Publications by authors named "J Arcos"
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- The study aimed to compare the image quality and visibility of lesions in zero echo time (ZTE) MRI using a deep learning (DL) algorithm against conventional reconstruction methods, and to evaluate DL ZTE's effectiveness in assessing bone loss for shoulder instability compared to CT scans.
- Forty-four patients with shoulder instability underwent both ZTE MRI and CT scans, with images evaluated by two radiologists for clarity, resolution, and how well they showed lesions, using a rating scale.
- Results indicated that DL ZTE MRI images had superior resolution and showed lesions more clearly than conventional methods, with excellent agreement between DL ZTE and CT scans for measuring bone parameters.
Controversy surrounds the current debate regarding the effects of outsourcing health services, as recent studies claim that increased outsourcing leads to reduced costs at the expense of worse patient outcomes. The goal of the value-based model is to enable healthcare systems to create more value for patients, and evidence points to improvements in public health outcomes, patient experience, and health expenditure in systems incorporating components of value-based healthcare. Some emerging evidence indicates promising results for outsourced hospitals which follow a value-based model of healthcare delivery.
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- - A new low-rank reconstruction technique has been introduced to fill in missing samples during the dead-time gap in Zero Echo Time (ZTE) imaging.
- - The method treats the missing data as an inverse problem, and tests show that it performs better than traditional methods when evaluated through simulations and in vivo experiments.
- - This approach successfully reconstructs images artifact-free for dead-time gaps of up to 4 Nyquist dwells, improving imaging bandwidth effectiveness compared to standard algebraic and parallel imaging techniques.
Over half of the world's arable land is acidic, which constrains cereal production. In South America, different rice-growing regions (Cerrado in Brazil and Llanos in Colombia and Venezuela) are particularly affected due to high aluminum toxicity levels. For this reason, efforts have been made to breed for tolerance to aluminum toxicity using synthetic populations.
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