Thorax

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Doctor, I hurt right here!" The single digit sign. 
  • A 3D model of non-uniform attenuation and detector response for efficient iterative reconstruction in SPECT. 
  • A Monte Carlo and physical phantom evaluation of quantitative In-111 SPECT. 
  • A breathing thorax phantom with independently programmable 6D tumour motion for dosimetric measurements in radiation therapy. 
  • A comparative evaluation of intrapleural and thoracic epidural analgesia for postoperative pain relief after minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • A hardware investigation of robotic SPECT for functional and molecular imaging onboard radiation therapy systems. 
  • A phase II trial of high dose carboplatin and paclitaxel with G-CSF and peripheral blood stem cell support followed by surgery and/or chest radiation in patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer: CALGB 9531. 
  • A point-wise normalization method for development of biofidelity response corridors. 
  • A ventilator for magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • Abnormalities of the chest wall in pediatric patients. 
  • Alpha1-adrenergic receptors in human spinal cord: specific localized expression of mRNA encoding alpha1-adrenergic receptor subtypes at four distinct levels. 
  • An EM algorithm for estimating SPECT emission and transmission parameters from emissions data only. 
  • Analysis of the density of pleural fluid analogs by computed tomography. 
  • Anterior chest wall: frequency of anatomic variations in children. 
  • Assessment of single-bolus contrast administration technique using hybrid dual-source ECG-gated thoracic and dual-source non-ECG-gated high-pitch abdominopelvic CT acquisitions for procedural planning before transcatheter aortic valve replacement. 
  • Asynchronous thoraco-abdominal motion contributes to decreased 6-minute walk test in patients with COPD. 
  • Automated quality control assessment of clinical chest images. 
  • Bayesian analysis of data from radionuclide angiocardiograms for diagnosis of coronary artery disease. 
  • Blocked Elements in 1-D and 2-D Arrays-Part I: Detection and Basic Compensation on Simulated and In Vivo Targets. 
  • Body surface isopotential maps in normal children, ages 4 to 14 years. 
  • Busulfan and cyclophosphamide as a preparative regimen for bone marrow transplantation in patients with prior chest radiotherapy. 
  • CT and radiographic assessment of tube thoracostomy. 
  • Calculation of attenuation factors from combined singles and coincidence emission projections. 
  • Cardiac phantom evaluation of simultaneously acquired dual-isotope rest thallium-201/stress technetium-99m SPECT images. 
  • Central veins of the chest: evaluation with time-resolved MR angiography. 
  • Cervical sagittal deformity develops after PJK in adult thoracolumbar deformity correction: radiographic analysis utilizing a novel global sagittal angular parameter, the CTPA. 
  • Chest Fat Quantification via CT Based on Standardized Anatomy Space in Adult Lung Transplant Candidates. 
  • Chest wall invasive non-small cell lung cancer: patterns of failure and implications for a revised staging system. 
  • Clinical implications of isopotential surface maps. 
  • Clinical utility of computed tomography screening of chest, abdomen, and sinuses before hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: the St. Jude experience. 
  • Combination chemotherapy with or without thoracic radiotherapy in limited-stage small-cell lung cancer: a randomized trial of the Southeastern Cancer Study Group. 
  • Comparison of electrocardiographic and left ventricular functional changes during exercise. 
  • Congenital heart disease and other heterotaxic defects in a large cohort of patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia. 
  • Conversion of indwelling chest port catheters to tunneled central venous catheters. 
  • Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma with zosteriform metastasis in a transplant recipient. 
  • Diagnostic and prognostic significance of exercise-induced premature ventricular complexes in men and women: a four year follow-up. 
  • Dominant Splice Site Mutations in PIK3R1 Cause Hyper IgM Syndrome, Lymphadenopathy and Short Stature. 
  • Donor site selection for cutaneous and myocutaneous free flaps. 
  • ECG acquisition errors due to arm leads placed on the chest. 
  • Early events in human T cell ontogeny. Phenotypic characterization and immunohistologic localization of T cell precursors in early human fetal tissues. 
  • Effect of beam hardening on arterial enhancement in thoracoabdominal CT angiography with increasing patient size: an in vitro and in vivo study. 
  • Effect of conductivity interfaces in electrocardiography. 
  • Effect of mechanical chest percussion on intracranial pressure: a pilot study. 
