PURPOSE To assess intra-observer, inter-observer and inter-modality (CT vs. MRI) reproducibility of liver surface nodularity (LSN) scores measured with software used for detection of liver fibrosis. METHODS This IRB-approved retrospective study included patients with both abdominal CT and MRI within 6 months of histopathologic sampling. Two independent observers used post-processing software ...

Abstract Background Objective: To compare overall (OS) and recurrence-free survival (RFS) in esophageal adenocarcinoma patients with a complete pathological response (pCR) following neoadjuvant chemotherapy (nCT) or chemoradiotherapy (nCRT). In the absence of differences several prior studies comparing nCT nCRT, higher rate pCR after nCRT has been suggested as reason to prefer this modality ove...

We report optimal and asymptotically optimal reversible circuits composed of NOT, CNOT, and Toffoli (NCT) gates, keeping the count by the subsets of the gate types used. This study fine tunes the circuit complexity figures for the realization of reversible functions via reversible NCT circuits. An important consequence is a result on the limitation of the use of the T -count quantum circuit met...

The catecholamine metabolites 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyman delic acid (VMA) and 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid (HVA) were assayed in initialurine specimensof 288 patients with neuroblastoma and related tumors of neural crest origin (NCT). The interrelationships between the excretion of these metabolites, age at diagnosis, stage of the disease, site of the primary tumor, and prognosis were exami...

Department of Translational Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 581, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Correspondence: Manfred Schmidt, Department of Translational Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) andGerman Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 581, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. E-mail: manfred.schm...

This paper describes a practical control method for nanometer level point-to-point positioning (PTP) using a conventional ballscrew mechanism. nominal characteristic trajectory following controller (NCTF controller) is used for the ultra-precision positioning. The controller design, which s comprised of a nominal characteristic trajectory (NCT) and a PI compensator, is free from exact modeling ...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) for breast cancer among Chinese women. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 307 eligible patients were assigned to receive four cycles of paclitaxel and carboplatin before standard surgery for breast cancer from 2007 to 2011 at Shanghai Cancer Hospital. The patients were categorized...