In this study, T score was evaluated using QUS, which has many advantages in assessing osteoporosis: the modality is small, no ionizing radiation is involved, measurements can be made quickly and easily, and the cost of the device is low compared with DXA and quantitative computed tomography devices.
For patients with pain radiation, the modality differences were smaller and inconsistent.
Following discussions on the complications and costs involved in responding to the rules or requirements outlined above, baseline, monitoring, and certification modalities were simplified for "small-scale projects".
Interference effects introduced by acquiring data from the two modalities simultaneously are small and non-significant.
Phantom experiments showed that possible interference effects introduced by acquiring data from the two modalities simultaneously are small and non-significant.
23 The trial showed that group treatment was more effective than one to one treatment, but the differences in weight loss between those randomised to choice and those randomised to receive the modality they did not choose were small and non-significant.
When spatiotemporally conflicting stimuli from different modalities are integrated, small conflicts are often compensated for, giving rise to the ventriloquist effect, whereby the conflicting stimuli are perceptually "pulled" together toward a single spatiotemporal onset [14] [17].
In a recent survey on audiovisual quality assessment [3], the authors concluded that 'when measuring individual audio or video quality in audio-visual stimuli, the influence of the other modality might be small, but cannot be neglected totally.' It is yet unclear if this mutual influence also has an impact on the audiovisual integration.
19 Transpupillary thermotherapy is generally considered as a treatment option for small choroidal melanomas, and the tumours treated by this modality were the smallest in this series (weighted mean tumour LBD and height were 7.0 mm and 2.5 mm, respectively).
The advantage of the near infrared optical imaging modalities is that the measuring instruments are smaller in size and easier to use than the other modalities.
