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1113 UNIAXIAL STRAIN FACILITATES CYTOSKELETAL REALIGNMENT AND PROMOTES A FIBROGENIC PHENOTYPE IN HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS IN VITRO by Gordon-Walker, T.T, Aucott, R.L, Hay, D.C, Wells, R.G, Iredale, J.P

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A comparison of human and model observers in multislice LROC studies by Gifford, H.C., King, M.A., Pretorius, P.H., Wells, R.G.

“…Model and human observers have been compared in a series of localization receiver operating characteristic (LROC) studies involving single-slice and multislice…”
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Increased ADAMTS‐13 proteolytic activity in rat hepatic stellate cells upon activation in vitro and in vivo by NIIYA, M., UEMURA, M., ZHENG, X. W., POLLAK, E. S., DOCKAL, M., SCHEIFLINGER, F., WELLS, R. G., ZHENG, X. L.

“…Introduction: ADAMTS‐13 is a member of ADisintegrin And Metalloprotease with ThromboSpondin type 1 repeats (ADAMTS) family, primarily synthesized in hepatic…”
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600 LONG-TERM COMMON BILE DUCT-LIGATION IN MICE INDUCES TUBULOINTERSTITIAL KIDNEY FIBROSIS AND CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE: ROLE OF BILE ACID NUCLEAR RECEPTOR FXR AND OSTEOPONTIN by Fickert, P, Thueringer, A, Moustafa, T, Yang, M, Jaeschke, H, Wells, R.G, Stokman, G, Denk, H, Trauner, M

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LROC analysis of detector-response compensation in SPECT by Gifford, H.C., King, M.A., Wells, R.G., Hawkins, W.G., Narayanan, M.V., Pretorius, P.H.

“…Localization ROC (LROC) observer studies examined whether detector response compensation (DRC) in ordered-subset, expectation-maximization (OSEM)…”
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The high affinity Na+/glucose cotransporter. Re-evaluation of function and distribution of expression by WEN-SEN LEE, KANAI, Y, WELLS, R. G, HEDIGER, M. A

“…We report the primary structure, functional characterization, and tissue distribution of the high affinity Na+/glucose cotransporter SGLT1 from rat kidney. Rat…”
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Effect of excess dietary sodium, potassium, calcium and phosphorus on excreta moisture of laying hens by Smith, A., Rose, S.P., Wells, R.G., Pirgozliev, V.

“…1. Four experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of dietary concentrations of sodium, potassium, calcium or phosphate on the water intake and…”
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Effect of block-iterative acceleration on Ga-67 tumor detection in thoracic SPECT by Gifford, H.C., King, M.A., Narayanan, M.V., Pretorius, P.H., Smyczynski, M.S., Wells, R.G.

“…A combination of human localization receiver operating characteristic (LROC) and channelized Hotelling observer (CHO) ROC psychophysical studies were used to…”
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Single-slice versus multi-slice display for human-observer lesion-detection studies by Wells, R.G., King, M.A., Gifford, H.C., Pretorius, P.H.

“…Use of a single-slice (2D) display for observer studies may bias results acid reduce the studies' clinical generalizability. Human observers perform better at…”
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Analytical calculations of cross-talk for dual-isotope SPECT projections by Wells, R.G., Celler, A., Harrop, R.

“…Simultaneous dual-isotope SPECT scans are clinically desirable because they require less acquisition time than sequential scans, and provide perfect spatial…”
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The impact of noisy and misaligned attenuation maps on human-observer performance at lesion detection in SPECT by Wells, R.G., Gifford, H.C., Pretorius, P.H., Famcombe, T.H., Narayanan, M.V., King, M.A.

“…We have demonstrated an improvement due to attenuation correction (AC) at the task of lesion detection in thoracic SPECT images. However, increased noise in…”
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The impact of ROI definition on estimator performance on FBP reconstructed Ga-67 SPECT images by Wells, R.G., Gifford, H.C., King, M.A.

“…Quantitative accuracy of reconstructed images depends not only on the reconstruction strategy, but also on the definition of the estimator. The authors…”
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Reduce, reuse and recycle: A green solution to Canada's medical isotope shortage by Galea, R., Ross, C., Wells, R.G.

“…Due to the unforeseen maintenance issues at the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor at Chalk River and coincidental shutdowns of other international…”
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Anatomical priors to improve image quality in small-animal SPECT/CT by Wells, R.G.

“…With the advent of SPECT/CT, high-quality coregistered anatomical information is now readily available and can be incorporated into the SPECT reconstruction…”
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Analytical calculation of photon distributions in SPECT projections by Wells, R.G., Celler, A., Harrop, R.

“…In this paper the authors present a method for analytically calculating the distribution of photons detected in single photon emission computed tomography…”
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A comparison of human observer LROC and numerical observer ROC for tumor detection in SPECT images by Gifford, H.C., Wells, R.G., King, M.A.

“…Numerical observers that predict human performance in medical detection tasks can relieve some of the burden of conducting psychophysical studies. Research for…”
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Respiratory-motion errors in quantitative myocardial perfusion with PET/CT by Shkvorets, M., deKemp, R.A., Wells, R.G.

“…Respiratory motion is known to cause errors in whole-body oncologic and static cardiac imaging with PET/CT. These errors are caused by the difference in…”
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Investigating pinhole SPECT for wrist imaging by Sabondjian, E., Wells, R.G.

“…The wrist consists of eight small carpal bones, which may be as small as 1 cm/sup 3/. This makes the wrist one of the most complex joints to image. Initial…”
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The effect of changing the excreta moisture of caged laying hens on the excreta and microbial contamination of their egg shells by Smith, A., Rose, S.P., Wells, R.G., Pirgozliev, V.

“…1. An experiment that included 1440 caged laying hens in 24 experimental units was conducted to determine the effect of differences in excreta moisture on the…”
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The 4F2 antigen heavy chain induces uptake of neutral and dibasic amino acids in Xenopus oocytes by WELLS, R. G, WEN-SEN LEE, KANAI, Y, LEIDEN, J. M, HEDIGER, M. A

“…The 4F2 cell surface antigen is a disulfide-linked heterodimer induced during the process of cellular activation and expressed widely in mammalian tissues…”
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