Background 99"Tc-sestamibi and thallium imaging have similar accuracy when used for diagnostic purposes, but whether sestamibi provides accurate information regarding myocardial viability in patients with chronic coronary artery disease has not been established. Since there is minimal redistribution of sestamibi over time, it may overestimate nonviable myocardium in patients with left ventricul...

Abstract Reinjecting low-temperature tailwater into geothermal reservoirs leads to complex thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling processes, making it more difficult predict the thermal breakthrough of reservoirs. By taking example deep carbonate karst fissure type in Xianxian field China, this paper studied processes case reinjection based on previous tracer tests. It established a three-field model...

The saddle-node Hopf bifurcation (SNH) is a generic codimensiontwo bifurcation of equilibria of vector fields in dimension at least three. It has been identified as an organizing centre in numerous vector field models arising in applications. We consider here the case that there is a global reinjection mechanism, because the centre manifold of the zero eigenvalue returns to a neighbourhood of t...

Geothermal reinjection is an important part of sustainable management of geothermal resources. Reinjection started out as a method of waste-water disposal, but is now also being used to counteract pressure draw-down and to extract more thermal energy from reservoir rocks. The possible cooling of production wells, or thermal breakthrough, is one of the main disadvantages associated with injectio...

T he paper by Bonow et al' in this issue of Circulation reports important empirical observations on measuring myocardial viability in humans with the potassium analogue thallium-201. After obtaining standard 20'1f exercise and redistribution images, a second dose of 201TI was injected and a third (reinjection) image was obtained beginning 10-15 minutes later. The reinjection images identified v...

process for tlic separation of silica Amiata reinjection geothermal scaling causes serious problems in operation and maintenance of reinjection facilities, is reported, in which the phases of coagulation, and of silica are involved Brines discharged from three wells were studied, in order to investigate the influence of the brine composition on of tlie separation treatment. The addition of amou...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the usefulness of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography ((18)F-FDG PET/CT) in the management of cervical dystonia (CD) with botulinum toxin type A (BoNT-A) injection. METHOD Thirty two subjects with CD were included. A BoNT-A injection was provided either by clinically targeting method (group 1) or by (18)F-FDG PET/CT-assisted, clinica...

T he paper by Bonow et al' in this issue of Circulation reports important empirical observations on measuring myocardial viability in humans with the potassium analogue thallium-201. After obtaining standard 20'1f exercise and redistribution images, a second dose of 201TI was injected and a third (reinjection) image was obtained beginning 10-15 minutes later. The reinjection images identified v...

Redistribution thallium-201 imaging 2 to 4 h after exercise may be incomplete and therefore may be inadequate to fully assess myocardial variability. Late redistribution imaging 24 h after exercise has been proposed to overcome this limitation of thallium stress imaging. However, because of poor count density the image quality on these studies is often suboptimal. In the present study the diagn...

The first-line treatment for cervical dystonia (CD) is botulinum toxin type A (BoNT-A), which has been established as a highly effective and well-tolerated therapy. However, this treatment is also complex and challenging to apply in clinical practice. Approximately 20% of patients discontinue therapy due to treatment failure, adverse effects, and other reasons. In addition, expert consensus rec...