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Yusuke Kawashima, Suemitsu Masaaki, Kayo Kuyama, Takeshi Sakai, Yasushi Hayakawa, Takashi Kaneda and Norihiro Sei
We investigated the transmission characteristics of formalin fixed human liver samples in which normal liver tissue and malignant liver tumor were mixed using terahertz (THz) coherent synchrotron radiation at an infrared free-electron laser (FEL) facilit...
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Youngsung Kim, Jin Woong Kim, Bup Kyung Choi, Nitish Katoch, Eun Ju Yoon, Jong Seon Kim, Young Hoe Hur, Sang Gook Song and Hyung Joong Kim
Anemarrhena asphodeloides extract (AAE) has been used for the treatment of inflammatory diseases and its anti-inflammatory effects have been reported. In this feasibility study, the hepato-protective effect of AAE was evaluated in a rat liver cirrhosis m...
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Giacomo D?Angeli, Francesca Zara, Alessio Belloni, Francesco Maria D?Angeli, Michele Dello Spedale Venti, Daniela Messineo, Alessandro Corsi and Gian Luca Sfasciotti
The dental follicle (DF) is the tissue that surrounds the crown of the developing tooth. In X-ray, images it appears as a radiolucent area. The removal of an impacted mandibular third molar is a common procedure in oral surgery. The radiographic evidence...
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Etsuko Ohmae, Nobuko Yoshizawa, Kenji Yoshimoto, Maho Hayashi, Hiroko Wada, Tetsuya Mimura, Yuko Asano, Hiroyuki Ogura, Yutaka Yamashita, Harumi Sakahara and Yukio Ueda
We previously compared time-domain diffuse optical spectroscopy (TD-DOS) with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using various water/lipid phantoms. However, it is difficult to conduct similar comparisons in the breast, because of measurement differences d...
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Adriana Bastías, Rubén Almada, Pamela Rojas, José Manuel Donoso, Patricio Hinrichsen, Boris Sagredo
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In vitro culture is a very popular technique to mass propagate valuable plant genotypes, including Prunus sp. cultivars. Plants that undergo tissue culture processes often change their morphology and behavior due to the ?rejuvenation? caused by the plant...
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Maria Pagano, Alzbeta Stara, Valbona Aliko and Caterina Faggio
The use of pesticides in agriculture has always had a strong impact on environmental contamination. Since the 1990s, neonicotinoids have grown increasingly more popular, targeting specific receptors for insects, especially bees, which is why the use of s...
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Alessandro Bertuzzi, Federica Conte, Federico Papa and Carmela Sinisgalli
The present work of review collects and evidences the main results of our previous papers on the optimization of fractionated radiotherapy protocols. The problem under investigation is presented here in a unitary framework as a nonlinear programming appl...
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Che-Yu Lin, Yi-Cheng Chen, Chin Pok Pang, Tung-Han Yang
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Ultrasound viscoelastic creep imaging (UVCI) is a newly developed technology aiming to measure the viscoelastic properties of materials. The purpose of this study is to investigate the accuracy of UVCI in measuring the viscoelastic properties of heteroge...
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Che-Yu Lin, Yi-Cheng Chen, Chin Pok Pang, Tung-Han Yang
Pág. 229 - 241
Ultrasound viscoelastic creep imaging (UVCI) is a newly developed technology aiming to measure the viscoelastic properties of materials. The purpose of this study is to investigate the accuracy of UVCI in measuring the viscoelastic properties of heteroge...
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Wenpeng Yu, Ying Jiang, Feng Lin, Jichun Liu and Jianliang Zhou
Valve replacement is the mainstay of treatment for end-stage valvular heart disease, but varying degrees of defects exist in clinically applied valve implants. A mechanical heart valve requires long-term anti-coagulation, but the formation of blood clots...
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Ji-Hun You, Chung Won Lee, Up Huh, Chi-Seung Lee and Dongman Ryu
In abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), the rupture of the aortic tissue is directly related to wall stress. Thus, the investigation of maximum wall stress is a necessary procedure to predict the aortic rupture in AAA. In this study, computational simulation...
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Veronica Cimolin, Nicola Cau, Manuela Galli and Paolo Capodaglio
Obese individuals are characterized by a reduced balance which has a significant effect on a variety of daily and occupational tasks. The presence of excessive adipose tissue and weight gain could increase the risk of falls; for this reason, obese indivi...
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Zulfa Nailul Ilmi, Pugar Arga Cristina Wulandari, Saikhu Akhmad Husen, Dwi Winarni, Mochammad Amin Alamsjah, Khalijah Awang, Marco Vastano, Alessandro Pellis, Duncan Macquarrie and Pratiwi Pudjiastuti
In this study, we evaluated antioxidant effect of alginate?okra extracts combination as topical application (ointment) for wound healing on diabetic mice. Characterization of alginate was used to determine structural characteristics and Okra fruit extrac...
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Ibrahem Kandel and Mauro Castelli
Histopathology is the study of tissue structure under the microscope to determine if the cells are normal or abnormal. Histopathology is a very important exam that is used to determine the patients? treatment plan. The classification of histopathology im...
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Jonathan J. Carroll-Nellenback, R. James White, Ronald W. Wood and Kevin J. Parker
Ultrasound imaging of the liver is an everyday, worldwide clinical tool. The echoes are produced by inhomogeneities within the interrogated tissue, but what are the mathematical properties of these scatterers? In theory, the spatial correlation function ...
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Fabio Botta, Andrea Rossi and Nicola Pio Belfiore
The opportunity to know the status of a soft tissue (ST) in situ can be very useful for microsurgery or early diagnosis. Since normal and diseased tissues have different mechanical characteristics, many systems have been developed to carry out such measu...
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Jacobo Baldonedo, José R. Fernández, José A. López-Campos and Abraham Segade
Bone tissue is a material with a complex structure and mechanical properties. Diseases or even normal repetitive loads may cause microfractures to appear in the bone structure, leading to a deterioration of its properties. A better understanding of this ...
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Miranda Bellezza, Azzurra di Palma and Andrea Frosini
Alzheimer?s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that leads to the loss of cognitive functions due to the deterioration of brain tissue. Current diagnostic methods are often invasive or costly, limiting their widespread use. Developing non-invasi...
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Ahmed Gaber, Hassan A. Youness, Alaa Hamdy, Hammam M. Abdelaal and Ammar M. Hassan
Fatty liver disease is considered a critical illness that should be diagnosed and detected at an early stage. In advanced stages, liver cancer or cirrhosis arise, and to identify this disease, radiologists commonly use ultrasound images. However, because...
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Hasan Mhd Nazha, Mhd Ayham Darwich, Basem Ammar, Hala Dakkak and Daniel Juhre
An investigation was conducted to examine the photothermal and thermomechanical effects of short-pulse laser irradiation on normal tissues. This study analyzed the impact of short-pulse laser radiation on the heat-affected region within tissues, taking i...
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