UNLABELLED Assessment of tumor viability and necrosis of non-small cell lung cancer and detection of distant metastases are important for diagnosis, staging, monitoring the response to treatment and planning long-term management. We performed scintigraphy on patients with non-small cell lung cancer to determine the utility of three tumor targeting tracers for diagnosing primary lung cancer, for...

It has been demonstrated that data entered by radiographers into Radiology Information Systems (RIS) can be used as dose audit data, removing the necessity for radiographer to separately collect data for patient dose audit purposes. Access to RIS data also provides the potential for much more analysis. The data entry process itself can be audited, and is now routinely performed at a small numbe...

BACKGROUND Literature data show that administration of atypical antipsychotic drug, risperidone (RIS), enhances antidepressive action of fluoxetine (FLU). As antidepressive treatments also regulate immune functions, we examined whether combined administration of FLU and RIS to rats subsequently subjected to a forced swimming test (FST) modifies parameters of macrophage activity that are directl...

Intergranular stress corrosion cracking &YSCC) is a pervasive and generic problem in current light water reactor and advanced reactor designs that can lead to widespread component failure. IASCC is believed to be due to either to changes in the grain boundary composition, the microstructure or the water chemistry and corrosion potential. Of greatest interest are the changes in composition and m...

Rice is a major food staple for the world's population and serves as a model species in cereal genome research. The Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) has long been devoting itself to sequencing, information analysis and biological research of the rice and other crop genomes. In order to facilitate the application of the rice genomic information and to provide a foundation for functional and evol...

OBJECTIVE Radiology information system (RIS) is basically evolved for the need of radiologists and ignores the vital steps needed for a proper work flow of Nuclear Medicine Department. Moreover, CT/MRI oriented classical PACS systems are far from satisfying Nuclear Physicians like storing dynamic data for reprocessing and quantitative analysis of colored images. Our purpose was to develop a wor...

The development of computer controlled Railway Interlocking Systems (RIS) has seen an increasing interest in the use of Formal Methods, due to their ability to precisely specify the logical rules that guarantee the safe establishment of routes for trains through a railway yard. Recently, a trend has emerged about the use of statecharts as a standard formalism to produce precise specifications o...

measurehent, pulse shapes of transmitted and received CO, laser pulses are recorded every shot. Repetition rate of the CO, lasers is 50 Hz, and time interval between pulses from two lasers is 200 ps. The pulse energy is approximately 100 mJ. After the launch of the ADEOS, efficiency of the reflection of the RIS in orbit was checked first. Measured efficiency of the RIS at 532 nm is compared wit...

In this paper, a novel concept called simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RIS (STAR-RIS) is introduced into the wireless-powered mobile edge computing (MEC) systems to improve efficiency of energy transfer task offloading. Compared with traditional reflecting-only RIS, STAR-RIS extends half-space coverage full-space by incident signals, also provides new degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) for man...

BACKGROUND The regret intensity scale (RIS) and the regret coping scale for healthcare professionals (RCS-HCP) working in hospitals assess the experience of care-related regrets and how healthcare professional deal with these negative events. The aim of this study was to validate a German version of the RIS and the RCS-HCP. METHODS The RIS and RCS-HCP in German were first translated into Germ...