A 35-year-old man with polyostotic fibrous dysplasia and a massively enlarged skull presented with Lhermitte sensations due to an unstable, mulitseptated, lytic C2/3 vertebral body complex. Enlarged extracranial vasculature made open surgery a high-risk option and limited percutaneous access. A 5F catheter was directed by using a guidewire into the C2/C3 vertebral body complex via a transpedicu...

High resolution scanning tunneling microscopy (HRSTM) images of i-Al–Pd–Mn reveal wide flat terraces along the 5-fold (5f) direction with quasiperiodic atomic arrangements that are consistent with the expected structure of the dense pure aluminum planes of the bulk material as defined by 6D-models. This makes encouraging the exploration by HRSTM of a QC surface to better understand its 3D real ...

pH is a tightly regulated indicator of metabolic activity. In mammalian systems, an imbalance of pH regulation may result from or result in serious illness. In this paper, we report photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) of a commercially available pH-sensitive fluorescent dye (SNARF-5F carboxylic acid) in tissue phantoms. We demonstrated that PAM is capable of pH imaging in absolute values at tissue d...

Coexistence or competition of superconductivity and magnetic order remains an important issue in condensed matter physics. While conventional superconductivity is generally incompatible with magnetism, the magnetic 4f or 5f moments in heavy-fermion superconductors play a crucial role for the appearance of unconventional superconductivity. Similar to the high-temperature cuprate superconductors,...

We report the usefulness of Guglielmi detachable coil (GDC) embolization by direct carotid puncture for anterior circulation aneurysms. For all 27 patients, GDC embolization by direct carotid puncture was safely performed by using a 5F sheath introducer 5 cm long and a Tracker-38 catheter. Neurologic deficits and hemorrhage were not found in any patient during the follow-up period. If the trans...

very constipated. The weight at birth had been lbs. It had been bottle-fed from the beginning. On admission it weighed 5f lbs., otherwise ordinary physical examination was negative. The combination of vomiting with constipation in a baby a few weeks old?especially a male baby?was so suggestive of congenital stenosis of the pylorus that when I saw the baby on the morning of the 2nd July, I decid...

The 7.6(5) eV nuclear magnetic-dipole transition in a single 229Th3+ ion may provide the foundation for an optical clock of superb accuracy. A virtual clock transition composed of stretched states within the 5F(5/2) electronic ground level of both nuclear ground and isomeric manifolds is proposed. It is shown to offer unprecedented systematic shift suppression, allowing for clock performance wi...

First principles calculations show that the neutral U@C28 has a (cage)(2) ground state with Td symmetry instead of the long believed (5f)(1)(cage)(1) ground state with D2 symmetry. Its 34 valence electrons preferentially obey the 32-electron principle which fills all the s-, p-, d-, and f-type valence shells of the uranium atom. The remaining two valence electrons cannot break the electronic co...

Lattice parameter, suceptibility, specific heat and resistivity measurements are presented on URhsB, (0 5 x < 1). This alloy series exhibits a transition from an almost temperature independent paramagnet to a magnetic system. Results are interpreted in terms of U-5f Rh-4d dehybridization induced by boron addition. One cf the basic parameters dictating the properties of f-electron systems is the...