Purpose We aimed to compare two magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, Dixon and spectral attenuated inversion recovery (SPAIR) fat-suppression, in terms of image quality suitability for evaluating thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) lesion characteristics. Methods This cross-sectional, retrospective study involved 70 patients with TAO (140 eyes) who underwent orbital coronal MRI exam...

Dr. David Mermin's review of Alan Sokal's "Beyond the hoax" (Science wars revisited, N. David Mermin, Nature 454, 276-277, 17 July 2008) makes some good points, but the overall thrust is unnecessarily and unfairly negative. Anyone who has not read Dr. Sokal's book may come away with the impression that he has spent the whole book rehashing stale debates and attacking articulate and scientifical...

The diseases we are discussing have been classified as microparasitic. Examples of microparasitic diseases are chicken pox, measles, HIV/AIDS, influenza and tuberculosis. Diseases due to worms, for example, are called macroparasitic. Other than the size of the infecting agent, the main distinction is that the microparasites reproduce within their hosts and are transmitted directly from one host...

we have examined the convergence behavior of the lscma in some simple environments. algorithms such as multi¬ target cma, multistage cma, and iterative least squares with projection can be used for this purpose. the results presented here can form a basis for analysis of these multi-signal extraction techniques. clearly, the variance and distribution of output sinr obtained with the lscma is al...

AFRICA 37 with medical therapy and referred for coronary artery bypass grafting. discussion KD is a febrile disorder of unknown cause with multiple systemic manifestations, affecting primarily infants and young children. 4 First described in Japan by Kawasaki in 1967 as acute mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, it has been reported with increasing frequency around the world. Involvement of the h...