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Xin Mai, Ning Wu, Qun Nan and Sixin Bi
Microwave ablation, as an emerging method for treating lung cancer, has been widely used because of its advantages, such as being less invasive and having fewer side effects compared with other therapies, such as surgery and chemotherapy. The key to micr...
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Asumi Yamazaki, Akane Koshida, Toshimitsu Tanaka, Masashi Seki and Takayuki Ishida
Recently, some facilities have utilized the dual-energy subtraction (DES) technique for chest radiography to increase pulmonary lesion detectability. However, the availability of the technique is limited to certain facilities, in addition to other limita...
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Omrane Kadri and Abdulrahman Alfuraih
Tissue equivalent materials (TEM) are frequently used in research as a means to determine the delivered dose to patients undergoing various therapeutic procedures. They are used in routine quality assurance and quality control procedures in diagnostic an...
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Alberto Battistel, Peter Paul Pott and Knut Möller
Worldwide, lung cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer-related death. Detected by computer tomography, it is usually removed through thoracoscopic surgery. During the surgery the lung collapses requiring some strategies to track or localize th...
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Kaihao Gu, Yiheng Wang, Shengjie Yan and Xiaomei Wu
The circumferential multipolar catheter (CMC) facilitates pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) for the treatment of atrial fibrillation by catheter ablation. However, the ablation characteristics of CMC are not well understood. This study uses the finite eleme...
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Agnieszka Strzelak, Aleksandra Ratajczak, Aleksander Adamiec and Wojciech Feleszko
Many studies have been undertaken to reveal how tobacco smoke skews immune responses contributing to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other lung diseases. Recently, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has been linked with...
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Christian Schnabel, Maria Gaertner and Edmund Koch
Though artificial ventilation is an essential life-saving treatment, the mechanical behavior of lung tissue at the alveolar level is still unknown. Therefore, we need to understand the tissue response during artificial ventilation at this microscale in o...
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Brenda I. Machado, Lawrence E. Murr, Raquel M. Suro, Sara M. Gaytan, Diana A. Ramirez, Kristine M. Garza and Brian E. Schuster
The nature and constituents of ballistic aerosol created by kinetic energy penetrator rods of tungsten heavy alloys (W-Fe-Ni and W-Fe-Co) perforating steel target plates was characterized by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. These aerosol re...
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Deacqunita L. Harris, Darryl B. Hood and Aramandla Ramesh
The objective of this study was to evaluate how the vehicles of choice affect the pharmacokinetics of orally administered Fluoranthene [FLA] in rats. Fluoranthene is a member of the family of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon chemicals. Fluoranthene exposu...
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Louise Cilliers, François Retief
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In spite of an array of effective antibiotics, tuberculosis is still very common in developing countries where overcrowding, malnutrition and poor hygienic conditions prevail. Over the past 30 years associated HIV infection has worsened the situat...
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