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Sci Rep ; 14(1): 6198, 2024 03 14.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38486013

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Accurately identification of the seizure onset zone (SOZ) is pivotal for successful surgery in patients with medically refractory epilepsy. The purpose of this study is to improve the performance of model predicting the epilepsy surgery outcomes using genetic neural network (GNN) model based on a hybrid intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) marker. We extracted 21 SOZ related markers based on iEEG data from 79 epilepsy patients. The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression was employed to integrated seven markers, selected after testing in pairs with all 21 biomarkers and 7 machine learning models, into a hybrid marker. Based on the hybrid marker, we devised a GNN model and compared its predictive performance for surgical outcomes with six other mainstream machine-learning models. Compared to the mainstream models, underpinning the GNN with the hybrid iEEG marker resulted in a better prediction of surgical outcomes, showing a significant increase of the prediction accuracy from approximately 87% to 94.3% (P = 0.0412). This study suggests that the hybrid iEEG marker can improve the performance of model predicting the epilepsy surgical outcomes, and validates the effectiveness of the GNN in characterizing and analyzing complex relationships between clinical data variables.


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Epilepsia Refractaria , Epilepsia , Humanos , Electrocorticografía/métodos , Epilepsia/genética , Epilepsia/cirugía , Epilepsia Refractaria/cirugía , Aprendizaje Automático , Resultado del Tratamiento , Electroencefalografía/métodos
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Opt Lett ; 49(2): 318-321, 2024 Jan 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38194558

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Multi-focusing of light is a crucial capability for photonic devices that can be effectively achieved by precisely modulating the phase delay on the incident wavefront. However, integrating functional structures into optical fibers for remote light focusing remains challenging due to the complex device design and limited fabrication approaches. Here, we present the design and fabrication of metalens array on the end-face of a tailored single-mode step-index fiber for focusing light field into closely packed focal spot array. The metalenses are configured based on the fractional Talbot effect and benefit a modular design capability. Light passing through the optical fiber can be focused into different focal planes. With a synergistic 3D laser nanoprinting technique based on two-photon polymerization, high-quality meta-fibers are demonstrated for focusing light parallelly with a uniform numerical aperture (NA) as high as approximately 0.77. This may facilitate various applications such as optical trapping, generation of sophisticated beam profiles, and boosting light coupling efficiencies.

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Opt Express ; 31(22): 36202-36208, 2023 Oct 23.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38017774

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We present a detailed investigation into the sensing characteristics of a structural microfiber long-period grating (mLPG) sensor. By spirally winding a thinner microfiber to another thicker microfiber, periodic refractive index modulation is formed while the optical signal transmitted in the thicker microfiber is resonantly coupled out to the thinner microfiber, and then a 5-period four-port mLPG can be obtained with a device length of only ∼570 µm demonstrated a strong resonant dip of 25 dB. We studied the sensitivity characteristics of the four-port mLPG with surrounding strain, force, temperature and refractive index, and the obtained sensitivities were -6.4 pm/µÉ›, -8418.6 nm/N, 7.62 pm/°C and 2122 nm/RIU, respectively. With the advantages of high refractive index sensitivity and wide wavelength tunable range, the four-port mLPG has great potential in applications such as tunable filters and biochemical sensor.

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PLoS One ; 18(10): e0292665, 2023.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37883382

