Objective: Evaluation of peripheral arterial disease with 64-detector multi-slice CT angiography (MDCTA) and comparison of the results with the results of digital subtraction angiography (DSA), a standard reference. Materials and Method: The written informed consent of the patients and ethics committee approval were obtained. The retrospective study group consisted of 28 patients with a diagnos...

A COGNITIVE-BASED INDICATOR OF DEVIANT SEXUAL AROUSAL: CONCURRENT VALIDATION OF THE EMOTIONAL STROOP by Ashley H. Spada Adviser: Professor Elizabeth L. Jeglic, Ph.D. One of the strongest dynamic predictors of sexual recidivism among sex offenders is deviant sexual arousal (DSA; Hanson & Bussiére, 1998). Phallometric testing, the most commonly used method of assessing DSA, has elicited numerous ...

Abstract Background and Aims Antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) is a frequent cause of renal allograft loss. There increasing evidence the role Natural Killer (NK) cells in establishment ABMR damage. Our group described that patients with donor-specific antibodies (DSA) present higher proportions NKG2A+ NK cell subset peripheral blood than those without HLA DSA or antibodies. Method We selected...

In a multiple classifier system, dynamic selection (DS) has been used successfully to choose only the best subset of classifiers to recognize the test samples. Dos Santos et al’s approach (DSA) looks very promising in performing DS, since it presents a general solution for a wide range of classifiers. Aiming to improve the performance of DSA, we propose a context-based framework that exploits t...

The aim of this paper is to apply the Taylor expansion method solve first and second kinds Volterra integral equations with Abel kernel. This study focuses on two main arithmetics: FPA DSA. In order DSA, we use CESTAC CADNA library. Using method, can find optimal step approximation, error, some numerical instabilities. They are novelties DSA in comparison FPA. error analysis proved. Furthermore...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To compare multisection CT angiography (CTA) analyzed with source/maximum intensity projection (MIP) images as well as semiautomated vessel analysis software with intra-arterial digital subtraction angiography (DSA) in detection and grading of carotid artery bifurcation stenosis. METHODS Consecutive patients with sonography evidence of a marked internal carotid artery s...

Understanding of wave hydrodynamics and its effects are important for engineers and scientists. Important insights may be gained from laboratory studies.  Often the waves are simulated in laboratory flumes do not have the full characteristics of real sea waves. It is then necessary to present reliable methods of wave generation in wave flumes.  In this paper, the results of numerically simulate...

In this presentation, we describe multi-scale modeling method combining PROLITH lithography simulation with Self-Consistent Field Theory (SCFT) computation of the block copolymer Directed SelfAssembly (DSA). Within this method, we utilize PROLITH to predict the shape of a lithographic feature as function of process conditions. The results of that calculation are then used as input into SCFT sim...

Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is the best method of evaluating carotid cavernous fistulas (CCF). DSA, however, has the disadvantage of being an invasive procedure. Computerized tomography (CT) angiography which is noninvasive, have been shown to provide more information about the size and location of fistulas. As a new method, Bone-Subtraction CT Angiography (BSCTA), than conventional C...

Sixty carotid bifurcations in 34 symptomatic patients were examined prospectively with ultrasound (continuous wave Doppler and high resolution, B-mode imaging) and intravenous digital subtraction angiography (IV-DSA). The overall quality of examination was better with DSA than with ultrasound. Imaging of the external carotid artery was particularly difficult with sonography. For evaluation of t...