Introduction: Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI) occur along a continuum from cellulitis to abscess. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is effective in differentiating between these two diagnoses and guiding acute management decisions. Smaller and more superficial abscesses may not require a drainage procedure for cure. The goal of this study was...
Ultrasonic technology is often used to modify proteins. Here, we investigated the effects of ultrasound alone or in combination with other heating methods on emulsifying properties and structure of glycinin (11S globulin). Structural alterations were assessed with Sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS&ndash / PAGE), intrin...
Ultrasonic acoustic standing wave systems find use in many industrial applications, such as sonochemical reactions, atomization of liquids, ultrasonic cleaning, and spray dry. In most applications, highest possible sound pressure levels are needed to achieve optimum results. Until now, the atomization of liquids is limited to fluids with low viscos...
The objective of this work is to elucidate the fate of quinolizidine alkaloids (QA) during the lupin protein extraction process assisted with ultrasound and the evaluation of the nutritional and functional properties of the protein fraction. Proximal characterization, concentration of anti-nutritional compounds, amino acid profile and protein solub...
Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla L.) dried flowers contain a group of interesting biologically active compounds such as sesquiterpenes, flavonoids, coumarins, vitamins, phenolic acids and glucosides. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to characterize the composition in bioactive compounds (specialized metabolites) present in water and etha...
Iron-containing particulate catalysts of 0.1&ndash / 1 µ / m size were prepared by wet and ball-milling procedures from common salts and characterized by FTIR, TGA, UV-Vis, PXRD, FEG-SEM, and XPS analyses. It was found that when the wet method was used, semi-spherical magnetic nanoparticles were formed, whereas the mechanochemical method resul...
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a novel hybrid imaging modality that provides excellent optical contrast with the spatial resolution of ultrasound in vivo. The method is widely being investigated in the clinical setting for diagnostic applications in dermatology. In this report, we illustrate the utility of PAI as a non-invasive tool for imaging tat...
Published in Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology : the journal of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
This was a prospective study to evaluate transvaginal ultrasound measurements in investigating patients with menorrhagia through detailed morphological assessment of the uterus and ovaries by comparing the study group with menorrhagia with a control group with no previous history of menorrhagia. 92 women participated in the study of whom 46 had a h...
Published in Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
To correlate the ultrasound (US) measurements of the median nerve cross-sectional area (CSA) and the measurements of its stiffness by shear wave elastography (SWE) with the severity grade of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) using electrodiagnostic testing (EDT) and to determine the cutoff points for CSA and SWE measurements to allow us to discriminate ...
Published in Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
To compare the feasibility and clinical applicability of ElastQ imaging (Philips Healthcare, Best, the Netherlands) with that of SuperSonic shear imaging (SSI; SuperSonic Imagine, Aix-en-Provence, France) using an elastographic phantom and a pilot study of patients. Two-dimensional shear wave elastography measurement was performed by ElastQ imaging...
