noninvasive imaging for risk prediction in carotid atherosclerotic disease

... provide unique information about the diseased tissue and therefore provide different but valid information regarding the site of future recurrences Discussion Imaging of malignant brain tumors has ... correlating pathologic findings with imaging abnormalities [2-5] Contemporary radiation therapy planning for high grade gliomas involves identifying tumor volumes on various MRI sequences Institutional ... to include new modalities in treatment planning The use of these complementary imaging modalities in treatment planning and assessment may allow more accurate targeting of tumor, improved sparing...

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Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2015, 14:59

... 35 Increasing investment in data and IT infrastructure to enhance risk information 27 Introducing or increasing use of scenarios that take a firm-wide perspective 25 Introducing or increasing ... 35 Increasing investment in data and IT infrastructure to enhance risk information 27 Introducing or increasing use of scenarios that take a firm-wide perspective 25 Introducing or increasing ... senior management in stress testing 39 Introducing or increasing frequency of ad hoc stress testing 36 Strengthening link between stress testing and decision-making 36 Increasing use of hypothetical...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:05

... Significantly less Training of risk professionals 14 40 41 Training of general workforce in risk 10 41 42 Training of board members in risk 40 47 31 Recruitment of specialised risk professionals ... Intelligence Unit Limited 2010 Rebuilding trust Next steps for risk management in financial services Key points n Enterprise risk management remains a work in progress for most institutions in ... Significantly less Training of risk professionals 14 40 41 Training of general workforce in risk 10 41 42 Training of board members in risk 40 47 31 Recruitment of specialised risk professionals...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:09

... for risk management in financial services Investing in change P revious reports in this series explained how financial institutions have in the past few years made substantial investments in risk ... specialist risk professionals Training of board members in risk Training of general workforce in risk © The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2011 Too good to fail? New challenges for risk management ... Significantly less Training of risk professionals 12 37 44 51 Training of general workforce in risk 37 50 41 Training of board members in risk 37 50 Recruitment of specialist risk professionals...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:16

... strain and strain rate imaging (SRI) may help to overcome these limitations Strain- and strain rate imaging Strain means deformation and strain rate means deformation rate [7] Myocardial strain ... velocity imaging can be recommended for clinical use, especially the pulsed mode Strain rate imaging may be useful as additional imaging, but needs further refinement before it is ready for routine ... shortening SRpeak sys indicate peak systolic strain Tbos and teos indicate beginning and end of shortening, respectively Emax, Eet, and Eps indicate max strain during the heart cycle, strain during...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 11:20

... ng of DNA for each sample were assayed by nested PCR PCR was performed for both rounds with High Fidelity Platinum® Taq DNA Polymerase (Invitrogen), including a hot start (94°C for min) with the ... the following cycle conditions: 38 cycles of denaturation at 94°C for 20 s, annealing at 54°C for 30 s, and extension at 72°C for with a final elongation step at 72°C for 10 before cooling to 4°C ... bocavirus in French children Emerg Infect Dis 2006, 12:1251-1253 Kim FJ, Lavanya M, Gessain A, Gallego S, Battini JL, Sitbon M, Courgnaud V: Intrahost variations in the envelope receptor-binding domain...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20

... P-glycoprotein, a protein known to be overexpressed in cancer cells [27], and (4) coelenterazine is much more expensive than D-Luciferin Iyer et al [28] examined noninvasive imaging using PET and BLI in ... and nuclear noninvasive imaging Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2004 in press Ray P, De A, Min JJ, Tsien RY, Gambhir SS: Imaging tri-fusion multimodality reporter gene expression in living subjects ... sacrificed In the past few years, noninvasive imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging, and optical imaging methods using fluorescence and bioluminescence...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... with the aim of modifying the situation and reducing or eliminating excessive risk factors (for example, by reducing or eliminating cantilevers, modifying the occlusion, inserting extra implants, ... types of esthetic risk factors: • • • • Gingival risk factors Dental risk factors Bone risk factors Patient risk factors 29 Chapter Gingival Risk Factors Gingival Risk Factors Smile line (Figs 2-1 ... The gingiva is not exposed during smiling, and the situation is favorable for implant placement I ntraoral examination • Jaw opening (Fig 1-6) The first thing to before the intraoral examination...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 15:20

