Introduction: The knowledge of flip angle values is essential for accurate modeling in many quantitative MRI techniques. Recently, Actual Flip Angle Imaging (AFI) was proposed to account for multiple sources of flip angle variations such as transmit field inhomogeneity, B0 variations, slab profile, and excitation pulse effects [1]. AFI was successfully applied to yield system-independent T1 rel...

In this paper, flip bifurcations of homoclinic orbits in conservative reversible systems are analysed. In such systems, orbit-flip and inclination-flip bifurcations occur simultaneously. It is shown that multi-pulses either do not bifurcate at all at flip bifurcation points or else bifurcate simultaneously to both sides of the bifurcation point. An application to a fifth-order model of water wa...

Purpose—To characterize the importance of cellular Fas-associated death domain (FADD)-like interleukin 1β-converting enzyme (FLICE) inhibitory protein (c-FLIP), a key regulator of caspase 8 (FLICE)-promoted apoptosis, in modulating the response of prostate cancer (CaP) cells to androgen receptor (AR)-targeted therapy. Experimental Design—c-FLIP expression was characterized by immunohistochemica...

Introduction: Non-invasive quantification of liver fat by Gradient echo (GRE) Technique is an interesting issue in quantitative MRI. Despite the numerous advantages of this technique, fat measurement maybe biased by confounding and effects. The aim of this study was to evaluate the GRE pulse sequences with different   and  weighting for liver fat quantification in patients with...

It is known that any two domino tilings of a polygon are flip-accessible, i.e., linked by a finite sequence of local transformations, called flips. This paper considers flip-accessibility for domino tilings of the whole plane, asking whether two of them are linked by a possibly infinite sequence of flips. The answer turning out to depend on tilings, we provide three equivalent characterizations...

The potential range errors lead to the possibility of flip ambiguity in wireless sensor network localization. The flip ambiguity affects the reliability of the localization of the whole or a major portion of the sensor network. In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of flip-ambiguity problems in wireless sensor networks. Based on this analysis, we establish a robustness criterion to dete...