The purpose of this review is to investigate the clinical utility of functional brain imaging in patients with AD, brain tumours, epilepsy, MS, or Parkinsonâs disease. Because the focus is on clinical utility, the added clinical information that would be provided by Level 1 studies (i.e., studies of technical feasibility) is limited.
The Iron Industry. In the centuries before the Industrial Revolution, the quality of iron and the process of refining it had changed little in Great Britain. Iron had been used for agricultural tools, chains, locks, bolts, nails, horse stirrups, scythes, sickles, and anchors.
Coke is used chiefly to smelt iron ore and other iron bearing materials in blast furnaces, acting both as a source of heat and as a chemical reducing agent, to produce pig iron, or hot metal. Coke, iron ore, and limestone are fed into the blast furnace, which runs continuously.