Introduction: DSC perfusion studies are routinely performed for the assessment of stroke and brain tumor patients and are being used with increasing frequency in large scale clinical trials. A persistent DSC problem in routine imaging and clinical trials is that DSC CBF images are difficult to scale with accuracy. Although CBF images derived from DSC are (in principle) quantitative, the absolut...

Absb.ad-Industry acceptance of TINA (Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture) will depend heavily on both the evaluation of working systems that implement this architecture, and on the experiences obtained during the design and implementation of these systems. During the MESH' (Multimedia services on the Electronic Super Highway) project, a TINA based platform for networked multi...

The purpose of the present study was to present a multi-delay multi-parametric pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL) protocol with background suppressed 3D GRASE (gradient and spin echo) readout for perfusion imaging in acute ischemic stroke. PCASL data at 4 post-labeling delay times (PLD = 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3 s) were acquired within 4.5 min in 24 patients (mean age 79.7 ± 11.4 years; 11 ...

A study was conducted to detect and quantify lard stearin (LS) content in canola oil (CaO) using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Authentic samples of CaO were obtained from a reliable supplier and the adulterant LS were obtained through a fractional crystallization procedure as reported previously. Pure CaO samples spiked with LS in levels ranging from 5 to 15% (w/w) were analyzed usin...

We have previously reported that, in addition to well-known pemphigus antigens (desmoglein and pemphigus vulgaris antigen), desmocollin (Dsc), another desmosomal cadherin, is recognized by certain pemphigus sera. Furthermore, we noticed that two Dsc species with a slightly different relative molecular weight were recognized by various pemphigus sera. This difference may contribute to the differ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE SWI is a new MR imaging method that maximizes sensitivity to magnetic susceptibility effects with phase information for visualizing small cerebral veins. The purpose of this study was to report the use of SWI in combination with DSC in examining related RCVD in patients with intracranial DAVFs. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ten patients with angiographically confirmed DAVFs wit...

INTRODUCTION In brain perfusion imaging, arterial spin labeling (ASL) is a noninvasive alternative to dynamic susceptibility contrast-magnetic resonance imaging (DSC-MRI). For clinical imaging, only product sequences can be used. We therefore analyzed the performance of a product sequence (PICORE-PASL) included in an MRI software-package compared with DSC-MRI in patients with steno-occlusion of...

Whole brain segmentation and cortical surface parcellation are essential in understanding the brain’s anatomicalfunctional relationships. Multi-atlas segmentation has been regarded as one of the leading segmentation methods for the whole brain segmentation. In our recent work, the multi-atlas technique has been adapted to surface reconstruction using a method called Multi-atlas CRUISE (MaCRUISE...

Decidual stromal cells (DSC) are the main cellular component of the human decidua, but thus far their ascription to a given cell lineage is uncertain. In previous studies, these cells have been isolated and maintained in culture, and their antigen phenotype has been analysed to determine their affiliation. However, the presence in the culture medium of high proportions of fetal calf serum (FCS)...

OBJECTIVE To develop and validate a prognostic risk index of cardiovascular mortality after cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT). DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING District general hospital. PATIENTS 148 patients with heart failure (mean age 66.7 (SD 10.4) years), New York Heart Association class III or IV, LVEF <35%) who underwent CRT. INTERVENTIONS CRT device implantation. ...