scan pulmonary angiography and ct scan

... tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) is increasingly being used as first investigation for suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) The investigation has high predictive value, but is resource and time ... UK Aff2 General practitioner and research fellow, NHS Education for Scotland, Glasgow, UK Aff3 Radiology consultant, Monklands district general hospital, Lanarkshire, UK Abstract Background Computed ... sensitivity and negative predictive value in most patients with suspected thromboembolism, and may be an alternative first investigation to CTPA [10] D-dimers are degradation products of cross...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... optimal scan protocol depends on the generation of scanner (e.g., the number of detector rows being used) and the vendor of the CT machine Using MDCT scanners with ≥ 16 detector rows, the scan time ... the different aspect of the structures at CT needs to be subject of further study 2.8 Dual-source CT Dual-source CT (DSCT) scanners can be used in two different ways for the detection of acute PE ... Individual instruction by the technologist instead of using the automatic command and start of scanning further reduces the chance of significant breathing artefacts With slower CT scanners and scanning...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 19:20

... product yield, shear force, lean meat yield) and weight (hot and cold carcass weight, yearling, weaning and slaughter weight) Single and aggregated bars, heat maps and plots can be selected for ... chest and neck during the scans at 120 kV tube voltages and 150 mA current Cross-section images were collected every 40 mm starting proximal to the articulatio genus (rear knee joint) and finishing ... opposite sign of the QTL effects may have prevented detection under the single QTL model Details describing QTL positions and effect sizes, and comparisons with single and no QTL models are in Table...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... cứu, tập hợp hình chiếu biết đợc thông qua kết đo đạc bên đối tợng Vì toán chụp cắt lớp máy tính ( CT ) thờng đợc gọi toán khôi phục cấu trúc tái tạo hình ảnh Thuật toán xác định hệ số hấp thụ tuyến ... f * ( ) = (2 ) - n/2 f ( x) exp(i x)d x (9) Trong .x = x + x + + n x n tích vô hớng vectơ x ; d x phần tử thể tích không gian n chiều Biến đổi ngợc không gian n chiều có dạng: f( ... điều kiện hội tụ tốt phơng pháp lặp b) Phơng pháp trợt nhanh c) Thuật toán ART (algebraic reconstruction technique) đợc chọn từ Kết luận Nh thấy, chụp cắt lớp máy tính X-quang toán phức tạp nội dung...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 08:20

... flowcytometric analysis CHC, SL, CW, TC, YW, and CT recruited the study subjects, reviewed the chart, and collected the samples All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests ... PCR products by using a sequencer (ABI Prism®3100 Genetic Analyzer; Applied Biosystems, USA) and Gene Scan analysis software T, -15607 A>G, 1350 T>C, and 2258 G>A polymorphisms by direct sequencing",1,0,1,0,0pc,0pc,0pc,0pc>Genotyping ... Reverse: 5’-ACAGAACGGTCTCCAAGTAG-3’ Condition: 94°C, min; (94.1°C, min; 59.3°C, min; 72.2°C, min)× 35 cycles; 72°C, 10 Forward: 5’-GCAGCTGAAATCACAGAGCA Reverse: 5’-AGGATAATGGCCTCCTGCT Condition: 94°C,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... These factors cannot determine or change the type of the disease, although they may modify its form and influence its extent and activity The extent and activity of the lesions vary directly with ... that a correct classification is the key to correct and standardised principles of management; and that only with standardised principles of management can results in various series and in various ... benign and the malignant, and two distinct initial lesions in secondary tuberculosis, the unilateral minimal lesion and the bilateral localised chronic miliary tuberculosis, and these lead respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... detected; RIF resistance not detected MTB detected; RIF resistance detected MTB detected; RIF resistance indeterminate MTB not detected; RIF not detected Xpert MTB/RIF test for detection of pulmonary ... written by KRS and MP, with input from HS and ND The search strategy was written by LAK HS and KRS will review articles for relevance, and extract and analyse data HS, MP, ND, CCB, and KRS will ... and their reasons for exclusion will be maintained Data extraction and management Two independent reviewers (HS and KRS) will extract a set of data from each study using a piloted data extraction...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... Tuberculosis and Back Again: A Tale of Activism in Pandemics Clin Infect Dis 2010, 50:S260–S266 Friedland G, Churchyard GJ, Nardell E: Tuberculosis and HIV coinfection: current state of knowledge and ... Coinfection and clinical manifestations of tuberculosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected and -uninfected adults at a teaching hospital, northwest Ethiopia J Microbiol Immunol Infect 2007, ... microscopy, and (3) chest radiography Study participants were interviewed about the presence of clinical manifestations of TB Sociodemographic characteristics and other related risk factors were collected...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... tongue and foul smelling urine The patient becomes lean and thin Body skin is dry and thin Face turns pale and eyes sink The facial bones become prominent and bones and skin come in contact due ... infectious and communicable disease4,15,18 Earlier Unani physicians had a concept about the infectious nature of the disease, Sil and the causing agent Ajsame Khabitha (microorganisms) Symptoms and ... infection (primary infection) and corrosion of lung mass4,15 Some scholars like Ibne Sina believed that lean, weak, pigeon-chested persons with excessive bile and the persons between 18 and 30...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... between restating and control firms’ board structures in Section VA1, audit committees in Section VA2, the CEO’s influence on the board in Section VA3, ownership structures in Section VA4, and outside ... committees in Section IIB, auditor conflicts in Section IIC, the CEO’s influence on the board in Section IID, and other governance mechanisms in Section IIE A Independence of Boards and Audit Committees ... Director Characteristics, and Earnings Management, 33 J Acct Econ 375 (2002) For example, Mark S Beasley, An Empirical Analysis of the Relation between the Board of Director Composition and Financial...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... THUẬT KHẢO SÁT  CTscanner thường or Xoắn ốc  Không có tiêm thuốc cản quang  Cữa sổ nhu mô, cữa sổ phổi  Tái tạo 2D or 3D  Kỹ thuật CT ly giải cao (HRCT) KỸ THUẬT CT. SCANNER LY GIẢI CAO ... MỨC KHỚP ỨC ĐÒN b.Đmtctđ c.Đmc s.Đmdđ bv.Tmtctđ e.thực quản T khí quản NGANG MỨC KHỚP ỨC ĐÒN b.Đmtctđ c.Đmc s.Đmdđ bv.Tmtctđ NGANG MỨC KHỚP ỨC ĐÒN b.Đmtctđ c.Đmc s.Đmdđ bv.Tmtctđ NGANG MỨC TĨNH ... b.Đmtctđ c.Đmc s.Đmdđ ibv.Tmtctđ(T) e.thực quản T khí quản NGANG MỨC TĨNH MẠCH THÂN CÁNH TAY ĐẦU (T) ibv.Tmtctđ (T) R.Tmtctđ (P) T khí quản NGANG MỨC TĨNH MẠCH THÂN CÁNH TAY ĐẦU (T) ibv.Tmtctđ...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 23:20

