We study the diffusion of a tracer particle, which moves in continuum space between a lattice of excluded volume, immobile non-inert obstacles. In particular, we analyse how the strength of the tracer-obstacle interactions and the volume occupancy of the crowders alter the diffusive motion of the tracer. From the details of partitioning of the tracer diffusion modes between trapping states when...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether the pattern of diffusion changes among a cohort of individuals showing BMI-related increases in white matter volume reflects healthy expansion of myelin or damaged white matter. METHODS Diffusion MRI measures (axial, radial, and fractional anisotropy) were obtained from 94 females, aged 52-92. Relationships between BMI and diffusion measures were assessed controlli...

introduction: in this study, we intend to use diffuse optical tomography (dot) as a noninvasive, safe and low cost technique that can be considered as a functional imaging method and mention the importance of image reconstruction in accuracy and procession of image. one of the most important and fastest methods in image reconstruction is the boundary element method (bem). this method is introdu...

BACKGROUND In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), functional and structural impairment of lung function can negatively impact heart rate variability (HRV); however, it is unknown if static lung volumes and lung diffusion capacity negatively impacts HRV responses. We investigated whether impairment of static lung volumes and lung diffusion capacity could be related to HRV indices in pa...

Acute changes in ventilatory function during a workshift with exposure to hemp, flax, and cotton dust were measured on Mondays in a group of 61 textile workers, all working on carding machines. In addition, single-breath diffusing capacity (DLCOSB) was measured before dust exposure on Monday in 30 of the 61 workers. Large acute reductions during dust exposure were recorded in maximum expiratory...

Thesis: Implementation of Anatomical Navigators for Real Time Motion Correction in Diffusion Tensor Imaging Author‟s Name: Alkathafi A. Alhamud Date: 10-02-2012 Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is used to detect microstructural changes in the human brain. Although echo planar imaging (EPI) has been implemented in diffusion pulse sequences to minimize the effect of subject motion, motion artifacts...

‎A computational technique for solution of mathematical model of gas solution in a fluid is presented‎. ‎This model describes the change of mass of the gas volume due to diffusion through the contact surface‎. ‎An appropriate representation of the solution based on the M"{u}ntz polynomials reduces its numerical treatment to the solution of a linear system of algebraic equations‎. ‎Numerical exa...

Introduction Several deconvolution methods have been proposed to increase the angular resolution of HARDI or QBI [1][2]. However, there is no deconvolution method directly applied to diffusion ODF without resorting to spherical decomposition. In this study, we developed a deconvolution method that could be directly applied to diffusion ODF, thus extending its applicability to other q-space meth...

On the basis of Kedem-Katchalsky's equations in classical and modified versions, the model equations of volume and solute fluxes were presented. In this model the osmotic volume flux is a sum of: simple osmotic, osmotic connected with natural convection and osmotic connected with forced convection fluxes. The solute flux is a sum of: simple diffusion, diffusion connected with natural convection...