Transcranial Doppler (TCD), first described in 1982 [1], is a noninvasive ultrasound (US) study that involves the use of a low-frequency (â¤2 MHz) transducer probe to insonate the basal cerebral arteries through relatively thin bone windows.
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1. String processing in general. Processing strings of characters is one of the oldest application of mechanical computers, arguably predating numerical computation by at least fifty years. As a delimited string, where the end of a string is marked by a special character.