There is growing evidence as to the benefits of collecting BOLD fMRI data with increased sampling rates. However, many of the newly developed acquisition techniques developed to collect BOLD data with ultra-short TRs require hardware, software, and non-standard analytic pipelines that may not be accessible to all researchers. We propose to incorporate the method of shifted echo into a standard ...

In this paper, the notion of fully idempotent modules is defined and it is shown that this notion inherits most of the essential properties of the usual notion of von Neumann's regular rings. Furthermore, we introduce the dual notion of fully idempotent modules (that is, fully coidempotent modules) and investigate some properties of this class of modules.

Introduction: Low frequency fluctuations (LFFs) in T2*-weighted MR images have been used to map functional connectivity in both humans and rats [1, 2, 3]. Most FC studies utilize gradient echo EPI (GE-EPI) because of its high sensitivity to BOLD signal fluctuations. However, fMRI studies have shown that the BOLD signal in GE-EPI images contains a strong contribution from large veins. At high fi...

Aspirin (ASA) triggers the formation of 15-epi-lipoxins (15-epi-LXs or ATL [ASA-triggered LX]), which are potent bioactive eicosanoids that may contribute to the therapeutic impact of ASA. To elucidate the role of these new compounds in vivo, it is essential to establish quick and sensitive detection methods. To this end, we prepared an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay specific for 15-epi-LXA4...

Plasma or serum extrinsic pathway inhibitor (EPI) activity was measured in 24 patients with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and in 23 patients with severe hepatocellular disease. EPI was measured as activity in a test sample that inhibited factor VIIa/tissue factor (TF)-catalyzed activation of 3H-factor IX (activation peptide release) in the presence of factor X. Of the 24 patients...

Magnetic field inhomogeneity causes artifacts in MRI. For example, in single-shot echo-planar imaging (EPI), they often appear as severe geometric distortions along the phase-encoding direction. Sensitivity encoding (SENSE) is useful in reducing the distortion in EPI since it only acquires partial k-space data using multiple receiver channels. In SENSE, a reference scan usually needs to be perf...

PURPOSE To introduce a new k-space traversal strategy for segmented three-dimensional echo planar imaging (3D EPI) that encodes two partitions per radiofrequency excitation, effectively reducing the number excitations used to acquire a 3D EPI dataset by half. METHODS The strategy was evaluated in the context of functional MRI applications for: image quality compared with segmented 3D EPI, tem...

in this paper, the notion of fully idempotent modules is defined and it is shown that this notion inherits most of the essential properties of the usual notion of von neumann's regular rings. furthermore, we introduce the dual notion of fully idempotent modules (that is, fully coidempotent modules) and investigate some properties of this class of modules.

 Let $R$ be a commutative ring with identity and $M$ be a finitely generated unital $R$-module. In this paper, first we give necessary and sufficient conditions that a finitely generated module to be a multiplication module. Moreover, we investigate some conditions which imply that the module $M$ is the direct sum of some cyclic modules and free modules. Then some properties of Fitting ideals o...