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Chapter and Conference Paper
Suction decompression methods for giant internal carotid ophthalmic aneurysms by using revised double lumen balloon catheters
In giant, large internal carotid ophthalmic artery aneurysms, revised double lumen balloon catheters introduced directly into the cervical carotid arteries were used successfully to perform suction decompressi...
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Finding the “Right” Image: Visualizing Relationships among Persons, Images and Impressions
In designing multimedia information, authors need to use images that best represent the design intention. The use of images, however, can be misleading. Images can be interpreted in many ways, and the same ima...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effect of Glycerol on Blood Flow Distribution in Tumoral and Peritumoral Brain Tissue
To evaluate the effect of glycerol, thirty-two patients with brain tumor were directed to the study, including 17 gliomas and 15 meningiomas. Blood flow before and after the administration of glycerol were mea...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Assessment of Brainstem Distortion Associated with Extraaxial Supratentorial Mass by Magnetic Resonance Imaging
The characteristic findings on CT associated with transtentorial herniation have been studied [2], and the relationship between the lateral displacement of the brain and level of consciousness has also been re...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Detection of 6 keV X-rays by Using Large-Size Nb-Based Tunnel Junctions
Nb-based tunnel junctions may be applicable to a high resolution x-ray measurement. Large-size tunnel junctions with a Nb/Al/AlOx/Nb structure have been fabricated to study their performance in x-ray detection...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Critical Properties of Spin Chains
The Sx-Sx correlation functions of S=1/2 and 1 XXZ chains are numerically investigated at low temperatures by means of the transfer matrix with use of the Trotter approximation. It is shown that extrapolation to ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Local Shift of the Brain and Its Relation to the Tentorial Edge
During expansion of a supratentorial mass lesion, it is important to analyze the local brain shift together with the intracranial pressure (ICP). Differences in intracranial shift, caused by tissue pressure gr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Studies of Brain Stem Evoked Potentials in Relation to Brain Shifting During Raised Intracranial Pressure Induced by a Frontal Balloon and a Temporal Balloon
It is important to clarify the process of deterioration of brain stem function when it is compressed by different rypes of space-taking lesion requiring neurosurgical treatment. This study was designed to exam...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pre- and Postoperative Studies of Sleep Levels in Patients with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus for an Indication of Operative Treatment
Among patients who show abnormal ventricular dilatation, those with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) should be discriminated because they have a neurosurgically treatable disease (1). However, NPH is not so ea...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dynamics of Tissue Water Content, Free and Bound Components, Associated with Ischemic Brain Edema
Analysis of tissue water in the brain is known to be of paramount importance for the understanding of the pathogenesis of brain edema. Recently NMR techniques have been applied to evaluate the status of biolog...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Thermal Analysis of Edema Fluid and Electron Microscopic Studies in 6-ANA Brain Edema
Some of the factors involved in the formation of brain edema are well known. Many previous papers in this field have suggested a mechanism for this formation of brain edema induced by cytotoxic, vasogenic, and...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluation of Steroid Treatment of High-Energy Metabolism of Ischemic Brain Edema in Vivo by Means of a Topical Magnetic Resonance (TMR-32) Spectrometer
During the formation of ischemic brain edema the lesion responsible is thought to influence the metabolism in various ways [12]. The dynamics of metabolism have been studied using steroid treatment to reduce t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dam** of CDW-condensate motion by interaction with thermal phasons
This paper contains a calculation of the dam** of the q=0 phason (driven by an external microwave field of frequency ω) due to interaction with thermally ambient phasons. The obtained expression for the damp...
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Distribution and localization of immunoglobulins in bronchial mucosa
We have studied the pathophysiology and immunology on the bronchi. In the present study, distribution and localization of immunoglobulin component in bronchial mucosa obtained from the bronchial biopsy and fro...
