PURPOSE In patients with breast cancer, the administration of doxorubicin and trastuzumab is associated with an increased risk of cardiotoxicity. Although multiple-gated acquisition (MUGA) scans and two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) are conventional methods for baseline and serial assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in these patients, little is known about...

This paper introduces the energy compaction efficiency of a novel two-dimensional (2D) representation for compression of recorded power uality event data. The 2D representation enables to exploit redundancy across vertical samples that correspond to samples which are far from ach other in time. In one-dimension (1D), compression algorithms are unable to depict the correlation between such far a...

PURPOSE Partial volume effects (PVEs) are consequences of the limited spatial resolution in emission tomography leading to underestimation of uptake in tissues of size similar to the point spread function (PSF) of the scanner as well as activity spillover between adjacent structures. Among PVE correction methodologies, a voxel-wise mutual multiresolution analysis (MMA) was recently introduced. ...

The influence of an antimicrobial peptide, protegrin-1 (PG-1), on the curvature and lateral diffusion coefficient (D(L)) of phosphocholine bilayers is investigated using one- (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) (31)P exchange NMR. The experiments utilize the fact that lipid lateral diffusion over the curved surface of vesicles changes the molecular orientation and thus the (31)P chemical shift anisot...

Madan Bozorg is an active copper mine located in NE Iran, which is a part of the very wide copper mineralization zone named Miami-Sabzevar copper belt. The main goal of this research work is the 3D model construction of the induced polarization (IP) and resistivity (Rs) data with quantifying the uncertainties using geostatistical methods and drilling. Four profiles were designed and surveyed us...

Coastal Fars gravimetry project in Fars province was carried out to find the buried salt domes and to determine characteristics of faults in this area. The Lavarestan structure was covered by 4203 gravimetry stations in a regular grid of 1000*250 m. Depth structural model of this anticline made in previous studies was based on geological evidences and structural geology measurements. In order t...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the correlation between ultrasound measured placental volume and collected umbilical cord blood (UCB) volume in term pregnancy. MATERIAL AND METHODS An observational cross-sectional study of term singleton pregnant women in the labor ward at Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Medical Center was conducted. Placental thickness, height, and width were measured using two-dimensional ...

We compute N -point correlation functions of non-unitary (2k−1, 2) minimal matter coupled to 2D quantum gravity on a sphere using the continuum Liouville field approach. A gravitational dressing of the matter primary field with the minimum conformal weight is used as the cosmological operator. Our results are in agreement with the correlation functions of the one-matrix model at the k-th critic...

background systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) is an autoimmune connective-tissue disease involving multiple organs and systems. some evidence has demonstrated that disease activity could be associated with increased risk of organ damage. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the association between systemic lupus erythematosus disease activity index (sledai) scores and subclinical c...

AIMS To assess the usefulness of three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography (3D-TOE) vs. two-dimensional (2D)-TOE in the evaluation of morphological and dynamic findings of aortic dissection, and compare the results with those obtained by multi-slice computed tomography (CT). METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty-six patients (21 men and 5 women, median age: 67 years, range: 28-74 years) diagno...