Sentence examples for modality of first from inspiring English sources

Since bony sinus anatomy can be best depicted by CT, CT is often the imaging modality of first choice [15].

Plain radiography is widespread, cost-effective and panoramic, thus often representing the imaging modality of first choice for the evaluation of painful heel.

As an inexpensive, quick and dynamic imaging technique that also provides high-resolution depiction of the PF and comparison with the contralateral side, ultrasound should be considered the modality of first choice for assessing PF disorders.

On the contrary, the modality of first dialysis did not exert a significant effect on both components.

When cure can be expected, surgical resection is the therapeutic modality of first choice (Akoh and McIntyre, 1992; Devesa et al, 1998).

Multiplanar capability and superior tissue contrast make magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) the modality of first choice in the evaluation and follow-up of brucellar spondylodiskitis [ 5, 6].

Ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) are modalities of first choice in renal imaging.

For these patients new modalities of second-line therapy are urgently warranted.

We refer to the modality of the first presentation of an item as the "encoding modality" (ENC-MOD with levels: ENC-MODAUD, ENC-MODVIS) and the modality of the second (or repeated) presentation of an item as the "probe modality" (PROBE-MOD with levels: PROBE-MODAUD, PROBE-MODVIS).

The proposal of the SIPMeL study group wants merely to be a referral model in terms of type and modality of the second-level test execution.

The participants had to perform an unspeeded discrimination task in which they had to indicate the modality of the second stimulus presented on each trial by pressing one of two response keys.