There is significant interest in the capability of metabolic imaging to assess for early treatment response, but these techniques have not been standardised for use outside of clinical research studies [112].
As these trials approach completion, rheumatologists can anticipate an increased demand for expertise and experience in evaluating disease progression and treatment response with these techniques and the emergence of MRI systems specifically designed for this market.
F-Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography (FDG-PET) and MRI have been most extensively studied for response evaluation, but these techniques suffer from limitations in the interpretation of fibrotic scar tissue and inflammation [ 4, 5].
Although the BSS-based modal parameter estimation techniques are able to identify modal characteristics of the structures from system responses, the performance of these techniques are generally limited by the damping values of structures and the number of sensors mounted on the structure.
Measurement of soluble transferrin receptor, hepcidin, or reticulocyte haemoglobin (Hb) content may offer a more sensitive assessment of iron status and response to therapy, 4 and these techniques may become more widely adopted in the future.
In fact, these alternative response assessment techniques are increasingly being implemented at earlier stages of drug development.
These findings are consistent with other reports that the response outcome association survives various response elimination techniques.
A reduced order modeling approach based on response surface techniques is developed for SOFC stacks.
Phycocyanin extraction from cyanobacteria Spirulina platensis was optimized using factorial design and response surface techniques.
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