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Crystal Botkin

Saint Louis University
Verified email at health.slu.edu
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Prevalence, challenges, and solutions for 18F-FDG PET studies of obese patients: a technologist's perspective

CD Botkin, MM Osman - Journal of nuclear medicine technology, 2007 - Soc Nuclear Med
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States; hence, it is frequently
encountered in patients undergoing 18 F-FDG PET studies. The purpose of the current study was …

Attonewton force detection using ultrathin silicon cantilevers

…, TW Kenny, D Botkin, K Wago, D Rugar - Applied Physics …, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
… In this letter, we demonstrate that ultrathin single-crystal silicon cantilevers can achieve force
resolution well below this requirement and, in fact, can detect forces as small as 5.610 18 N …

[HTML][HTML] Detailed Analysis of Sequence Changes Occurring during vlsE Antigenic Variation in the Mouse Model of Borrelia burgdorferi Infection

L Coutte, DJ Botkin, L Gao, SJ Norris - PLoS pathogens, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Lyme disease Borrelia can infect humans and animals for months to years, despite the
presence of an active host immune response. The vls antigenic variation system, which …

Long polar fimbriae of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157: H7 bind to extracellular matrix proteins

MJ Farfan, L Cantero, R Vidal, DJ Botkin… - Infection and …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
… (B), collagen IV (C), and BSA (D). After incubation, adherent bacteria stained with crystal
violet were visualized by light microscopy. (D) Binding of EHEC strain EDL933 to different …

The naturalness of biological invasions

DB Botkin - Western North American Naturalist, 2001 - JSTOR
… a different stream from the one in which they were born (Botkin et al. 1995). This might seem
to be a "… The rapid cooling of the lava resulted in fine-grained crystal particles called tephra. …

Intact Flagellar Motor of Borrelia burgdorferi Revealed by Cryo-Electron Tomography: Evidence for Stator Ring Curvature and Rotor/C-Ring Assembly Flexion

J Liu, T Lin, DJ Botkin, E McCrum, H Winkler… - Journal of …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
… We have developed novel strategies for capturing and averaging thousands of 3-D images
of … Tomographic 3-D reconstructions of 767 intact bacteria were generated in this study, and …

Force-detected electron-spin resonance: Adiabatic inversion, nutation, and spin echo

K Wago, D Botkin, CS Yannoni, D Rugar - Physical Review B, 1998 - APS
… A sample piece with approximate dimensions 50 μm50 μm5 μm was glued onto a commercial
single-crystal-silicon cantilever21 with a spring constant k 0.07N/m and a mechanical-…

Paramagnetic and ferromagnetic resonance imaging with a tip-on-cantilever magnetic resonance force microscope

K Wago, D Botkin, CS Yannoni, D Rugar - Applied physics letters, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
… -cantilever combination consists of a 55- mradius nickel sphere12 glued with epoxy onto
a commercial single-crystal-silicon … D. thesis, Stanford University, 1997 to be published by …

[HTML][HTML] Mathematical models of a biosensor

ND Botkin, VL Turova - Applied mathematical modelling, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper studies mathematical models of a biosensor that serves for the measurement of
small amounts of certain substances in liquids. The device works as follows: acoustic shear …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal control of ice formation in living cells during freezing

ND Botkin, KH Hoffmann, VL Turova - Applied mathematical modelling, 2011 - Elsevier
… out too slowly, dendrites will aggregate to form larger, more stable crystals that may cause
damage (see [1], [2] for thermodynamic models of intracellular ice nucleation and crystal