Of 242 adult allogeneic HSCT patients who received voriconazole, 32 patients developed musculoskeletal pain and underwent subsequent serum fluoride measurement. Of those, 31 patients had a plasma fluoride measurement while on voriconazole. Twenty-nine (93.5%) had elevated fluoride concentrations (> 4 Î¼mol/L).
He was 84. The first CT machine took nine days to scan an object. Processing the information by computer then took 21 hours. Despite such formidable obstacles, researchers were undaunted.Hounsfield conceived the idea for a CAT scanner in 1967. By 1972, he had built a machine that produced detailed cross-sectional images of the brain in less than five minutes.
Computerized axial tomography scan: Pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that takes the data from multiple X-ray images and turns them in pictures. The CAT (computerized axial tomography) scan can reveal some soft-tissue and other structures that cannot be seen in conventional X-rays. Using the same dosage of radiation as that of an ordinary X-ray machine, an entire slice of the body can be made visible with about 100 times more clarity with the CAT scan. The cuts(tomograms) for the CAT scan are usually made 5 or 10 mm apart.