  • Effect of respiratory motion on lung counting efficiency using a 4D NURBS-based cardio-torso (NCAT) phantom. 
  • Effect of skin electrode location on radiofrequency ablation lesions: an in vivo and a three-dimensional finite element study. 
  • Effect of two different exercise regimens on trunk muscle morphometry and endurance in soldiers in training. 
  • Effective DQE (eDQE) for monoscopic and stereoscopic chest radiography imaging systems with the incorporation of anatomical noise. 
  • Effects of age and gender on the relationship between anxiety and coronary artery disease. 
  • Ejection fraction response to exercise in patients with chest pain and normal coronary arteriograms. 
  • Ejection fraction response to exercise in patients with chest pain, coronary artery disease and normal resting ventricular function. 
  • Elastic image mapping for 4-D dose estimation in thoracic radiotherapy. 
  • Estimation of tissue resistivities from multiple-electrode impedance measurements. 
  • Evaluation of thoracic impedance plethysmography as an indicator of stroke volume in man. 
  • Evaluation of thoracic spinal cord motion using dynamic MRI. 
  • Experimental evidence of improved transthoracic defibrillation with electroporation-enhancing pulses. 
  • Exploratory electrocardiography: use of isopotential surface maps. 
  • Expression of a wide T cell receptor V beta repertoire in human T lymphocytes derived in vitro from embryonic liver cell precursors. 
  • Extension of the NCAT phantom for the investigation of intra-fraction respiratory motion in IMRT using 4D Monte Carlo. 
  • Extradural thoracic arteriovenous malformation in a patient with Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome: case report. 
  • FDG imaging of lung nodules: a phantom study comparing SPECT, camera-based PET, and dedicated PET. 
  • Familial eruptive vellus hair cysts. 
  • Gadofosveset-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography of the thoracic vasculature in the equilibrium phase: feasibility and impact of dose. 
  • Group treatment improves trunk strength and psychological status in older women with vertebral fractures: results of a randomized, clinical trial. 
  • Hemodynamic effects of continuous negative extrathoracic pressure and continuous positive airway pressure in piglets with normal lungs. 
  • High concentrations of isovaleric acid in the fats of odontocetes: variation and patterns of accumulation in blubber vs. stability in the melon. 
  • Image noise and dose performance across a clinical population: Patient size adaptation as a metric of CT performance. 
  • Imaging of the chest. 
  • Incorporation of a left ventricle finite element model defining infarction into the XCAT imaging phantom. 
  • Influence of skin site on bioavailability of nitroglycerin ointment in congestive heart failure. 
  • Infrared thermography: a rapid, portable, and accurate technique to detect experimental pneumothorax. 
  • Intercostal artery laceration during thoracocentesis: increased risk in elderly patients. 
  • Intratumoral consumption of indium-111 labeled platelets in a patient with hemangiomatosis and intravascular coagulation (Kasabach-Merritt syndrome). 
  • Linear, pruritic red to brown papules on the left chest. 
  • Local recurrence following initial resection of NSCLC: salvage is possible with radiation therapy. 
  • Locked scapula. A case report. 
  • MR "microscopy" of the rat thorax. 
  • MR Venography of the Central Veins of the Thorax. 
  • Magnetic resonance imaging of the thoracic cavity using a paused 3DFT acquisition technique. 
  • Magnetic resonance imaging of the thorax: techniques, current applications, and future directions. 
  • Magnetic resonance microscopy of the rat thorax and abdomen. 
  • Microsurgical composite tissue transplantation. 
  • Morphological characterization of substance P receptor-immunoreactive neurons in the rat spinal cord and trigeminal nucleus caudalis. 
  • Mosaic morphology in the thorax of Australopithecus sediba. 
  • Multipotent CNS stem cells are present in the adult mammalian spinal cord and ventricular neuroaxis. 
  • Nonsurgical extracardiac vascular shunts in the thorax: clinical and imaging characteristics. 
  • Optimization of the matrix inversion tomosynthesis (MITS) impulse response and modulation transfer function characteristics for chest imaging. 
  • Outcome in medically treated coronary artery disease. Ischemic events: nonfatal infarction and death. 
  • Particulate versus integrated evolution of the upper body in late pleistocene humans: a test of two models. 
