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Current status of endovascular treatment for thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms
Open surgical repair (OSR) for thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAAs) is maximally invasive and associated with high rates of operative mortality and perioperative complications including spinal cord ischem...
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Result of Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair for Patients with Esophageal Cancer
Bleeding from the thoracic aorta is potentially fatal in patients with advanced esophageal cancer. Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) was recently applied for aortic invasion by esophageal cancer. How...
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Utility of the Ginza forceps for superficial phlebectomy during endovenous laser ablation of the great saphenous vein
To evaluate the efficiency of using the Ginza forceps (DVx, Tokyo, Japan), which have a long shaft and strong grip, for superficial phlebectomy with the stab avulsion technique, during simultaneous endovenous ...
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Current surgical management of abdominal aortic aneurysm with concomitant malignancy in the endovascular era
The management of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) with concomitant malignancy is controversial in terms of which treatment should come first. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of endovascular ...
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Clinical Outcomes of Left Subclavian Artery Coverage on Morbidity and Mortality During Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair for Distal Arch Aneurysms
This single-center study assessed left subclavian artery (LSA) revascularization management and morbidity and mortality of LSA coverage outcomes during elective thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) for ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Finding Ambiguous Patterns on Grammar Compressed String
Given a grammar compressed string S, a pattern P, and \(d\ge 0\) , we consider the problem of finding all occurrences ...
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Chapter
Radiation-Enhanced Dislocation Glide: The Current Status of Research
Dislocations in most semiconductors exhibit radiation-enhanced dislocation glide (REDG) which is a cause of serious degradation in bipolar devices under forward biasing. Phenomenologically, REDG is characteriz...
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Development of High Resolution X-Ray CT Technique for Highly-Radioactive Material
In order to observe the structural change in the interior of irradiated fuel assembly, the non-destructive post irradiation examination technique using X-ray computer tomography (X-ray CT) was developed.
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STM Nanospectroscopic Study of Defects in Semiconductors
Coupling of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) with various schemes of optical spectroscopy was found to provide powerful tools for study of crystalline defects in bulk semiconducting solids. The simplest met...
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Recombination-enhanced dislocation glides—the current status of knowledge
To update the status of knowledge on the recombination-enhanced dislocation glide (REDG) in semiconductors, which is one of the causes of serious degradation in bipolar devices, research progress achieved for ...
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Recombination-enhanced dislocation glides—the current status of knowledge
To update the status of knowledge on the recombination-enhanced dislocation glides (REDG) in semiconductors, which is one of the causes of serious degradation in bipolar devices, research progress achieved for...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
RGB-colored material discrimination for radiography by multi-monochromatic spectroscopy
We have tried to estimate the power of the material discrimination by performing the radiographs and CT images with using the diffracted monochromatic x rays. Moreover these images were applied to energy subtr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluation of energy-subtraction CT images using diffracted monochromatic x rays
The energy subtraction (ES) method is a technique that eliminates one tissue with the same attenuation coefficient by subtraction between two kinds of images obtained for x rays with different energy. Recently...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Examination of energy subtraction method by using diffracted monochromatic x rays
The purpose of this research is to apply monochromatic x rays to the energy subtraction (ES) method. The ES method is a technique that eliminates an image of an arbitrary material by subtracting two images acq...
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Open AccessCyclostationarity-Inducing Transmission Methods for Recognition among OFDM-Based Systems
This paper proposes two cyclostationarity-inducing transmission methods that enable the receiver to distinguish among different systems that use a common orthogonal frequency division multiplexing- (OFDM-) bas...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Compton spectroscopy of clinical x-ray equipments by using a high-resolution Schottky CdTe detector
The analysis of primary x-ray spectra is important for quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) of radiographic systems. The purpose of this study is to measure the diagnostic x-ray spectra under clinic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effect of Different Materials of Scatterer on Mammographic X-ray Measured by Compton Spectroscopy
Our purpose of this study is to discuss the effect of different scatterer (carbon or acrylic resin) on mammographic x-ray spectra measured by Compton spectroscopy using a high-resolution Schottky CdTe detector...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Sharpening of an energy band of diagnostic x-ray spectrum with metal filters
The present study aims to sharpen an energy band of x-ray spectrum by combinations of different metal filters and to evaluate the spectral sharpness. Since the usual radiography utilizes x rays with a broad en...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Properties of energy subtraction images obtained by x rays with sharpened energy spectrum
The energy subtraction (ES) method is a technique that eliminate an image of an arbitrary organ by subtracting two images acquired by x rays with different energy owing to the property that an absorption coeff...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Serotonergic Effects on Cerebrospinal Fluid Production
In an attempt to elucidate the participation of serotonin in CSF production, the effects of 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) on the dynamics of CSF production and on carbonic anhydrase (CA) activity in the choroid ...
