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52. Singular optimal dividend control for the regime-switching Cramér-Lundberg model with credit and debit interest.
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Jinxia Zhu
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- 2014
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53. Efficacy of medical treatment and balloon angioplasty for severe intracranial atherosclerosis: a high-resolution MR vessel wall imaging
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Juan Huang, Sheng Jiao, Yuhui Chen, Jun Lu, Yan Song, Jintao Zhang, Chen Zhang, Cong Liu, Tao Gong, Daming Wang, Jinxia Zhu, and Min Chen
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,General Medicine - Abstract
To investigate the efficacy of medical treatment and balloon angioplasty for intracranial atherosclerosis using high-resolution MR vessel wall imaging (HR-MRI).In this prospective study, patients with symptomatic severe stenosis from January 2018 to August 2021 were treated with medical treatment or balloon angioplasty. The patients underwent HR-MRI at baseline and at 3, 6, and 12 months. Plaque characteristics at follow-up were compared with those at baseline using paired sample T-test or Wilcoxon rank sum test. The difference in the recurrence of ischemic events between two groups was compared.A total of 37 patients (26 males; mean age = 60.5 ± 11.6 years) were evaluated. Of 68 plaques, 42 (61.8%) were treated with medication only. At 12 months of medical treatment, maximum plaque length (p = 0.004), maximum wall thickness (p = 0.036), and plaque enhancement (p = 0.001) were significantly reduced than baseline. At 3 months after balloon angioplasty, luminal stenosis (p = 0.048) was significantly reduced compared to baseline. At 6 months after balloon angioplasty, maximum plaque length (p = 0.011), maximum wall thickness (p = 0.003), and luminal stenosis (p = 0.001) were significantly reduced than baseline. No difference was found in the recurrence of ischemic events between two groups (p = 0.458).Intracranial atherosclerotic plaque shrank and tended to be stable at 12 months of medical treatment. Plaque burden was significantly reduced 6 months after balloon angioplasty. This may provide evidence for the application and selection of treatment strategies for intracranial atherosclerotic disease.• Plaque burden and plaque enhancement were significantly reduced at 12 months of medical treatment compared to baseline. • Plaque burden was significantly reduced at 6 months after balloon angioplasty compared with baseline. • No significant difference in the recurrence rate of ischemic stroke between patients treated with medication and balloon angioplasty.
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- 2022
54. Qualitative and Quantitative Wall Enhancement on Magnetic Resonance Imaging Is Associated With Symptoms of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms
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Xinbin Guo, Mahmud Mossa-Basha, Yuting Wang, Yi Zhang, Qichang Fu, Zhiqiang Yao, Haowen Xu, Jinxia Zhu, Jingliang Cheng, Meng Wang, Sheng Guan, Chengcheng Zhu, Michael R. Levitt, and Yong Zhang
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Advanced and Specialized Nursing ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Imaging biomarker ,business.industry ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Medicine ,Neurology (clinical) ,Radiology ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Background and Purpose: Aneurysmal wall enhancement (AWE) on vessel wall magnetic resonance imaging (VW-MRI) has been described as a new imaging biomarker of unstable unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIAs). Previous studies of symptomatic UIAs are limited due to small sample sizes and lack of AWE quantification. Our study aims to investigate whether qualitative and quantitative assessment of AWE can differentiate symptomatic and asymptomatic UIAs. Methods: Consecutive patients with UIAs were prospectively recruited for vessel wall magnetic resonance imaging at 3T from October 2014 to October 2019. UIAs were categorized as symptomatic if presenting with sentinel headache or oculomotor nerve palsy directly related to the aneurysm. Evaluation of wall enhancement included enhancement pattern (0=none, 1=focal, and 2=circumferential) and quantitative wall enhancement index (WEI). Univariate and multivariate analyses were used to identify the parameters associated with symptoms. Results: Two hundred sixty-seven patients with 341 UIAs (93 symptomatic and 248 asymptomatic) were included in this study. Symptomatic UIAs more frequently showed circumferential AWE than asymptomatic UIAs (66.7% versus 17.3%, P P P =0.01; odds ratio=3.32 for WEI [95% CI, 1.51–7.26], P =0.003). The combination of AWE pattern and WEI had an area under the curve of 0.91 to identify symptomatic UIAs, with a sensitivity of 95.7% and a specificity of 73.4%. Conclusions: In a large cohort of UIAs with vessel wall magnetic resonance imaging, both AWE pattern and WEI were independently associated with aneurysm-related symptoms. The qualitative and quantitative features of AWE can potentially be used to identify unstable intracranial aneurysms.
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- 2021
55. T2 mapping and readout segmentation of long variable echo-train diffusion-weighted imaging for the differentiation of parotid gland tumors
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Baohong, Wen, primary, Jing, Zhu, additional, Zanxia, Zhang, additional, kun, Fu, additional, Liang, Liu, additional, Eryuan, Gao, additional, Yong, Zhang, additional, Fei, Han, additional, Jingliang, Cheng, additional, and Jinxia, Zhu, additional
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- 2022
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56. Impact mechanisms of urbanization processes on supply-demand matches of cultivated land multifunction in rapid urbanization areas
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Sinan Li, Yanzi Shao, Mengjia Hong, Congmou Zhu, Baiyu Dong, Yongjun Li, Yue Lin, Ke Wang, Muye Gan, Jinxia Zhu, Ling Zhang, Naifa Lin, and Jing Zhang
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Urban Studies - Published
- 2023
57. In vivo multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging study for differentiating the severity of hepatic warm ischemia-reperfusion injury in a rabbit model
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Wenjuan Cai, Zhengzheng Tao, Zhiqiang Chu, Qian Ji, Jinxia Zhu, Robert Grimm, Jingyao Li, and Jiabing Jiang
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Male ,Biomedical Engineering ,Biophysics ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,Diffusion ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Animals ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Intravoxel incoherent motion ,Blood-oxygen-level dependent ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Receiver operating characteristic ,business.industry ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,medicine.disease ,Perfusion ,Disease Models, Animal ,Liver ,ROC Curve ,Reperfusion Injury ,Female ,Rabbits ,Nuclear medicine ,business ,Reperfusion injury ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Diffusion MRI - Abstract
OBJECTIVES To assess the value of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging including intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) MRI in differentiating the severity of hepatic warm ischemia-reperfusion injury (WIRI) in a rabbit model. METHODS Fifty rabbits were randomly divided into a sham-operation group and four test groups (n = 10 for each group) according to different hepatic warm ischemia times. IVIM, DTI and BOLD MRI were performed on a 3 T MR scanner with 11 b values (0 to 800 s/mm2), 2 b values (0 and 500 s/mm2) on 12 diffusion directions, multiple-echo gradient echo (GRE) sequences (TR/TE, 75/2.57-24.25 ms), respectively. IVIM, DTI and BOLD MRI parameters, hepatic biochemical and histopathological parameters were compared. Pearson and Spearman correlation methods were performed to assess the correlation between these MRI parameters and laboratory parameters. Furthermore, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were compiled to determine diagnostic efficacies. RESULTS True diffusion (Dslow), pseudodiffusion (Dfast), perfusion fraction (PF), mean diffusivity (MD) significantly decreased, while R2* significantly increased with prolonged warm ischemia times, and significant differences were found in all of biochemical and histopathological parameters (all P
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- 2020
58. Optimization of Simultaneous Multislice, Readout-Segmented Echo Planar Imaging for Accelerated Diffusion-Weighted Imaging of the Head and Neck: A Preliminary Study
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Xiaoli Zhu, Wei Liu, Jinxia Zhu, Zhengyu Jin, Tao Zhang, Xingming Chen, Su Tong, Huadan Xue, Zhu-hua Zhang, Tianyi Qian, Zhentan Xu, and Yu Chen
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Echo-planar imaging ,Echo-Planar Imaging ,Image quality ,business.industry ,Simultaneous multislice ,Reproducibility of Results ,Signal-To-Noise Ratio ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,03 medical and health sciences ,Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,0302 clinical medicine ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Distortion ,Humans ,Medicine ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Acquisition time ,In patient ,Prospective Studies ,Head and neck ,Nuclear medicine ,business ,Diffusion MRI - Abstract
Rationale and Objectives To evaluate the feasibility of simultaneous multislice (SMS)-accelerated, readout-segmented echo-planar imaging (rs-EPI, RESOLVE) with the use of special-purpose coils for head and neck assessment, particularly in patients diagnosed with head and neck malignant tumors, through comparison with the conventional RESOLVE and RESOLVE with readout partial-Fourier technique (RESOLVE-RPF). Materials and Methods Twenty-five healthy volunteers and 24 patients with histologically proven malignant head and neck tumors were included in this prospective study. The MR exam included conventional RESOLVE, RESOLVE-RPF, prototypic SMS-RESOLVE, and prototypic SMS-RESOLVE with special-purpose coils (SMS-RESOLVE + Coils), acquired at b-values of both 0 and 800 s/mm2. Image quality was evaluated qualitatively (reader score) and quantitatively (tumor distortion, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), SNR efficiency) and compared. For volunteer imaging, the image quality of target tissues at three different typical levels (oropharyngeal, hypopharyngeal, and thyroid level) were evaluated. For patient imaging, the image quality of primary tumors and metastatic lymph nodes was evaluated. Results The acquisition time was 3:37 minutes for RESOLVE, 2:58 minutes for RESOLVE-RFP, 2:01 minutes for SMS-RESOLVE and 2:01 minutes for SMS-RESOLVE + Coils, with a 44% reduction compared to the conventional RESOLVE. No significant differences in the reader scores, tumor distortion, or ADC values of the lesions were found among the protocols. The SNR and CNR at the oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal level of SMS-RESOLVE + Coils were markedly improved and significantly higher than those of RESOLVE, as well as the SNR, SNR efficiency of tumors and lymph nodes. No significant differences in quantitative measurements were found at the thyroid level. Conclusion SMS-RESOLVE + Coils protocol is an effective and promising approach to optimally reducing the total acquisition time, and could be a good alternative with a superior SNR and SNR efficiency in comparison with conventional RESOLVE. However, the limited application in the lower neck region needs further investigation.
