Results We compared the SUVmax between good (Japan Esophageal Society response evaluation criteria grades 3/2; n = 87, 78.4 %) and poor (grade 1; n = 24, 21.6 %) responders. The SUVmax after nCRT (post-SUVmax) in good and poor responders were 2.7 ± 0.9 and 4.4 ± 2.2, respectively (p < 0.0001). The rates of the SUVmax decrease after nCRT (ΔSUVmax) in these patients significantly differed (71 ± 1...

Program Chairs Margo Seltzer and Ric Wheeler opened FAST ’09 by thanking the contributors and stressing the value of interaction between students and attendees. Best Paper awards were presented to “CA-NFS: A Congestion-Aware Network File System” by Batsakis, Burns, Kanevsky, Lentini, and Talpey of NetApp and Johns Hopkins, and to “Generating Realistic Impressions for File System Benchmarking” b...

Abstract Aim As a result of increasing demand in recent years organ donation and transplantation, the transplant community has been utilizing organs previously considered unsuitable for including from extended criteria donors (ECD) after circulatory arrest (DCD). This led to higher rates non-functioning poorer outcomes, uncertainty when accept or decline donor organ. Our objective is measure pa...