Objective: To examine the effect of carbamazepine and valproate monotherapy on bone
mineral density in children. Methods: Axial (second, third, and fourth lumbar vertebrae) and …

Metformin (N, N-dimethylbiguanide) is a first-line medication for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
It is an old drug, having been discovered in 1922 and first used in France in 1957. 1 The …

Aim The aim of this study was to identify a practical sampling regimen and calculation method
that could be used to measure the glomerular filtration rate in patients with ascites using …

Pixon ® noise reduction was applied to 18 planar images, six each from 99m Tc-methylene
diphosphonate ( 99m Tc-MDP), 67 Ga citrate ( 67 Ga), and 123 I-metaiodobenzylguanidine ( …

Purpose Commonly used methods for determining split renal function (SRF) from dynamic
scintigraphic data require extrarenal background subtraction and additional correction for …

We present a model that generalizes the apparent volume of distribution and half-life as
functions of time following intravenous bolus injection. This generalized model defines a time …

Polypodium vulgare L. (Polypodiaceae), the common polypody, is used in Polish traditional
medicine as an expectorant to treat cough, chronic nephritis, and pyelonephritis. This is a …

The Tk-GV model fits Gamma Variates (GV) to data by Tikhonov regularization (Tk) with
shrinkage constant, λ, chosen to minimize the relative error in plasma clearance, CL (ml/min). …

MATERIALS AND METhODS Collimator Uniformity A specialrectilinearscanner was
employedto measurethe uniformity of collimators. This scanner is similar to a com mercially …

Purpose The aim was to compare late-time extrapolation of plasma clearance (CL) from
Tikhonov adaptively regularized gamma variate fitting (Tk-GV) and from mono-exponential (E1) …