Breath-hold
The UK HeartSpare Study (Stage II): Multicentre Evaluation of a Voluntary Breath-hold Technique in Patients Receiving Breast Radiotherapy.
... Breast radiotherapy forms an integral part of many women’s breast cancer treatment, halving the risk of breast cancer recurrence and reducing breast cancer mortality [1, 2]. Breast radiotherapy is, however, associated ...
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Dosimetric and clinical advantages of deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) during radiotherapy of breast cancer
... bar that followed the patient’s abdomen/chest move- ment, thus ensuring the reproducibility of deep inspir- ation amplitude. The width of the gating window was chosen such that the allowed amplitude of the residual RPM ...
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A size-based emphysema severity index: robust to the breath-hold-level variations and correlated with clinical parameters
... in breath-hold ...in breath-hold levels alter the size of emphysematous holes but not the statistical properties of size ...different breath-hold ...
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Optimization of single shot 3D breath hold non enhanced MR angiography of the renal arteries
... A breath-hold acquisition could overcome the afore- mentioned limitations associated with the Nav MP-SSFP ...a breath-hold SSFP in measurements of image quality and reader confidence for renal ...
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Simultaneous three dimensional myocardial T1 and T2 mapping in one breath hold with 3D QALAS
... a breath hold of 15 ...a breath hold of 10 heartbeats, still giving the same resolution as the original version but thus with less ventricular ...their breath and gives the possibility ...
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Magnetic resonance assessment of left ventricular volumes and mass using a single-breath-hold 3D k-t BLAST cine b-SSFP in comparison with multiple-breath-hold 2D cine b-SSFP
... Forty-eight patients, who were referred for MRI assessment of LV function for different indications, were prospectively enrolled for the study. Exclusion criteria for MRI were the standard absolute and relative ...
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Evaluation of a reproducible breath hold technique for the SABR treatment of lower lobe lung tumours
... inspiration breath hold (DIBH) is a method of motion management used in stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) for lung ...reproducible breath hold ...
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Respiratory level tracking with visual biofeedback for consistent breath-hold level with potential application in image-guided interventions
... As an alternative to CT-guided lung biopsy, CT fluor- oscopy can be used to target lung lesions. The advantage of CT fluoroscopy is the real-time feedback it provides so the radiologist can verify the lesions’ position ...
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Erythropoietic responses to a series of repeated maximal dynamic and static apnoeas in elite and non breath hold divers
... All breath-hold divers were national team members, of which four were current and two former national record holders (Table ...prior breath- hold diving ...
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The association of kidney function with repetitive breath-hold diving activities of female divers from Korea, Haenyeo
... that breath-hold divers are exposed to chronic intermittent hypoxia, similar circumstance to patients with OSA, may raise a possibility that BHD may potentially predispose breath-hold divers ...
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Comparisons of Image Quality and ADCs in Breath Hold, Respiratory Triggered and Free Breathing DWI of Pancreas at 3 T
... volunteers. Breath-hold DWI at ...training. Breath-hold and respiratory-triggered may be essential to reduce breathing artifacts, which can otherwise se- verely degrade image ...So ...
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Expiratory flow rate, breath hold and anatomic dead space influence electronic nose ability to detect lung cancer
... The primary aim of this study was to investigate whether collection-related factors, including expiratory flow rate, breath hold and exclusion of anatomic dead space influ- ence the breathprints of healthy ...
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Assessment of deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) amplitude and reduction in cardiac dose in left breast cancer patients
... Due to the anatomical position of the heart, patients treated with radiotherapy for left sided breast cancer are at a greater risk of cardiac morbidity due to radiation exposure of cardiac tissues [1] . It is widley ...
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Breath Hold Blood Oxygen Level–Dependent MRI: A Tool for the Assessment of Cerebrovascular Reserve in Children with Moyamoya Disease
... of breath- holding and normal breathing (Fig ...could hold their breath with- out ...to breath-hold and/or breathe normally when instructed by the research technologist or observed to ...
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EFFECT OF STRUCTURED RESISTANCE TRAINING AND VARIED INTENSITIES OF WEIGHT TRAINING ON SPEED AND BREATH HOLD TIME AMONG ATHLETES
... Aim of the Study find out the assess the effect of structured resistance training and varied intensities of weight training on Speed and breath hold time among The study was formulated[r] ...
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An Atypical Case of Taravana Syndrome in a Breath-Hold Underwater Fishing Champion: A Case Report
... Dysbaric accidents (DA) are usually referred to continuous air-supplied dives. Nonetheless diving accidents are known to occur also among breath-hold (BH) divers [1–6]. BH diving accidents include Taravana ...
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Cerebrovascular Reactivity during Prolonged Breath Hold in Experienced Freedivers
... This well-known mental phenomenon among freedivers is currently not suffi- ciently addressed in sports physiologic research. Indeed, our own results may only suggest that some freedivers expe- rienced an early ...
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Breath-hold CT attenuation correction for quantitative cardiac SPECT
... The registration of an attenuation map and a pre- reconstructed SPECT image, prior to reconstruction of a quantitative SPECT image corrected for attenuation and scatter, was limited to translations in three spatial ...
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Sports-related lung injury during breath-hold diving
... Total lung capacity (TLC) is achieved by the respiratory muscles distorting the chest wall to a maximal volume that can be attained in spite of lung recoil. Lowest possible volume, or residual volume (RV), is attained by ...
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Single breath hold 3D measurement of left atrial volume using compressed sensing cardiovascular magnetic resonance and a non model based reconstruction approach
... Methods: A highly accelerated compressed-sensing multi-slice cine sequence (CS-cineCMR) was combined with a non-model-based 3D reconstruction method to measure LA volumes with high temporal and spatial resolution during ...
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