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- 2020
59. Arable land and water footprints for food consumption in China: From the perspective of urban and rural dietary change
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Daohao Yan, Shaohua Wu, Yisheng Tang, Jinxia Zhu, Shenglu Zhou, and Zhenci Xu
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Rural Population ,China ,Conservation of Natural Resources ,Environmental Engineering ,Water Resources ,Environmental Chemistry ,Humans ,Water ,Agriculture ,Pollution ,Waste Management and Disposal - Abstract
Since the adoption of the open-door policy, the Chinese dietary pattern has changed greatly. Based on the dietary changes, this study analyzed the arable land and water footprints (WFs) for the food consumption of urban and rural residents in China. The results showed that the arable land demand and WFs for meat, vegetable oil, soybeans and liquor exceeded those for other foods, and the per capita arable land and WFs for food consumption of urban residents were higher than those of rural residents. The total arable land and WFs for the food consumption of residents increased by 16.9 million ha (from 91.1 to 108 million ha) and 214.5 billion m
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- 2022
60. Plaque characteristics and hemodynamics contribute to neurological impairment in patients with ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack
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Qingqing Zhang, Ruowei Tang, Qi Yang, Weiwei Xie, Zhaoyang Fan, Shuang Xia, Yu Luo, Lixiang Huang, Song Liu, Chao Chai, Meizhu Zheng, Song Jin, Yu Guo, Jinxia Zhu, Shengting Chai, and Binge Chang
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Hemodynamics ,Infarction ,Neurological examination ,Brain Ischemia ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine.artery ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,cardiovascular diseases ,Stroke ,Ischemic Stroke ,Retrospective Studies ,Neuroradiology ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Interventional radiology ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Plaque, Atherosclerotic ,Ischemic Attack, Transient ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Middle cerebral artery ,Cardiology ,Radiology ,business ,Perfusion - Abstract
We aimed to investigate differential characteristics of plaque in the middle cerebral artery (MCA) and hemodynamics in patients with ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA), and to develop a predictive model for the presence of ischemic stroke and neurological impairment.Sixty-seven patients with acute ischemic events in MCA territory who underwent high-resolution vessel wall imaging between September 2016 and August 2018 were reviewed retrospectively. Patients were assigned to either the stroke group or TIA group, according to diffusion-weighted imaging and neurological examination. Plaque characteristics and anterograde score (AnS) were calculated. Tmax6.0-s volume was acquired by RApid Processing of perfusIon and Diffusion software. Multivariate logistic regression analysis and multiple linear regression analysis were performed to establish a predictive model for irreversible infarction occurrence and clinical severity.Forty-five patients were assigned to the stroke group, and 22 were assigned to the TIA group. Plaque length, intraplaque hemorrhage (IPH), enhancement, AnS, and Tmax6.0-s volumes were significantly different between the two groups (p0.05). IPH and AnS were independent predictors for patients with stroke (p = 0.020 and 0.034, respectively). Tmax6.0-s volume, IPH, hypertension, and AnS were associated with high National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores (all p0.05, R = 0.725, and adjusted RIPH and AnS are useful in predicting stroke occurrence. Tmax6.0-s volume, IPH, hypertension, and AnS are associated with neurological impairment of the patients.• Ischemic stroke and TIA patients have different plaque characteristics and hemodynamics. • Intraplaque hemorrhage and anterograde score have high diagnostic efficiency for ischemic stroke. • The combination of Tmax6.0-s volume, intraplaque hemorrhage, hypertension, and anterograde score can predict the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale scores of patients.
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- 2020
61. Increased cerebral blood flow is correlated with neurocognitive impairment in long-term hemodialysis patients: an arterial spin labeling MRI study
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Jinxia Zhu, Huiying Wang, Jinping Li, Chao Chai, Yingying Han, Tong Zhang, Wen Shen, Shuang Xia, Xianchang Zhang, and Mengjie Zhang
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Anemia ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Hematocrit ,050105 experimental psychology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,0302 clinical medicine ,Renal Dialysis ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Prospective Studies ,Prospective cohort study ,Dialysis ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,Stepwise regression ,medicine.disease ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Neurology ,Cerebral blood flow ,Cerebrovascular Circulation ,Cardiology ,Spin Labels ,Neurology (clinical) ,Hemodialysis ,business ,Neurocognitive ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,circulatory and respiratory physiology - Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate cerebral blood flow (CBF) changes in hemodialysis patients with arterial spin labeling (ASL) and to correlate these changes with clinical risk factors and neurocognitive function. Thirty-two hemodialysis patients and 35 age-, sex-, and education-matched healthy controls (HCs) were recruited in this prospective study. The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) was performed to evaluate neurocognitive function. Pulsed ASL was performed to measure CBF. Two independent sample t-test was used to explore the CBF difference between the patients and HCs. Multiple stepwise regression was used to investigate the risk factors for CBF in patients. Correlation analysis was used to explore the relationship between the MMSE scores and CBF changes with and without adjusting for anemia status. Compared to HCs, the hemodialysis patients showed significantly increased CBF in some neurocognition-related cerebral regions (all P
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- 2020
62. Novel <scp>T2</scp> Mapping for Evaluating Cervical Cancer Features by Providing Quantitative <scp>T2</scp> Maps and Synthetic Morphologic Images: A Preliminary Study
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Feifei Zhang, Tobias Kober, Shujian Li, Yong Zhang, Jingjing Liu, Jingliang Cheng, Zanxia Zhang, Jie Liu, Meng Yang, Tom Hilbert, and Jinxia Zhu
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Wilcoxon signed-rank test ,Population ,Uterine Cervical Neoplasms ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Effective diffusion coefficient ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Stage (cooking) ,education ,Grading (tumors) ,Retrospective Studies ,Cervical cancer ,education.field_of_study ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,medicine.disease ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ,Adenocarcinoma ,Female ,business ,Nuclear medicine - Abstract
BACKGROUND The application value of T2 mapping in evaluating cervical cancer (CC) features remains unclear. PURPOSE To investigate the role of T2 values in evaluating CC classification, grade, and lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI) in comparison to apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), and to compare synthetic T2 -weighted (T2 W) images calculated from T2 values to conventional T2 W images for CC staging. STUDY TYPE Retrospective. POPULATION Sixty-three patients with histopathologically confirmed CC. FIELD STRENGTH/SEQUENCE 3T, conventional T2 W turbo spin-echo, diffusion-weighted echo-planar, and accelerated T2 mapping sequence. ASSESSMENT T2 and ADC values between different pathological features of CC were compared. The diagnostic accuracies of conventional and synthetic T2 W images in staging were also compared. STATISTICAL TESTS Parameters were compared using an independent t-test, Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and the chi-square test. Receiver operating characteristic analysis was performed. RESULTS The T2 values varied significantly between well/moderately differentiated and poorly differentiated tumors ([92.8 ± 9.5 msec] vs. [83.8 ± 9.5 msec], P
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63. Liquidation risk in insurance under contemporary regulatory frameworks
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Qihe Tang, Haibo Liu, Jinxia Zhu, and Xin Li
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Statistics and Probability ,Economics and Econometrics ,050208 finance ,Insolvency ,Actuarial science ,Analytical expressions ,05 social sciences ,01 natural sciences ,010104 statistics & probability ,Grace period ,Bankruptcy ,0502 economics and business ,Economics ,Probabilistic analysis of algorithms ,0101 mathematics ,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty - Abstract
In traditional research in insurance and finance, a firm is subject to immediate liquidation when its asset value process drops to an absorbing low barrier. This treatment greatly simplifies research but largely ignores the complexity of the liquidation procedure in the real world. In banking and finance, many researchers have taken into account the features of Chapter 7 liquidation and Chapter 11 reorganization of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Also, there have been similar discussions in insurance regulation, but few works have been done to achieve a quantitative understanding of the liquidation risk in insurance under contemporary regulatory frameworks. In this paper, we quantify the rehabilitation proceeding in insurance, which is akin to Chapter 11 reorganization of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, and we conduct a probabilistic analysis of the liquidation risk of an insurance company having the option of rehabilitation. In doing so, we construct a three-barrier model to describe the solvent and insolvent states in which the surplus process follows different time-homogeneous diffusions. We derive analytical expressions for the liquidation probability and the Laplace transform of the liquidation time with a fixed grace period and then extend the study to the case with independent exponentially distributed grace periods. If further restricted to the constant elasticity of variance (CEV) framework, the obtained formulas become completely explicit.
