors" and inhibit midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons. Yet LHb neurons are largely glutamatergic, indicating that this inhibition may occur through an intermediate structure. Recent studies in rats have suggested a candidate for this role, the GABAergic rostromedial tegmental nucleus (RMTg), but this neural pathway has not yet been ...

INTRODUCTION Necessity of imaging for symptom-free conscious patients presented to emergency department (ED) following traumatic thoracolumbar spine injuries has been a matter of debate. The present study was aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value of clinical findings in prediction of traumatic thoracolumbar injuries compared tocomputed tomography (CT) scan. METHODS The present diagnostic val...