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- Hanås, Sofia, et al.
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Cardiac troponin I in healthy Norwegian Forest Cat, Birman and domestic shorthair cats, and in cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
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Ingår i: Journal of feline medicine and surgery. - : Sage Publications. - 1098-612X .- 1532-2750. ; 24:10, s. e370-e379
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were to assess the potential associations between the serum cardiac troponin I (cTnI) concentration in healthy cats and feline characteristics, systolic blood pressure, heart rate (HR), echocardiographic measurements and storage time; and to compare cTnI concentrations in healthy cats with concentrations in cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), with or without left atrial enlargement (LAE) and in cats with HCM, to assess potential associations between cTnI concentration and echocardiographic variables.METHODS: Cardiac TnI was analysed using an Abbott ARCHITECT ci16200 analyser in serum from prospectively included healthy Norwegian Forest Cat (NF; n = 33), Birman (n = 33) and domestic shorthair (DSH; n = 30) cats, and from 39 cats with HCM, with or without LAE.RESULTS: In healthy cats, higher cTnI concentrations were found in Birman cats than in NF cats (P = 0.014) and in neutered male cats than in intact females (P = 0.032). Cardiac TnI was positively associated with HR (P <0.0001). In cats with HCM, cTnI concentration was positively associated with left ventricular wall thickness and with left atrial-to-aortic root ratio (all P ⩽0.010). Cats with HCM had higher cTnI concentrations than healthy cats, and cTnI concentrations were higher in cats with HCM and LAE than in those with HCM without LAE (all P = 0.0003).CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Breed and sex may affect serum cTnI concentrations in healthy cats. The cTnI concentration increased with increasing severity of HCM.
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- Rubulis, Aigars, 1974, et al.
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Prediction of cardiovascular death and myocardial infarction by the QRS-T angle and T vector loop morphology after angioplasty in stable angina pectoris: an 8-year follow-up.
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Ingår i: Journal of Electrocardiology. - 0022-0736. ; 43:4, s. 310-317
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reliable cardiovascular (CV) risk assessment by a noninvasive tool would be of great value for CV event prevention. The present study consists of 187 coronary artery disease patients with 8 years of follow-up. Eight vectorcardiographic parameters characterizing different aspects of ventricular repolarization were analyzed at baseline: (1) the ST-segment (ST-VM), (2) the T vector angles (QRS-T angle, Televation, and Tazimuth), (3) the T vector loop morphology (Tavplan and Teigenvalue), and (4) Tarea and Tpeak-end. Cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction (MI), and repeated revascularization were traced via national registries. There were 16 CV deaths and 19 MIs; 89 patients remained free from CV events and revascularization. Ventricular repolarization parameters independently predicted CV death (widened QRS-T angle) and new MI (increased Tavplan) during follow-up. CV mortality was associated with increased divergence between depolarization and repolarization waves (widened QRS-T angle). Increased Tavplan, presumably reflecting heterogeneous repolarization, predicted future MI, which is a novel finding.
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- Ryden, Jens, et al.
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Hydrogen storage in the manganese containing metal-organic framework MOF-73
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Ingår i: Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. - : Elsevier BV. - 1387-1811 .- 1873-3093. ; 165:1, s. 205-209
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Calculations have been performed to investigate the possibility for hydrogen adsorption in the manganese containing metal-organic framework MOF-73. A supercell of 348 atoms in total were employed and the computer code Aimpro with the LDA functional PW92 was used to relax the different structures in the study. The results clearly show that MOF-73 is a suitable candidate for hydrogen storage since the coordination/binding energy for a hydrogen molecule to the MOF structure falls in the range of a few tens of kJmol-1.
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- Rydén, Jens, et al.
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Monte Carlo simulations of oppositely charged macroions in solution
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Ingår i: Journal of Chemical Physics. - : AIP Publishing. - 0021-9606 .- 1089-7690. ; 123:3, s. 1-034909
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The structure and phase behavior of oppositely charged macroions in solution have been studied with Monte Carlo simulations using the primitive model where the macroions and small ions are described as charged hard spheres. Size and charge symmetric, size asymmetric, and charge asymmetric macroions at different electrostatic coupling strengths are considered, and the properties of the solutions have been examined using cluster size distribution functions, structure factors, and radial distribution functions. At increasing electrostatic coupling, the macroions form clusters and eventually the system displays a phase instability, in analogy to that of simple electrolyte solutions. The relation to the similar cluster formation and phase instability occurring in solutions containing oppositely charged polymers is also discussed. (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
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- Ryden, Jens, et al.
