Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) is widely applied in non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The standardized uptake value (SUV), a semi‐quantitative index, plays an essential role in NSCLC for diagnosis, staging, and efficacy evaluation. It has been proposed that the SUVmax of tumors may correlate with the presence or absence of chemotherapy resista...

This paper, as a continuing work of [1], focus on establishing the fact that if we equip a reciprocal multi-agent (RMA) system with a triangulated Laman graph (TLG), then the associated potential function is generically an equivariant Morse function, i.e., there are only finitely many critical orbits each of which is nondegenerate. Though this assumption on the potential function of being an eq...

We propose magnetic threshold-logic (MTL) design based on non-volatile spin-torque switches. A threshold logic gate (TLG) performs summation of multiple inputs multiplied by a fixed set of weights and compares the sum with a threshold. MTL employs resistive states of magnetic tunnel junctions as programmable input weights, while, a low-voltage domain-wall shift based spin-torque switch is used ...

Hormone sensitive lipase is thought to be the rate-limiting enzyme of lipolysis; phosphatidate phosphohydrolase that of lipogenesis. Both these enzyme systems were studied in vitro with the addition of epinephrine. The results show that: (a) hormone sensitive lipase is four times more active in rat epididymal fat than in sheep tail fat and (b) sheep omental fat is twice as active as tail fat. (...

BACKGROUND Recently, laparoscopic-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) has become popular for the treatment of early gastric cancer. Furthermore, the use of totally laparoscopic gastrectomy (TLG), a more difficult procedure than LADG, has been increasing in Japan. Laparoscopic-assisted distal gastrectomy is currently performed more frequently than laparoscopic distal gastrectomy (LDG) in hospital...

Introduction: The apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), a quantitative parameter measured on diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), has been shown to be useful for evaluating solid tumors. On the other hand, 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) uptake on positron emission tomography (PET), quantified by the standardized uptake value (SUV), is a useful marker for the level of tumor metabolic activity. Ho...

Background: [F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose ([F]FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) is a valuable tool for monitoring response to therapy in oncology. In longitudinal studies, however, patients are not scanned in exactly the same position. Rigid and non-rigid image registration can be applied in order to reuse baseline volumes of interest (VOI) on consecutive studies of the same patient. The pu...