Three-dimensional ultrasound-based radiomics nomogram for the prediction of extrathyroidal extension features in papillary thyroid cancer.

Purpose: To develop and validate a three-dimensional ultrasound (3D US) radiomics nomogram for the preoperative prediction of extrathyroidal extension (ETE) in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC).

Methods: This retrospective study included 168 patients with surgically proven PTC (non-ETE, n = 90; ETE, n = 78) who were divided into training (n = 117) and validation (n = 51) cohorts by a random stratified sampling strategy. The regions of interest (ROIs) were obtained manually from 3D US images.

Development and Validation of a Radiomics Model Based on 3-Dimensional Endoanal Rectal Ultrasound of Rectal Cancer for Predicting Lymph Node Metastasis.

Background: Development of a radiomics model for predicting lymph node metastasis status in rectal cancer patients based on 3-dimensional endoanal rectal ultrasound images.

Methods: This study retrospectively included 79 patients (41 with lymph node metastasis positive and 38 with lymph node metastasis negative) diagnosed with rectal cancer in our hospital from January 2018 to February 2022. The tumor's region of interest is first delineated by radiologists, from which radiomics features are extracted.

Diagnostic Accuracy of Three-Dimensional Endoanal Ultrasound for Anal Fistula: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Background: Anal fistula is a relatively common anorectal disease. An accurate assessment of the main anal fistula type and the anatomy of the internal opening before surgery is necessary to obtain the best surgical results. Whether three-dimensional endoanal ultrasound (3D-EAUS) should be used as the first-line diagnostic tool for anal fistula is still controversial.

Effects of continuing nursing care under cognitive behavioral intervention on psychological state and living quality in patients with double J catheter after ureterolithiasis surgery.

Objective: The effects of continuing nursing care under cognitive behavioral intervention on the psychological state and living quality of patients with double J catheter after ureterolithiasis surgery were analyzed in this research.

Methods: The research subjects in this study were 142 patients who were discharged from our hospital with a double J tube after ureterolithiasis surgeries from June 2019 to June 2020. According to the patient care plan, the subjects were divided into the control group (n=71) and the observation group (n=71) and respectively treated with routine basic nursing measures and continuing nursing care under cognitive-behavior intervention.

The stiffness of transplanted kidneys changes with time after renal transplantation.

Background: Kidney transplantation is one of the most effective ways to treat end-stage kidney disease. However, 5000 renal transplant recipients start or restart dialysis because of chronic allograft nephropathy (CAN) every year in the United States. Detecting changes in the stiffness of transplanted kidneys can help diagnose transplanted kidney disease.

The Neural Correlate Difference Between Positive and Negative Awe.

Awe is an emotional response to perceptually vast stimuli that transcend current frames of reference. Narrative and experimental work has characterized two distinct variants of awe: positive and negative; however, little is known about the structural neural basis associated with the differences of these two variants of awe. In this study, we investigated the structural neural basis of positive and negative awe underlying individual differences among 62 young healthy adults.

Synthesis of graphene quantum dot-stabilized gold nanoparticles and their application.

Herein, we report an synthesis of graphene quantum dots (GQDs), which have been synthesized from only starch and water and stabilize AuNPs in water. The construction of six gold nanocomposites, AuNPs 1-6, with sizes ranging from 13.4 nm to 32.

Non-invasive Assessment of Changes in Muscle Injury by Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography: An Experimental Study in Contusion Model.

The present study investigated the potential of ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) in assessment of muscle stiffness in muscle injury. SWE was performed on the injured muscle in 30 New Zealand rabbits that were randomly assigned to three groups: the contusion group, which was not treated with an efficient therapeutic strategy after muscle injury; the treatment group, which was treated with a therapeutic scheme after muscle injury; and the healthy group, which was not injured and served as a control. Both the mean Young's modulus (E) and the maximum Young's modulus (E) were obtained pre-injury and 0.

Rapid and sensitive biomarker detection using molecular imprinting polymer hydrogel and surface-enhanced Raman scattering.

Biomarkers are important biochemical indicators, which could be used for identification, early diagnosis and monitoring of diseases during the course of treatment. However, biomarker diagnosis has some shortcomings such as requiring a large amount of samples, long test time and high cost, which seriously influences the correctness and timely treatment to patients. Here, a relatively fast and efficient plasmonic hot spot-localized surface imprinting of Ag spheres using biomarker template immobilization and hydrogel copolymerization is described.

A Ag-molecularly imprinted polymer composite for efficient surface-enhanced Raman scattering activities under a low-energy laser.

In this work, we have fabricated flower-shaped Ag particles coated with a molecularly imprinted polymer (Ag@MIP) based on the molecular imprinting technique and SERS technology. Although Raman signals decrease with the reducing laser power, Ag@MIP could sensitively detect the target molecules even at a laser power as low as 0.14 μW.

High performance surface-enhanced Raman scattering from molecular imprinting polymer capsulated silver spheres.

Driven by the ultrasensitivity of the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) technique and the directive selection of molecular imprinting polymers (MIPs), core-shell silver-molecularly imprinted polymer (Ag@MIP) hybrid structure was synthesized to serve as a novel SERS platform. The results show that as prepared Ag@MIPs wrapped over a thin shell of MIPs are sensitive to the template molecule (Rhodamine 6G). To investigate the selectivity of Ag@MIPs, the structurally related molecules, such as Rhodamine B and crystal violet, were chosen as controls.

High performance surface-enhanced Raman scattering via dummy molecular imprinting onto silver microspheres.

A new strategy for achieving high performance SERS was proposed by using the dummy molecular imprinting technique. The obtained core-shell composite can effectively improve the signal-to-noise ratio and the veracity of trace analysis in SERS detection.

Synthesis of multifunctional fluorescent magnetic graphene oxide hybrid materials.

Fluorescent magnetic graphene oxide hybrid materials have been fabricated by a multistep method. X-ray diffraction, transmission and scanning electron microscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, vibration sample magnetometry, and energy dispersive spectroscopy were used to characterize the resulting material. The results showed that the materials have a saturation magnetization value of 22.