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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare disease defined by recurrent cartilaginous inflammation. Anti–collagen II (Col2) antibodies have been proposed as a diagnostic biomarker for RP, but their performance characteristics are not well defined.
Karyssa Stonick +6 more
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Pregnancies complicated by maternal osteogenesis imperfecta type III: a case report and review of literature. [PDF]
, 2018 The restrictive lung disease can be exacerbated by growing fundus in women with osteogenesis imperfecta type III. Regional anesthesia can be performed in these women.
Al-Kouatly, Huda B. +3 more
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A fast and robust patient specific Finite Element mesh registration technique: application to 60 clinical cases [PDF]
, 2010 Finite Element mesh generation remains an important issue for patient specific biomechanical modeling. While some techniques make automatic mesh generation possible, in most cases, manual mesh generation is preferred for better control over the sub ...
Bucki, Marek +2 more
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Retractions in Rheumatology: Trends, Causes, and Implications for Research Integrity
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective We aimed to describe the trends and main reasons for study retraction in rheumatology literature. Methods We reviewed the Retraction Watch database to identify retracted articles in rheumatology. We recorded the main study characteristics, authors’ countries, reasons for retraction, time from publication to retraction, and trends over time ...
Anna Maria Vettori, Michele Iudici
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Applied SciencesThis study investigated the impact of implant materials on Hounsfield Unit (HU) distortion and dose calculation accuracy in radiotherapy planning. Standardized cubic phantoms (1 cm3) of PEEK, titanium mesh, and titanium solid were fabricated and scanned ...
Sook Yang +5 more
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LMap: Shape-Preserving Local Mappings for Biomedical Visualization
, 2018 Visualization of medical organs and biological structures is a challenging task because of their complex geometry and the resultant occlusions. Global spherical and planar mapping techniques simplify the complex geometry and resolve the occlusions to aid
Gu, Xianfeng +2 more
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Three-dimensional assessment of image distortion induced by active cardiac implants in 3.0T CMR
Scientific ReportsCMR at 3.0T in the presence of active cardiac implants remains a challenge due to susceptibility artifacts. Beyond a signal void that cancels image information, magnetic field inhomogeneities may cause distorted appearances of anatomical structures ...
Theresa Reiter +3 more
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Effects of noise suppression and envelope dynamic range compression on the intelligibility of vocoded sentences for a tonal language [PDF]
, 2017 Vocoder simulation studies have suggested that the carrier signal type employed affects the intelligibility of vocoded speech. The present work further assessed how carrier signal type interacts with additional signal processing, namely, single-channel ...
Chen F. +6 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.Objective This study aimed to investigate potential moderators influencing the effects of manual therapy and exercise therapy on pain and functional outcomes in individuals with knee and/or hip osteoarthritis, using data from the MOA trial. Design This is a secondary analysis of data from the MOA trial that compared the clinical effectiveness of manual
Daniel Cury Ribeiro +2 more
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Laparoscopic image analysis for automatic tracking of surgical tools [PDF]
, 2008 Laparoscopy is a surgical technique nowadays embedded in the clinical routine. Recent researches have been focused on analysing video information captured by the endoscope for extracting cues useful for surgeons, such as depth information. In particular,
Cano González, Alicia +4 more
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