Several lines of evidence indicated that P cell-stimulating factor (PSF), a T lymphocyte-derived lymphokine known to stimulate the growth of hemopoietic stem and progenitor cells, also acted on macrophages. PSF was absorbed from medium that had been mixed for two hours at 0 degrees C with either resident or thioglycollate-elicited peritoneal cells, suggesting the presence of receptors for PSF o...

Persufflation (PSF; gaseous oxygen perfusion) is an organ preservation technique with a potential for use in donor heart preservation. Improved heart preservation with PSF may improve outcomes by maintaining cardiac tissue quality in the setting of longer cold ischemia times and possibly increasing the number of donor hearts available for allotransplant. Published data suggests that PSF is able...

We develop and present effective PSFs for the F606W filter in the WFC, and then for five other filters. After briefly reviewing the concept of the effective PSF, we show that the WFC PSF varies with position in the detector. We represent the PSF by a 9×10 array of fiducial PSFs, between which a tailor-made PSF is to be interpolated for each star. Fitting these PSFs to star images gives photomet...

Piriform sinus fistula (PSF) is a rare branchial anomaly that causes repetitive acute suppurative thyroiditis or deep neck abscess. The definitive treatment of PSF is open neck surgery. However, such surgery has a cosmetic problem and a high risk of recurrence. Furthermore, identifying the fistula is difficult due to previous repetitive infections. We report a case of esophageal submucosal absc...

We describe the corkscrew point spread function (PSF), which can localize objects in three dimensions throughout a 3.2 μm depth of field with nanometer precision. The corkscrew PSF rotates as a function of the axial (z) position of an emitter. Fisher information calculations show that the corkscrew PSF can achieve nanometer localization precision with limited numbers of photons. We demonstrate ...

Imaging with a layered superlens is a spatial filtering operation characterized by the point spread function (PSF). We show that in the same optical system the image of a narrow subwavelength Gaussian incident field may be surprisingly dissimilar to the PSF, and the width of the PSF is not a straightforward measure of the resolution. The FWHM or standard deviation of the PSF gives ambiguous inf...

Measured and modeled point spread functions (PSF) of sensor systems indicate that a significant portion of the recorded signal of each pixel of a satellite image originates from outside the area represented by that pixel. This hinders the ability to derive surface information from satellite images on a per-pixel basis. In this study, the impact of the PSF of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spec...

In this thesis we are developing image processing methods allowing one to probe the structure and function of the mammalian hearing organ, an intricate cellular assembly with a highly specialized three-dimensional organization. Confocal as well as electron microscopy was used for image acquisition. Three-dimensional confocal imaging is hampered by noise and blur, and this is even more significa...

Neurology 2012;79:1414–1415 Pathologic fatigue is common in neurologic disorders and can be defined as “a state of weariness unrelated to previous exertion levels which is usually not ameliorated by rest.”1 A case definition for poststroke fatigue (PSF) has been developed,2 based on this definition,1 to identify clinically important fatigue in stroke survivors.2 The frequency of PSF ranges from...