A novel optical approach is proposed for cancerous tumor detection using transient radiation signals. In this method, target tissue is illuminated by near-infrared ultrashort laser pulses from various surface source points, and backscattered time-resolved light signals are collected at the same surface points. By analyzing the log-slopes of decaying signals over all points on the source-detecti...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE fMRI is increasingly used in neurosurgery to preoperatively identify areas of eloquent cortex. Our study evaluated the efficacy of clinical fMRI by analyzing the relationship between the distance from the tumor border to the area of functional activation (LAD) and patient pre- and postoperative morbidity and mortality. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included patients w...

The aim of the study was to perform cryosurgery on a primary breast tumor, coupled with simultaneous peritumoral and intratumoral tracer injection of a blue dye, to evaluate lymphatic mapping. We explored the ability of our strategy to prevent tumor cells, but not that of injected tracers, to migrate to the lymphovascular drainage during conventional resection of frozen breast malignancies. Sev...

The use of quantitative mapping diffusion characteristics carries great potential for diagnosis and therapy brain diseases, since it potentially allows to classify tumors, determine the degree their malignancy, differentiate various morphological structures tumor non-tumor pathologies (such as stroma, necrotic zones, cysts, types edema, etc.), predict course outcome in particular, a clinical re...

In this paper, we consider double sequence iteration processes for strongly $rho$-contractive mapping in modular space. It is proved, these sequences, convergence strongly to a fixed point of the strongly $rho$-contractive mapping.

Abstract Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common adult brain cancer. Recent therapeutic advances, including immunotherapies that enhance anti-tumor immune responses, have failed to significantly improve survival. To address these failures, deeper studies on cellular interactions orchestrate whether GBM resists or regresses during immunotherapy are needed. Our group recently discovered anti-CTLA-4...

Although story mapping strategy has been shown to be beneficial in many reading comprehension classes, the benefits of this technique have not been thoroughly investigated in L2 writing research. The small number of previous studies (e.g., Li, 2007; Brunner, 2010) have found the potential benefits of using story mapping strategy on students’ writing performance, but they did not focus on differ...

BACKGROUND We reviewed the available literature on the accuracy of sentinel node mapping in the lymph nodal staging of uterine cervical cancers. METHODS MEDLINE and Scopus were searched by using "sentinel AND (cervix OR cervical)" as key words. Studies evaluating the accuracy of sentinel node mapping in the lymph nodal staging of uterine cervical cancers were included if enough data could be ...