This requires further corrections and further work to investigate.
Three of the patients treated with the Ilizarov frame had no angular deformity following index frame removal, and one had a residual 10° valgus deformity but did not require further angular correction.
The data analysis problem, therefore, first presents itself as one of image analysis, the result of which is a sequence of intensities which require further signal corrections to produce base calls (Brown et al., 2006).
One patient required further surgery for the correction of residual deformity.
In our opinion, the issue of DT correction requires further investigation using large number of dataset from patients with different body shapes and sizes to fully understand the interdependence between primary photons count losses and patient's body shape, scatter, and primary photon count rates.
We had concerns that pregnant women may require a further "correction factor" but this turned out to be unnecessary since there was no improvement in the objective function when applied to either clearance or volume of distribution.
The number of fractions imaged is not an entirely independent variable; finding displacements or making corrections required further imaging, affecting the total number of fractions imaged and possibly the number of further displacements reported.
The impact of asynchronism on patients' prognosis and the availability of correction measures require further investigation.
Three of the patients treated with a monolateral device required further operations for residual angular correction (ranging from 10° uniplanar deformity to 37° oblique deformity), undergoing six procedures, with five Ilizarov frames and one monolateral device.
However, the effect of the structure of the partial-correlation matrices on the variance of the eigenvalues requires further scrutiny to confirm that this correction can be applied to PINTsc.