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between gestational weight gain (GWG) and adverse neonatal outcomes in women who conceived using assisted reproductive technology (ART). METHODS: The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) 2019-2021 provided data for this retrospective cohort study. Adverse neonatal outcomes included premature birth, small for gestational age (SGA), large for gestational age (LGA), macrosomia, low birth weight (LBW), and other abnormal conditions. Any adverse outcome was defined as at least one of the above six outcomes. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was employed to evaluate the associations between GWG and different outcomes, after adjusting for confounding factors. These associations were further assessed in subgroups of maternal age at delivery, paternal age at delivery, preconception body mass index (BMI), gestational age, maternal race, parity, gestational diabetes, and gestational hypertension. RESULTS: Totally 108201 women were included, with 22282 in the insufficient GWG group, 38034 in the sufficient GWG group, and 47885 in the excessive GWG group. Women with insufficient GWG [odds ratios (OR) = 1.11, 95%CI: 1.07-1.16, P<0.001] and excessive GWG (OR = 1.14, 95%CI: 1.10-1.18, P<0.001) had significantly greater risks of any adverse outcome than those with sufficient GWG. In contrast to sufficient GWG, insufficient GWG was associated with significantly elevated risks of premature birth (OR = 1.42, 95%CI: 1.35-1.48, P<0.001), SGA (OR = 1.45, 95%CI: 1.37-1.53, P<0.001), LBW (OR = 1.47, 95%CI: 1.37-1.58, P<0.001), and other abnormal conditions (OR = 1.32, 95%CI: 1.27-1.39, P<0.001), and excessive GWG was associated with significantly lower risks of premature birth (OR = 0.86, 95%CI: 0.83-0.90, P<0.001), SGA (OR = 0.79, 95%CI: 0.75-0.83, P<0.001), LBW (OR = 0.85, 95%CI: 0.79-0.91, P<0.001), and other abnormal conditions (OR = 0.92, 95%CI: 0.88-0.96, P<0.001). Infants born to women with insufficient GWG had significantly decreased risks of LGA (OR = 0.71, 95%CI: 0.66-0.75, P<0.001) and macrosomia (OR = 0.68, 95%CI: 0.63-0.74, P<0.001), and infants born to women with excessive GWG had significantly increased risks of LGA (OR = 1.50, 95%CI: 1.44-1.56, P<0.001) and macrosomia (OR = 1.60, 95%CI: 1.51-1.69, P<0.001). CONCLUSION: Insufficient GWG and excessive GWG were associated with increased risks of any adverse outcome than sufficient GWG in women who conceived with ART, indicating the applicability of recommended GWG by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in this population.


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Diabetes Gestacional , Ganancia de Peso Gestacional , Complicaciones del Embarazo , Nacimiento Prematuro , Estadísticas Vitales , Embarazo , Recién Nacido , Femenino , Humanos , Resultado del Embarazo/epidemiología , Macrosomía Fetal/epidemiología , Macrosomía Fetal/etiología , Nacimiento Prematuro/epidemiología , Estudios Retrospectivos , Aumento de Peso , Diabetes Gestacional/epidemiología , Complicaciones del Embarazo/epidemiología , Retardo del Crecimiento Fetal , Índice de Masa Corporal , Peso al Nacer
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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces ; 15(26): 32057-32065, 2023 Jul 05.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37352511

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Humidity plays an important role in many fields, and the realization of high sensitivity and fast response simultaneously for humidity detection is a great challenge in practical application. In this work, we demonstrated a high-performance relative humidity (RH) sensor made by supporting zeolitic imidazolate framework-90 (ZIF-90)-derived porous zinc oxide (ZnO) onto an optical microfiber Sagnac interferometer (OMSI). The ZIF-90-modified OMSI (ZIF-90-OMSI) sensor was in situ heated at different temperatures to obtain porous ZnO, and their humidity-sensing properties were investigated ranging from 25 to 80% RH. The experimental results showed that the porous ZnO fiber sensor prepared at 500 °C (Z500-OMSI) exhibited best humidity-sensing performance with a high sensitivity of 96.2 pm/% RH (25-45% RH) and 521 pm/% RH (50-80% RH) and ultrafast response/recovery time (62.37/206.67 ms) at 22.3% RH. These performances were attributed to the complete transformation of ZIF-90 to ZnO at 500 °C. The obtained Z500 not only retained the high porosity and specific surface area of ZIF-90 but also exhibited the exceptional hydrophilicity of ZnO. In addition, the signals of the proposed Z500-OMSI sensor changed with different breathing patterns, indicating the possibility for human respiration monitoring. This work provided a reliable candidate for an effective RH monitoring system with potential application in medical diagnoses, industrial production, environmental detection, and human health monitoring.

