Antimicrobial textiles have played an increasingly important protection role in the medical field. With this aim, Schiff bases and nanometal complexes on cotton fabric were situ synthesized for achieving conventional fabric’s highly efficient durable UV antibacterial properties. Herein, a new base derived from condensation reaction of 2,4-dihyroxybenzaldehyde with p-amino aniline was synthesize...

Introduction: The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effect of X-ray spectra on the sensitivity of a polymer gel dosimeter imaged with a conventional computed tomography (CT) scanner. Material and Methods: The whole process of CT imaging of an irradiated polymer gel was simulated by MCNPX Monte Carlo (MC) code. The imaging of polyacrylamide gel was accomplished by means of a co...

Differential phase contrast imaging using grating interferometer is a promising alternative to conventional X-ray radiographic methods. It provides the absorption, differential phase and scattering information of the underlying sample simultaneously. Phase retrieval from the differential phase signal is an essential problem for quantitative analysis in medical imaging. In this paper, we formali...

With the introduction of conebeam computed tomography (CBCT) in the early 2000s, oral and maxillofacial radiology fully entered the modern world of 3-dimensional (3D) radiographic imaging. Although conventional or medical computed tomography (CT) had been available since the 1970s, with few exceptions, it had not been widely used in dentistry. In the early days of conventional CT, the machines ...

In this paper, we propose a new neural filter to which the features related to a given task are input, called a neural filter with features (NFF), to improve further the performance of the conventional neural filter. In order to handle the issue concerning the optimal selection of input features, we propose a framework composed of 1) manual selection of candidates for input features related to ...

This study examines the relationship between racial/ethnic discrimination in medical settings, distrust in conventional medicine, and attitudes toward complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among a racially/ethnically diverse sample. We also investigate how this relationship differs by nativity. Data are from a 2008 statewide stratified sample of publicly insured adults in Minnesota (N=2,...

Z. Liang, A. Stenger, J. X. Ji, J. Ma, F. Boada University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States SYNOPSIS Many imaging applications require collecting a time series of images. Conventional methods acquire these images independent...

Ultrafiltration was performed in nine patients with congestive cardiac failure that was refractory to conventional medical treatment. A mean of 12 X 7 litres of fluid was removed, and there was a sustained symptomatic improvement in all patients. Weight loss continued after ultrafiltration and a sustained increase in serum sodium concentration was also noted. A transient fall in right atrial pr...