Following L-DOPA administration, DA metabolites were measured by both in vivo voltammetry and HPLC-ECD. In vivo, the amplitudes of the catechol oxidation currents in both the striatum and frontal cortex increased and reached a plateau from 60 min to 240 min after L-DOPA treatment. L-DOPA, DA, DOPAC and HVA levels measured by HPLC-ECD after L-DOPA treatment were increased in both regions, and th...

To evaluate the usefulness of a combination of linearization and scatter-attenuation correction on 99mTc-bicisate (ECD)-single photon emission tomographic (SPECT) images, both cerebral blood flow (CBF)-positron emission tomographic (PET) images and ECD-SPECT images from fifteen patients with chronic cerebral infarction were acquired. We measured radioactivity counts in regions of interest (ROIs...

Survival analysis is often used to compare experimental and conventional treatments. In observational studies, the therapy may change during follow-up and such crossovers can be summarized by time-dependent covariates. Given the ever-increasing donor organ shortage, higher-risk kidneys from expanded criterion donors (ECD) are being transplanted. Transplant candidates can choose whether to accep...

A numerical model for computing scattering from a three-dimensional (3-D) dielectric object above or below a rough interface is described. The model is based on an iterative method of moments solution for equivalent electric and magnetic surface current densities on the rough interface and equivalent volumetric electric currents in the penetrable object. To improve computational efficiency, the...

The answer must be that the radiation is canceled by destructive interference between the radiation fields of the large number N of electrons that make up the steady current. A single electron in uniform circular motion emits electric dipole radiation, whose power is proportional to the square of the acceleration a = v/r, and hence to (v/c). But, the electric dipole moment vanishes for two elec...

In the dipole approach the activity of the heart is represented by one or two moving-rotating current dipoles. The basic underlying principle is to select the amplitudes and coordinates of these dipoles within an appropriate model of the torso such that calculated torsosurface potential distribution closely matches the measured body-surface-potential distribution. This source model was used by ...

This work presents an analytic model to derive the scan impedance of planar infinite phased arrays dipoles at a dielectric interface when only (0, 0) Floquet mode propagates. The proposed builds on boundary conditions met by fundamental provide novel derivation equivalent circuit for impedance. analysis is also extended include effect sufficiently thick grounded substrate that does not affect e...