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ACS Nano ; 17(11): 10577-10588, 2023 Jun 13.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37145868

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Capacitive deionization in environmental decontamination has been widely studied and now requires intensive development to support large-scale deployment. Porous nanomaterials have been demonstrated to play pivotal roles in determining decontamination efficiency and manipulating nanomaterials to form functional architecture has been one of the most exciting challenges. Such nanostructure engineering and environmental applications highlight the importance of observing, recording, and studying basically electrical-assisted charge/ion/particle adsorption and assembly behaviors localized at charged interfaces. In addition, it is generally desirable to increase the sorption capacity and reduce the energy cost, which increase the requirement for recording collective dynamic and performance properties that stem from nanoscale deionization dynamics. Herein, we show how a single optical fiber can serve as an in situ and multifunctional opto-electrochemical platform for addressing these issues. The surface plasmon resonance signals allow the in situ spectral observation of nanoscale dynamic behaviors at the electrode-electrolyte interface. The parallel and complementary optical-electrical sensing signals enable the single probe but multifunctional recording of electrokinetic phenomena and electrosorption processes. As a proof of concept, we experimentally decipher the interfacial adsorption and assembly behaviors of anisotropic metal-organic framework nanoparticles at a charged surface and decouple the interfacial capacitive deionization within an assembled metal-organic framework nanocoating by visualizing its dynamic and energy consumption properties, including the adsorptive capacity, removal efficiency, kinetic properties, charge, specific energy consumption, and charge efficiency. This simple "all-in-fiber" opto-electrochemical platform offers intriguing opportunities to provide in situ and multidimensional insights into interfacial adsorption, assembly, and deionization dynamics information, which may contribute to understanding the underlying assembly rules and the exploring structure-deionization performance correlations for the development of tailor-made nanohybrid electrode coatings for deionization applications.

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Photoacoustics ; 30: 100482, 2023 Apr.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37025114

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Photoacoustic tomography emerged as a promising tool for noninvasive biomedical imaging and diseases diagnosis. However, most of the current piezoelectric ultrasound transducers suffer optical opacity and tissue-mismatched acoustic impedance, hindering the miniaturization and integration of the system for multiscale and multimodal imaging. Here, a transparent polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) encapsulated optical microfiber ultrasound sensor was demonstrated for photoacoustic imaging with scalable spatial resolution and penetration depth. The sensor comprised a microfiber loop sandwiched by a pair of in-line Bragg gratings, which formed an ultrasound-sensitive Fabry-Perot cavity allowing free delivery of ultrasound/light beams and unique needle-shaped ultrasound focusing along the penetration depth. The sensor with a detection limit of ∼ 700 Pa and a bandwidth of ∼ 10 MHz was applied for multiscale photoacoustic imaging of mouse ear and brain vasculatures. With advantages of flexibility, optical transparence and focusing capability, the sensor offers new opportunities for developing photoacoustic/ultrasound imaging devices for biomedical and clinic applications.

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Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36768098

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As a new engine to promote high-quality development and a sustainable economy, the digital economy (DE) plays a key role in achieving carbon reduction targets. In this paper, we use the "broadband China (BC)" policy as a proxy variable for the DE and employ the panel data of Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2006 to 2019 to investigate the effect of DE development on carbon emission intensity and its mechanism of action. It is found that (1) DE development significantly reduces the carbon emissions of cities and presents dynamic and sustainable characteristics; (2) the results of mechanism tests indicate that DE development is more inclined to reduce carbon emission intensity by improving regional innovation quality than by improving regional innovation quantity; (3) the impact of DE development on carbon emission intensity differs among cities with different characteristic attributes and different environmental regulation intensity, and the emission reduction effect is more obvious in non-resource-based cities, cities with lower environmental regulation intensity, and cities with weaker environmental target constraints; (4) the impact of DE development and innovation-driven development strategies on reducing carbon emission intensity has a policy linkage effect.


