Anorexia occurring during pregnancy can have a devastating effect on the pregnant woman's physiological clinical picture, mental health, and fetal development. This is because eating behaviors, the fetal programming process, and behavioral-cognitive relationships all contribute to shaping intrauterine conditions. Dysfunction at the neural level predisposes to a disturbed relationship with food, reduced self-acceptance, perinatal depression, and a negative perception of body image.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Women's nutrition should be different from that of men. Women have lower energy requirements than men. And the need for certain vitamins and minerals is higher in women, this applies to iron, calcium, magnesium, vitamin D and vitamin B9 (folic acid).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHolographic tomography (HT) is a measurement technique that generates phase images, often containing high noise levels and irregularities. Due to the nature of phase retrieval algorithms within the HT data processing, the phase has to be unwrapped before tomographic reconstruction. Conventional algorithms lack noise robustness, reliability, speed, and possible automation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFYokukansan (YKS) is a traditional Japanese herbal medicine that is increasingly being studied for its effects on neurodegenerative diseases. In our study, we presented a novel methodology for a multimodal analysis of the effects of YKS on nerve cells. The measurements of 3D refractive index distribution and its changes performed by holographic tomography were supported with an investigation by Raman micro-spectroscopy and fluorescence microscopy to gather complementary morphological and chemical information about cells and YKS influence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTomographic quantitative phase imaging (QPI) lacks an absolute refractive index value baseline, which poses a problem when large dense objects extending over multiple fields of view are measured volume by volume and stitched together. Some of the measurements lack the natural baseline value that is provided by the mounting medium with a known refractive index. In this work, we discuss the problem of the refractive index (RI) baseline of individual reconstructed volumes that are deprived of access to mounting medium due to the extent of the object.
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