Purpose Of Review: This review seeks to define caregiver practices that impact childhood eating behaviors and identify ways to utilize these relationships to prevent childhood obesity.
Recent Findings: Childhood obesity, which correlates with adult obesity and increased cardiovascular risk, is increasing in prevalence and severity. Caregivers play a significant role in shaping a child's eating behaviors and their predisposition to obesity.
The assessment of margin involvement is a fundamental task in breast conserving surgery to prevent recurrences and reoperations. It is usually performed through histology, which makes the process time consuming and can prevent the complete volumetric analysis of large specimens. X-ray phase contrast tomography combines high resolution, sufficient penetration depth and high soft tissue contrast, and can therefore provide a potential solution to this problem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicro-computed tomography (µCT) provides non-destructive three-dimensional (3D) imaging of soft tissue microstructures. Specific features in µCT images can be identified using correlated two-dimensional (2D) histology images allowing manual segmentation. However, this is very time-consuming and requires specialist knowledge of the tissue and imaging modalities involved.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMargins of wide local excisions in breast conserving surgery are tested through histology, which can delay results by days and lead to second operations. Detection of margin involvement intraoperatively would allow the removal of additional tissue during the same intervention. X-ray phase contrast imaging (XPCI) provides soft tissue sensitivity superior to conventional X-rays: we propose its use to detect margin involvement intraoperatively.
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