Jie Tian

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..Finally, the performance of the proposed methods is demonstrated with numerical and physical phantom experiments...

..Simulation study shows that this method can preserve the sparsity of the fluorescent source within heterogeneous medium, even with very limited measurement data...

..Presented experiment examples, numerous downloads, extensive uses, and practical applications commendably demonstrate the validity and flexibility of the platform...

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..These findings may pose great implications for the design and interpretation of a range of acupuncture neuroimaging studies...

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..To evaluate the extent of individual differences of functional MRI (fMRI) signal changes induced by acupuncture stimulation...

..To discuss which brain region potentially functioned and switched between the immediate and delayed response of acupuncture...

..Our results may provide additional evidence to support the specificity of acupuncture modulation effects...

..To investigate acupuncture specificity by exploring causal relationships of brain networks following acupuncture at GB40 (Qiuxu), with the acupoint KI3 (Taixi) as a control (belonging to the same nerve segment but different meridians)...

..In actual biomedical imaging applications, especially when there are many sources in small animal body, AMGM is potential to accurately simulate the forward problem at very low computation cost...

..Finally, the numerical simulation experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of this proposed method by comparing the solution of MEFGM with that of FEM...

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..Yet few studies considered the relevance of resting state dysfunctional connectivity to task-related neural activity in the same chronic heroin user (CHU)...

..Functional acupoint specificity is crucial to the clinical efficacy of acupuncture treatment, such as pain relief. Whether acupuncture needling at a peripheral acupoint produces distinct patterns of brain responses remains controversial...

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..Moreover, we also proved that GLM analysis is prone to be susceptible to errors and is not appropriate for detecting neural response patterns evoked by acupuncture stimulation...

..Recently, increasing evidence has indicated that the primary acupuncture effects are mediated by the central nervous system. However, specific brain networks underpinning these effects remain unclear...

..In conclusion, our findings may provide a new perspective to lend support for the specificity of neural expression underlying acupuncture...

..We hope that our results will improve the understanding of migraine...

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..The reconstructed results suggest that we are able to achieve high computational efficiency and accurate localization of bioluminescent source...

..Numerical simulations and physical experiments were conducted. Compared to Newton method with Tikhonov regularization, the iterated shrinkage based algorithm can obtain more accurate results, even with very limited measurement data...

..Our findings suggested that there is abnormal functional organization in heroin-dependent individuals and that the duration of heroin use is a critical factor leading to the altered brain connectivity...

..The findings of our study indicate an intrinsically organized network during the resting state that likely prepares the visual system to anticipate the highly probable word input for ready and effective processing...

..To investigate the neural specificity of pericardium PC6, with the same meridian acupoint PC7 and a treatment-irrelevant acupoint GB37 as separate controls...

..More importantly, the proposed method was at least 2 orders of magnitude faster in these experiments, which makes it a practical reconstruction algorithm...

..Finally, the numerical and physical phantom experiment results show that the bioluminescent source can be recovered accurately...

..40GHz Intel Xeon CPU. The experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of the parallel MC simulation on GPU...

..The purpose was to investigate the distinct pattern of brain response induced by electroacupuncture stimulation (EAS) related to sustained acupuncture effects...

..The results suggested a widespread rewiring in AD and MCI patients. These findings concerning AD and MCI may be an integrated reflection of reorganization of the brain networks accompanied with the cognitive decline that may lead to AD...

..0001). This study adds positive evidence to the issue of vision-related acupoint specificity. The utilization of ICA and consideration of temporal dynamics may shed light on future studies...

..We concluded that acupuncture at different acupoints may exert different evolutive effects on causal interactions within and across the RSNs during segmented post-stimulus resting states...

..In addition, a mouse atlas reconstruction is employed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in turbid mouse geometry. Finally, the physical experiment further evaluates the method's potential in practical applications...

..In what follows, in vivo mouse BLT reconstructions further demonstrated the potential and effectiveness of the generalized graph cut based reconstruction method...

..Finally, the fingerprint matching is conducted with the variable bounded box method and iterative strategy. The experiments demonstrate that the proposed scheme is effective and robust in fingerprint alignment and matching...

..The results represent the merits and potential of our algorithm for BLT source reconstruction...

..In terms of optical property errors and two sources of discernment in deeper positions, this BLT algorithm represents the unique predominance for BLT reconstruction...

..Our findings suggested that the analgesia effects of ST36 integrated sophisticated physiological and psychological procedures. In addition, our results have shed light on methodology in acupuncture research...

..The simulation experiments, which were carried out with a cylindrical phantom and numerical mouse, indicated that the time cost of each SI step can be reduced up to a factor of 228 by the proposed method with a GTX 260 graphics card...

..Furthermore, the distinction between needle stimulation and the resting state indicated that there existed different functional brain networks. These results also portray time variability during the course of acupuncture...

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..However, little is known about the specific role of the Met/Met genotype on brain structure. Moreover, the relationship between BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and Chinese brain morphology has not been studied...

..Furthermore, we evaluated the performance of the dual-modality BLT/CT imaging framework using a mouse phantom. Preliminary results revealed the potential and feasibility of the dual-modality imaging framework...

..Finally, a discussion of these two kinds of a priori knowledge is given based on the comparison results...

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..The implications from our study may help explain the behavioral and neuropsychological deficits in heroin-dependent individuals and shed light on the mechanisms underlying heroin addiction...