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- 2020
64. Higher Plaque Burden of Middle Cerebral Artery Is Associated With Recurrent Ischemic Stroke
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Yuncai Ran, Shanshan Xie, Ajay Malhotra, Jian Zhou, Xiao Wu, Xiaowen Lei, Ming Zhu, Feifei Zhang, Jinxia Zhu, Jingliang Cheng, Chengcheng Zhu, Yuting Wang, and Xiao Wang
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Male ,Middle Cerebral Artery ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Brain Ischemia ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine.artery ,Internal medicine ,Humans ,Medicine ,Stroke ,Advanced and Specialized Nursing ,First episode ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Cerebral infarction ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,Cerebral Infarction ,Odds ratio ,Middle Aged ,Intracranial Arteriosclerosis ,medicine.disease ,Plaque, Atherosclerotic ,Stenosis ,Middle cerebral artery ,Ischemic stroke ,Cardiology ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Magnetic Resonance Angiography ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Background and Purpose— This study aims to investigate the association between the characteristics of atherosclerotic plaques of middle cerebral artery and recurrent ischemic stroke using magnetic resonance vessel wall imaging. Methods— One hundred and five patients with ischemic stroke attributed to middle cerebral artery plaque underwent high-resolution black-blood magnetic resonance vessel wall imaging. They were divided into group 1, with the first episode of acute stroke (imaging within 4 weeks of stroke, n=44); group 2, with recurrent acute stroke (n=29); and group 3, with chronic stroke (imaging after 3 months of stroke, n=32). Plaque characteristics including plaque area, plaque burden, contrast-enhancement ratio, eccentricity, and degree of stenosis were measured and compared across 3 groups. Association between plaque characteristics and recurrent strokes was investigated by multivariate analysis. Results— Plaque burden was significantly greater in recurrent stroke group than the other 2 groups (median: group 2, 82.7%, versus group 1, 76.3%, and group 3, 73.4%; P =0.001). Patients with acute stroke had higher enhancement ratio than patients with chronic stroke (median: group 1, 1.59, and group 2, 1.90, versus group 3, 1.33; P =0.014). Comparing to first-onset acute stroke patients, recurrent stroke patients were older, more likely with female sex and hypertension, and had higher plaque burden. After adjustment of clinical factors, plaque burden was the only independent imaging feature associated with recurrent stroke (odds ratio, 2.26, per 10% increase [95% CI, 1.03–4.96]; P =0.042). Conclusions— Higher plaque burden of middle cerebral artery identified on magnetic resonance vessel wall imaging is independently associated with recurrent ischemic stroke.
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65. Series of Intravoxel Incoherent Motion and T2* Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mapping in Detection of Liver Perfusion Changes and Regeneration Among Partial Hepatectomy in Sprague-Dawley Rats
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Shuangshuang Xie, Caixin Qiu, Yajie Sun, Yongquan Yu, Quansheng Zhang, Mingzhu Bao, Jinxia Zhu, Robert Grimm, and Wen Shen
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Rats, Sprague-Dawley ,Perfusion ,Motion ,Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Ki-67 Antigen ,Liver ,Animals ,Hepatectomy ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Rats - Abstract
To evaluate liver perfusion changes and their effect on liver regeneration (LR) after partial hepatectomy (PH) using intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) and T2* mapping in a rat model.One hundred and two rats underwent 30%, 50%, or 70% PH. Within each group (n = 34), rats in MR imaging subgroup (n = 10) underwent liver IVIM and T2* mapping before and within 2 h, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 14, and 21 days post-PH to measure D*, perfusion fraction (PF), and T2* values. Three rats from histologic subgroup (n = 24) sacrificed at each time point for hepatocyte Ki-67 indices and diameters measurement.Liver D* and PF values decreased immediately post-PH, then returned to original level as LR progressed in all groups. PF values in 70% PH group were significantly lower than in the other two groups (p .05). D* and PF values correlated significantly with hepatocyte Ki-67 indices (r = -0.588 to -0.915; p .05) and hepatocyte diameter (r = -0.555 to -0.792; p .05). Liver T2* values decreased immediately within 2 h post-PH, then increased to a high level and followed with returning to original level gradually. The duration of the high T2* levels was consistent with Ki-67 indices.Liver perfusion decreased immediately followed with increasing gradually after PH. IVIM and T2* mapping are promising methods for monitoring changes of liver perfusion. IVIM-derived D* value is the best indicator in reflecting the process of LR noninvasively.
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- 2021
66. Use of magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of fetal vertebral abnormalities in utero: a single-center retrospective cohort study
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Xianyun Cai, Xin Chen, Xinhong Wei, Wen Liu, Ximan Hou, Tao Gong, Jinxia Zhu, Ewart Mark Haacke, and Guangbin Wang
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Original Article - Abstract
BACKGROUND: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been used increasingly as an adjunct examination to ultrasound (US) for the evaluation of fetal anomalies. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the accuracy and confidence of diagnosing fetal vertebral anomalies are improved with MRI. We also assessed whether fetal MRI provides additional information when diagnosing fetal vertebral anomalies. METHODS: We performed a single-center, retrospective study of 127 pregnant women with fetuses suspected of having vertebral anomalies on US examination; women also underwent fetal MRI scanning. Comparisons of diagnostic accuracy and confidence were made between MRI and US for the identification of fetal vertebral anomalies. We also assessed any additional information provided by MRI. McNemar’s paired binomial test, chi-square test, or Fisher’s exact test were used to compare the diagnostic ability between MRI and US. In all cases, postnatal or postmortem imaging findings were used as reference standards. RESULTS: A total of 127 participants were recruited between December 2015 and January 2021. Fetal vertebral anomalies were detected in 63.8% (81/127) cases and found to be negative in 36.2% (46/127) of cases at follow up. The diagnostic accuracy of vertebral anomalies was 46.9% (38/81) for US and 84.0% (68/81) for MRI [difference, 37.1%; 95% confidence interval (CI): 27% to 48%; P
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- 2021
67. Regional cerebral gray matter atrophy is associated with cognitive impairment in hemodialysis patients: a cross-sectional and longitudinal voxel-based morphological MRI study
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Lei Liu, Xianchang Zhang, Shuang Xia, Tong Zhang, Jinping Li, Shen Wen, Gemuer Wu, Lixiang Huang, Chao Chai, Huiying Wang, and Jinxia Zhu
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medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,computer.software_genre ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,Atrophy ,Text mining ,Voxel ,Renal Dialysis ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Cognitive Dysfunction ,Gray Matter ,Cognitive impairment ,business.industry ,Neurodegenerative Diseases ,medicine.disease ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Neurology ,Cerebral gray matter ,Radiology ,Hemodialysis ,Neurology (clinical) ,business ,computer - Abstract
To explore changes of cerebral gray matter volumes (GMV) in hemodialysis patients, the clinical risk factors for GMV changes, and the relationship between GMV changes and neuropsychological tests results. Eighty-eight hemodialysis patients and seventy-six healthy controls (HCs) were recruited in this study. Fifty patients underwent follow-up magnetic resonance, blood biochemical examinations, and neuropsychological test (1.75±0.55 years). Changes in GMV between patients and HCs, longitudinal GMV changes in patients were explored. The clinical risk factors for the longitudinal GMV changes, the correlations between longitudinal GMV changes and neuropsychological tests changes in hemodialysis patients were analyzed. Compared to HCs, the hemodialysis patients had diffusely decreased in GMV (with age, sex, and total intracranial volume [TIV] as covariates, PPPPP=0.02). The decreased left caudate volumes were positively correlated with reduced MMSE scores in hemodialysis patients (rs=0.437, P=0.033). Hemodialysis patients had diffused GM atrophy over time, which was related to cognitive impairment.
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- 2021
68. Publisher Correction: Quantifying calcium changes in the fetal spine using quantitative susceptibility mapping as extracted from STAGE imaging
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Cong Sun, Kiarash Ghassaban, Jiaguang Song, Yufan Chen, Chao Zhang, Feifei Qu, Jinxia Zhu, Guangbin Wang, and E. Mark Haacke
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,General Medicine - Published
- 2022
69. Equal compressibility structural phase transition of molybdenum at high pressure
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Lun Xiong, Bin Li, Fang Miao, Qiang Li, Guangping Chen, Jinxia Zhu, Yingchun Ding, and Duanwei He
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General Physics and Astronomy - Abstract
We have studied the high-pressure compression behavior of molybdenum up to 60 GPa by synchrotron radial x-ray diffraction (RXRD) in a diamond anvil cell (DAC). It is found that all diffraction peaks of molybdenum undergo a split at around 27 GPa, and we believe that a phase transition from a body-centered cubic structure to a rhombohedral structure at room pressure has occurred. The slope of pressure–volume curve shows continuity before and after this phase transition, when fitting the pressure–volume curves of the body-centered cubic structure at low pressure and the rhombohedral structure at high pressure. A bulk modulus of 261.3 (2.7) GPa and a first-order derivative of the bulk modulus of 4.15 (0.14) are obtained by using the nonhydrostatic compression data at the angle ψ = 54.7° between the diffracting plane normal and stress axis.
