长序列心电信号最佳复杂度的确定

研究了长序列心电信号的最佳复杂度。先将原始序列符号化 ,再采用 L empel- Ziv算法来计算复杂度 ,探讨影响复杂度的各种因素 ,然后对三组不同信号即正常心电、心绞痛和心肌梗塞信号进行分析。结果表明 ,采用最佳阈值比用平均值为阈值得到的复杂度更能明显地分辨出正常和异常信号 ,原始序列符号化的阈值以及信号长度直接影响序列复杂度 ,因此 ,在实际信号的复杂度测量上 ,应采用最佳阈值和最佳信号长度。     

Fundic gland polyps in familial adenomatous polyposis: neoplasms with frequent somatic adenomatous polyposis coli gene alterations

Fundic gland polyps (FGPs) are the most common gastric polyps in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). FGPs have traditionally been regarded as nonneoplastic, possibly hamartomatous lesions, but the pathogenesis of FGPs in both FAP and sporadic patients remains unclear. FGPs in FAP can show foveolar dysplasia, and rarely invasive gastric adenocarcinoma has been reported in patients with FAP and fundic gland polyposis. Using direct gene sequencing and allelic loss assays at 5q, we analyzed somatic adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene alterations in 41 FAP-associated FGPs (20 with foveolar dysplasia, six indefinite for dysplasia, and 15 nondysplastic) and 13 sporadic FGPs. The foveolar epithelium and dilated fundic glands of the polyps were separately microdissected and analyzed in 25 of 41 FAP-associated FGPs and 13 of 13 sporadic FGPs. Somatic APC gene alterations were identified frequently (21 of 41 cases, 51%) in FAP-associated FGPs. Both the foveolar epithelium and the dilated fundic gland epithelium comprising the FGPs were shown to carry the same somatic APC gene alteration in 24 (96%) of 25 cases. Furthermore, there was no difference in the frequency of somatic APC gene alterations between FGPs with foveolar dysplasia (10 of 20, 50%), indefinite for dysplasia (four of six, 67%), and nondysplastic (seven of 15, 47%) in FAP patients (P: = 0.697). In contrast, FGPs from non-FAP patients showed infrequent (one of 13, 8%) APC gene alterations (P: = 0.008). These results show that FGPs in FAP patients are pathogenetically distinct from sporadic FGPs. Somatic, second-hit APC gene alterations, which precede morphological dysplasia in many FAP-associated FGPs, indicate that FGPs arising in the setting of FAP are neoplastic lesions.     

骨骺牵张与骨骺板的生物力学性质

本研究是对新西兰幼兔股骨远端骨骺进行体内和体外牵张实验.16只兔右股骨经5～10N力每3天一次牵张.4周后的股骨长度值明显大于左侧和0N组.形态学变化是受牵张的骺板增厚,软骨细胞增殖且无骨骺分离骨折.体外骺板抗断裂测试显示夸张后的骺板强度不低于未经牵张的对照侧.8只动物16根股骨于体外接受20～100N力的牵张,其骺板的塑性变形度随牵张力值的增高而增大,抗断裂强度亦不低于未经牵张的骨骺.这些结果表明适量的牵张力和/或低牵张速率是实现“软骨分离”或骨延长的关键.     

锥板式粘度计测定低切血液粘度方法的实验研究

我们用锥板式粘度计从低切到高切、从高切到低切、以及先在８０ｓ－１下旋转６０ｓ、静止１００ｓ、再从低切到高切三种方法，测定了Ｖｉｓｔｅｒ大白鼠在低切变率为５．７５－１时的血液粘度。组间对照显示，三种测法所得低切血液粘度之间无显著差异，表明这些方法均可用来测量低切血液粘度。从低切稳定性来看，第二种测法最好。就用粘度法反映红细胞聚集性而言，第一种测法比较合适。     

Onchocerca volvulus larval antigen, OvB20, induces partial protection in a rodent model of onchocerciasis.

OvB20 is an antigen of Onchocerca volvulus preferentially recognized by sera from cattle vaccinated with irradiated infective larvae of Onchocerca lienalis. Antibodies raised against the recombinant protein were used to characterize the expression of the native protein in different developmental stages of O. volvulus and the rodent filaria Acanthocheilonema viteae. In O. volvulus, antibodies reacted to a polypeptide of 42 kDa in microfilariae and with proteins of 52 and 65 kDa in third-stage larvae. No products were detected in adult stages. Immunogold electron microscopy localized the native protein to discrete patches of the hypodermis and cuticle of infective larvae. Characterization of a homologous protein in A. viteae confirmed the stage-specific expression in infective larvae of the 65-kDa protein, which was secreted during in vitro culture. Vaccination of rodents against A. viteae with a B20-maltose-binding-protein fusion protein resulted in a 49 to 60% reduction in adult worm recoveries with a corresponding 97% reduction in microfilaremia.     

