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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Fabrication of the Novel Micro Time-of-Flight (TOF) Mass Spectrometer with a Micro Ion Source
This paper presents the principle and fabrication of a novel micro time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer and emission test of hot electron for ionization. A micro TOF mass spectrometer consists of a micro ion...
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Postoperative Complications
Not long ago, old patients were frequently denied surgical intervention exclusively based on their age. However, as perioperative management improved significantly over the past decades, many elderly patients ...
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EtherCAT Based Parallel Robot Control System
In this paper, we describe the control strategy of high speed parallel robot system with EtherCAT network. This work deals the parallel robot system with centralized control on the real-time operating system s...
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Anomalies and Anatomic Variants of the Biliary Tract
The recognition of the congenital anomalies and anatomic variants of the biliary tree is important in clinical practice. Currently, laparoscopic cholecystectomy and living donor liver transplantation are perfo...
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Anomalies and Anatomic Variants of the Pancreas
Because of an increasing number of patients who undergo MRI, MRCP, and MDCT examinations, it is more frequently encountered the congenital anomalies and anatomic variants of the pancreas at radiologic evaluati...
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Solid Tumors in the Pancreas
Solid tumors of the pancreas can have a broad spectrum of diseases (Table 20.1). Most pancreatic solid tumors are ductal adenocarcinomas. Each of the other tumors comprises only a small portion of the total nu...
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Benign Diseases of the Mesentery and Omentum
The mesentery and the greater omentum are two, representative, intraperitoneal, fat planes. Mesenteries, including the small-bowel mesentery, transverse mesocolon, and sigmoid mesentery, represent the reflecti...
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Application of Aviation Turbulence Information to Air-Traffic Management (ATM)
Unexpected turbulence, especially in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere where cabin crews and passengers in cruising aircraft are likely to be unbuckled, causes in-flight injuries, structural damage,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pet Care Robot for Playing with Canines
This paper observes interactions between a robot and pets, especially canines, and also investigates the feasibility of pet care robot (PCR) as an alternative for human in terms of pet caring based on animal–r...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Liver Lesion Detection from Weakly-Labeled Multi-phase CT Volumes with a Grouped Single Shot MultiBox Detector
We present a focal liver lesion detection model leveraged by custom-designed multi-phase computed tomography (CT) volumes, which reflects real-world clinical lesion detection practice using a Single Shot Multi...
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Postoperative Complications
Not long ago, old patients were frequently denied surgical intervention exclusively based on their age. However, as perioperative management improved significantly over the past decades, many elderly patients ...
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Leaching Characteristics of Mercury Waste and Prediction of Long-Term Leaching Behaviour
Some of mercury species are known to be potentially highly toxic to humans in trace amounts. Elemental mercury was used as raw materials for industrial facilities and then released into the environment in the ...
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Bile Duct Cysts
Cysts arising in the liver are usually called hepatic cysts. The size of these cysts is widely variable, from barely visible to measuring nearly 20 cm in diameter. The number in which these cysts are found is ...
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Benign Neoplasms of the Bile Ducts
Several classification schemes have been proposed for bile duct neoplasms. The most widely accepted is that of the World Health Organization. Adenocarcinomas, intraductal papillary neoplasms, and mucinous cyst...
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Intraductal Papillary Neoplasm of the Bile Ducts
An intraductal papillary neoplasm of the bile duct (IPNB) is a newly proposed entity of biliary tumors characterized by intraluminal neoplastic epithelial growth. Histopathologically, this type of tumor is cha...
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Anatomy of the Biliary Tract
Bile is synthesized by liver cells and it is excreted into the bile canaliculi, one of the smallest bile draining structures. Individual bile canaliculi lie between walls of liver cells which form their borders.
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Cystic Neoplasms
Mucinous cystic neoplasms arise from the bile duct epithelium. These neoplasms form a multiloculated single cyst divided by multiple septa. Unusually, there may be a unilocular single cyst without internal sep...
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Precursors of Cholangiocarcinoma
Many cases of cholangiocarcinoma are associated with prior biliary or hepatic disease. The prevalence rate of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis is 5–15%, with the ...
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Tumors of the Ampulla of Vater and Duodenal Papilla
Benign and malignant tumors arise in the ampulla of Vater and duodenal papilla. Depending on the origin of a tumor, a tumor presents as intraampullary mass or duodenal mass. When a tumor arises in the ampulla ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Condensed Discriminative Question Set for Reliable Exam Score Prediction
The inevitable shift towards online learning due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a strong need to assess students using shorter exams whilst ensuring reliability. This study explores a data...