The oscillatory magnetoresistances are found to display beating
4-Hydroxytamoxifen Endocrinology & Hormones inhibitor pattern at low magnetic fields and to exhibit spin-splitting structure at high magnetic fields. We attribute the beating pattern to zero-field spin splitting due to spin-orbit coupling by analyzing fast-Fourier-transform results and Hall resistance. By modulating the oscillatory magnetoresistances we investigate the influence of spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman splitting, and the second populated subband on the appearance of beating patterns and the spin-splitting structure in oscillatory magnetoresistances. The strong spin-orbit coupling and the large effective g factor are demonstrated to be the significant parameters in controlling the appearance of spin-related oscillatory magnetoresistance in the inversion layer on bulk p-Hg1-xCdxTe. Birinapant Apoptosis inhibitor A good agreement between magnetoresistance data and theory suggests a spin-orbit coupling parameter alpha = 2.8 X 10(-11) eV.m and the effective g factor g* A = -44.0. The spin-orbit coupling effect presented in the inversion layer on bulk p-Hg1-xCdxTe provides a potential candidate for spintronic devices. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3590730]“
“Background:
The comparison of systematic prostate biopsies (PBx) with PBx including additional cores based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of lesions suspicious for prostate cancer (PCa) has been controversial. This study focuses on additional cores based
on MRI findings for better cancer detection. Methods: Data were collected from 491 men who underwent transrectal Sapanisertib in vitro ultrasound-guided PBx: a 12-core PBx (group 1: 395 cases) and a 12-core PBx plus 1-3 additional cores based on MRI (group 2: 96 cases). Comparison of two groups revealed how the additional cores taken with MRI findings affected PCa detection. Results: Group 1 had 205 cases (51.9%) and group 2 had 55 cases (57.3%) of PCa detected. This difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.3444). Only 1 of the 55 patients (1.82%) in group 2 had cancer only in the additional cores based on MRI. In other words, only 1/96 (1.04%) patients was diagnosed with PCa only by the additional core PBx. Conclusions: We suggest that systematic 12-core PBx (sextant peripheral zone + 4 transitional zone + 2 far lateral peripheral zone) can be considered an excellent tool for PCa detection and there may be no need for additional cores based on MRI findings for PCa detection. Copyright (C) 2012 S. Karger AG, Basel”
“Objective. To investigate the rotational variations of three-dimensional (3D) trajectories at anatomic landmarks by different mandibular kinematics, we applied principal axes of inertia to the 3D trajectories. The principal rotations were determined directly from the anatomy-based trajectories produced by a patient-specific temporomandibular joint simulation.