A 66-year-old man with cryptogenic ischemic stroke and multiple acute ischemic lesions in the right middle cerebral artery territory was enrolled in the CAPIAS trial (Carotid Plaque Imaging in Acute Stroke; NCT01284933). Baseline carotid MRI demonstrated a right-sided nonstenotic American Heart Association type-VI plaque with a large lipid/necrotic core and intraplaque hemorrhage (figure 1). El...

BACKGROUND Previous reports suggest that plaque may be characterized by the computed tomography (CT) number, but there is not a comprehensive method for evaluating the gray-scale CT image of the coronary artery obtained by multi-detector row CT (MDCT). METHODS AND RESULTS Forty-five patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) underwent MDCT either 3-4 weeks after the onset of acute myocardial...

The classic plaque assay is a method for counting infectious viral particles, however its complexity limits its use in a variety of virological experiments. To simplify the operation and to improve the repeatability, we employed an improved plaque assay procedure based on Avicel to make the whole experiment easier and optimize the results on a model of Vero cells infection with Enterovirus 71(E...

Purpose To determine if metal artifact reduction can minimize magnetic susceptibility artifacts in the orbits for an eye plaque brachytherapy patient with metallic dental braces. Material and methods A 62-year-old female patient with a choroidal melanoma in the right eye received a 1.5 T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) simulation for 3D eye plaque brachytherapy planning. The protocol include...

Standard ocular tumor treatment includes brachytherapy, as well as proton therapy, particularly for large melanoma tumors. However, the effects of different radiation types on the metastatic spread is not clear. We aimed at comparing ruthenium ((106)Ru, emitting β electrons) and iodine ((125)I, γ-radiation) brachytherapy and proton beam therapy of melanoma implanted into the hamster eye on deve...

PURPOSE To investigate dosimetric differences among several clinical treatment planning systems (TPS) and Monte Carlo (MC) codes for brachytherapy of intraocular tumors using 125I or 103Pd plaques, and to evaluate the impact on the prescription dose of the adoption of MC codes and certain versions of a TPS (Plaque Simulator with optional modules). METHODS Three clinical brachytherapy TPS capa...