Low-Field MR Imaging — Development in Finland

1996 ◽  
Vol 37 (3P2) ◽  
pp. 446-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Sepponen
Keyword(s):  
Mr Imaging ◽  
Magnetization Transfer ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Inherent Safety ◽  
The Past ◽  
Low Field ◽  
Cost Of Health Care ◽  
The Cost

The development project for application of MR imaging to diagnosis of internal hemorrhages was initiated by the Instrumentarium Corporation in 1978. The goal was to develop a diagnostic tool for emergency clinics. Due to the rapid development of imaging technology, the goal was changed to a cost-effective MR unit. During the past 16 years, several generations of low-field units have been introduced. Consequently, a vast amount of clinical and technical knowledge about low-field MR has been gained. The interest in low-field units is rapidly increasing. A part of this may be explained by the pressure to reduce the cost of health care. There are some features which make the low-field approach clinically interesting. These include the feasibility of open magnet configurations, and the availability of unique contrast parameters such as magnetization transfer and T1ρ. One important aspect is the inherent safety of a low-field MR unit. This article reviews the methods and devices introduced through the development of low-field technology in Finland.

Imaging end-stage kidney disease in adults: Low-field MR imaging with magnetization transfer vs. ultrasonography

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kajander ◽  
T. Kallio ◽  
A. Alanen ◽  
M. Komu ◽  
J. Forsström
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Mr Imaging ◽  
Magnetization Transfer ◽  
End Stage Kidney Disease ◽  
Low Field ◽  
End Stage

Transareolar Robotic-Assisted Access to the Mitral Valve

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 438-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Musumeci ◽  
Giovanni Mariscalco ◽  
Federico Ranocchi ◽  
Daniele Tosi ◽  
Paolo Persichetti
Keyword(s):  
Mitral Valve ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Robotic Assisted ◽  
The Past ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Da Vinci Si ◽  
Transareolar Approach

During the past years, a rapid development and refinements of robotic heart valve techniques have led to consider robotic mitral valve (MV) surgery safe, effective, and durable. Robotic MV surgery has proven to be a cost-effective and cost-saving strategy in MV operations, being associated with reduced morbidity and mortality rates. We present a novel video-assisted transareolar approach to access the MV using the da Vinci Si HD telemanipulation system (Intuitive Surgical, Inc, Sunnyvale, CAUSA). This technique is effective and reproducible, providing maximum patient satisfaction from both the clinical and cosmetic points of view.

IMAGING END-STAGE KIDNEY DISEASE IN ADULTS. Low-field MR imaging with magnetization transfer vs. ultrasonography

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-360
Author(s):  
S. Kajander ◽  
T. Kallio ◽  
A. Alanen ◽  
M. Komu ◽  
J. Forsstrom
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Mr Imaging ◽  
Magnetization Transfer ◽  
End Stage Kidney Disease ◽  
Low Field ◽  
End Stage

scholarly journals Management in the Model of Transport Behavior of Metropolis Residents Using the Concept of “Mobility as a Service”

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 04014
Author(s):  
Olga Pishchikova
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Development ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern Economy ◽  
Effective Mobility

The article discusses the era of maximizing road connectivity receding into the past, giving way to the broader challenge of creating livable, cost-effective, socially healthy and environmentally sustainable cities and metropolitan areas. A metropolis is defined as a “supercity”, the largest form of settlement and the highest link in the urbanization process, one of the main criteria of which is the rapid development of communications in general, and transport in particular. A modern metropolis is highly dependent on an efficient transport system, which ensures its livelihoods through the delivery of goods and provides the population with access to resources, jobs and residential areas. The effective mobility of economic development of cities and agglomerations, which are the locomotives of the modern economy, is considered. The extensive development of the transport systems of megalopolises through the construction of new roads becomes ineffective, since the increase in the number of private cars outstrips the pace of road construction. The paradigm of urban development in the 2000s changed from a “city for cars” to a simple, at first glance, “city for people” paradigm, and mobility was also considered.

scholarly journals Issues Relating to the Creation of a Central Database to Support Statistical Property Valuations

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 86-117
Author(s):  
Gabriella Grosz ◽  
Evelyn Herbert ◽  
Gábor Izsák ◽  
Katinka Szász
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Data Transfer ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Banking Competition ◽  
Valuation Methods ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
The Past ◽  
Statistical Property ◽  
Central Database ◽  
The Cost

The valuation of real estate collateral is a long-established area of the lending process that is currently undergoing increasingly dynamic development and in which the use of statistical valuation methods is becoming more and more common instead of on-site valuations. The legal conditions for this have been created by amendments to European and national legislation in the past year, but for the method to be truly widely used and operational and to ensure the accuracy of the resulting valuations, access to detailed, accurate, up-to-date and regularly checked data on real estate must be also created. As the databases currently available for Hungarian real estate are very fragmented, in our study, we propose to create a central database that would provide a uniform, up-to-date set of data, by harmonising the existing separate databases. Such a database would help create a level playing field in the market and automate data transfer in a cost-effective, fast and reliable manner. This would greatly facilitate the uptake of statistical valuation methods, supporting the further spread of digitalisation, increasing banking competition, speeding up administration and reducing the cost of lending for all parties.