... from BA and COPD have a significantly higher rate of anxiety and depression compared to the general population A probable cause is the chronicity and severity of pulmonary disease Detection and management ... patients with pulmonary disease in particular, functionality may be severely impaired due to chronic psychogenic and somatic pain, frequent hospital admissions and dependency from medical and nursing ... I, Ilias I: Smoking related to anxiety and depression in Greek medical staff Psycholog Rep 2003, 92:529-532 Anderson KL: The effect of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on quality of life Res...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... progressive deterioration of right upper extremity coordination and motor strength A staging PET /CT scan and CT scans of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis, prior to surgery, were performed that revealed ... dual-modality PET /CT is able to detect more primary tumors than PET, CT and PET and CT side-by-side in the diagnosis of carcinoma of unknown primary with less patient radiation exposure [24] PET /CT can ... the first and final PET /CT scans; this is a considerable amount of time for a bronchial primary to manifest During this period the tumor recurred twice in the brain and serial PET /CT scans did...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... Table 1: Volumetric and spatial comparison of PTV4DCT1 and PTV4DCT2 Pat 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Mean ± SD PTV4DCT1 (cm3) PTV4DCT2 (cm3) PTV4DCT1 – PTV4DCT2 (cm3) 28.1 16.2 ... Beam portals were adjusted to both PTV4DCT1 and PTV4DCT2, respectively When satisfactory target coverage was obtained for PTV4DCT1, the mean coverage of PTV4DCT2 by the resulting 80% prescription ... for microscopic tumor extension [14] Retrospective comparison of PTVs Two separate PTVs, namely PTV4DCT1 and PTV4DCT2, were generated and the volumes and location were compared For the latter,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... Lung-perfusion SPECT /CT was conducted both before and more than months after surgery, at the same day with pulmonary function test Preoperative and postoperative FEV1 of the lobe underwent segmentectomy ... measured from pulmonary function test and lungperfusion SPECT /CT, as previously reported [14-16] Briefly, images of the lobe before segmentectomy and of the remained lobe after segmentectomy were ... tomography and CT (SPECT /CT) of the left upper lobe before operation (c) Sagittal image of the lung-perfusion SPECT /CT of the remaining lingular segment after resection of upper division segmentectomy...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... usually bacterial in origin [4] In some cases zygomycetes may infect lung cavities following pulmonary tuberculosis [8] There is only one report of pulmonary zygomycosis and M tuberculosis infection ... of infection [2,3] Pulmonary zygomycosis is to times more common in men than women [4,5 ]and the main risk factors include diabetes mellitus, haematological malignancy, renal insufficiency and solid ... follow-up CT scan regarding lack of resolution of the multiple nodules 18 months of anti- mycobacterial chemotherapy was administered Subsequently CT imaging following completion of antimycobacterial...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:22

... classification and lung function, which is likely partially due to differential CFTR activity between the sweat gland and lung epithelium, as well as the activity of modifier genes and proteins We suspect ... PFT_FEV1%_Predicted for pulmonary function results.) Except during two endobronchial exacerbations each, FEV1 is >80% predicted, consistent with the top quartile and normal lung function for age ... aeruginosa until he was 20 years old and had no significant lung disease Figure shows pulmonary function results over 14 years and decline in pulmonary function since colonization with P aeruginosa...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension and vascular remodeling in rats and that specific inhibition of the CXCR4 in bone marrow cells also will impact development of pulmonary hypertension and vascular ... were collected with DIVA software on LSR II and analyzed with FlowJo v8.8.6 Measurement of right ventricular hypertrophy The ventricles and septum of the animals were collected and the wet and dry ... Resource and Research Center at University of Missouri (Columbia, MO) and used as bone marrow cell donors CXCR4 inhibitor and hypoxic pulmonary hypertension Rats were placed in a hypoxia chamber and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22