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- 2022
70. The Use of Pointwise Encoding Time Reduction With Radial Acquisition MRA to Assess Middle Cerebral Artery Stenosis Pre- and Post-stent Angioplasty: Comparison With 3D Time-of-Flight MRA and DSA
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Mahmud Mossa-Basha, Junxia Niu, Xuemei Gao, Ming Zhu, Jinxia Zhu, Yuncai Ran, Xiaowen Lei, Chengcheng Zhu, Jingliang Cheng, Xiao Wang, Yong Zhang, Feifei Zhang, and Shujian Li
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Image quality ,medicine.medical_treatment ,pointwise encoding time reduction with radial acquisition ,Cardiovascular Medicine ,digital subtraction angiography ,Magnetic resonance angiography ,Angioplasty ,medicine.artery ,medicine ,Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system ,magnetic resonance imaging ,cardiovascular diseases ,Original Research ,stent angioplasty ,middle cerebral artery ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,Digital subtraction angiography ,medicine.disease ,eye diseases ,nervous system diseases ,Stenosis ,Stent placement ,RC666-701 ,Middle cerebral artery ,cardiovascular system ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,Nuclear medicine ,business ,circulatory and respiratory physiology - Abstract
Background and Purpose: 3D pointwise encoding time reduction magnetic resonance angiography (PETRA-MRA) is a promising non-contrast magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) technique for intracranial stenosis assessment but it has not been adequately validated against digital subtraction angiography (DSA) relative to 3D-time-of-flight (3D-TOF) MRA. The aim of this study was to compare PETRA-MRA and 3D-TOF-MRA using DSA as the reference standard for intracranial stenosis assessment before and after angioplasty and stenting in patients with middle cerebral artery (MCA) stenosis.Materials and Methods: Sixty-two patients with MCA stenosis (age 53 ± 12 years, 43 males) underwent MRA and DSA within a week for pre-intervention evaluation and 32 of them had intracranial angioplasty and stenting performed. The MRAs' image quality, flow visualization within the stents, and susceptibility artifact were graded on a 1–4 scale (1 = poor, 4 = excellent) independently by three radiologists. The degree of stenosis was measured by two radiologists independently on DSA and MRAs.Results: There was an excellent inter-observer agreement for stenosis assessment on PETRA-MRA, 3D-TOF-MRA, and DSA (ICCs > 0.90). For pre-intervention evaluation, PETRA-MRA had better image quality than 3D-TOF-MRA (3.87 ± 0.34 vs. 3.38 ± 0.65, P < 0.001), and PETRA-MRA had better agreement with DSA for stenosis measurements compared to 3D-TOF-MRA (r = 0.96 vs. r = 0.85). For post-intervention evaluation, PETRA-MRA had better image quality than 3D-TOF-MRA for in-stent flow visualization and susceptibility artifacts (3.34 ± 0.60 vs. 1.50 ± 0.76, P < 0.001; 3.31 ± 0.64 vs. 1.41 ± 0.61, P < 0.001, respectively), and better agreement with DSA for stenosis measurements than 3D-TOF-MRA (r = 0.90 vs. r = 0.26). 3D-TOF-MRA significantly overestimated the stenosis post-stenting compared to DSA (84.9 ± 19.7 vs. 39.3 ± 13.6%, p < 0.001) while PETRA-MRA didn't (40.6 ± 13.7 vs. 39.3 ± 13.6%, p = 0.18).Conclusions: PETRA-MRA is accurate and reproducible for quantifying MCA stenosis both pre- and post-stenting compared with DSA and performs better than 3D-TOF-MRA.
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71. T1-weighted Black-blood Magnetic Resonance Imaging Helps to Stage Thrombus on Segment Level and Predict the Outcome of Endovascular Therapy in Patients with Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis
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Yong Zhang, Jinxia Zhu, Guoxi Xie, Xiaoyong Zhang, Yueyuan Xie, Haowen Xu, Yanan Ren, Jingliang Cheng, Tao Quan, and Qi Ren
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medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Black blood ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,medicine.disease ,Endovascular therapy ,cardiovascular system ,T1 weighted ,Medicine ,In patient ,cardiovascular diseases ,Radiology ,Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis ,Thrombus ,Stage (cooking) ,business - Abstract
Purpose Clinical approach for staging cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) depends on the duration from symptom onset to clinical diagnosis, which is subjective and may be incorrect. To investigate if T1-weighted signal characteristics of the thrombus can be used for staging the thrombus on segment level and predicting endovascular therapy outcome. Methods Ninety-one CVST patients underwent non-contrast-enhanced T1-weighted 3D variable-flip-angle fast-spin-echo (T1-SPACE) and 29 of them received endovascular therapy. We divided the 91 patients into acute, subacute, and chronic CVST stage according to the clinical approach, and then analyzed the T1 weighted signal characteristics (i.e., thrombus shape and signal intensity) of the thrombus at each stage. To investigate the endovascular therapy outcome associated with the thrombus stage and signal characteristics, we evaluated the thrombolytic ratio on patient level and recanalization rate on segment level, respectively. Results The thrombi at acute or chronic stage were depicted as isointense signals but as hyperintense signals at subacute stage. Compared to the thrombus at acute stage, the thrombus at chronic stage was contractive and can be distinguished. Developing thrombi at transition periods of acute-to-subacute or subacute-to-chronic stage were found appearing mixed iso-/hyper-intense signals. On patient’s level, the patients at earlier stage had higher thrombolytic ratio (acute: 80.7 ± 18.3%, subacute: 62.6 ± 36.3%, chronic: 22.9 ± 24.2%). On segment level, the thromboembolic segments of isointense or mixed iso-/hyper-intense thrombi at non-chronic stage had good thrombolytic outcome. Conclusion T1-weighted signal characteristics of the thrombus can be used for staging CVST and predicting the endovascular therapy outcome.
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72. Rural Settlement Subdivision by Using Landscape Metrics as Spatial Contextual Information.
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Xinyu Zheng, Bowen Wu, Melanie Valerie Weston, Jing Zhang, Muye Gan, Jinxia Zhu, Jinsong Deng, Ke Wang 0016, and Longmei Teng
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73. Assessing brain iron and volume of subcortical nuclei in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder
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Xianchang Zhang, Shuang Xia, Yaqin Huang, Tong Zhang, Jingyi Ye, Jinxia Zhu, Chao Chai, Zhi-Yun Wang, Xuan Zhang, Wei Wu, Kiarash Ghassaban, E. Mark Haacke, and Rong Xue
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Iron ,Caudate nucleus ,Rapid eye movement sleep ,Substantia nigra ,REM Sleep Behavior Disorder ,Timed Up and Go test ,REM sleep behavior disorder ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,03 medical and health sciences ,Behavior disorder ,0302 clinical medicine ,Physiology (medical) ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Postural Balance ,business.industry ,Brain ,Quantitative susceptibility mapping ,medicine.disease ,Time and Motion Studies ,Susceptibility weighted imaging ,Cardiology ,Neurology (clinical) ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Study Objectives The relationship of iron with cognitive and motor impairment in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) remains unknown. Methods Twenty-nine (29) patients and 28 healthy controls (HCs) underwent susceptibility weighted imaging and susceptibility mapping. These images were used to evaluate the nigrosome-1 (N1) sign in the substantia nigra (SN), global and regional high-iron (RII) content, and volume of subcortical nuclei. Results The number of iRBD patients with N1 loss (12) was significantly higher than HCs (2) (p = 0.005). Compared with HCs, the iRBD patients had reduced volume of the right caudate nucleus (RCN) (p < 0.05, false discovery rate [FDR] correction) but no significant changes in global and RII iron of the subcortical nuclei (all p > 0.05, FDR correction). Multiple regression analysis revealed that: for cognitive function, the RII iron of the RCN was significantly correlated with visuospatial function and the global iron of the right dentate nucleus (RDN) was correlated with memory function; for motor function, the RII iron of the left DN (LDN) and global iron of the left CN correlated with the Alternate-Tap test (left, average), the global iron of the LDN correlated with the Alternate-Tap test (right), and the global iron of the left GP correlated with the 3-m Timed Up and Go test (all p < 0.05, FDR correction). Conclusions Our exploratory analysis found that iRBD patients had a higher incidence of N1 loss and reduced RCN volume after FDR correction. Cognitive and motor impairment were associated with iron deposition in several cerebral nuclei after FDR correction.
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74. A martingale approach for asset allocation with derivative security and hidden economic risk
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Hailiang Yang, Tak Kuen Siu, and Jinxia Zhu
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Statistics and Probability ,Mathematical optimization ,050208 finance ,Logarithm ,General Mathematics ,05 social sciences ,Markov process ,Asset allocation ,Malliavin calculus ,01 natural sciences ,Economic risk ,010104 statistics & probability ,Exponential utility ,symbols.namesake ,Derivative (finance) ,0502 economics and business ,symbols ,0101 mathematics ,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty ,Martingale (probability theory) ,Mathematics - Abstract
Asset allocation with a derivative security is studied in a hidden, Markovian regime-switching, economy using filtering theory and the martingale approach. A generalized delta-hedged ratio and a generalized elasticity of an option are introduced to accommodate the presence of the information state process and the derivative security. Malliavin calculus is applied to derive a solution for a general utility function which includes an exponential utility, a power utility, and a logarithmic utility. A compact solution is obtained for a logarithmic utility. Some economic implications of the solutions are discussed.