腹主动脉与其主支夹角的空间定位

甲醛固定的成人尸体32具(男19,女13),造影拍片和实地解剖对照观察,测量腹主动脉主支的发出高度、起点方位、与主动脉的夹角,以及与矢状面的交角。综合以上四项指标,即能构想腹主动脉与其主支夹角的空间位置和变动范围。     

The influence of normal human ageing on automatic movements

There is evidence that aged normal subjects have more difficulty in achieving automaticity than young subjects. The underlying central neural mechanism for this phenomenon is unclear. In the present study, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to investigate the effect of normal ageing on automaticity. Aged healthy subjects were asked to practice self-initiated, self-paced, memorized sequential finger movements with different complexity until they could perform the tasks automatically. Automaticity was evaluated by having subjects perform a secondary task simultaneously with the sequential movements. Although it took more time, most aged subjects eventually performed the tasks automatically at the same level as the young subjects. Functional MRI results showed that, for both groups, sequential movements activated similar brain regions before and after automaticity was achieved. No additional activity was observed in the automatic condition. While performing automatic movements, aged subjects had greater activity in the bilateral anterior lobe of cerebellum, premotor area, parietal cortex, left prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate, caudate nucleus and thalamus, and recruited more areas, including the pre-supplementary motor area and the bilateral posterior lobe of cerebellum, compared to young subjects. These results indicate that most healthy aged subjects can perform some complex motor tasks automatically. However, aged subjects appear to require more brain activity to perform automatically at the same level as young subjects. This appears to be the main reason why aged subjects have more difficulty in achieving automaticity.     

Algorithm and performance of a clinical IMRT beam-angle optimization system

This paper describes the algorithm and examines the performance of an intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) beam-angle optimization (BAO) system. In this algorithm successive sets of beam angles are selected from a set of predefined directions using a fast simulated annealing (FSA) algorithm. An IMRT beam-profile optimization is performed on each generated set of beams. The IMRT optimization is accelerated by using a fast dose calculation method that utilizes a precomputed dose kernel. A compact kernel is constructed for each of the predefined beams prior to starting the FSA algorithm. The IMRT optimizations during the BAO are then performed using these kernels in a fast dose calculation engine. This technique allows the IMRT optimization to be performed more than two orders of magnitude faster than a similar optimization that uses a convolution dose calculation engine. Any type of optimization criterion present in the IMRT system can be used in this BAO system. An objective function based on clinically-relevant dose-volume (DV) criteria is used in this study. This facilitates the comparison between a BAO plan and the corresponding plan produced by a planner since the latter is usually optimized using a DV-based objective function. A simple prostate case and a complex head-and-neck (HN) case were used to evaluate the usefulness and performance of this BAO method. For the prostate case we compared the BAO results for three, five and seven coplanar beams with those of the same number of equispaced coplanar beams. For the HN case we compare the BAO results for seven and nine non-coplanar beams with that for nine equispaced coplanar beams. In each case the BAO algorithm was allowed to search up to 1000 different sets of beams. The BAO for the prostate cases were finished in about 1-2 h on a moderate 400 MHz workstation while that for the head-and-neck cases were completed in 13-17 h on a 750 MHz machine. No a priori beam-selection criteria have been used in achieving this performance. In both the prostate and the head-and-neck cases, BAO is shown to provide improvements in plan quality over that of the equispaced beams. The use of DV-based objective function also allows us to study the dependence of the improvement of plan quality offered by BAO on the DV criteria used in the optimization. We found that BAO is especially useful for cases that require strong DV criteria. The main advantages of this BAO system are its speed and its direct link to a clinical IMRT system.     

关节镜治疗难治性髌前滑囊炎30例临床分析

目的探讨改进关节镜下治疗难治性髌前滑囊炎的疗效。方法自2009年6月~2014年5月对我院30例复发髌前滑囊炎患者,男22例,女8例。囊肿最大为8cm×12cm,最小为4cm×5cm,全部病例均在关节镜下手术治疗,平均手术时间为30分钟,术后固定2周。膝关节疼痛评价按采用视觉模拟评分法(visual analogue scale,VAS)评分、膝关节关节活动度(ROM)对术前、术后3、6、12、24、36个月随访时功能进行评价。结果术后随访,全部患者均无感染,无肿胀,关节活动正常,全部病例术后膝关节疼痛显著缓解,活动显著改善。仅有1例患者残留有膝前疼痛,1例患者局部皮肤有麻木感。结论关节镜下保守治疗髌前滑囊炎,美容效果和功能效果满意,适合临床开展。     

眼底图像畸变的校正及多幅图像的特征点拼接算法

对于眼底图像 ,由于不在正视点取像造成的几何畸变和由于荧光素从血管壁渗漏等造成的灰度畸变 ,几乎是不可避免的。为临床诊断提供丰富信息的需要出发 ,进行多幅眼底图像的拼接是必要的。本文为此提出了几个新的处理方法 ,如基于大窗口的滤波灰度校正方法、基于透视投影原理的几何校正方法与基于小波子空间上的拼接算法 ,均具有效果好和耗时少的优点。