Regarding PET scan values, Fig. 5 shows the relationship between the ODI category and PET endplate SUVmax.
Data on smoking status were available only in 50 patients (50%), but we were unable to find any significant difference in CT scan values between smokers and nonsmokers (see Table 2 in Additional file 1).
Concerned about the overall proliferation of imaging tests, Medicare said it might require a large-scale study to determine the scans' value.
Only the bands representing the full-size nNP-RTA (Fig. 4A, *) were scanned, and the amount of each sample was determined using the equation of the graph (y = 134.61x + c, where c = 0, and y corresponds to the scanned value).
Different sets of the initial water saturation scanning values for the same bounding curve per rock type were tested and scanning curves were generated at an interval of 0.05% change in Sw.
A-scan values falling below the fifth percentile of the distribution in our normal reference material were transformed through multiplication with an exponential factor.
The scanning values for GRP78, CHOP, ATF4, ATF6 α, ATF6 β, sXBP-1, TRAF2, cleaved caspase 3, cleaved caspase 9, caspase 12 and cytochrome c were divided by the scanning values for β-actin, and those for phosphorylated PERK, eIF2 α, GSK3 β, VDAC, ERK, JNK and p38 MAPK by the total PERK, eIF2 α, GSK3 β, VDAC, ERK, JNK and p38 MAPK, respectively.
We used the 256 averaged A-scan values of the 3 peripapillary scan circles for each OCT test, after we decreased their complexity by means of principal component analysis (PCA).
The fused A-scan values depended on the decrease in RNFLT for the specific A-scan position relative to the distribution of the normative reference material, and the status of the visual field sector corresponding to that location.
We performed voxel-wise ANCOVAs with the differences in each measure between the pre-and post-scan values at each voxel as dependent variables and the prescan values at each voxel as independent variables.