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Contaminación del Aire , Carbono , China , Ciudades , Desarrollo Económico , Contaminación del Aire/prevención & control
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Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36554421

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The innovative city pilot policy is a new engine to accelerate the social development of China, which is an important support feature for realizing sustainable economic development. Using the city pilot policy issued by the Chinese government in 2008 as a quasi-natural experiment and the method of multi-period difference-in-differences (DID) model, we explore the effect of the policy on regional carbon emission efficiency. The research shows that the innovative city pilot policy could lead a significant promotion of the carbon emission efficiency of cities, which shows the characteristics of dynamic sustainability, that is, the policy effect continues to increase over time. Mechanism analysis reveals that the innovative city pilot policy mainly drives the improvement of urban carbon emission efficiency through improving the green technology innovation level of pilot cities, promoting the upgrading of regional industrial structure and increasing government investment in science and technology. In addition, the innovative city pilot policy has a spatial spillover effect on urban carbon emission efficiency, that is, the innovative city pilot policy not only promotes the local carbon emission efficiency, but also improves the carbon efficiency of neighboring areas.


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Carbono , Condiciones Sociales , Ciudades , China , Desarrollo Económico , Políticas , Dióxido de Carbono
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Opt Express ; 30(15): 26975-26987, 2022 Jul 18.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36236879

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A micro-nanostructure-based surface-modified fiber-optic sensor has been developed herein to selectively detect hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). In our design, phenylboronic ester-modified polymers were used as a modified cladding medium that allows chemo-optic transduction. Sensing is mechanistically based on oxidation and subsequent hydrolysis of the phenylboronic ester-modified polymer, which modulates hydrophobic properties of fiber-optic devices, which was confirmed during characterization of the chemical functional group and hydrophobicity of the active sensing material. This work illustrates a useful strategy of exploiting principles of chemical modifications to design surface-wettable fiber-optic sensing devices for detecting reactive species of broad relevance to biological and environmental analyses.


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Peróxido de Hidrógeno , Materiales Inteligentes , Ésteres , Tecnología de Fibra Óptica , Peróxido de Hidrógeno/análisis , Polímeros/química
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J Colloid Interface Sci ; 619: 407-418, 2022 Aug.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35405573

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Heterojunction engineering is a very prospective approach to modulate the photocatalytic behaviors of semiconductors. Herein, Venus flytrap-like NiCo hydroxide nanoflowers (HNF) with surface modification by different contents of CoSn(OH)6 were fabricated in situ for the first time. Interestingly, CoSn(OH)6 nanocubes (NC) are monodispersed on the nanosheet surface of NiCo HNF. Experimental characterizations and theoretical calculations comprehensively demonstrate the surface Sn atoms of CoSn(OH)6 are effectively embedded into the NiCo HNF interlayers, and co-sharing of the hydroxyl enables intimate contact in the heterointerface of NiCo HNF/CoSn(OH)6 hybrids and thereby largely shortens the charge migrating distance, contributing to an efficient interfacial charge migration and promoting charge separation. The optimized NiCo HNF/CoSn(OH)6 exhibits the remarkably enhanced photocatalytic efficiency for CO2 reduction with a TON of 601.2 and the CO and CH4 yield is about 3 folds that over CoSn(OH)6 NC. DRIFTS reveals the reaction intermediates in the CO2 photocatalytic process and proposes a possible mechanism for photocatalytic CO2 reaction. These findings may pave the way for rational engineering design of non-precious highly-dispersed broadband visible-light-driven CO2 reduction heterostructure catalysts.

