BACKGROUND Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a special subtype of head and neck cancer (HNC). At present, there are no highly specific prognostic markers to aid in tumor grading and guide patient treatment modalities for NPC. The prognostic value of pretreatment F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (F-PET-CT) in NPC patients is controversial and no consensus exi...

Intelligent video pre-processing and authoring techniques that facilitate people to create MTV-style music video clips are investigated in this research. First, we present an automatic approach to detect and remove bad shots often occurring in home video, such as video with poor lighting or motion blur. Then, we consider the generation of MTV-style video clips by performing video and music temp...

METHODS We searched the PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library and Medline databases for eligible articles. SUVmax, MTV, and TLG on B-PET/CT, DS on I-PET/CT and DS on E-PET/CT were regarded as efficacy data. Combined hazard ratios (HRs) for progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were estimated using RevMan 5.3 software. RESULTS Nine trials with a total of 535 ENKTL patients were ...

This paper explores the impact of the introduction of the widely viewed MTV reality show 16 and Pregnant on teen childbearing. Our main analysis relates geographic variation in changes in teen childbearing rates to viewership of the show. We implement an instrumental variables (IV ) strategy using local area MTV ratings data from a pre-period to predict local area 16 and Pregnant ratings. The r...

•Large lesion dissemination measured by high SDmax was a strong prognosticator of shorter PFS and OS in DLBCL patients.•SDmax results an accurate risk stratification at baseline, even advanced Ann Arbor stage MTV are independent prognosticators identified high-risk group among patients responding to R-CHOP.•SDmax combined with seems superior IPI or NCCN-IPI stratifications promises guide therap...

S. Ryan Respiratory Group, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, Panmure, Auckland, New Zealand Abstract Objective: To test whether a reduction in air temperature within the clinical range [37 C to 30, 100% relative humidity (RH)] altered mucus transport velocity (MTV) and ciliary beat frequency (CBF) in an in vitro ovine tracheal model. Design: Controlled laboratory study. Setting: University research l...

PURPOSE To evaluate the usefulness of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for field modification during radiotherapy in esophageal cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a retrospective study on 33 patients that underwent chemoradiotherapy (CRT). Pathologic findings were squamous cell carcinoma in 32 patients and adenocarcinoma in 1 patient. All patients underwent PE...

Abstract Background Accurate radiologic assessment of treatment response in lymphoma patients is important to evaluate the effectiveness and consequently predict relapse; value PET/CT for post-treatment prognosis prediction has been recently investigated. The aim this study highlight prognostic PET-CT metabolic volumetric parameters evaluation patients. Results Among included 40 patients, SUV, ...