..Our study may provide a further step to the exploration of the underlying mechanism of acupuncture effects...

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..The overall design and certain key technologies are introduced in detail. Presented experiment examples and practical applications commendably demonstrate the validity of this framework...

..The preliminary findings may help us to better understand the long-lasting effects of acupuncture on the entire resting brain, as well as the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying acupuncture...

..Dual-modality molecular imaging using BLI and small-animal PET can play important roles in the process of chemotherapy and will provide noninvasive and reliable monitoring of the therapeutic response...

..Our findings demonstrated that long heroin dependence impairs the right DLPFC in heroin-dependent individuals, including structural deficits and resting-state functional impairments...

..Experimental results prove that our method is very fast and accurate, especially quite effective for the low quality retinal images registration...

..To date, the selection of regularization parameters remains challenging. With regards to the above problems, the authors proposed a BLT reconstruction algorithm with an adaptive parameter choice rule...

..Finally, simulation results with the above framework demonstrate the effectiveness and potential of the proposed adaptive tomographic algorithm...

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..Our results demonstrate that the proposed approach is capable of decreasing movement artifacts significantly thus providing high quality reconstructed images in the presence of object motion...

..These preliminary findings may provide a new pathway towards the determination of the neurophysiological mechanisms of AD. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd...

..Simulation experiments on a 3D digital mouse atlas and physical experiments on a phantom are conducted to evaluate the performance of our method. The reconstructed results show the potential and feasibility of the proposed approach...

..Our results revealed that acupuncture at vision and nonvision-related acupoints can induce similar activations in spatial distribution but different modulation effects temporally...

..Our findings provide direct evidence that the post-needling resting state contains acupuncture-related effects that are due to the slow-acting nature of acupuncture...

..This dysfunctional brain connectivity may contribute to decrease self-control, impaired inhibitory function as well deficits in stress regulation in chronic heroin users...

..A comparison study with our previous hybrid radiosity-radiance theorem based model demonstrates the improvement performance and potential of the proposed model for simulating photon transport process in free space...

..In what follows, heterogeneous experimental BLT reconstructions using in vivo mouse further evaluate the capability of the higher-order method for practical biomedical applications...

..Numerical experiments on a mouse atlas validate the effectiveness of the method. In vivo mouse experimental results further indicate its potential for a practical BLT system...

..In comparison with micro-computed tomography and other traditional imaging modalities, this method can detect a liver tumor at a very early stage and provide reliable location information...

..Additionally, the reconstruction efficiency was also investigated with different sizes of mouse grids. We showed that this method was reliable for tomographic bioluminescence imaging in practical mouse experimental applications...

..Simulation study shows that this method can preserve the sparsity of the fluorescent sources within heterogeneous medium, even with very limited measurement data...

..Through these steps, our experiment shows that the method mentioned above is both effective and suitable for limited memory AFIS owing to its less than 1k byte template size...

..Furthermore, the model deviations exhibit much more influence than the wavelength shift on the reconstruction results...

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..These results demonstrate that the source distribution can be accurately located over a wide range of values of RP and iteration initializations. Moreover, the reconstruction efficiency was also studied...

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..Based on the overscan formula, a volume-blocking method in device memory is proposed. One advantage of the blocking method is that it can reconstruct large volume with high speed...

..A freehand system based on the QAQIT has been developed on a personal computer (PC). We demonstrate our system on an embryo phantom...

..Finally, cone-beam x-ray CT and bioluminescence tomography simulation experiments demonstrate the availability and flexibility of the proposed mouse model...

..With graduate refinements and enhancements, it is hoped that the MOSE will become a standard tool for bioluminescence tomography...

..Although we focus on analyzing periodic fMRI data, the approach can be extended to analyze non-periodic fMRI data (event-related fMRI) by replacing the Fourier analysis with a wavelet analysis...

..A possible function of the resting-state face perception network is perhaps to prepare the brain to process faces that individuals are highly likely to encounter in their environment...

..The algorithm gives considerably higher matching scores compared to conventional matching algorithms for the deformed fingerprints...

..We also altered the descriptor so our method can deal with multimodality preregistration...

..We compared four different strategies mentioned above to detect the functional connectivity on the simulated and real fMRI data, and the results demonstrated that the RV-coefficient method obtained the best performance...

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..Our results support that the characteristic neural response patterns of brain cortex to the acupuncture stimulation at GB37 and a nearby NAP could differ from each other effectively with the application of MVPA approach...

..We conclude that the default endogenous analgesia functional network exists in human brain at a low level, and it could be increased to a higher level by acupuncture modulation...

..When tested on 168 pairs of multimodal retinal images, the Harris-PIIFD far outperforms existing algorithms in terms of robustness, accuracy, and computational efficiency...

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..Finally a second order polynomial transformation is used to register two images. Experimental results show that our method is very robust and compute efficient to register retinal images even of very low quality...

..Comparison with the traditional nonlinear regression method indicated that the presented method is more accurate and faster to determine the CBV, CBF and MTT...

..Experimental results demonstrate that the ACMI outperforms the traditional MI and furthermore the former is much less sensitive than the latter to the reduction of resolution or overlapped region of images...

..The purpose of this study was to detect the expression of CD133, a putative marker of cancer stem cells in the Hep-2 cell line, and isolate CD133 positive cells to observe their proliferation and differentiation ability in vitro...

..The results demonstrate the feasibility and potential of our methodology for reconstructing the distribution of bioluminescent sources...