<p>Blast related injuries have become a common occurrence among soldiers and civilians serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and minor traumatic brain injuries associated with such incidents have increased correspondingly. ...
<p>Advancements in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical fields have led to the development of an expanding number of applications for certain recombinant proteins of interest. As such, the demand for efficient and cost ...
<p>Diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) is an essential tool in clinical applications such as detecting ischemic stroke, and in research applications studying neuronal connectivity in the brain. Diffusion-weighted imaging with ...
<p>The intervertebral discs (IVD) contribute to structural stability of the spinal column, attenuate the impact of compressive loads, and enable a wide spectrum of motions. As a consequence of aging, the majority of the ...
<p><bold>Purpose:</bold> Our primary goal was to examine the effect of PET image reconstruction parameters on baseline and early-treatment FDG-PET/CT quantitative imaging. Early-treatment changes in tumor metabolism in ...
<p>Brachytherapy has emerged as one of the pre-eminent radiotherapy modalities for the treatment of prostate cancer. Current clinical methods utilize titanium encased radioactive seeds that are fixated within the prostate ...
<p>About one in four deaths in the United States are currently due to some form of heart disease [1]. Patients with cardiovascular disease usually require some form of perfusion-based surgical intervention at some point ...
<p>A three-dimensional tissue culture device previously described by Elliott et al. 1 is tested for its capacity to mimic cancer interstitial fluid pressure and interstitial pH. The device described by Elliott et al. is ...
<p>Image acquisition time is one of the most important considerations for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This is especially true for dynamic imaging (such as functional MRI or dynamic contrast enhanced MRI) which require ...
<p>Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in women in the United States; it is fundamentally important to detect risks as accurately and as early as possible for prevention. As breast density ...
<p>It has been shown that training biomedical equipment technicians (BMETs) improves healthcare, but it is unclear if capacity building for repair and maintenance of medical equipment leads to improved patient health ...
<p><bold>Introduction:</bold> Intervertebral disc herniation may contribute to nerve root compression or inflammatory processes that are associated with radicular pain and motor deficits. Molecular changes at the affected ...
<p>Every day, 1,300 children in the U.S. and an additional 34,000 children worldwide are born prematurely. This study acts as a feasibility study for a proposed ultrasonic technique for the identification of preterm birth ...