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    Effectiveness of tuning an artificial intelligence algorithm for cerebral aneurysm diagnosis: a study of 10,000 consecutive cases

    Diagnostic image analysis for unruptured cerebral aneurysms using artificial intelligence has a very high sensitivity. However, further improvement is needed because of a relatively high number of false positi...

    Masashi Kuwabara, Fusao Ikawa, Shigeyuki Sakamoto, Takahito Okazaki in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    Densification in transparent SiO2 glasses prepared by spark plasma sintering

    Recently, spark plasma sintering (SPS) has become an attractive method for the preparation of solid-state ceramics. As SPS is a pressure-assisted low-temperature process, it is important to examine the effects...

    Hirokazu Masai, Hiromi Kimura, Naoyuki Kitamura, Yuka Ikemoto in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    Dural sac shrinkage signs on magnetic resonance imaging at the thoracic level in spontaneous intracranial hypotension—its clinical significance

    Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is secondary to a cerebrospinal fluid leak at the spinal level without obvious causative events. Several signs on brain and cervical spine magnetic resonance (MR) ima...

    Takashi Kawahara, Kazunori Arita, Shingo Fujio, Ryosuke Hanaya in Acta Neurochirurgica (2021)

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    Publisher Correction: Low melting oxide glasses prepared at a melt temperature of 500 °C

    An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

    Hirokazu Masai, Toru Nishibe, Satoshi Yamamoto, Takaaki Niizuma in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    Low melting oxide glasses prepared at a melt temperature of 500 °C

    Transparent low-melting inorganic glass is an attractive industrial material based on its high thermal and light resistance compared with conventional engineering plastics. If the melting temperature of inorga...

    Hirokazu Masai, Toru Nishibe, Satoshi Yamamoto, Takaaki Niizuma in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    Management of Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Preterm Infants with Low Birth Weight

    The management of posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus is difficult and not well standardized. We evaluated our management protocol for infants with intraventricular and/or periventricular hemorrhage (IVH and PVH, re...

    Takayuki Inagaki, Takuya Kawaguchi, Takahiro Yamahara, Naoyuki Kitamura in Hydrocephalus (2012)

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    Coordination structure of implanted manganese ions in silica glass

    180 keV Mn+ ions were implanted in silica glass at doses ranging from 1×1016 to 2×1017 ions/cm2 at room temperature. The coordination structure of implanted Mn atoms was studied by X-ray absorption spectroscopy. ...

    Kohei Fukumi, Akiyoshi Chayhara, Hiroyuki Kageyama in MRS Online Proceedings Library (2011)

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    Development of a desktop swarm robot system based on pheromone communication

    Complex and adaptive population behavior emerges in social insects. In ants, in particular, pheromone communication is the key to understanding their swarm intelligence. This article proposes a swarm robot sys...

    Naoyuki Kitamura, Yoshiyuki Nakamichi, Koji Fukuda in Artificial Life and Robotics (2009)

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    Pentalogy of Cantrell with a double-outlet right ventricle: 3.5-year follow-up in a prenatally diagnosed patient

    Pentalogy of Cantrell is a rare congenital defect associated with five ventral midline anomalies and high mortality. An obstetric sonogram revealed a fetus with a body wall defect suggesting a diagnosis of thi...

    Junji Takaya, Naoyuki Kitamura, Kimiko Tsuji in European Journal of Pediatrics (2008)

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    Structure of Cu Ions in (Cu + Halogen or Chalcogen)-Ion Implanted Silica Glasses

    Structure of Cu ions in (Cl+Cu)-, (Br+Cu)-, (I+Cu)-, (S+Cu)- and (Se+Cu)-ion implanted silica glasses has been studied by x-ray absorption and optical absorption spectroscopies. Cu ions formed Cu-O bonds in th...

    Kohei Fukumi, Akiyoshi Chayahara, Hiroyuki Kageyama in MRS Online Proceedings Library (2003)

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    X-ray absorption fine structure study on the formation of Cu–Br bonds in (Br + Cu) ion implanted silica glass

    The valence and coordination structure of implanted Cu and Br ions were investigated by x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy in (2.4 MeV 6 × 1016 Br2+ ions cm−2+ 2 MeV 6 × 1016 Cu+ ions cm−2)-implanted si...

    Kohei Fukumi, Akiyoshi Chayahara, Atsushi Kinomura in Journal of Materials Research (2003)

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    Coordination structures of implanted Fe, Co, and Ni ions in silica glass by x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy

    Coordination structures of implanted Fe, Co, and Ni ions were studied in 1.78–2.00-MeV 5 × 1016 ions/cm2-implanted silica glasses by x-ray absorption and optical absorption spectroscopies. It was found from x-ray...

    Kohei Fukumi, Akiyoshi Chayahara, Kohei Kadono in Journal of Materials Research (2001)

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    Structural Relaxation of Densified Silica Glass by Thermal Annealing

    Thermal relaxation of glass structure has been studied on silica glasses densified by hot isostatic pressing. Density of the glasses relaxed toward the value of an undensified glass by thermal annealing. Relax...

    Naoyuki Kitamura, Kohei Fukumi, Masaki Makihara in MRS Online Proceedings Library (1995)

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    Density and Refractive Index of Densified Silica Glass

    Silica glasses with the OH content about 1200ppm and 100ppm have been densified with a HIP apparatus at temperatures of 1000-1300°C under pressures of 100-200MPa for 2 hours. The density of both glasses increa...

    Naoyuki Kitamura, Yutaka Toguchi in Hot Isostatic Pressing— Theory and Applica… (1992)

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    Densification of Glass by HIP

    Densification of glass under high pressure and high temperature are shortly reviewed from the points of view of glass structure and densification mechanism. Some of characteristic properties of the densified s...

    Hiroshi Yamashita, Naoyuki Kitamura, Isao Kondoh in MRS Online Proceedings Library (1991)

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    X-Ray Induced Optical Absorption in Densified Silica Glass in the UV Region

    X-ray induced optical absorption has been studied on silica glasses densified by hot isostatic pressing. Density of the glass increases up to about 1% in proportion to the operating pressure. Two main absorpti...

    Naoyuki Kitamura, Yutaka Toguchi, Isao Kondoh in MRS Online Proceedings Library (1991)