Critical Issues in Assessing Sustainability and Feasibility of E-health

2008 ◽  
pp. 325-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilmini Wickramasinghe ◽  
Santosh K. Misra
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Rapid Rate ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Cost Of Health Care ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Adoption And Diffusion ◽  
The Cost ◽  
And Diffusion

The cost of health care is increasing exponentially worldwide. The adoption and diffusion of e-health and the application of Internet and Communication Technology (ICT) in health care is growing at a rapid rate in an attempt to find cost-effective methods of providing quality health care. Both European and US governments are making e-health a priority on their agendas. However, few, if any, discuss the critical issues of the sustainability and feasibility of e-health models. We attempt to fill this critical void by presenting a macro framework that identifies the key components of a generic e-health system and identifying factors playing a role in the assessment of e-health sustainability.

scholarly journals Laboratory Automation's Bold Steps: Planning the Project and Selecting the Vendor

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Gordon C. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Healthcare Reform ◽  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
Actual Cost ◽  
The Past ◽  
Clinical Laboratories ◽  
Laboratory Services ◽  
Cost Of Health Care ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Delivery Of Health Services

Healthcare reform has changed the manner of delivery of health services forever. One of the areas of greatest impact has been in clinical laboratory services. While the cost of health care overall has risen steadily over the past 5 years, the actual cost of a Chem 7 panel in our laboratory, for example, has decreased by 31%. This example of cost control is undoubtedly typical of the focus which clinical laboratories have placed on cost containment in recent years.

scholarly journals Open-Minded Electronic Learning: Towards Enabling Cost-effective Lifelong Learning

10.28945/3040 ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olutayo Ajayi ◽  
Ibironke Ajayi
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Electronic Learning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Computer Aided Learning

Over the past 20 years, computers and the sharing of information have penetrated nearly every aspect of educational life. Indeed, the reliance on Computer-aided Learning has impact on the economic structure and the cost per learner. The demand for electronic learning (e-learning) today is rapidly growing worldwide with the demand simply over stressing the limited infrastructures and resources available. The developing countries are no exception to the same and demand for elearning is relatively on the rise as well. In this paper, an attempt has been made to critically examine ideals of open source strategies for enabling such technologies and other resources available. The paper also provides key recommendations with regards to the steps that need to be taken to enhance the overall quality of the lifelong learning most especially for adults.

WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, JOSEPH SCALIGER?

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-271
Author(s):  
MICHAEL O’BRIEN
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effective ◽  
New Order ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Creative People ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Of The Mind ◽  
Workload Allocation ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University

It is said we are in trouble, we humanists. “The humanities are under pressure all over the world, Rens Bod begins (xii). James Turner ends, “Without question, the humanities now face greater flux than they have routinely endured in the past century” (385). The trouble and the flux seem to take two forms. There is the usual business of intellectual disciplines forming and re-forming, of new paradigms restructuring institutions, a process that one might regard as discomforting but sometimes healthy. But there is the other business of universities being governed by anti-intellectuals, aficionados of the spreadsheet, counted beans, and the alumni dinner. These predators roam campuses, sneer at libraries, abolish departments, and plan the day when, the cost-effective triumphant, scholarship will be little more than a digital ghost. At the University of Essex, lately Marina Warner was coldly informed of this new order, defined by a “Tariff of Expectations” (seventeen targets to be met) and a “workload allocation” handed down from on high. There was an indifference to what had gone before, what creative people had once hoped for for Colchester. “That is all changing now,” the executive dean for humanities briskly explained. “That is over.” The past, that is. Fed up, Warner resigned, hearing too loudly “the tick of the deathwatch beetle” in the fabric of the house she wished to inhabit, a university that valued scholarship and the life of the mind, as it once had.

scholarly journals A Strategy toward Realizing Ultrashort Channels and Microstructures Array by Piezoelectric Inkjet Printing

Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1515
Author(s):  
Jianqiu Chen ◽  
Liao Gan ◽  
Zhipeng Pan ◽  
Honglong Ning ◽  
Zhiqiang Fang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inkjet Printing ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Functional Materials ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Feature Size ◽  
Nanoscale Structures ◽  
The Past ◽  
Printing Technique ◽  
The Cost

Inkjet printing has been proved to be a powerful tool in the cost-effective ambient deposition of functional materials for the fabrication of electronic devices in the past decades. However, restricted by equipment and inks, the feature size of printed dots or lines with conventional inkjet printing is usually limited to several tens of micrometers, which could not fit the requirements for the fabrication of large-area, high-resolution microscale, even nanoscale, structures. Therefore, various technical means were developed for breaking the equipment limits. Here, we report a strategy for realizing ultrashort channels and homogeneous microstructures arrays by a conventional piezoelectric inkjet printing technique without any additional pre-mask process on the substrate. This strategy extends application of piezoelectric inkjet printing technique to biological and technological areas.

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