Soil erosion rates in alpine regions are related to high spatial variability complicating assessment of risk and damages. A crucial parameter triggering soil erosion that can be derived from satellite imagery is fractional vegetation cover (FVC). The objective of this study is to assess the applicability of normalized differenced vegetation index (NDVI), linear spectral unmixing (LSU) andmixtur...

Introduction In blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) functional MRI (fMRI), linear signal drifts are often seen in the time series. These drifts are nuisance parameters that are either regressed or filtered out when performing the functional analysis. The largest sources are believed to be scanner instability such as B0 drift and physiological noise and motion [1]. B0 drift also causes drif...

PURPOSE To examine the relationship between an anatomic map relating the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) distribution to the optic nerve head and a functional map derived from the interpoint correlation of raw sensitivities in visual field (VF) testing. METHODS Previously, interpoint correlations were generated for all possible pairs of VF test points in a dataset of 98,821 Humphrey VF test ...

This study, conducted in the brain of a perciform fish, the European sea bass, aimed at raising antibodies against the precursor of the kisspeptins in order to map the kiss systems and to correlate the expression of kisspeptins, kiss1 and kiss2, with that of kisspeptin receptors (kiss-R1 and kiss-R2). Specific antibodies could be raised against the preprokiss2, but not the preoprokiss1. The dat...

Purpose Susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI) based on GRE provides enhancement of susceptibility difference which is useful for visualization of vein, micro-hemorrhage and iron deposition. However, GRE suffers from the macroscopic B0 inhomogeneity due to air/tissue boundary and this effect is shown as SNR loss both in magnitude and phase. Previously, 3D z-shim multi-echo GRE (mGRE) pulse seque...

We tested the hypothesis that lower blood pressure and increased vasodilatation reported in sickle cell disease (SCD) patients with hemoglobin SS genotype (SS) are translated by lower arterial stiffness determined by pulse wave velocity (PWV) and wave reflections assessed by augmentation index (AI). We enrolled 20 SS (8 females; 12 male) patients closely matched for age, gender, height, and bod...

Introduction pH sensing has a pivotal role in diagnosis, e.g. tumors or inflammation sites have a lower pH as compared to pH 7.4 of normal tissues. This acidic environment, e.g. 6.5 or lower, has been used for an effective delivery of therapeutic agents, especially using liposomes. Sensitive probes or systems that can detect this change in vivo are necessary for disease diagnosis. Liposomes act...