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Proton transfer reactions for methanol and water containing manganese ion complexes
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Ingår i: Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1044-0305 .- 1879-1123. ; 22:12, s. 2276-2281
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Under considerations in the current study are reactions of the type [Mn(LOH) 2] 2+ → [Mn(LO)] + + LOH 2 +, where the ligand LOH represents water or/and methanol. Preferential proton transfer reactions and loss of any ligand fragments are discussed in the light of ligand polarizability, dipole moment, dissociation energy, proton affinity, differences in ligand-ion ionization energy, and ion radii. The results indicate the proton affinity and dissociation energy of the O-H bond are more important for the overall proton transfer reaction than differences in the first ionization energy of the ligand and the second ionization energy of the metal ion.
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- Rydén, Tobias, et al.
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Fast GPU-based Monte Carlo code for SPECT/CT reconstructions generates improved Lu-177 images
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Ingår i: Ejnmmi Physics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2197-7364. ; 5:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Full Monte Carlo (MC)-based SPECT reconstructions have a strong potential for correcting for image degrading factors, but the reconstruction times are long. The objective of this study was to develop a highly parallel Monte Carlo code for fast, ordered subset expectation maximum (OSEM) reconstructions of SPECT/CT images. The MC code was written in the Compute Unified Device Architecture language for a computer with four graphics processing units (GPUs) (GeForce GTX Titan X, Nvidia, USA). This enabled simulations of parallel photon emissions from the voxels matrix (1283 or 2563). Each computed tomography (CT) number was converted to attenuation coefficients for photo absorption, coherent scattering, and incoherent scattering. For photon scattering, the deflection angle was determined by the differential scattering cross sections. An angular response function was developed and used to model the accepted angles for photon interaction with the crystal, and a detector scattering kernel was used for modeling the photon scattering in the detector. Predefined energy and spatial resolution kernels for the crystal were used. The MC code was implemented in the OSEM reconstruction of clinical and phantom Lu-177 SPECT/CT images. The Jaszczak image quality phantom was used to evaluate the performance of the MC reconstruction in comparison with attenuated corrected (AC) OSEM reconstructions and attenuated corrected OSEM reconstructions with resolution recovery corrections (RRC). Result: The performance of the MC code was 3200 million photons/s. The required number of photons emitted per voxel to obtain a sufficiently low noise level in the simulated image was 200 for a 1283 voxel matrix. With this number of emitted photons/ voxel, the MC-based OSEM reconstruction with ten subsets was performed within 20 s/iteration. The images converged after around six iterations. Therefore, the reconstruction time was around 3 min. The activity recovery for the spheres in the Jaszczak phantom was clearly improved with MC-based OSEM reconstruction, e.g., the activity recovery was 88% for the largest sphere, while it was 66% for AC-OSEM and 79% for RRC-OSEM. Conclusion: The GPU-based MC code generated an MC-based SPECT/CT reconstruction within a few minutes, and reconstructed patient images of Lu-177-DOTATATE treatments revealed clearly improved resolution and contrast.
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- Svensson, Johanna, et al.
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A novel planar image-based method for bone marrow dosimetry in (177)Lu-DOTATATE treatment correlates with haematological toxicity.
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Ingår i: EJNMMI Physics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2197-7364. ; 3:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- (177)Lu-DOTATATE is a valuable treatment option for patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumours overexpressing somatostatin receptors. Though well tolerated in general, bone marrow toxicity can, besides renal exposure, become dose limiting and affect the ability to sustain future therapies. The aim of this study was to develop a novel planar image-based method for bone marrow dosimetry and evaluate its correlation with haematological toxicity during (177)Lu-DOTATATE treatment. In this study, 46 patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumours were treated with 7.2GBq (3.5-8.3GBq) of (177)Lu-DOTATATE on two to five occasions. Planar gamma camera images were acquired at 2, 24, 48 and 168h post-injection. Whole-body regions of interest were created in the images, and a threshold-based segmentation algorithm was applied to separate the uptake of (177)Lu-DOTATATE into high and low uptake compartments. The conjugate view method was used to quantify the activity, the accumulated activity was calculated and the absorbed dose to the bone marrow was estimated according to the MIRD scheme. Patients were monitored for haematological toxicity based on haemoglobin (Hb), white blood cell (WBC) and platelet (PLT) counts every other week during the treatment period.The mean absorbed dose to the bone marrow was estimated to 0.20Gy (0.11-0.37Gy) per 7.4GBq of (177)Lu-DOTATATE, and the mean dose per fraction correlated with a decrease in Hb (p=0.01), WBC (p<0.01) and PLT (p<0.01) counts. The total mean absorbed dose to the bone marrow was 0.64Gy (0.30-1.5Gy) per 24GBq (8.2-37GBq) of (177)Lu-DOTATATE and also correlated with a decrease in Hb (p<0.01), WBC (p=0.01) and PLT (p<0.01) counts.The planar image-based method developed in this study resulted in similar absorbed doses to the bone marrow as reported in earlier studies with blood-based bone marrow dosimetry. The results correlated with haematological toxicity, making it a promising method for estimating bone marrow doses in (177)Lu-DOTATATE treatment without the need for blood and urine sampling.
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