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75. Integrated analysis of urbanization-triggered land use change trajectory and implications for ecological land management: A case study in Fuyang, China
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Yi Pan, Lefeng Qiu, Baogen Xu, Gabriel S. Amable, and Jinxia Zhu
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Sustainable development ,Environmental Engineering ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Land use ,Ecology ,Land management ,Land-use planning ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Pollution ,Ecosystem services ,Geography ,Urban planning ,Urbanization ,Environmental Chemistry ,Land use, land-use change and forestry ,Waste Management and Disposal ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Land use change under rapid urbanization can drastically change terrestrial ecological conditions. This study presents an integrated analysis of land use dynamics and the resultant ecological impacts on sustainable development over the past 25 years (1990–2015) in response to urban development. Remote sensing and geographic information system techniques were employed to examine the spatiotemporal trajectory of land use changes. Based on the analysis of the equivalent factor table for land use types and ecosystem services value (ESV), the value of ecosystem services was calculated in the case study of Fuyang, China. Correlations were identified between ESV and a family of landscape fragmentation metrics. The results showed that the area affected by land use changes represented 33.35% of the total study area and caused a 31.74 million US$·a−1 decrease in ESV from 1990 to 2015. The ESV was spatially imbalanced and generally low in urban areas. Ecological plans for cropland reforestation and urban green projects were effective in slowing ESV losses while urban areas rapidly developed. In addition, total ESV was negatively correlated with edge density (ED), patch density (PD), landscape shape index (LSI), and Shannon's diversity index (SHDI) but positively correlated with aggregation index (AI), suggesting that landscape fragmentation had an adverse impact on the overall ESV in Fuyang. Therefore, sustainable land use planning must be integrated with landscape patterns to provide useful guidance regarding the spatial regulation of a given area to protect and improve ecosystem services.
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76. Spatial identification and trade-off analysis of land use functions improve spatial zoning management in rapid urbanized areas, China
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Jing Zhang, Sinan Li, Naifa Lin, Yue Lin, Shaofeng Yuan, Ling Zhang, Jinxia Zhu, Ke Wang, Muye Gan, and Congmou Zhu
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Geography, Planning and Development ,Forestry ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Nature and Landscape Conservation - Published
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77. Additional file 1 of Integrated slice-specific dynamic shimming diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) for rectal Cancer detection and characterization
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Jianxing Qiu, Liu, Jing, Zhongxu Bi, Xiaowei Sun, Wang, Xin, Junling Zhang, Chengwen Liu, Jinxia Zhu, and Naishan Qin
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78. Construction and Analysis of Intelligent English Teaching Model Assisted by Personalized Virtual Corpus by Big Data Analysis
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Jinxia Zhu, Changgui Zhu, and Sang-Bing Tsai
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Article Subject ,General Mathematics ,General Engineering ,QA1-939 ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,TA1-2040 ,Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) ,Mathematics - Abstract
At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation with information technology at its core are accelerating. At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation with information technology at its core is accelerating. The challenge of new economy and new industry has put forward new requirements for the training of talents in China. The challenges of new economy and new industry have put forward new requirements for the cultivation of engineering talents in China. Based on corpus, this study constructed a model of intelligent English teaching assisted by virtual corpus. The traditional teaching of college English reading is based on, around, and for texts. Using DDL model, teachers can break the limitation of textbooks. On the basis of analyzing the general idea of the text, they can search out massive real corpus related to the general idea of the text by searching the core words in the text, so as to provide extensive reading resources for students in the maximum range. At the same time, teachers can rely on the corpus to design different types of teaching activities, realize student-centered task-based, inquiry-based, and autonomous learning and cultivate students’ critical thinking ability, practical ability, and cross-cultural communication ability. This model breaks the limitation of “classroom + textbook,” realizes student-centered task-based, exploratory, and autonomous learning, trains interdisciplinary new engineering talents needed by emerging industries and new economy in the future, and promotes the sustainable development of English teaching. Corpus-data-driven college English teaching mode breaks the limitation of “classroom + textbook,” changes the traditional college English teaching mode, and realizes student-centered task-oriented, inquiry-based, and autonomous learning.
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79. The feasibility of a radial turbo-spin-echo T2 mapping for preoperative prediction of the histological grade and lymphovascular space invasion of cervical squamous cell carcinoma
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Yong Zhang, Jie Liu, Feifei Zhang, Shujian Li, Huifang Lu, Zanxia Zhang, Meng Yang, Jingliang Cheng, Jinxia Zhu, and Fei Han
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Cervical Squamous Cell Carcinoma ,T2 mapping ,Uterine Cervical Neoplasms ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Healthy volunteers ,Medicine ,Effective diffusion coefficient ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Noninvasive biomarkers ,Retrospective Studies ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Fast spin echo ,Lymphovascular ,body regions ,Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ,Feasibility Studies ,Female ,Histological grades ,business ,Nuclear medicine - Abstract
The study aimed to analyze the feasibility of a radial turbo-spin-echo (TSE) T2 mapping to differentiate the histological grades and lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI) of cervical squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) in comparison with diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI).A total of 58 patients with CSCC and 40 healthy volunteers underwent T2 mapping and DWI before therapy. The T2 and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values were calculated using different tumor characteristics. The differences, efficacies and correlations between parameters were determined.The T2 and ADC values were significantly different between CSCC and normal cervical stroma (both p 0.05). Poorly differentiated (G3) tumor showed lower T2 and ADC values than well differentiated (G1) and moderately differentiated (G2) tumor (all p 0.05). The T2 values were significantly lower in LVSI-positive CSCC than LVSI-negative CSCC (p 0.05). No significant difference was found in ADC values for LVSI status (p = 0.561). The area under the ROC (AUC) for T2 and ADC values to distinguish G1/G2 and G3 tumor were 0.741 and 0.763, respectively. The AUC for T2 and ADC values to distinguish LVSI-positive and LVSI-negative CSCC were 0.877 and 0.537, respectively. The T2 and ADC values were negatively correlated with the tumor grades (r = -0.402 and r = -0.339, respectively).Radial TSE T2 mapping is feasible for CSCC. Similar to ADC values, quantitative T2 values could serve as a noninvasive biomarker to predict histological grades preoperatively. Moreover, T2 values could determine the presence of LVSI better than ADC values.
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80. Integrated slice-specific dynamic shimming diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) for rectal Cancer detection and characterization
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Zhongxu Bi, Xin Wang, Chengwen Liu, Junling Zhang, Xiaowei Sun, Jinxia Zhu, Naishan Qin, Jianxing Qiu, and Jing Liu
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lcsh:Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine ,Male ,Image quality ,Colorectal cancer ,Imaging quality ,lcsh:R895-920 ,Fat suppression ,Tumor differentiation ,lcsh:RC254-282 ,Rectal Cancer ,Effective diffusion coefficient ,Medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,cardiovascular diseases ,Retrospective Studies ,Tumor imaging ,Radiological and Ultrasound Technology ,business.industry ,Rectal Neoplasms ,Poorly differentiated ,Significant difference ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens ,medicine.disease ,Integrated slice-specific dynamic shimming (iShim) ,diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) ,Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Oncology ,Female ,Nuclear medicine ,business ,Diffusion MRI ,Research Article - Abstract
Purpose To compare integrated slice-specific dynamic shimming (iShim) diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and single-shot echo-planar imaging (SS-EPI) DWI in image quality and pathological characterization of rectal cancer. Materials and methods A total of 193 consecutive rectal tumor patients were enrolled for retrospective analysis. Among them, 101 patients underwent iShim-DWI (b = 0, 800, and 1600 s/mm2) and 92 patients underwent SS-EPI-DWI (b = 0, and 1000 s/mm2). Qualitative analyses of both DWI techniques was performed by two independent readers; including adequate fat suppression, the presence of artifacts and image quality. Quantitative analysis was performed by calculating standard deviation (SD) of the gluteus maximus, signal intensity (SI) of lesion and residual normal rectal wall, apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values (generated by b values of 0, 800 and 1600 s/mm2 for iShim-DWI, and by b values of 0 and 1000 s/mm2 for SS-EPI-DWI) and image quality parameters, such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) of primary rectal tumor. For the primary rectal cancer, two pathological groups were divided according to pathological results: Group 1 (well-differentiated) and Group 2 (poorly differentiated). Statistical analyses were performed with p Results Compared with SS-EPI-DWI, significantly higher scores of image quality were obtained in iShim-DWI cases (P background was significantly reduced on b = 1600 s/mm2 images and ADC maps of iShim-DWI. Both SNR and CNR of b = 800 s/mm2 and b = 1600 s/mm2 images in iShim-DWI were higher than those of b = 1000 s/mm2 images in SS-EPI-DWI. In primary rectal cancer of iShim-DWI cohort, SIlesion was significantly higher than SIrectum in both b = 800 and 1600 s/mm2 images. ADC values were significantly lower in Group 2 (0.732 ± 0.08) × 10− 3 mm2/s) than those in Group 1 ((0.912 ± 0.21) × 10− 3 mm2/s). ROC analyses showed significance of ADC values and SIlesion between the two groups. Conclusion iShim-DWI with b values of 0, 800 and 1600 s/mm2 is a promising technique of high image quality in rectal tumor imaging, and has potential ability to differentiate rectal cancer from normal wall and predicting pathological characterization.