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Medicine (Baltimore) ; 101(2): e28556, 2022 Jan 14.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35029221

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BACKGROUND: In recent years, the incidence rate of thyroid cancer is increasing. Meanwhile, with the development of medical technology, the detection rate of thyroid cancer by ultrasound has been greatly improved. Normally doctors can initially distinguish pathology of malignant thyroid diseases by their abundant experience. And it will bring assistance to follow-up treatment. However, the results of these studies have been contradictory. Therefore, this meta-analysis tested the hypothesis that ultrasound is accurate in distinguishing pathology of malignant thyroid diseases. METHODS: We will search PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Chinese biomedical databases from their inceptions to the December 14, 2021, without language restrictions. Two authors will independently carry out searching literature records, scanning titles and abstracts, full texts, collecting data, and assessing risk of bias. Review Manager 5.2 and Stata14.0 software will be used for data analysis. RESULTS: This systematic review will determine the accuracy of ultrasound in distinguishing pathology of malignant thyroid diseases. CONCLUSION: It is findings will provide helpful evidence for the accuracy of ultrasound in distinguishing pathology of malignant thyroid diseases. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: INPLASY2021120072.


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Neoplasias de la Tiroides , Ultrasonografía , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Humanos , Metaanálisis como Asunto , Revisiones Sistemáticas como Asunto , Neoplasias de la Tiroides/diagnóstico por imagen
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Medicine (Baltimore) ; 100(50): e28289, 2021 Dec 17.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34918704

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BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence system is a deep learning system based on computer-assisted ultrasonic image diagnosis, which can extract morphological features of breast mass and conduct objective and efficient image analysis, thus automatically intelligent classification of breast mass, avoiding subjective error and improving the accuracy of diagnosis.[1-2] A large number of studies have confirmed that artificial intelligence (AI) has high effectiveness and reliability in the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant breast diseases.[3-4] However, the results of these studies have been contradictory. Therefore, this meta-analysis tested the hypothesis that artificial intelligence system is accurate in distinguishing benign and malignant breast diseases. METHODS: We will search PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Chinese biomedical databases from their inceptions to the November 20, 2021, without language restrictions. Two authors will independently carry out searching literature records, scanning titles and abstracts, full texts, collecting data, and assessing risk of bias. Review Manager 5.2 and Stata14.0 software will be used for data analysis. RESULTS: This systematic review will determine the accuracy of AI in the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant breast diseases. CONCLUSION: Its findings will provide helpful evidence for the accuracy of AI in the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant breast diseases. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: INPLASY2021110087.


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Inteligencia Artificial , Enfermedades de la Mama/diagnóstico , Ultrasonido , Humanos , Metaanálisis como Asunto , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Revisiones Sistemáticas como Asunto
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Medicine (Baltimore) ; 100(47): e27958, 2021 Nov 24.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34964783

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BACKGROUND: Studies have shown inconsistent results regarding the diagnostic performance of quantitative and qualitative elastography for the differentiation of benign and malignant cervical lymph nodes. This meta-analysis aimed to estimate the diagnostic performance of ultrasound elastography in patients with cervical lymphadenopathy. METHODS: We will search PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Chinese biomedical databases from their inceptions to the May 30, 2021, without language restrictions. Two authors will independently carry out searching literature records, scanning titles and abstracts, full texts, collecting data, and assessing risk of bias. Review Manager 5.2 and Stata14.0 software will be used for data analysis. RESULTS: This systematic review will determine the accuracy of shear wave elastography and strain elastography in the differential diagnosis between benign and malignant cervical lymph nodes. CONCLUSION: Its findings will provide helpful evidence for the accuracy of shear wave elastography and strain elastography in the differential diagnosis between benign and malignant cervical lymph nodes. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: INPLASY202150109.


