Introduction: The primary and definitive diagnosis of meningioma is based on histological assessment; however, employing imaging methods, like Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is very helpful to describe lesion’s characteristics. Accordingly, we decided to study the effect of imaging factors, like MRI data on the volume of hemorrhage (estimated blood loss) during meningioma surgery. Methods: T...

An efficient measurement methodology is proposed to construct the scattering parameters of a multi-port device using a four-port vector network analyzer (VNA) without the external un-terminated ports. By using the four-port VNA, the reflected waves from the un-terminated ports could be minimized. The proposed method significantly enhances the accuracy of the S-parameters with less number of mea...

This paper concerns the reconstruction of the absorption and scattering parameters in a time-dependent linear transport equation from full knowledge of the albedo operator at the boundary of a bounded domain of interest. We present optimal stability results on the reconstruction of the absorption and scattering parameters for a given error in the measured albedo operator.

Background & Aims: Today, different imaging techniques have been studied in the reading of radiationsensitive polymer gels dosage. Due to limitations of imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT), ultrasound techniques are proposed for dose-dependent parameter extraction. In this study, using MAGIC-f (methacrylic and ascorbic acid in gelatin initiat...

pulse echo b - scan imaging systems have been used for years in medical diagnosis. the theroy of such systems have been investigated by several researchers. in this paper, we introduce a new model for b - scan imaging system based on gaussian type transducer. an imaging system is normally identified by its point response function. this function describes the image of a single physical point obj...

conclusion adc, fa, and t2* values may quantitatively reflect the microstructural characteristics of np, therefore they could be used to detect the minimal changes of early ldd. results the adc, fa, and t2* values were different (p < 0.05) among different rois within the same disc or among corresponding rois in different level discs. while the average values of adc increased regularly with the ...

Purpose: With  increasing the usage  of  myocardial  perfusion  imaging  (MPI)  for  the diagnosis  of  ischemic  heart  disease,  we  aimed  to  evaluate  the  side  effects  of  low-dose  radiation  induced  by  this  technique  on blood elements, especially proteins and liver function factors.Materials and  Methods:  40  eligible  patients  (Mean  age:  54.6...

A great effort has been done during last years to improve range image segmentation results. The efficacy of the algorithms is affected by the parameters tuning. In this work two well-known search techniques have been applied to this task: genetic algorithms and simulated annealing. These techniques are adopted in cascade: the former to obtain a rough seed point set and the latter to have a more...