  • Patient-specific quantification of image quality: An automated technique for measuring the distribution of organ Hounsfield units in clinical chest CT images. 
  • Patient-specific radiation dose and cancer risk for pediatric chest CT. 
  • Pediatric thoracoabdominal biomechanics. 
  • Peripheral middle lobe syndrome. 
  • Pneumocystis pneumonia: the importance of early open lung biopsy. 
  • Prediction of Dynamic Postural Stability During Single-Leg Jump Landings by Ankle and Knee Flexibility and Strength. 
  • Problems created in attenuation-corrected SPECT images by artifacts in attenuation maps: a simulation study. 
  • Prognostic significance of isolated sinus tachycardia during first three days of acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Pulmonary function abnormalities in long-term survivors of childhood cancer. 
  • Quantitative CT: technique dependence of volume estimation on pulmonary nodules. 
  • Radiation dose estimations to the thorax using organ-based dose modulation. 
  • Radiology reports for incidental thyroid nodules on CT and MRI: high variability across subspecialties. 
  • Radionuclide lymphoscintigraphy with technetium 99m antimony sulfide colloid to identify lymphatic drainage of cutaneous melanoma at ambiguous sites in the head and neck and trunk. 
  • Randomized trial of radiotherapy to the thorax in limited small-cell carcinoma of the lung treated with multiagent chemotherapy and elective brain irradiation: a preliminary report. 
  • Reconstruction of the standard 12-lead ECG from recordings using nonstandard activity-compatible proximal limb lead positions. 
  • Regional myocardial blood flow in awake dogs. 
  • Respiratory effects in two-dimensional Fourier transform MR imaging. 
  • Role of angiography in cervicothoracic trauma. 
  • Scanning with L-(13 N) glutamate: Assessment of the response to chemotherapy of a patient with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma. 
  • Selective enhancement filters for nodules, vessels, and airway walls in two- and three-dimensional CT scans. 
  • Selective three-field lymphadenectomy for thoracic esophageal squamous carcinoma. 
  • Sequence of mitral valve motion and transmitral blood flow during manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation in dogs. 
  • Society of Interventional Radiology Reporting Standards for Thoracic Central Vein Obstruction: Endorsed by the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN), British Society of Interventional Radiology (BSIR), Canadian Interventional Radiology Association (CIRA), Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (ISVIR), Vascular Access Society of the Americas (VASA), and Vascular Access Society of Britain and Ireland (VASBI). 
  • Society of Interventional Radiology Reporting Standards for Thoracic Central Vein Obstruction: Endorsed by the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN), British Society of Interventional Radiology (BSIR), Canadian Interventional Radiology Association (CIRA), Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (ISVIR), Vascular Access Society of the Americas (VASA), and Vascular Access Society of Britain and Ireland (VASBI). 
  • Subtle lung nodules: influence of local anatomic variations on detection. 
  • Survival in medically treated coronary artery disease. 
  • Technique of pediatric thoracic CT angiography. 
  • The role of upper torso and pelvis rotation in driving performance during the golf swing. 
  • The use of radionuclide angiography in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease--a logistic regression analysis. 
  • Thoracic nodal staging with PET imaging with 18FDG in patients with bronchogenic carcinoma. 
  • Thoraconeuralgia gravidarum. 
  • Three-dimensional numerical simulations of susceptibility-induced magnetic field inhomogeneities in the human head. 
  • Time-resolved MR angiography of the central veins of the chest. 
  • Tissue and tumor mosaicism of the myotonin protein kinase gene trinucleotide repeat in a patient with multiple basal cell carcinomas associated with myotonic dystrophy. 
  • Transmission imaging for nonuniform attenuation correction using a three-headed SPECT camera. 
  • Transthoracic fine needle aspiration biopsy. Sensitivity in relation to guidance technique and lesion size and location. 
  • Truncation artifact reduction in transmission CT for improved SPECT attenuation compensation. 
  • Unimproved chest pain in patients with minimal or no coronary disease: a behavioral phenomenon. 
  • Unstable angina pectoris: national cooperative study group to compare surgical and medical therapy. III. Results in patients with S-T segment elevation during pain. 
  • Whole thorax irradiation of non-human primates induces persistent nuclear damage and gene expression changes in peripheral blood cells. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Malkin, Robert A., Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke Science & Society
  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Professor of Radiology, Pathology