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Iatrogenic FDG foci in the lungs: a pitfall of PET image interpretation
Abstract.: 2-[F-18]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) has become an important staging modality for many tumors, including bronchial carcinoma; however it is important to know that there are several pitfalls in PET image interpretation. In this report we demonstrate three cases in which focal intrapulmonary FDG uptake could possibly represent iatrogenic microembolism. These FDG accumulations would have been interpreted as malignant tumor mass in the lung if no anatomic correlation would have been performed. For this reason, we further present an integrated PET/CT scanner, which recently has been introduced. This correlation of molecular and morphological information enables the specification of the FDG-PET finding
Sub-matrix updates for the Continuous-Time Auxiliary Field algorithm
We present a sub-matrix update algorithm for the continuous-time auxiliary
field method that allows the simulation of large lattice and impurity problems.
The algorithm takes optimal advantage of modern CPU architectures by
consistently using matrix instead of vector operations, resulting in a speedup
of a factor of and thereby allowing access to larger systems and
lower temperature. We illustrate the power of our algorithm at the example of a
cluster dynamical mean field simulation of the N\'{e}el transition in the
three-dimensional Hubbard model, where we show momentum dependent self-energies
for clusters with up to 100 sites
SimFS: A Simulation Data Virtualizing File System Interface
Nowadays simulations can produce petabytes of data to be stored in parallel
filesystems or large-scale databases. This data is accessed over the course of
decades often by thousands of analysts and scientists. However, storing these
volumes of data for long periods of time is not cost effective and, in some
cases, practically impossible. We propose to transparently virtualize the
simulation data, relaxing the storage requirements by not storing the full
output and re-simulating the missing data on demand. We develop SimFS, a file
system interface that exposes a virtualized view of the simulation output to
the analysis applications and manages the re-simulations. SimFS monitors the
access patterns of the analysis applications in order to (1) decide the data to
keep stored for faster accesses and (2) to employ prefetching strategies to
reduce the access time of missing data. Virtualizing simulation data allows us
to trade storage for computation: this paradigm becomes similar to traditional
on-disk analysis (all data is stored) or in situ (no data is stored) according
with the storage resources that are assigned to SimFS. Overall, by exploiting
the growing computing power and relaxing the storage capacity requirements,
SimFS offers a viable path towards exa-scale simulations
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