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Diagnóstico por Imagen de Elasticidad , Ganglios Linfáticos/diagnóstico por imagen , Cuello/diagnóstico por imagen , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Humanos , Metaanálisis como Asunto , Sensibilidad y Especificidad , Revisiones Sistemáticas como Asunto
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Medicine (Baltimore) ; 100(51): e28147, 2021 Dec 23.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34941062

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BACKGROUND: Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) examination is a well-established technique for this purpose with several unique advantages. It is a real-time technology with high temporal resolution. With its unique ability to detect microvascular perfusion, it helps in better characterization of FLL.[1-4] Three-dimensional (3D) CEUS with quantitative analysis is updated in recent years. 3D-CEUS is a new ultrasonic diagnostic technique, which can observe the nourishing vessels of lesions from multiple angles. Previous studies showed that 3D-CEUS can detect tumor nourishing vessels to differentiate benign from malignant focal liver lesions (FLLs). However, the results of these studies have been contradictory. Therefore, this meta-analysis tested the hypothesis that 3D-CEUS is accurate in distinguishing benign and malignant FLLs. METHODS: We will search PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Chinese biomedical databases from their inceptions to the April 30, 2021, without language restrictions. Two authors will independently carry out searching literature records, scanning titles and abstracts, full texts, collecting data, and assessing risk of bias. Review Manager 5.2 and Stata14.0 software will be used for data analysis. RESULTS: This systematic review will determine the accuracy of 3D-CEUS in the differential diagnosis between benign and malignant FLLs. CONCLUSION: Its findings will provide helpful evidence for the accuracy of 3D-CEUS in the differential diagnosis between benign and malignant FLLs. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: INPLASY202150096.


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Imagenología Tridimensional/métodos , Neoplasias Hepáticas/diagnóstico por imagen , Ultrasonografía/métodos , Medios de Contraste , Enfermedades del Sistema Digestivo/diagnóstico por imagen , Humanos , Metaanálisis como Asunto , Sensibilidad y Especificidad , Revisiones Sistemáticas como Asunto
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Opt Express ; 29(9): 13937-13948, 2021 Apr 26.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33985120

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An optical microfiber interferometric biosensor for the low concentration detection of sequence-specific deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) based on signal amplification technology via oligonucleotides linked to gold nanoparticles (Au-NPs) is proposed and experimentally analyzed. The sensor uses a "sandwich" detection strategy, in which capture probe DNA (DNA-c) is immobilized on the surface of the optical microfiber interferometer, the reporter probe DNA (DNA-r) is immobilized on the surface of Au-NPs, and the DNA-c and DNA-r are hybridized to the target probe DNA (DNA-t) in a sandwich arrangement. The dynamic detection of the DNA-t was found to range from 1.0×10-15 M to 1.0×10-8 M, and the limit of detection (LOD) concentration was 1.32 fM. This sensor exhibited not only a low LOD but also excellent selectivity against mismatched DNA-t, and it can be further developed for application in various sensing platforms.


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Técnicas Biosensibles/instrumentación , ADN/análisis , Oro/química , Interferometría/instrumentación , Nanopartículas del Metal/química , Dispositivos Ópticos , Diseño de Equipo , Límite de Detección
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Medicine (Baltimore) ; 100(3): e24411, 2021 Jan 22.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33546085

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BACKGROUND: Superb microvascular imaging (SMI) is a new ultrasound vascular imaging technology, which uses a new Doppler algorithm, it has the characteristics of high sensitivity and high resolution to detect low velocity blood flow; it is easier to detect microvessels with low-velocity flow compared with color Doppler flow imaging in theory; and it can image the microvessels of the lesion without angiography.[1] Previous studies showed that SMI can detect tumor neovascularization to differentiate benign from malignant focal liver lessions (FLLs). However, the results of these studies have been contradictory with low sample sizes. This meta-analysis tested the hypothesis that SMI is accurate in distinguishing benign and malignant FLLs. METHODS: We will search PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Chinese biomedical databases from their inceptions to the November 30, 2020, without language restrictions. Two authors will independently carry out searching literature records, scanning titles and abstracts, full texts, collecting data, and assessing risk of bias. Review Manager 5.2 and Stata14.0 software will be used for data analysis. RESULTS: This systematic review will determine the accuracy of SMI in the differential diagnosis between benign and malignant FLLs. CONCLUSION: Its findings will provide helpful evidence for the accuracy of SMI in the differential diagnosis between benign and malignant FLLs. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: INPLASY2020120081.