... parser working with a generic rule set There is a Second reason for considering instantiated grammars It is possible in bottom-up parsing to speed up the parsing process by adding topdown prediction ... relevant for top-down prediction is located in the lexicon tn order to make this information accessible to the parser, we precompile the grammatical rules into a set of instantiated rules The instantiated ... will only be predicted if the grammar contains a matching functor category A~S Finally, since we are working with the instantiated rules, morphosyntactic information can effectively be predicted...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... Supporting Innovation: managing risk in government departments in Britain outlined nine different risk management tools which could be used to manage risks in government departments and in each ... adopts a risk based approach to designing, operating and maintaining a sound system of control in business financial management, in particular it supports a top- down, integrated corporate risk management ... handling and communicating risk to the public, an essentially regulatory role All of these initiatives have furthered the prominence of risk discourses and the promotion of riskbased thinking in...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... findings from nationwide FINACS studies Journal of Internal Medicine, 256, 4, pp 316-323 20 Coronary Angiography – Advances in Noninvasive Imaging Approach for Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease ... guideline compliance on risk stratification models for acute coronary syndromes in 18 Coronary Angiography – Advances in Noninvasive Imaging Approach for Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease ... Angiography – Advances in Noninvasive Imaging Approach for Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease 2.2.1 Technique of examination for each segment of main coronary arteries There are several windows by which...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 17:12

... in Europe Clin Microbiol Infect 2003, 9(12):1179-86 Revised guidelines for the control of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals In J Hosp Infect Volume 39 British Society for ... institutional settings Interestingly, heterogeneity between institutional settings is noted Data from the Office of National Statistics showed a Risk Ratio (RR) of 8.0 for MRSA colonisation in ... Gender against patient outcome Discussion The increasing incidence of MRSA colonisation in patients from institutional settings is well documented and rates of nosocomial MRSA infection have increased...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... US-Mexico border Funding Information Figure Map of Mexico Map of Mexico States of origin of migrating pregnant women, Tijuana General Hospital 2003 indicates Baja California; 2, Sinaloa; 3, Jalisco; ... AIDS in Mexico: lessons learned and implications for developing countries AIDS 2002, 16:1445-1457 Abstract Zuma K, Gouws E, Williams B, Lurie M: Risk factors for HIV infection among women in Carletonville, ... based, with 24% of our patients having no prenatal care before delivery and 54% having or fewer prenatal visits; therefore, this was a high -risk population.[3] In contrast, the CENSIDA surveillance...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... size of the training set, making them unsuitable for online applications Therefore, it was essential to first propose a mechanism for controlling the increase in the model order as new input data ... promising subject for research References [1] M Rabbat and R Nowak, “Distributed optimization in sensor networks,” in Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Information Processing in ... A H Sayed, “A spatial sampling scheme based on innovations diffusion in sensor networks,” in Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN ’07),...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... geological risk management, which must include the results of all investigations in the field of engineering geology, www.intechopen.com 240 Advances in Risk Management performed either by design engineers, ... their inconsistency In line with this reasoning, we must consider the possible establishment of an internal program within the implementing institutions or companies to elevate the culture of information, ... questions relating to the necessary ongoing training of professionals and specialists It is possible that information obtained in the literature search, obtained the necessary elements enabling the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 23:32

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... diseases that have an infectious nature In addition, controlling brucellosis in small ruminants (mainly by Rev-1 vaccination) will indirectly reduce the prevalence of this disease in other animal species, ... information on the herd’s health and management The health information included how many cows had disease, the mortality rate, the abortion rate and the vaccination history The management information ... cattle Poor veterinary service has been identified as a risk factor for brucellosis in Argentina [23] and Mexico [11] In this investigation, we used two serological assays: the RBPT and indirect ELISA...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... of our institution Pathology was squamous cell carcinoma in 20 cases, cloacogenic carcinoma in 3, adenocarcinoma in 2, and basal cell carcinoma in Tumor was confined in the anal canal in 10 cases, ... years), performance status of 80-100 (median 90) according to Karnofsky scale with biopsy proven anal carcinoma, were enrolled in the present study after obtaining informed consent following the ... considered both CT and PET information outlining the volume identified by one or by both imaging modalities The CTV was drawn manually on CT and on PET/CT images taking into account respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22