The dates for entry into the clinic, receipt of pre-ESRD modality education, decision regarding intended RRT modality, and actual RRT initiation date were prospectively recorded.
The back of each prompt sheet includes a brief summary of the relative advantages and limitations for each screening modality intended to facilitate clinician-patient discussion.
To systematically review erectile function (EF) outcomes following primary whole gland (WG) and focal ablative therapies for localized prostate cancer to ascertain whether the treatment modality or intended treatment volume affects the time taken to recover baseline EF.
A self-controlled study design offers an alternative in which the clinician is asked to record at the time of referral, the clinical management intended had the imaging modality not been available.
The main advantage of such integrated framework for our specific application is the investigation of novel tomographic multi-modality instrumentation intended for in vivo small animal imaging through time-resolved MC simulation upon identical phantom geometries.
Another effective way to incorporate a set of imaging modalities in UCNPs is to employ a core/shell structure in which separate layers and nanoparticle surface parts are intended for different imaging modalities.
The findings of our study indicate that OPRAS does not work as intended due to its modalities of measuring performance, the poor implementation of the feedback mechanism and health workers' experience of not seeing any tangible benefits of OPRAS.
In conclusion, we have successfully demonstrated a molecular platform intended for targeted dual-modality imaging of PET/MRI or SPECT/MRI, which carries quantifiable numbers of 67/68Ga3+ and Gd3+ ions in their specific chelation moieties.
Within the seven-day measurement period, activity diaries were kept to collect information about outdoor activities (intended purpose, time spent outdoors, modality, etc).
Using a logistic regression model in patients examined preoperatively with CT, EUS and/or PET, one investigation found that PET was the only modality that predicted intended curative resection, due to the exclusion of distant metastases; furthermore, these authors concluded that PET may be used to prevent unnecessary surgical explorations in patients who did have M1 disease[ 31 ].
A SR published in 2011 [40] has evaluated the effects of different types of MT (intended as combination of different modalities) in patients with migraine.
