Department of Neurology, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. Electronic address: xuwh@pumch.cn.
Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Clinical Medicine of Chonbuk National University-Biomedical Research Institute of Chonbuk National University Hospital, 567 Baekje-daero, deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si, Jeollabuk-do, 561-756, Republic of Korea. kwak8140@jbnu.ac.kr.
Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Clinical Medicine of Chonbuk National University-Biomedical Research Institute of Chonbuk National University Hospital, 567 Baekje-daero, deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si, Jeollabuk-do, 561-756, Republic of Korea.
Department of Neurosurgery and Brain and Nerve Research Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, P.R. China.
Anatomy and Neuroscience (JC), School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville; Department of Surgery (JC), Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria; Interventional Radiology Service (JM, MB, HA), Department of Radiology, Austin Hospital, Melbourne; School of Medicine (JM, MB, HA), Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds; Stroke Division (JM, MB, HA), Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria; Interventional Neuroradiology Service (HA), Department of Radiology, St Vincent's Hospital; Interventional Neuroradiology Unit (RVC, L-AS, HA), Monash Imaging, Monash Health; and Faculty of Medicine (RVC, HA), Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Anatomy and Neuroscience (JC), School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville; Department of Surgery (JC), Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria; Interventional Radiology Service (JM, MB, HA), Department of Radiology, Austin Hospital, Melbourne; School of Medicine (JM, MB, HA), Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds; Stroke Division (JM, MB, HA), Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria; Interventional Neuroradiology Service (HA), Department of Radiology, St Vincent's Hospital; Interventional Neuroradiology Unit (RVC, L-AS, HA), Monash Imaging, Monash Health; and Faculty of Medicine (RVC, HA), Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Templates are a hallmark of image analysis in neuroimaging. However, while numerous structural templates exist and have facilitated single-subject and large group studies, templates based on functiona...
High-resolution single-delay ASL, low-resolution multi-delay ASL, T...
Boston ASL Template and Simulator (BATS) offers high-quality, high-resolution perfusion-weighted and quantitative perfusion templates accompanied by ATT and different anatomical contrasts readily avai...
We propose a new ASL template collection, named BATS, that also includes a simulator allowing the generation of synthetic ASL contrasts. BATS is available at http://github.com/manueltaso/batsasltempla...
The Boston Marathon is one of the most prestigious running races in the world. From its inception in 1897, popularity grew to a point in 1970 where qualifying times were implemented to cap the number ...
Recent political movements have raised questions about the effectiveness of police funding, but the impact of law enforcement budgets on firearm violence is unknown. We hypothesized that department fu...
We collected data from the following sources: district attorney's offices, police departments, Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reporting program, the Centers for Disease Control, the Ann...
Firearm homicides significantly increased in Philadelphia. In Boston, the trend was less clear, although there was an increase in 2020. Police budget normalized to shootings trended toward a decrease ...
Philadelphia and Boston demonstrated differences in police funding, 2015 to 2020. While budget is not associated with shootings or FHs, firearm recovery is suggesting that removal of firearms from cir...
Prognostic and Epidemiological; Level IV....
We aimed to describe patient and limb outcomes in the decade after endovascular revascularization for chronic lower-extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD)....
We assessed outcomes in patients having endovascular revascularization of the superficial femoral artery in two centers between 2003 and 2011 and followed for a median 9.3 (25-75%: 6.8, 11.1) years. O...
There were 253 index limb revascularizations in 202 patients followed for a median 9.3 years. Patients had intensive medical treatment with 90% on statins and 80% on beta-blockers. During follow up th...
Among patients with intensive medical therapy, the risk of noncardiovascular death was high and similar to cardiovascular death. Endovascular intervention can have acceptable long-term results. Future...
To characterize losses from the pediatric tuberculosis (TB) infection care cascade to identify ways to improve TB infection care delivery....
We conducted a retrospective cohort study of children (age <18 years) screened for TB within 2 Boston-area health systems between January 2017 and May 2019. Patients who received a tuberculin skin tes...
We included 13 353 tests among 11 622 patients; 93.9% of the tests were completed. Of 199 patients with positive tests for whom TB infection evaluation was clinically appropriate, 59.3% completed trea...
Among children with a high proportion of negative TB infection tests, completion of testing was high, but completion of evaluation and treatment was moderate. Transitions toward IGRA testing will impr...
Understanding how environmental and social stressors cluster is critical to explaining and addressing health disparities. It remains unclear how these stressors cluster at fine spatial resolution in l...
We recruited 150 households in Chelsea, MA and the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, MA, between 2016 and 2019 and collected data on two domains: environmental and social stressor. For each domain, w...
We identified two latent classes in each domain: High environmental (n = 90; 60.4%), Low environmental (n = 59; 39.6%), High Social (n = 31; 20.8%), and Low Social (n = 118; 79.2%). Cross-classificati...
Our analyses confirmed that environmental and social stressors cluster in socially disadvantaged households. Housing type, housing tenure, and location of the residence were also strong predictors of ...
The importance of providing wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) heat stress flag category measurements in real time is well recognized by road race directors, and it is bound to become even more importa...
Monitoring occurred at the 7 km, 18 km, and 32 km marks of the race in the towns of Ashland, Natick-Wellesley, and Newton. The outdoor WBGT index was calculated from direct hourly measurements of the ...
The WBGT index was not different among towns; thus, the average hourly values for the 3 towns were compared to historical data averaged identically. Although the black globe temperature fluctuated con...
The historic October Boston Marathon was among the warmest in recent history. Like the impact of COVID-19 on the 2021 Boston Marathon, future climate challenges around outdoor activities could necessi...
Endovascular revascularization of the superficial femoral artery (SFA) may lead to recurrent ischemic syndromes, revascularization, or amputation. The impact of these events on mortality is unknown. W...
A pandemic, like other disasters, changes how systems work. In order to support research on how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the dynamics of a single metropolitan area and the communities therein, w...
Integration of genetic, social network, and spatial data has the potential to improve understanding of transmission dynamics in established HCV epidemics. Sequence data were analyzed from 63 viremic p...
