AIMS A proportion of patients with pancreatic cancer never develop metastatic disease. We evaluated a role for 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) in identifying a subset of patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC) who never develop metastatic disease and only experience local disease and may therefore benefit from local treatment intensification. MATE...

The objective of this study was to assess the prognostic value of metabolic tumor burden measured by positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in patients with stage I lung adenocarcinoma.We reviewed 127 consecutive patients with pathologically proven stage I lung adenocarcinoma who underwent pretreatment [18F]FDG PET/CT scans in our hospital from 2005 June to 2012 June. The max...

BACKGROUND In pediatric Hodgkin's lymphoma (pHL) early response-to-therapy prediction is metabolically assessed by (18)F-FDG PET carrying an excellent negative predictive value (NPV) but an impaired positive predictive value (PPV). Aim of this study was to improve the PPV while keeping the optimal NPV. A comparison of different PET data analyses was performed applying individualized standardize...

PURPOSE This study was designed to seek associations between positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) parameters, contrast enhanced neck computed tomography (CECT) and pathological findings, and to determine the potential prognostic value of PET/CT and CECT parameters in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC). MATERIALS AND METHOD 36 OCSCC patients underwent staging PET/...

Purpose Neuroblastoma is a solid malignant tumor with high malignancy and risk for metastasis. The prognosis of neuroblastoma ranges from spontaneous regression to insensitivity therapies widespread There non-invasive, panoramic imaging technique called 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose ( F-FDG) positron emission tomography–computed tomography (PET/CT), which can provide both complete anatomical informat...

Three new species of Fergusobia, respectively collected from shoot bud galls on narrow-leaved Melaleuca spp. in Australia, are described. Fergusobia armillarisae n. sp. Davies is characterised by the combination of an arcuate to open C-shaped parthenogenetic female with an extensile uterus and a short, conoid tail, an arcuate infective female with a broadly rounded tail tip, and an arcuate male...

Background: Recently, there are many reports from Japan about methotrexate associated lymphoproliferative disorder (MTX-LPD). We investigating the predictive factor of spontaneous regression (SR) in MTX-LPD. On other hand, FDG-PET/CT is used for diagnosis LPD including malignant lymphoma. In addition, it was reported that imaging biomarkers such as metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and total lesion ...

We propose dynamic resistive threshold-logic (DRTL) design based on non-volatile resistive memory. A threshold logic gate (TLG) performs summation of multiple inputs multiplied by a fixed set of weights and compares the sum with a threshold. DRTL employs resistive memory elements to implement the weights and the thresholds, while a compact dynamic CMOS latch is used for the comparison operation...

The UniFrame approach to component-based software development assumes that concrete components are developed from a meta-model, called the Unified Meta-component Model, according to standardized domain models. Implicit in this development is the existence of a Platform Independent Model (PIM) that is transformed into a Platform Specific Model (PSM) under the principles of ModelDriven Architectu...

This study proposes a new bandwidth reservation strategy (Two Level Guarantee) in wireless environment based on the user mobility specification which is assumed to be given at call set up time. This approach is very useful in that 1) it doesn’t use prediction method which might require rather heavy computation, 2) it reserves wireless bandwidth as much as the user requests, 3) it is flexible to...