Background Phase contrast MRI has limited practical value in clinical applications due to its inherently long scan times [Kilner,JCMR’07]. Parallel imaging[Pruessmann, MRM’01] and spatio-temporal constrained reconstruction techniques[Tsao,MRM’03] have been shown beneficial[Baltes,MRM’05]. Dual slice approaches have shown advantages as compared to standard SENSE when multiple and sufficiently se...

background: modified radical mastectomy (mrm) is still one of globally accepted surgical techniques for breast cancer and in some selected patient is the gold standard type of surgery. the most frequent complication of this procedure is seroma under skin flaps or in the axilla as reported as much as 30% in some studies. the use of closed suction drainage system to reduce the incidence of this c...

BACKGROUND To compare two types of therapy for primary breast carcinoma, breast-conserving therapy (BCT) and modified radical mastectomy (MRM), in a matched cohort study. METHODS A series of 1,746 patients with primary breast cancer treated with BCT or MRM in a single Chinese institute between January 2000 and February 2009 were analyzed retrospectively to compare their outcomes with respect ...

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is transmitted as either an autosomal dominant or recessive trait and is a major cause of renal failure and liver fibrosis. The cpk mouse model of autosomal recessive PKD (ARPKD) has been extensively characterized using standard histopathological techniques after euthanasia. In the current study, we sought to validate magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) as a robu...

Multiplicative renormalization method (MRM) for deriving generating functions of orthogonal polynomials is introduced by Asai–Kubo– Kuo. They and Namli gave complete lists of MRM-applicable measures for MRM-factors h(x) = ex and (1 − x)−κ. In this paper, MRM-factors h(x) for which the beta distribution B(p, q) over [0, 1] is MRM-applicable are determined. In other words, all generating function...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enables in vivo imaging of organisms. The recent development of the magnetic resonance microscope (MRM) has enabled organisms within the size range of many insects to be imaged. Here, we introduce the principles of MRI and MRM and review their use in entomology. We show that MRM has been successfully applied in studies of parasitology, development, metabolism, b...

We present an accurate behavior model for Si micro-ring modulators (MRM) based on Verilog-A, a standard simulation tool for electronic system design. Our model describes the electrical characteristics of the Si MRM using an equivalent circuit and the optical characteristics based on the couple-mode theory. The accuracy of our model is confirmed by comparing simulation results of our behavior mo...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively assess the diagnostic and clinical value of a new technique (3-tesla magnetic resonance myelography, 3T MRM) as compared to computed tomographic discography (disco-CT) in patients with far lateral disc herniation. METHODS We evaluated 3T MRM and disco-CT of 25 patients, whom we suspected of suffering from far lateral disc herniation. Using an assessment scale, 4 obs...

Quantitative analysis of protein biomarkers in plasma is typically done by ELISA, but this method is limited by the availability of high-quality antibodies. An alternative approach is protein immunoprecipitation combined with multiple reaction monitoring mass spectrometry (IP-MRM). We compared IP-MRM to ELISA for the analysis of six colon cancer biomarker candidates (metalloproteinase inhibitor...

Wang in a PAMI paper proposed Neighborhood Counting Measure (NCM) as a similarity measure for the knearest neighbors classification algorithm. In his paper, Wang mentioned Minimum Risk Metric (MRM) an earlier method based on the minimization of the risk of misclassification. However, Wang did not compare NCM with MRM because of its allegedly excessive computational load. In this letter, we empi...