BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Contrast-enhanced fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) imaging has been reported to have higher sensitivity for detecting leptomeningeal disease compared with contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MR imaging. The purpose of this study was to compare contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MR images with fat suppression to contrast-enhanced FLAIR images to determine which sequence wa...

Variability indicates motor control disturbances and is suitable to identify gait pathologies. It can be quantified by linear parameters (amplitude estimators) and more sophisticated nonlinear methods (structural information). Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA) is one method to measure structural information, e.g., from stride time series. Recently, an improved method, Adaptive Fractal Analys...

For identifying the discriminative sequence features between exons and introns, a new paradigm, rescaled-range frameshift analysis (RRFA), was proposed. By RRFA, two new sequence features, the frameshift sensitivity (FS) and the accumulative penta-mer complexity (APC), were discovered which were further integrated into a new feature of larger scale, the persistency in anti-mutation (PAM). The f...

Introduction Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory process of the bowel with frequent remissions and relapses. MRI has been shown to be valuable for evaluation of patients with Crohn’s disease (1). One important criterion is the assessment of disease activity because of different therapeutic strategies for active versus quiescent inflammation. Currently, no established non-invasive techniques have...

Full Search FS is regarded as optimal for block matching motion estimation algorithm with high power consumption while fast search such as Three Step Search TSS produces sub optimal motion vectors with a lower power consumption Real time adaptive selection between these two algorithms can provide a good trade o between picture quality and power and reduce the power consumption while main tainin...

In the Philippines, move-analytic investigations have been carried out. However, none of these attempted to look into genre thesis and dissertation abstracts. Cognizant this gap, study examined a corpus 100 research abstracts written by Filipino graduate students in one private university Western Metro Manila. order identify moves, rhetorical organization, linguistic features, deviations corpus...

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Pathology, Puericulture Institute and Neonatal Section, AOU and University of Cagliari, Italy; JPNIM’s Editor-in-Chief Department of Laboratory Medicine, IRCCS University-Hospital San Martino-IST National Institute for Cancer Research, Genoa, Italy Division of Pathology, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy Department of...

Fat-suppression technology of magnetic resonance is very important in clinical practice. This article is written to interpret the principle, advantages/disadvantages and clinical applications of some regular fat-suppression sequences in the diagnosis of Bone-Joint Disease, including: 1) frequency-selective saturation (FS); 2) short-TI inversion recovery (STIR); 3) frequency selective inversion ...