BACKGROUND Thyroglobulin measurement in the washout of the needle used in fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has been proposed for the early detection of lymph node metastasis both in patients with or without serum thyroglobulin antibodies; however, up to now, there have been no reports that recombinant human thyrotropin (rhTSH) stimulation modifies thyroglobulin measurement in lymph node a...

Runtime integrity measurement systems provide the capability to observe the runtime state of a process and to determine whether or not it is acceptable. Existing software systems tend to forgo integrity checks altogether or to enlist static mechanisms (e.g., assertions) to detect unacceptable process states at runtime. A large and growing base of malicious software necessitates more sophisticat...

objectives : bone assessment is essential for diagnosis, treatment planning and prediction of prognosis of periodontal diseases. however, two-dimensional radiographic techniques have multiple limitations, mainly addressed by the introduction of three-dimensional imaging techniques such as cone beam computed tomography (cbct). this study aimed to assess the accuracy of cbct for detection of marg...

in this paper, an effective numerical method is introduced for the treatment of nonlinear two-dimensional volterra-fredholm integro-differential equations. here, we use the so-called two-dimensional block-pulse functions.first, the two-dimensional block-pulse operational matrix of integration and differentiation has been presented. then, by using this matrices, the nonlinear two-dimensional vol...

----------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT------------------------------------------------------------------The objective approach has an advantage over the manual, which provides consistence measurement required for assessment of stuttered speech. The number of dimensions (multi dimension) plays a key role in objective assessment of stuttering. The purpose o...

We propose a simple reflection measurement setup and a motion evaluation procedure based on a two dimensional recording of subsequent speckle images. The averaging of cross correlation functions is used to measure displacements. We demonstrate experimentally a 10 nm precision on a 50 μm measurement range limited by systematical errors. An image library is proposed to extend the measurement rang...