Accurate prognosis in patients with lung cancer is important for clinical decision making and treatment selection. The TNM staging system is currently the main method for establishing prognosis. Using this system, patients are grouped into one of four stages based on primary tumor extent, nodal disease, and distant metastases. However, each stage represents a range of disease extent and may not...

Component-Based Software Architecture is a promising solution for distributed computing. To develop high quality software, analysis of non-functional aspects of the software properties (also called Quality of Service or QoS) is very important. The UniFrame research project proposes a Unified Component Meta-Model Framework (UniFrame) that includes QoS contracts. A classification of QoS parameter...

Abstract Introduction Mortality rates after successful tuberculosis (TB) treatment remain elevated and healthy survival is impaired by chronic pulmonary disease persistent inflammation. Inflammation leads to a complex cascade of events has been associated with cardiovascular (CVD). Recent epidemiological work described an increased risk CVD in persons history TB. Aims objectives In our ongoing ...

PURPOSE To assess the therapeutic response for metastatic breast cancer with (18)F-FDG position emission tomography (PET), this retrospective study aims to compare the performance of six different metabolic metrics with PERCIST, PERCIST with optimal thresholds, and an image-based parametric approach. METHODS Thirty-six metastatic breast cancer patients underwent 128 PET scans and 123 lesions ...

Previous studies indicate that FDG PET/CT may predict pathological response in patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemo-radiotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). Aim of the current study is evaluate if pathological response can be similarly predicted in LARC patients after short course radiation therapy alone. METHODS Thirty-three patients with cT2-3, N0-2, M0 rectal adenocarcinoma...

This report is a publication of Through the Looking Glass’ National Resource Center for Parents with Disabilities. This report was conducted as part of TLG’s four year grant as the National Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Families of Adults with Disabilities from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research of the U.S. Department of Education under grant numbe...

Abstract Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic significance of two major indices intratumoral heterogeneity 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake by positron emission tomography (PET)/computed (CT), namely index (HI) and factor (HF), in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma. Methods We performed a retrospective analysis 62 who underwent resective surgery. HI, HF, maximum standardized...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a growing epidemic around the world, and obese patients are generally regarded as high risk for surgery compared with normal weight patients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of obesity on the surgical outcomes of laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG) for gastric cancer. METHODS We reviewed data for all patients undergoing LG for gastric cancer at our inst...

Very recently, unconventional superconductivity has been observed in the double twisted trilayer graphene (TLG), where three monolayer (MLG) are stacked on top of each other with two twist angles [J. M. Park, et al., Nature 590, 249 (2021); Z. Hao, Science 371, 1133 X. Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett.127, 166802 (2021)]. When some MLGs TLG replaced by bilayer (BLG), we get a new family moire heterostruc...

AIM Aim of this study was to investigate the potential of 18F-FDG PET, diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and susceptibility-weighted (T2*) MRI to predict response to systemic treatment in patients with colorectal liver metastases. The predictive values of pretreatment measurements and of early changes one week after start of therapy, were evaluated. METHODS Imaging was performed prior to and o...