RATIONALE In clinical trials, homogeneous emphysema patients have responded well to upper lobe volume reduction but not lower lobe volume reduction. MATERIALS/METHODS To understand the physiological basis for this observation, a computer model was developed to simulate the effects of upper and lower lobe lung volume reduction on RV/TLC and lung recoil in homogeneous emphysema. RESULTS Patie...

BACKGROUND The aims of this study are to investigate the difference between the diaphragm thickness at end expiration and the thickness at total lung capacity (TLC), and to examine differences in inspiratory muscle function between stroke patients and healthy individuals. MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty-five stroke patients and 49 healthy volunteers were included in this study. Diaphragm thickness w...

PURPOSE Lung size mismatch is a major cause of poor lung function and worse survival after lung transplantation (LTx). We compared predicted total lung capacity (pTLC) and TLC measured by chest computed tomography (TLC(CT)) in LTx candidates. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed the medical records of patients on waiting lists for LTx. According to the results of pulmonary function tests, patien...

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) and thin-layer chromatography (TLC) were compared for morphine detection in an actual narcotic clinic setting. A choice of urines from all those screened by TLC allowed a critical comparison as to actual use or non-use of narcotic drugs, rather than a sampling at random in which the question of possible false positives or negatives cannot be conclusively answered. Althoug...

Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) has been a useful tool in the analysis of numerous urinary constituents; as in most applications of adsorption TLC, it is best used in conjunction with other chromatographic processes. The application of TLC to the resolution of polar urinary products derived from lipids is shown for the metabolism of a 14C-labeled fatty acid and a 14C-labeled glyceryl thioether....

Commercial precoated thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and highperformance TLC (HPTLC) plates with spherical or irregular particles have been compared on the basis of theoretical plate number (N), resolution (R), linearity, development time, and limit of sensitivity for analysis of a multicomponent analgesic tablet in the fluorescence quenching mode and analysis of a five-component dye mixture in...

Fingerprint biometric is one of the most successful biometrics applied in both forensic law enforcement and security applications. Recent developments in fingerprint acquisition technology have resulted in touchless live scan devices that generate 3D representation of fingerprints, and thus can overcome the deformation and smearing problems caused by conventional contact-based acquisition techn...

Extracting minutiae from fingerprint images is one of the most important steps in automatic fingerprint identification system. Because minutiae matching are certainly the most well-known and widely used method for fingerprint matching, minutiae are local discontinuities in the fingerprint pattern. In this paper a fingerprint matching algorithm is proposed using some specific feature of the minu...

We report the use of TLC image analysis software, JustTLC, for identification and quantitative evaluation of the photoproducts generated by the irradiation of Chlorpromazine water solutions with a 266 nm laser beam. The percent concentrations resulting for photoproducts from TLC analysis were compared with the relative concentrations of those identified by LC-TOF/MS measurements. The spots on t...