background: abnormal patellar height is associated with anterior knee pain and several conditions that affect the patellofemoral joint. the aim of this study was to 1) report the incidence of patella alta and patella baja and 2) investigate whether the normal limits of the insall-salvati ratio is applicable in adult middle-easterners. methods: a radiographic review of the lateral radiographs of...

background: we investigated whether the lungheart ratio parameter (lhr) can be used to identify the optimum cut off frequency for butterworth filter in 99mtc myocardial spect imaging. materials and methods: this study involved a cardiac phantom system consisting of cardiac insert in which 1.10 cm cold defect was inserted into its myocardium wall and filled with 4.0 μci/ml (0.148 mbq/ml) 99mtc c...