Quantitative tool design using tomographic brain image processing from SPECT to support psychiatric diagnosis.

Considering the advance in the knowledge of the psychiatric disease's physiopathology and its treatment, it becomes necessary the use of image processing algorithms in order to help the psychiatric diagnosis and to monitor the therapy. It is not but until the appearance of neuroimaging equipment that this branch of medicine "counts on" a support in engineering, emphasizing the technique of functional brain imaging in the neurological and psychiatric analysis. The purpose of this investigation is to create a tool composed by an image processing system, a dynamic information database and algorithms of comparative analysis, based on SPECT technology.

Hydatid disease of the lung.

The author describes his experience with pulmonary hydatid disease in children. Unlike adults, pulmonary localization is common in children, up to 50% of the total cases involved. The following rules have been established for the correct treatment of this condition: 1.

Muscle pH monitoring.

The evaluation of muscle pH is a recent method of monitoring the critically ill. We have found it a useful, safe, and reliable method. We, therefore, urge its routine use during and after major surgery.