Materials and methods DCE-CT images of 33 patients, with recurrent/metastatic NPC treated with pazopanib, were analyzed to derive tumour blood flow, fractional intravascular blood volume, fractional extracellular-extravascular volume, and permeability surface area product. To each parametric map, textural analysis using multiple parameters based on co-occurrence matrix, neighbourhood gray tone ...

Coupled electro-thermal simulations are performed to demonstrate predictive design of microwave devices. These simulations are based on an original, fully physical, thermal impedance matrix approach, capable of describing 'nearly exactly' time-dependent heat flow in complex 3-dimensional systems, whilst requiring no model reduction for electro-thermal CAD. This thermal model is validated by the...

Vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP) is one of the clinical tools to evaluate vestibular function. The VEMP can be recorded from sternocleidomastoid muscle by auditory stimulation with various sound stimuli. The aim of this study was to compare parameter of cVEMP and oVEMP responses as measured by click tone and tone burst across gender in healthy young individuals. Total Sixty adult par...

This study evaluates the neurologic profiles of infants with deformational plagiocephaly. Forty-nine infants with deformational plagiocephaly between the ages of 4 and 13 months (mean age, 8.1 months) are evaluated, along with 50 age-matched control subjects (mean age, 8.1 months). A modified version of the Hammersmith infant neurologic assessment was performed on each infant. A caregiver compl...

Frequency discrimination thresholds were measured from five chinchillas for harmonic tone complexes having a fundamental frequency of 250 Hz. Stimuli consisted of the fundamental frequency and the second through 10th harmonics with individual components added in either cosine phase or random phase. In general, thresholds were independent of overall level for sound levels between 47 and 77 dB SP...