Effect of Truncal-Type Occlusion Based on Multiphase or Single-Phase Computed Tomographic Angiography in Predicting Intracranial Atherosclerotic Stenosis-Related Acute Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion.

Objective: To investigate whether truncal-type occlusion based on multiphase computed tomographic angiography (mpCTA) was more effective for predicting intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis-related occlusion (ICAS-O) than occlusion type based on single-phase computed tomographic angiography (spCTA) in patients with acute ischemic stroke with large-vessel occlusion (AIS-LVO) in the middle cerebral artery (MCA).

Methods: Data were retrospectively collected from 72 patients with AIS-LVO in the MCA between January 2018 and December 2019. The occlusion types included truncal-type and branching-site occlusions.

Effects of smoking on the prognosis of anterior circulation acute ischemic stroke with intravenous thrombolysis.

Objective: This is a single-center retrospective analysis of the clinical data of 516 patients with acute ischemic stroke who underwent intravenous thrombolysis. This study was conducted to compare the therapeutic efficacy of smokers and non-smokers.

Methods: Univariate analysis was used to analyze and compare the clinical data of smokers and non-smokers.

Recording Characteristics, Microstructure, and Crystallization Kinetics of Ge/GeCu Recording Film Used for Write-Once Blu-Ray Disc.

A GeCu (16 nm) layer and a Ge (3 nm)/GeCu (16 nm) bilayer were grown by sputtering at room temperature and used as the recording films for write-once blue laser media. In comparison to the crystallization temperature of Ge in a GeCu film (380.7 °C-405.

Thin-Film Coated Plastic Wrap for Food Packaging.

In this study, the antimicrobial property and food package capability of polymethylpentene (PMP) substrate with silicon oxdie (SiO) and organic silicon (SiCH) stacked layers deposited by an inductively coupled plasma chemical vapor deposition system were investigated. The experimental results show that the stacked pair number of SiO/SiCH on PMP is limited to three pairs, beyond which the films will crack and cause package failure. The three-pair SiO/SiCH on PMP shows a low water vapor transmission rate of 0.