OBJECTIVE To compare the breathing effects on dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)-MRI between controlled aliasing in parallel imaging results in higher acceleration (CAIPIRINHA)-volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination (VIBE), radial VIBE with k-space-weighted image contrast view-sharing (radial-VIBE), and conventional VIBE (c-VIBE) sequences using a dedicated phantom experiment. MATERIALS...

Sample entropy can be an effective tool for the investigation of human movement variability. However, before applying the method, it can be beneficial to employ an analysis to confirm that observed data is not solely the result of stochastic processes. This can be achieved using surrogate methods. Previous investigations have used surrogate methods within human gait data, yet no appropriate met...

We tested for nonlinearity 16-channels EEG-data of 21 healthy human subjects by surrogate data method using S-map forecasting as a discriminant statistics, showing that in most cases one may not reject the null hypothesis that the signal was generated by a linear stochastic process. We also demonstrated that fractal dimension of EEG-signal in time domain works as a relative index of signal’s di...

A property of nonlinear oscillators—mutual dependence between their instantaneous amplitude and frequency—is tested in the yearly and monthly records of the sunspot numbers using the histogramadjusted isospectral surrogate data and the Barnes model as the autoregressive moving average surrogates. The instantaneous amplitudes and frequencies are obtained by means of the analytic signal approach ...

TO THE EDITOR: In the Journal of Applied Physiology, Wang et al. (2) published their studies on the effects of paced breathing at different inspiration/expiration (I/E) ratios on spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity (BRS), heart rate variability (HRV), and heart rate asymmetry (HRA). The authors concluded that the I/E ratio need not to be set in BRS or spectral HRV analysis. In our recent work (1...

Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a radiotherapy technique that utilizes precise targeting to deliver high doses of tumoricidal radiation in the course of a small number of treatment sessions. SBRT is used to treat a variety of primary and metastatic tumours of the lung, liver, pancreas, kidney, spine and prostate. These treatments are already standard for medically inoperable early...

INTRODUCTION For percutaneous abdomen intervention (e.g. liver radiofrequency (RF) tumor ablation, liver biopsy), surgeons lack real-time visual feedback about the location of the needle on planning images, typically computed tomography (CT). One difficulty lies in tracking and synchronizing both the tool movement and the patient breathing motion. AIM To verify the correspondence between rigi...

PURPOSE To investigate the process of fatigue in orbicularis oris muscles by analyzing the median frequency of electromyographic signal and the referred fatigue time, according to the breathing mode and the facial pattern. METHODS The participants were 70 children, aged 6 to 12 years, who matched the established criteria. To be classified as 36 nasal-breathing and 34 mouth-breathing children,...

We propose an unconventional approach for transferring of information between multi-modal images. It exploits the temporal commonality of multi-modal images acquired from the same organ during free-breathing. Strikingly there is no need for capturing the same region by the modalities. The method is based on extracting a low-dimensional description of the image sequences, selecting the common ca...