Sentence examples for evaluating contrast from inspiring English sources

VisualSonics, an ultrasound-imaging company based in Toronto, has been evaluating contrast agents made up of gold nanorods attached to antibodies that bind to specific targets found in cancer cells.

Both Ktrans and IAUC are shown to give similar results in the clinical application of this technique and the improved reproducibility of IAUC in this study suggests it is a valuable, straightforward method of evaluating contrast dynamics from DCE MRI.

During TACE, C-arm CT is performed to identify the lesion of interest and all tumor-feeding arteries, to plan and navigate to the intended injection position, and to confirm adequacy of the injection position by evaluating contrast enhancement of the targeted tumor [ 1– 4].

In the last decade there has been a large amount of work on the refinement of pulse sequences, coil technology, and methods of evaluating contrast enhancement and washout, with the aim of not only maximising sensitivity, but more importantly, improving specificity.

Finally low-dose CT was replaced by contrast-enhanced CT for evaluating contrast-enhanced PET/CT.

Table 3 shows the performance of the evaluated contrast metric with the contrast dataset (150 images) of the CSIQ database.

To evaluate contrast sensitivity and color vision of yellow ultraviolet (UV) intraocular len (IOL) in cataract patients.

Visibility of the target and the effect of disability glare on the visibility were evaluated based on participants grade, and luminance measurement (to evaluate contrast and visibility level by Adrian model).

Solbiati et al. [ 10] evaluated contrast agent-enhanced color and power Doppler US in the detection of residual tumor after RF ablation of 20 colorectal liver metastases.

Surprisingly, among 377 predictor variables evaluated, contrast sensitivity scores were among the strongest predictors of survival (ranked 5th of 377 variables, mean AUC = 0.570).

To evaluate contrast enhancement of HeLa cells labeled with lipophilic contrast agents 1– 3, MR images of cell pellets were acquired at 7 T. HeLa cells were incubated with either 20 μM contrast agent or 90 μM normalized Gd III).