The Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) is commonly used to measure the patients' disorder in clinical therapeutics. However, UPDRS scores can be somewhat variable and subjective. Especially, ther...
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We propose a new cold dialysate regeneration system that requires 10 L per treatment for home hemodialysis. In this system, by using cold dialysate and 2 activated carbon columns alternatively switched between adsorpt...
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The rising production costs of commonly used lutetium-based fast scintillators and the development of silicon photomultipliers technology have made BGO a promising candidate for time-of-flight positron emission tomogr...
The rising production costs of commonly used lutetium-based fast scintillators and the development of silicon photomultipliers technology have made BGO a promising candidate for time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF PET) detectors due to its ability to generate prompt Cherenkov photons. However, using BGO as a hybrid scintillator presents challenges due to low photon statistics and a distribution that does not conform well to a single Gaussian. To mitigate this, a proposal was made to increase the likelihood of detecting the first Cherenkov photons by positioning two photosensors in opposition at the entrance and exit faces of the scintillator [1]. In the other hand, compensating for the photon transit time spread is known to enhance the timing performance of the dual-ended BGO Cherenkov TOF PET detector [2]. A 3 × 3 × 15 mm 3 unpolished BGO sample was prepared and tested. The high-frequency dual-ended BGO detector was implemented and coincidence events were acquired against a 3 × 3 × 3 mm 3 LYSO:Ce:Mg reference detector. The timing performance of dual-ended BGO detectors were analyzed using bottom, top, meantime, and adaptive timestamp methods. Through a depth-of-interaction based (DOI-based) correction of photon transit time spread, we demonstrated a further improvement in timing resolution of dual-ended BGO-based Cherenkov TOF PET detector with adaptive arrival time pickoff. The use of a dual-ended configuration resulted in a significant improvement in timing resolution compared to a single-ended readout configuration, particularly in terms of FWTM value. Although polishing the crystal surface was still favorable in terms of FWHM value, compensating for photon travel time by taking advantage of DOI information from unpolished crystals with relatively higher light loss enabled further enhancement in timing performance the polished crystals.
Osteochondral tissue is a highly specialized and complex tissue composed of articular cartilage and subchondral bone that are separated by a calcified cartilage *** or gradient scaffolds,often in conjunction with stem...
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Osteochondral tissue is a highly specialized and complex tissue composed of articular cartilage and subchondral bone that are separated by a calcified cartilage *** or gradient scaffolds,often in conjunction with stem cells and growth factors,have been developed to mimic the respective layers for osteochondral defect *** this study,we designed a hyaline cartilage-hypertrophic cartilage bilayer graft(RGD/RGDW)with ***,we demonstrated that RGD peptide-modified chondroitin sulfate cryogel(RGD group)is chondro-conductive and capable of hyaline cartilage ***,we incorporated whitlockite(WH),a Mg^(2+)-containing calcium phosphate,into RGD cryogel(RGDW group)to induce chondrocyte hypertrophy and form collagen X-rich hypertrophic *** is the first study to use WH to produce hypertrophic ***-laden RGDW cryogel exhibited significantly upregulated expression of hypertrophy markers in vitro and formed ectopic hypertrophic cartilage in vivo,which mineralized into calcified cartilage in bone ***,RGD cryogel and RGDW cryogel were combined into bilayer(RGD/RGDW group)and implanted into rabbit osteochondral defect,where RGD layer supports hyaline cartilage regeneration and bioceramic-containing RGDW layer promotes calcified cartilage *** the RGD group(monolayer)formed hyaline-like neotissue that extends into the subchondral bone,the RGD/RGDW group(bilayer)regenerated hyaline cartilage tissue confined to its respective layer and promoted osseointegration for integrative defect repair.
Objective: It is reported that idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) is associated with alteration of attention,executive functions,and visuospatial abilities. In addition,it is known that about half of the iR...
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Objective: It is reported that idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) is associated with alteration of attention,executive functions,and visuospatial abilities. In addition,it is known that about half of the iRBD patients have mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The aim of this study was to explore the differences between iRBD patients with MCI and ones without MCI. Methods: 14 healthy controls (HC),24 iRBD patients without MCI (iRBD-nMCI),and 24 iRBD patients with MCI (iRBD-MCI) were recruited.
Combining several low-calorie sweeteners in a food is a common strategy for reducing caloric sweeteners. The effects of binary sweetener mixtures on sweetness enhancement and sweet–bitter taste receptor interactions,...
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Driver drowsiness monitoring is one of the most demanded technologies for active prevention of severe road accidents. Electroencephalogram (EEG) and several peripheral signals have been suggested for the drowsiness mo...
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Driver drowsiness monitoring is one of the most demanded technologies for active prevention of severe road accidents. Electroencephalogram (EEG) and several peripheral signals have been suggested for the drowsiness monitoring. However, each type of signal has partial limitations in terms of either convenience or accuracy. Recent emerged concept of in-ear EEG raises expectations due to reduced obtrusiveness. It is yet unclear whether the in-ear EEG is effective enough for drowsiness detection in comparison with on-scalp EEG or peripheral signals. In this work, we evaluated performance of the in-ear EEG in drivers' alertness-drowsiness classification for the first time. Simultaneously, we also tested three peripheral signals including electrocardiogram (ECG), photoplethysmogram (PPG), and galvanic skin response (GSR) which have advantage in convenience of measurement. The classification analysis using the in-ear EEG resulted in high classification accuracy comparable to that of the individual on-scalp EEG channels. The ECG, PPG and GSR showed competitive performance but only when used together in pairwise combinations. Our results suggest that the in-ear EEG would be viable alternative to the single channel EEG or the individual peripheral signals for the drowsiness monitoring.
This study aims to investigate the feasibility of applying a multiplexing method that uses a high-pass filter and an artificial neural network proposed by the authors to a system. The accuracy of the proposed method w...
This study aims to investigate the feasibility of applying a multiplexing method that uses a high-pass filter and an artificial neural network proposed by the authors to a system. The accuracy of the proposed method was measured for four sampling rates ranging from 125MHz to 1GHz and three crystal configurations, including one-to-one coupling, light-sharing, and cDOI configuration. The accuracy was compared using the R 2 value between the true amplitude and estimated amplitude of the signal, and it was confirmed that the proposed method achieved an accuracy of 0.97 or higher in all situations. Furthermore, when measuring the DOI resolution using the cDOI configuration, the proposed method exhibited an accuracy of 0.97 or higher even under side irradiation conditions and achieved a DOI accurcacy of 74.4%. Therefore, it was confirmed that a sufficient DOI resolution could be obtained for an 8 × 8 SiPM array with a 3mm pitch attached with a 12 × 12 LSO array with a 2mm pitch using only four multiplexed readouts. This method guarantees high accuracy, sufficient multiplexing ratio, and operation at a suitable sampling rate for the system.
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