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81. Latent Group Recommendation based on Double Fuzzy Clustering and Matrix Tri-factorization
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Zhousheng Wang, Haiyan Wang, and Jinxia Zhu
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Fuzzy clustering ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Group (mathematics) ,Feature extraction ,Incidence matrix ,computer.software_genre ,Machine learning ,Correlation ,Matrix (mathematics) ,Unsupervised learning ,Artificial intelligence ,Web service ,business ,computer - Abstract
Group recommendation has received great attention owing to its practical value in real applications. However, group members are implicit and groups are formed occasionally in some scenarios. Existing solutions for latent group recommendation assumes a user belongs to a specific group, and totally ignore the possible correlation between the user' $s$ preferences and other groups' preferences. In addition, existing methods cannot deal with new items cold-start problem effectively because they only focus on which items are favored by the group without considering the hidden related information between items. These weaknesses usually lead to poor performance of latent group recommendation. To address the problems above, this paper proposes a latent group recommendation method based on double fuzzy clustering and matrix tri-factorization (DFCMTF -LGR). Firstly, this method utilizes unsupervised learning to implement potential feature extraction and double fuzzy clustering for users and items. Secondly, a novel matrix tri-factorization method is presented to adjust the membership of user-to-group, item-to-item category, and the incidence of group-to-item category is obtained. Finally, latent groups are detected according to user-to-group membership, and group rating can be generated in accordance with group-to-item category incidence matrix and item-to-item category membership. Experimental results on real datasets demonstrate that our proposed DFCMTF-LGR has better performance compared with state-of-the art methods.
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82. A Hand Gesture Recognition Algorithm Based on Multi-scale Hybrid Features
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Pu Tu, Chen Huang, and Jinxia Zhu
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A human hand gesture recognition algorithm based on multi-scale hybrid features is pro-posed. A large number of gesture data images are organized and annotated by automatic im-age annotation algorithm. Based on dense sampling, the multi-scale Gaussian pyramid is taken into account for enhancing the image details; it can realize the recognition of both large and small target gestures. Meanwhile, according to the aggregation and distribution of gestures, statistical analysis is used to optimize the size and aspect ratio of anchors, which can further improve the accuracy of recognition. The experiment results show that the mean average precisions of this algorithm can be improved to 99.7% and 93.3% for the simple gesture and complex gesture, respectively, which are higher than that obtained by these traditional methods, such as faster region-convolution neural network (Faster R-CNN), You Only Look Once (YOLO), and SSD.
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83. Optimal dividend control for a generalized risk model with investment incomes and debit interest.
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Jinxia Zhu
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84. The positive impacts of landscape fragmentation on the diversification of agricultural production in Zhejiang Province, China
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Shaohua Wu, Jinxia Zhu, Hong Yang, Baogen Xu, Yunxiao Dang, Lefeng Qiu, and Yi Pan
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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Natural resource economics ,business.industry ,020209 energy ,Strategy and Management ,05 social sciences ,Land consolidation ,02 engineering and technology ,Diversification (marketing strategy) ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Ecosystem services ,Geography ,Agriculture ,Agricultural land ,050501 criminology ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Food processing ,Agricultural productivity ,China ,business ,0505 law ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
Agricultural land fragmentation has an important impact on ecosystem services, especially food production. However, the relationship between land fragmentation and production diversification remains controversial and requires further analysis. This study characterized the dynamics of land fragmentation and production diversification in Zhejiang Province, China, from 1995 to 2015 using remote sensing, landscape metrics, and a diversification assessment approach. The results showed that Zhejiang Province experienced increasing fragmentation of agricultural landscapes and profound diversification of agricultural production. Fragmentation had a significant negative effect on grain crop production, but it had a significant positive effect on production diversification. These findings showed that fragmentation is an important driver of the diversification of agriculture and contributes to increased dietary diversity in local households. Therefore, we believe that when addressing land fragmentation issues, both the positive and negative impacts of fragmentation in different local conditions and circumstances should be taken into account. Our findings will provide scientific support for land consolidation management and agricultural land resource protection.
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85. Quantitative susceptibility-weighted imaging may be an accurate method for determining stroke hypoperfusion and hypoxia of penumbra
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Shuang Xia, Jinxia Zhu, Yongmin Zhou, Shaoshi Wang, Meiyun Wang, Linglei Meng, Xiudi Lu, Miller Fawaz, Chao Chai, E. Mark Haacke, Meizhu Zheng, and Yu Luo
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medicine.medical_specialty ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,Alberta ,Brain Ischemia ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,cardiovascular diseases ,Hypoxia ,Stroke ,Neuroradiology ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Penumbra ,Ultrasound ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,General Medicine ,Hypoxia (medical) ,medicine.disease ,Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Susceptibility weighted imaging ,Cardiology ,Radiology ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Perfusion - Abstract
To quantitatively evaluate the volume of the ischemic penumbra using susceptibility-weighted imaging and mapping (SWIM) of asymmetrical prominent cortical veins (APCVs) in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Eighty-five eligible patients with acute ischemic stroke on admission within 12 h from symptom onset were studied. The APCVs on SWIM were quantitatively (SWI-volume) and semi-quantitatively (SWI-Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score, SWI-ASPECTS) evaluated to calculate mismatch. To assess the diagnostic efficacy of APCVs on SWIM, comparative analyses were performed between SWIvolume-DWI mismatch and SWIASPECTS-DWI mismatch, using PWI-DWI mismatch as a reference. Correlations were calculated between the mismatches, as well as between SWI-volume and time-to-maximum (Tmax) > 6 s volume. Additionally, each of these mismatches was correlated with the National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS). The sensitivity, negative predictive value, and accuracy of SWIvolume-DWI mismatch were demonstrably higher than SWIASPECTS-DWI mismatch (100% vs. 53.7%, 100% vs. 9.5%, 97.7% vs. 54.5%, respectively). A significant positive correlation was found between SWIvolume-DWI and PWI-DWI mismatch (r = 0.691, p 6 s volume (r = 0.786, p < 0.001). A significant negative correlation was found between SWIvolume-DWI mismatch and NIHSS (r = − 0.360, p = 0.022), as well as between SWIASPECTS-DWI mismatch and NIHSS (r = − 0.499, p = 0.001). SWIvolume-DWI mismatch had higher diagnostic efficacy than SWIASPECTS-DWI mismatch in defining the ischemic penumbra and showed good consistency with PWI-DWI mismatch in acute ischemic stroke. Quantitation of APCVs using SWIM provided an accurate method for determining hypoperfusion and provided a reliable method to reflect the hypoxia of penumbra. • SWI volume -DWI mismatch has higher diagnostic efficacy than SWI ASPECTS -DWI mismatch in defining the ischemic penumbra. • SWI volume -DWI mismatch shows good consistency with PWI-DWI mismatch in managing penumbra in acute ischemic stroke. • Quantitation of APCV volume using SWIM provided an accurate method for determining the hypoperfusion area and provided a reliable method to reflect the hypoxia of penumbra.
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86. Salivary peptest for laryngopharyngeal reflux and gastroesophageal reflux disease: A systemic review and meta-analysis
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Jiali Jiang, Shutian Zhang, Chuan Zhang, Jinxia Zhu, Hao Wu, and Zihao Guo
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medicine.medical_specialty ,diagnosis ,gastroesophageal reflux disease ,Gastroenterology ,Likelihood ratios in diagnostic testing ,Diagnosis, Differential ,Laryngopharyngeal reflux ,Pepsin ,Internal medicine ,Medicine ,Humans ,salivary ,Peptest ,Saliva ,pepsin ,biology ,business.industry ,laryngopharyngeal reflux ,Reflux ,Area under the curve ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,digestive system diseases ,Pepsin A ,meta-analysis ,ROC Curve ,Diagnostic odds ratio ,biology.protein ,GERD ,Gastroesophageal Reflux ,Sputum ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Biomarkers ,Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis ,Research Article - Abstract
Background: A rapid lateral flow test (Peptest) to detect pepsin in saliva/sputum has been considered as a valuable method for diagnosing laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). The aim of this meta-analysis is to analyze the utility of Peptest for diagnosis of LPR and GERD. Methods: PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochran Library (from January 1980 to 26 January 2020) were searched for pepsin in saliva for LPR/GERD diagnosis. Sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio, negative likelihood ratio, diagnostic odds ratio, and area under the curve data were summarized to examine the accuracy. Results: A total of 16 articles that included 2401 patients and 897 controls were analyzed. The pooled sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of GERD/LPR with Peptest were 62% (95% confidence interval [CI] 49%–73%) and 74% (95% CI 50%–90%), respectively. The summarized diagnostic odds ratio and area under the curve were 5.0 (95% CI 2–19) and 0.70 (95% CI 0.66–0.74), respectively. Conclusion: Peptest shows moderate diagnostic value for LPR and GERD. More studies with standard protocols should be done to verify its usefulness.
