 Thorax
"Thorax" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The upper part of the trunk between the NECK and the ABDOMEN. It contains the chief organs of the circulatory and respiratory systems. (From Stedman, 25th ed)
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D013909
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A01.923.761 A02.835.232.904
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| Concept/Terms |
Thorax- Thorax
- Thoraces
- Thorace
- Chest
- Chests
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| 1988 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thorax" by people in Profiles.
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Christoforou EG, Seimenis I, Andreou E, Eracleous E, Tsekos NV. A novel, general-purpose, MR-compatible, manually actuated robotic manipulation system for minimally invasive interventions under direct MRI guidance. Int J Med Robot. 2014 Mar; 10(1):22-34.
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Thrasher TA, Sin VW, Masani K, Vette AH, Craven BC, Popovic MR. Responses of the trunk to multidirectional perturbations during unsupported sitting in normal adults. J Appl Biomech. 2010 Aug; 26(3):332-40.
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Muthupillai R, Vick GW, Flamm SD, Chung T. Time-resolved contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography in pediatric patients using sensitivity encoding. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2003 May; 17(5):559-64.
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de Jongh AL, Entcheva EG, Replogle JA, Booker RS, Kenknight BH, Claydon FJ. Defibrillation efficacy of different electrode placements in a human thorax model. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 1999 Jan; 22(1 Pt 2):152-7.
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Replogle JA, Russomanno DJ, de Jongh AL, Claydon FJ. Extracting isovolumes from three-dimensional torso geometry using PROLOG. IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. 1998 Mar; 2(1):10-9.
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Kruger DG, Slavin GS, Muthupillai R, Grimm RC, Riederer SJ. An orthogonal correlation algorithm for ghost reduction in MRI. Magn Reson Med. 1997 Oct; 38(4):678-86.
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Claydon FJ, Pilkington TC, Tang AS, Morrow MN, Ideker RE. A volume conductor model of the thorax for the study of defibrillation fields. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 1988 Nov; 35(11):981-92.
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