Correct diagnosis and definition of the functional and anatomic status of lesions in cancer patients are of clinical importance. The value of hybrid imaging using a gamma camera–based PET/CT and 18F-FDG in determining the relationship between mass and cancer was assessed. Methods: Hybrid imaging was performed using a device combining low-dose CT and gamma camera–based PET. Ninety-one patients w...

The relentless progress that is being made in tomographic imaging modalities is inexorably expanding the application of positron emission tomography (PET) in the clinical field. Some of the most noteworthy advances involve innovations in quantitative techniques for hybrid imaging modalities such as PET/Computed Tomography (CT) and PET/Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), which have greatly improve...

The Neuro-Symbolic Hybrid Systems (NSHS) are used to solve problems where there exists a necessity of combining and integrating the artificial neural networks and the symbolic representations in only one system in order to obtain better results. We developed a NSHS Methodology to integrate the knowledge of a human expert and the numeric knowledge obtained from a computer vision process. We impl...

Nowaday, the traditional circuit breaker is which action slow, poor reliability, can not meet large grid interconnection and flexible AC transmission requirements. To address those shortcomings of traditional circuit breaker, an idear is put forward that traditional mechanical circuit breaker combinates of power electronic switch-IGCT to build a new type of hybrid circuit breaker device (Hybrid...

Both theoretical and empirical findings have suggested that combining different models can be an effective way to improve the predictive performance of each individual model. It is especially occurred when the models in the ensemble are quite different. Hybrid techniques that decompose a time series into its linear and nonlinear components are one of the most important kinds of the hybrid model...

Supervisory control and fault diagnosis of hybrid systems need to have complete information about the discrete states transitions of the underling system. From this point of view, the hybrid system should be abstracted to a Discrete Trace Transition System (DTTS) and represented by a discrete mode transition graph. In this paper an effective method is proposed for generating discrete mode trans...

In Maize (Zea maize L.), cost of hybrid seed production is directly related to the yield and quality of seed obtained per hectare of female parent. It is also important to consider the effects that a male parent can exert on the development of hybrid seed in the female parent. This effect is known as xenia. The objectives of this study were to evaluate xenia effects on 1) yield as 80K units, 2)...

The hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) method was first introduced by Duane and his coworkers in 1987 in order to combine the best features of two well established simulation techniques, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo. The HMC method proved itself to be both an e cient sampling device and an e↵ective realization of a stochastic thermostat. Some of its weakness are its inability to reproduced dynamica...

These days we are eyewitnesses to an exciting new hybrid imaging modality to enter the clinical arena, namely simultaneous whole-body MR/PET imaging. Envisioning the combination of the excellent soft tissue contrast, high spatial and temporal resolution, and functional tissue parameters that MR provides with the high sensitivity of PET, different technical approaches have been pursued by resear...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the microleakage, when flowable composite is used as a restorative material and a liner. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty, non-carious, extracted human premolar teeth were used and they were divided into five groups according to the type of composite material used. Group I: Hybrid composite was inserted and cured for 40 s. Group II: Flowable resin composite ...