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Protocolos Clínicos , Hígado/anomalías , Hígado/diagnóstico por imagen , Ultrasonografía/métodos , Ultrasonografía/normas , Velocidad del Flujo Sanguíneo/fisiología , Humanos , Metaanálisis como Asunto , Revisiones Sistemáticas como Asunto
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Appl Opt ; 59(28): 8595-8602, 2020 Oct 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33104539

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As a measurement system that can realize target detection and optical imaging, the accuracy of three-dimensional laser radar is a main performance index, which makes calibration an extremely important work. Traditional calibration methods have many disadvantages, such as harsh environment requirements, complex and tedious calibration processes, and inaccurate calibration results. To solve these problems, we propose a calibration method so that the relative position of the cooperative target and the detection sensor is fixed. The principle of space-time transform is used to simulate distance, and the synchronous control of distance is realized by controlling the delay module. In addition, a simple and practical calibration device is designed. In the actual measurement, the average absolute error is 0.0019 m, and the relative error is 0.0678% in the range of 0.5-25 m. The experimental results show that this method is stable and accurate, and it can calibrate the plane array laser radar quickly and accurately.

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Opt Express ; 28(17): 24408-24417, 2020 Aug 17.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32906982

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Optofluidic sensors, which tightly bridge photonics and micro/nanofluidics, are superior candidates in point-of-care testing. A fiber-based interferometric optofluidic (FIO) sensor can detect molecular biomarkers by fusing an optical microfiber and a microfluidic tube in parallel. Light from the microfiber side coupled to the microtube leads to lateral localized light-fluid evanescent interaction with analytes, facilitating sensitive detection of biomolecules with good stability and excellent portability. The determination of the sensitivity with respect to the interplay between light and fluidics, however, still needs to be understood quantitatively. Here, we theoretically and experimentally investigate the relationship between refractive index (RI) sensitivity and individual geometrical parameters to determine the lateral localized light-fluid evanescent interaction. Theoretical analysis predicted a sensitive maximum, which could be realized by synergically tuning the fiber diameter d and the tube wall thickness t at an abrupt dispersion transition region. As a result, an extremely high RI sensitivity of 1.6×104 nm/RIU (σ=4074 nm/RIU), an order of magnitude higher than our previous results, with detection limit of 3.0×10-6 RIU, is recorded by precisely governing the transverse geometry of the setup. The scientific findings will guide future exploration of both new light-fluid interaction devices and biomedical sensors.

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Nanotechnology ; 31(44): 445602, 2020 Oct 30.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32693391

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To address a challenge for decoration of noble metal nanoparticles (NMNPs)-shell on conducting polymer nanofiber (CPNF) electrodes (i.e. NMNP-shell/CPNF-core electrodes) for boosting electrochemical performances, a two-step strategy comprising chemical pre-deposition and electrochemical deposition is designed. The strategy shows a high universality in terms of the diversity of NMNP-shell elements (single-element: AgNP-shell, AuNP-shell, PtNP-shell, PdNP-shell; multi-element: Au/Pt/PdNP-shell) and the independence of conductive substrates of electrodes. The shells are composed of high-density NMNPs and have strong adhesion to CPNF-cores. It is demonstrated that in response to a specific applied electrical stimulus, the resulting low doping level of CPNFs facilitates the generation of high-density nucleation sites (small NMNPs) by chemical pre-deposition (as high capability of electron transfer and low resistance to electron transfer from CP chains to NM ions), which is indispensable for the formation of NMNP-shells on CPNF-cores by electrochemical deposition. The decoration of NMNP-shells can significantly enhance the electrochemical performances of CPNF electrodes. Moreover, the great practicality and reliability of NMNP-shell/CPNF-core electrodes in use as an electrocatalytic platform are confirmed. This universal strategy opens up a new avenue to construct high-dimension shell/core-nanostructured electrodes.

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