The novel's prose, in this translation by Bruce Humes, is by turns awkward ("We were maggots feeding on the city's bones, but utterly sexy ones") and movingly precise ("When the heart breaks, there's a crackling sound, very light and very fine, like the splintering of wood fibers").
Dr. Moss and his colleagues at the University of Rochester are using a more precise measurement of heart rate variability -- determining the exact interval from one heartbeat to the next by asking patients to wear portable devices that record every beat.
Herein, we describe a novel medical image-based processing tool that facilitates accurate, noninvasive assessment of the mitral valvular complex, by creating precise three-dimensional heart models.
In this context, because it is essential to determine when RVAD can be removed due to the recovery of the right side of the patient's heart, precise RV function assessment is important.
The reason for the lower sampling rate for data analysis is that our laboratory uses a standard acquisition rate of 1,000 Hz, which allows QRS complexes to be timed to 1 ms, giving a precise measurement of heart rate.
The availability of transgenic zebrafish lines expressing fluorescent proteins in the vascular system, blood, endothelial cells and heart, facilitates precise and accurate evaluation of the effects of compounds on the cardiovascular system [ 12].
And in Tchaikovsky's "None but the Lonely Heart," through precise diction and subtle phrasing, she sang with intense emotion without ever distorting the musical line.
This sort of microsurgery, which had proved so successful in other operations, was not working in the heart, where precise and delicate movements were impossible with the long sticks.
Image quality control (QC) was used to obtain a precise alignment of the heart in PET and CT images in the short axis, vertical, and horizontal long-axis views.
Modern high resolution imaging techniques and 3D printing technology allow 3D printing of the replicas of the patient's heart for precise understanding of the complex anatomy, hands-on simulation of surgical and interventional procedures, and morphology teaching of the medical professionals and patients.
Air pollution's precise health effects are notoriously hard to quantify, but its links to heart attacks, lung disease and cancer are well established.
