Study Design Case report. Objective Incidental durotomy (IDT) is a common complication of spinal surgery. The use of collagen matrix graft along with hydrogel dural sealant is a common method of IDT repair. With this method, there have been several reported cases of detrimental dural sealant expansion in the literature. One case study reported an expansion rate greater than 300%; many report ne...

Twenty years ago it would have been hard to imagine that computer networking would have such a profound influence on the field of instructional design and technology (IDT) and throughout society as a whole. The quest to build a better mouse trap is now guided by emerging technologies that continually strive toward being faster, smaller, more intelligent, and distributed. Predicting the future o...

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are well known for mass-sensitive sensor applications. In biosensing applications, chemical and biochemically evoked binding processes on surfaces are detected in liquid environments using delay line or resonator sensor configurations, preferably in combination with the appropriate microfluidic devices. All configurations share the common feature of analyzing...

INTRODUCTION : The most informative neutron scattering investigations of the atomic-scale dynamical properties of crystalline solids nearly always require single crystal samples and – to date have mostly been carried out on crystal spectrometers at high-flux, reactor-based, steady-state neutron sources. Because such measurements tend to be made with small samples and are invariably flux-limited...

BACKGROUND Ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) originating from the left ventricular summit is a challenge for radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA). The present study aimed to investigate the appropriate RFCA strategy for VAs originating from the left ventricular summit. METHODS Forty-five consecutive patients with VAs arising from the left ventricular summit were successfully ablated at our car...

The risk of idiosyncratic drug toxicity (IDT) is of great concern to the pharmaceutical industry. Current hypotheses based on retrospective studies suggest that the occurrence of IDT is related to covalent binding and daily dose. We determined the covalent binding of 42 radiolabeled drugs in three test systems (human liver microsomes and hepatocytes in vitro and rat liver in vivo) to assess the...

Both immediate and delayed hypersensitivity reactions to iodinated contrast media (ICM) are relatively common. However, there are few data to determine the clinical utility of immunologic evaluation of ICM. To evaluate the utility of ICM skin testing in patients with ICM hypersensitivity, 23 patients (17 immediate and 6 delayed reactions) were enrolled from 3 university hospitals in Korea. With...

We theoretically investigate the use of Rayleigh surface acoustic waves (SAWs) for refractive index modulation in optical waveguides consisting of amophous dielectrics. Considering low-loss Si3N4 waveguides with a standard core cross section of 4.4×0.03 μm size, buried 8-μm deep in a SiO2 cladding we compare surface acoustic wave generation in various different geometries via a piezo-active, le...

Experimental methods Preparation of the IDT. The IDT device was fabricated as described previously [1, 2], employing standard photolithography. The device consisted of gold interdigitated electrodes, with a pitch d=350 µm, and width w=175 µm on a 128 o Y-cut X-propagating 3 inch LiNbO 3 wafer, patterned using lift-off process. The aperture of the device was 20 mm. The resonance frequency of the...