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The Added Value of Vessel Wall MRI in the Detection of Intraluminal Thrombus in Patients Suspected of Craniocervical Artery Dissection
Patients with craniocervical artery dissection (CCAD) have a high short-term risk of ischemic stroke, which is frequently associated with thromboembolism. Previous studies have demonstrated the utility of three-dimensional vessel wall MR imaging (3D-VWMRI) in the diagnosis of dissection. Few have investigated the value of 3D-VWMRI in the detection of intraluminal thrombus. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the added value of 3D-VWMRI for thrombus identification in patients suspected of CCAD. One hundred and four patients (mean age, 44.2 years ± 13.2) suspected of CCAD and scheduled for digital subtraction angiography (DSA) were prospectively enrolled in the study and underwent VWMRI examination. The diagnostic performance of 3D-VWMRI for CCAD was evaluated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis with the final diagnosis results as the reference. The presence/absence of intraluminal thrombus on 3DVWMRI/ DSA was independently determined. The sensitivity and specificity of 3D-VWMRI for intraluminal thrombus detection were assessed with DSA serving as the reference. The odds ratio (OR) was used to evaluate the correlation between thrombus presented on 3D-VWMRI/DSA and ischemic stroke. The 3D-VWMRI had high sensitivity (90.0%) and specificity (94.3%) in identifying arteries with CCAD. The area under the ROC curve was 0.96. With DSA as the reference, the sensitivity and accuracy of 3D-VWMRI for the detection of intraluminal thrombus were 97.4% and 79.0%, respectively. An intraluminal thrombus present on 3D-VWMRI was strongly associated with a territorial ischemic stroke (OR: 30.0; 95% confidence interval: 9.1-98.4; P < .001). In conclusion, 3D-VWMRI with a 3.0-T MR system had a high diagnostic performance for CCAD and offered added value for detecting intraluminal thrombus
First Measurement of the Branching Fraction of the Decay psi(2S) --> tau tau
The branching fraction of the psi(2S) decay into tau pair has been measured
for the first time using the BES detector at the Beijing Electron-Positron
Collider. The result is ,
where the first error is statistical and the second is systematic. This value,
along with those for the branching fractions into e+e- and mu+mu of this
resonance, satisfy well the relation predicted by the sequential lepton
hypothesis. Combining all these values with the leptonic width of the resonance
the total width of the psi(2S) is determined to be keV.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure
Measurement of proton electromagnetic form factors in in the energy region 2.00-3.08 GeV
The process of is studied at 22 center-of-mass
energy points () from 2.00 to 3.08 GeV, exploiting 688.5~pb of
data collected with the BESIII detector operating at the BEPCII collider. The
Born cross section~() of is
measured with the energy-scan technique and it is found to be consistent with
previously published data, but with much improved accuracy. In addition, the
electromagnetic form-factor ratio () and the value of the
effective (), electric () and magnetic () form
factors are measured by studying the helicity angle of the proton at 16
center-of-mass energy points. and are determined with
high accuracy, providing uncertainties comparable to data in the space-like
region, and is measured for the first time. We reach unprecedented
accuracy, and precision results in the time-like region provide information to
improve our understanding of the proton inner structure and to test theoretical
models which depend on non-perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics
Measurements of decays into Vector- Tensor final states
Decays of the into vector plus tensor meson final states have been
studied with 14 million events collected with the BESII detector.
Branching fractions of \psi(2S) \rt \omega f_{2}(1270), ,
and are
determined. They improve upon previous BESI results and confirm the violation
of the "12%" rule for decays to VT channels with higher precision.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures and 2 table
\psi(2S) Decays into \J plus Two Photons
Using \gamma \gamma J/\psi, J/\psi \ra e^+ e^- and events
from a sample of \psip decays collected with the BESII
detector, the branching fractions for \psip\ra \pi^0\J, \eta\J, and
\psi(2S)\ar\gamma\chi_{c1},\gamma\chi_{c2}\ar\gamma\gamma\jpsi are measured
to be B(\psip\ra \pi^0\J) = (1.43\pm0.14\pm0.13)\times 10^{-3}, B(\psip\ra
\eta\J) = (2.98\pm0.09\pm0.23)%,
B(\psi(2S)\ar\gamma\chi_{c1}\ar\gamma\gamma\jpsi) = (2.81\pm0.05\pm 0.23)%,
and B(\psi(2S)\ar\gamma\chi_{c2}\ar\gamma\gamma\jpsi) = (1.62\pm0.04\pm
0.12)%.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures. submitted to Phys. Rev.
Search for the decay
We search for radiative decays into a weakly interacting neutral
particle, namely an invisible particle, using the produced through the
process in a data sample of
decays collected by the BESIII detector
at BEPCII. No significant signal is observed. Using a modified frequentist
method, upper limits on the branching fractions are set under different
assumptions of invisible particle masses up to 1.2 . The upper limit corresponding to an invisible particle with zero mass
is 7.0 at the 90\% confidence level
Observation of in
Using a sample of events recorded with
the BESIII detector at the symmetric electron positron collider BEPCII, we
report the observation of the decay of the charmonium state
into a pair of mesons in the process
. The branching fraction is measured for the first
time to be , where the first uncertainty is
statistical, the second systematic and the third is from the uncertainty of
. The mass and width of the are
determined as MeV/ and
MeV.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figure
Observation and study of the decay
We report the observation and study of the decay
using events
collected with the BESIII detector. Its branching fraction, including all
possible intermediate states, is measured to be
. We also report evidence for a structure,
denoted as , in the mass spectrum in the GeV/
region. Using two decay modes of the meson ( and
), a simultaneous fit to the mass spectra is
performed. Assuming the quantum numbers of the to be , its
significance is found to be 4.4, with a mass and width of MeV/ and MeV, respectively, and a
product branching fraction
. Alternatively, assuming , the
significance is 3.8, with a mass and width of MeV/ and MeV, respectively, and a product
branching fraction
. The angular distribution of
is studied and the two assumptions of the
cannot be clearly distinguished due to the limited statistics. In all
measurements the first uncertainties are statistical and the second systematic.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures and 4 table
Measurements of the Cross Section for e+e- -> hadrons at Center-of-Mass Energies from 2 to 5 GeV
We report values of for 85 center-of-mass energies between
2 and 5 GeV measured with the upgraded Beijing Spectrometer at the Beijing
Electron-Positron Collider.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
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