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87. Test-retest variability of brain morphometry analysis: an investigation of sequence and coil effects
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Bénédicte Maréchal, Zhengyu Jin, Tobias Kober, Ming-Li Li, Xianchang Zhang, Shuang Yan, Jinxia Zhu, Jing Lei, and Tianyi Qian
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32-channel ,surface-based analysis ,head coil ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,magnetic resonance imaging (mri) repeatability ,brain morphometry ,Brain segmentation ,Image acquisition ,reproducibility ,post-processing robustness ,3 t mri ,Mathematics ,reliability ,segmentation ,Brain morphometry ,volume-based morphometry ,phantom ,General Medicine ,Repeatability ,test-retest variability (trv) ,Rapid acquisition ,Electromagnetic coil ,Original Article ,Single session ,mp2rage ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Gradient echo ,Biomedical engineering - Abstract
Background: Precise and reliable brain morphometry analysis is critical for clinical and research purposes. The magnetization-prepared rapid gradient echo (MPRAGE), multi-echo MPRAGE (MEMPRAGE) and magnetization-prepared 2 rapid acquisition gradient echo (MP2RAGE) sequences have all been used to acquire brain structural images, but it is unclear which of these sequences is the most suitable for brain morphometry and whether the number of coil channels (20 or 32) affects scan precision. This study aimed to assess the impact of T1-weighted image acquisition variables (sequence and head coil) on the repeatability of resultant automated volumetric measurements., Methods: Twenty-four healthy volunteers underwent back-to-back scanning protocols with three sequences and two different coils (i.e., six scanning conditions in total) presented in a randomized order in a single session. MorphoBox prototype and FreeSurfer were used for brain segmentation. Brain structures were divided into cortical and subcortical regions for more precise analysis. The acquired volume and thickness values were used to calculate test-retest variability (TRV) values. TRV values from the six different combinations were compared for total brain structures, total cortical structures, total subcortical structures, and every single structure., Results: The median TRV value for all brain regions was 1.23% with MorphoBox and 3.14% with FreeSurfer. When using FreeSurfer results to compare the six combinations, for total brain structures volume and total cortical structures volume and thickness, the MEMPRAGE-32 channel combination showed significantly lower TRV values than the others (P, Conclusions: TRV values were generally low, indicating generally high reliability for every region. The MEMPRAGE sequence was the most reliable of the three sequences for total brain structures and cortical structures. However, MP2RAGE was the most reliable for subcortical structures. The 32-channel coil showed better repeatability results than the 20-channel coil.
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88. Online Appendix to 'Optimal impulse control for growth-restricted linear diffusions with regime switching'
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89. Assessment of Apparent Internal Carotid Tandem Occlusion on High-Resolution Vessel Wall Imaging: Comparison with Digital Subtraction Angiography
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Ruowei Tang, Shuang Xia, Z. Sheng, X. Yang, Jinxia Zhu, B. Chang, Song Liu, Shengting Chai, Z. Guo, Wen-Qiang Xin, Weiwei Xie, C. Cao, and Can Wang
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Adult ,Carotid Artery Diseases ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,High resolution ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Occlusion ,Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,In patient ,Extracranial Vascular ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Vascular imaging ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Angiography, Digital Subtraction ,Digital subtraction angiography ,Middle Aged ,Signal on ,Cerebral Angiography ,Treatment Outcome ,cardiovascular system ,Ica occlusion ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,Radiology ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Carotid Artery, Internal ,Magnetic Resonance Angiography - Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Not all tandem occlusions diagnosed on traditional vascular imaging modalities, such as MRA, represent actual complete ICA occlusion. This study aimed to explore the utility of high-resolution vessel wall imaging in identifying true ICA tandem occlusions and screening patients for their suitability for endovascular recanalization. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients with no signal in the ICA on MRA were retrospectively reviewed. Two neuroradiologists independently reviewed their high-resolution vessel wall images to assess whether there were true tandem occlusions and categorized all cases into intracranial ICA occlusion, extracranial ICA occlusion, tandem occlusion, or near-occlusion. DSA classified patient images into the same 4 categories, which were used as the comparison with high-resolution vessel wall imaging. The suitability for recanalization of occluded vessels was evaluated on high-resolution vessel wall imaging compared with DSA. RESULTS: Forty-five patients with no ICA signal on MRA who had available high-resolution vessel wall imaging and DSA images were included. Among the 34 patients (34/45, 75.6%) with tandem occlusions on DSA, 18 cases also showed tandem occlusions on high-resolution vessel wall imaging. The remaining 16 patients, intracranial ICA, extracranial ICA occlusions and near-occlusions were found in 2, 6, and 8 patients, respectively, on the basis of high-resolution vessel wall imaging. A total of 20 cases (20/45, 44.4%) were considered suitable for recanalization on the basis of both DSA and high-resolution vessel wall imaging. Among the 25 patients deemed unsuitable for recanalization by DSA, 11 were deemed suitable for recanalization by high-resolution vessel wall imaging. CONCLUSIONS: High-resolution vessel wall imaging could allow identification of true ICA tandem occlusion in patients with an absence of signal on MRA. Findings on high-resolution vessel wall imaging can be used to screen more suitable candidates for recanalization therapy.
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90. Corrigendum to 'Optimization of Simultaneous Multislice, Readout-Segmented Echo Planar Imaging for Accelerated Diffusion-Weighted Imaging of the Head and Neck: A Preliminary Study' [Acad Radiol 2020; 27: e245-e253]
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Jinxia Zhu, Xiaoli Zhu, Tao Zhang, Zhengyu Jin, Huadan Xue, Zhu-hua Zhang, Tianyi Qian, Xingming Chen, Zhentan Xu, Yu Chen, Su Tong, and Wei Liu
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Echo-planar imaging ,Materials science ,business.industry ,Simultaneous multislice ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Head and neck ,Nuclear medicine ,business ,Diffusion MRI - Published
- 2021
91. Multi-criteria land use suitability analysis for livestock development planning in Hangzhou metropolitan area, China
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Gabriel S. Amable, Yi Pan, Lefeng Qiu, Jinxia Zhu, and Wei Hu
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Land use ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,business.industry ,Strategy and Management ,Environmental resource management ,Environmental engineering ,Analytic hierarchy process ,Land-use planning ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Metropolitan area ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Cohen's kappa ,Suitability analysis ,Environmental science ,Livestock ,business ,China ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
Land suitability analysis is an important step in land use planning for livestock development because of its high efficiency to allocate livestock farms to the most suitable land areas and minimize adverse effects on environment. This study aimed to use two multi-criteria analysis approaches: Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) and Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA), to comparatively evaluate and map land use suitability for livestock production in Hangzhou metropolitan area, China. The evaluation used eight factors as suitability criteria, relating to topographic, environmental, human factors, and socio-economic data. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method and GIS techniques were integrated into the evaluation models to create the land suitability map. The results of WLC approach showed that 11.4% of the total area was highly suitable for livestock production while 48.6% was unsuitable. Of these, areas located far from central city had higher suitability, while areas close to the urban district, drinking water source area, ecological and natural conservation area, had lower suitability. Sensitivity analysis indicated this expert suitability results for livestock production were robust. Indirect validations conducted by mutual comparisons of suitability maps computed using the WLC and OWA approaches demonstrated 90.4% of the overall agreement with a kappa coefficient of 0.857, indicating that both methods provide very similar spatial land use suitability distributions. Ecological fitness was evaluated by comparing the suitability analysis result with a previous livestock development planning and several recommendations aimed at improving the long-term livestock development plans were made for Hangzhou.
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92. OPTIMAL FINANCING AND DIVIDEND DISTRIBUTION WITH TRANSACTION COSTS IN THE CASE OF RESTRICTED DIVIDEND RATES
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Jinxia Zhu
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Finance ,Transaction cost ,Economics and Econometrics ,050208 finance ,Present value ,business.industry ,Total cost ,05 social sciences ,Dividend yield ,Dividend payout ratio ,Dividend policy ,Optimal control ,01 natural sciences ,010104 statistics & probability ,Accounting ,0502 economics and business ,Economics ,Dividend ,0101 mathematics ,business - Abstract
We consider the optimal financing (capital injections) and dividend payment problem for a Brownian motion model in the case of restricted dividend rates. The company has no obligation to inject capitals and therefore, the bankruptcy risk is present. Capital injections, if any, will incur both fixed and proportional transaction costs and dividend payments incur proportional transaction costs. The aim is to find the optimal strategy to maximize the expected present value of dividend payments minus the total cost of capital injections up to the time of bankruptcy. The problem is formulated as a mixed impulse-regular control problem. We address the problem via studying three cases of two auxiliary functions. We derive important analytical properties of the auxiliary functions and use them to study the value function and then identify the optimal control strategy. We show that the optimal dividend control is of threshold type and the optimal financing strategy prescribes to either never inject capitals or inject capitals only when the surplus reaches 0 with a fixed lump sum amount.
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93. Multiparametric MRI Evaluation of Liposomal Prostaglandins E1 Intervention on Hepatic Warm Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Rabbits
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Jingyao Li, Wenjuan Cai, Robert Grimm, Jinxia Zhu, Qian Ji, Yuling Zhang, Zhiqiang Chu, and Jiabing Jiang
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Ischemia ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,03 medical and health sciences ,Motion ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Animals ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Intravoxel incoherent motion ,Warm Ischemia Time ,Receiver operating characteristic ,business.industry ,Reproducibility of Results ,medicine.disease ,Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Diffusion Tensor Imaging ,Liver ,Reperfusion Injury ,Prostaglandins ,Histopathology ,Analysis of variance ,Rabbits ,business ,Nuclear medicine ,Reperfusion injury ,Diffusion MRI - Abstract
BACKGROUND Liposomal prostaglandin E1 (Lipo-PGE1) treatment should protect against hepatic warm ischemia-reperfusion injury (WIRI). Improved methods are needed for the noninvasive evaluation of hepatic responses to prophylactic Lipo-PGE1 pretreatment approaches. PURPOSE To demonstrate that multiparametric MRI measurements permit noninvasive differentiation of Lipo-PGE1 treatment outcomes in a hepatic WIRI animal model. STUDY TYPE Animal study. ANIMAL MODEL Seventy rabbits were randomly divided into a sham-operated group (A0), warm ischemia groups experiencing increasing periods of ischemia (A1-A3), and corresponding intervention groups (I1-I3) (n = 10 for each group). FIELD STRENGTH/SEQUENCE Imaging was performed at 3T using a multiecho gradient echo (GRE) sequence (repetition time / echo time [TR/TE], 75/2.57-24.25 msec) for R2* blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) measurements, free-breathing single-shot echo-planar imaging (ss-EPI) sequence with two b-values (0 and 500 s/mm2 ) in 12 diffusion directions for diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and a free-breathing ss-EPI sequence with eight b-values (0 to 800 s/mm2 ) for intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) measurements. ASSESSMENT The BOLD-derived parameter (R2*), DTI-derived parameters (ADC, FA), and IVIM-derived parameters (Dslow, Dfast, and PF) were calculated for comparisons between treatment groups and correlation to ALT, AST, and LDH levels. STATISTICAL TESTS One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), independent sample t-test, Spearman correlation, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis were performed. RESULTS Histopathology confirmed the validity of the WIRI model and the efficacy of intervention with clear structure and morphology differences between the different ischemia times and between the Lipo-PGE1 treatment and control groups. Prolonged warm ischemia times resulted in higher R2* and FA values and gradually lower ADC, Dslow, Dfast, and PF values (all P
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- 2019
94. Vascular, flow and perfusion abnormalities in Parkinson's disease
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Chen Chen, Bo Wu, Xiao Wang, Hong Liang, Hong Lu, Bing Xue, Chunyan Zhang, Jingliang Cheng, Sean K. Sethi, Rui-Chen Zhao, Hongcan Zhu, E. Mark Haacke, Jinxia Zhu, and Yuanyuan Peng
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Parkinson's disease ,Iron ,Venography ,Substantia nigra ,Midbrain ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Heart Rate ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Aged ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,Parkinson Disease ,Phlebography ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Cerebral Veins ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Substantia Nigra ,030104 developmental biology ,Neurology ,Cerebral blood flow ,Cerebrovascular Circulation ,Cardiology ,Etiology ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,Geriatrics and Gerontology ,business ,Perfusion ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Magnetic Resonance Angiography - Abstract
Background Reduced flow into the brain or decreased jugular venous outflow from the brain may serve as a potential biomarker for Parkinson's disease (PD). Our goal was to compare the presence of vascular abnormalities, flow, and increases in midbrain iron content (a hallmark of the disease) in patients with PD. Methods A total of 85 PD patients and 85 healthy controls (HCs) were imaged at 3T. We assessed vascular abnormalities using magnetic resonance (MR) venography, average cerebral blood flow using 2D flow quantification, and substantia nigra iron content using susceptibility mapping. Results Fifty-two percent (52%) of the PD subjects showed venous structural and functional abnormalities in the two most severe categories, while ony 14% of the HC group showed these abnormalities. Total arterial flow (tA) was significantly lower for the PD group (10.9 ± 1.8 ml/s) compared to the HCs (11.6 ± 2.1 ml/s) (t = 2.28, p = 0.02). Of the PD patients (HCs), 42% (14%) had little flow on the left side. PD patients had higher heart rates and lower perfusion and the lower perfusion correlated with increased iron content in the substantia nigra. Conclusion Some PD patients showed abnormal left internal jugular veins, lower tA, higher heart rates, and lower perfusion relative to HCs. These indicators could serve as early biomarkers for PD and create new avenues for future studies regarding the etiology of PD.
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95. Gastrointestinal non-motor dysfunction in Parkinson's disease model rats with 6-hydroxydopamine
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Xiaoli Zhang, Jingting Yang, Jinxia Zhu, and Xiao-Yan Feng
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Parkinson's disease ,Physiology ,Gastrointestinal Diseases ,Substantia nigra ,Striatum ,Rats, Sprague-Dawley ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Parkinsonian Disorders ,In vivo ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Animals ,Oxidopamine ,Hydroxydopamine ,Gastric emptying ,business.industry ,Dopaminergic ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Pathophysiology ,Rats ,030104 developmental biology ,Endocrinology ,nervous system ,Sympatholytics ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease with a progressive loss of mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra (SN). To further evaluate its pathophysiology, accurate animal models are needed. The current study aims to verify the impact of a 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) bilateral microinjection into the SN on gastrointestinal symptoms in rats and confirm that the 6-OHDA rat model is an appropriate tool to investigate the mechanisms of Parkinsonian GI disorders. Immunohistochemistry, digital X-ray imaging, short-circuit current, FITC-dextran permeability and ultra-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry were used in this study. The results indicated that the dopaminergic neurons in SN and fibres in the striatum were markedly reduced in 6-OHDA rats. The 6-OHDA rats manifested reductions in occupancy in a rotarod test and increases in daily food debris but no difference in body mass or daily consumption. Compared with control rats, faecal pellets and their contents were significantly decreased, whereas gastric emptying and intestinal transport were delayed in 6-OHDA rats. The increased in vivo FITC-dextran permeability and decreased intestinal transepithelial resistance in the model suggest attenuated barrier function in the digestive tract in the PD model. Moreover, inflammatory factors in the plasma showed that pro-inflammatory factors IL-1β and IL-8 were significantly increased in 6-OHDA rats. Collectively, these findings indicate that the model is an interesting experimental tool to investigate the mechanisms involved in the progression of gastrointestinal dysfunction in PD.
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96. Distribution of D
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Xuerui, Ran, Yanli, Yang, Yamei, Meng, Yong, Li, Li, Zhou, Zhiyong, Wang, and Jinxia, Zhu
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Neurons ,Rats, Sprague-Dawley ,Receptors, Dopamine D2 ,Receptors, Dopamine D1 ,Animals ,Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus ,Rats - Abstract
The paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus is an important center in regulating the functions of internal organs, and it is the key nucleus for coordinating endocrine, behavior and autonomic stress responses. Dopamine receptors are widely expressed in the hypothalamus and participate in the regulation of many vital activities, such as blood pressure and glycolipid metabolism, but the details of the cellular localization of dopamine receptors in the PVN are not clear. The present study investigated the distribution of D
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97. Salivary peptest for laryngopharyngeal reflux and gastroesophageal reflux disease: A systemic review and meta-analysis.
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Zihao Guo, Jiali Jiang, Hao Wu, Jinxia Zhu, Shutian Zhang, Chuan Zhang, Guo, Zihao, Jiang, Jiali, Wu, Hao, Zhu, Jinxia, Zhang, Shutian, and Zhang, Chuan
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98. Optimal capital injection and dividend distribution for growth restricted diffusion models with bankruptcy
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Hailiang Yang and Jinxia Zhu
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Statistics and Probability ,Economics and Econometrics ,Financial economics ,Total cost ,010102 general mathematics ,Dividend yield ,Dividend policy ,01 natural sciences ,010104 statistics & probability ,Cost of capital ,Bankruptcy ,Restricted Diffusion ,Economics ,Econometrics ,Dividend ,0101 mathematics ,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty ,Volatility (finance) - Abstract
We consider the optimal capital injection and dividend control problem for a class of growth restricted diffusions with the possibility of bankruptcy. The surplus process of a company is modeled by a diffusion process with return and volatility being functions of the surplus process. The company can control the dividend payments and capital injections with the goal of maximizing the expectation of the total discounted dividends minus the total cost of capital injections up to the time of bankruptcy. We distinguish three cases and provide optimality results for each case.
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99. A high-pressure study of HfC and nano-crystalline TiC by X-ray diffraction and density functional theory calculations
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Bi Liang, Hong Yi, Bin Li, Junran Zhang, Jinxia Zhu, and Lun Xiong
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Diffraction ,Equation of state ,Materials science ,Analytical chemistry ,Synchrotron radiation ,A diamond ,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics ,02 engineering and technology ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,01 natural sciences ,High pressure ,0103 physical sciences ,X-ray crystallography ,Density functional theory ,010306 general physics ,0210 nano-technology ,Nano crystalline - Abstract
The equation of state (EOS) of HfC and nanosized TiC at high pressure has been studied by means of synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction (XRD) in a diamond anvil cell (DAC) at ambient temperature, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. XRD analysis showed that the cubic structure of HfC and nanosized TiC maintained to the maximum pressures. The XRD data yield a bulk modulus [Formula: see text] GPa with [Formula: see text] of HfC. In addition, the bulk modulus of nanosized TiC derived from XRD data is [Formula: see text] GPa with [Formula: see text].
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100. Sa1083 GASTRIC AND PANCREATIC-DERIVED DOPAMINE STIMULATES DUODENAL BICARBONATE SECRETION THROUGH APICAL D2 RECEPTOR AND CALCIUM-PI3K-AKT PATHWAY
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Jinxia Zhu and Xiaoyan Feng
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Hepatology ,Chemistry ,Bicarbonate ,Gastroenterology ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Calcium ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Endocrinology ,Dopamine ,Internal medicine ,Dopamine receptor D2 ,medicine ,Secretion ,PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway ,medicine.drug - Published
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