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Objective To study the feasibility of applying electronic cleaning to intestinal contents tagging by diatrizoate meglumine for single-source dual-energy CT colonography with sequential acquisitions and volume scanning.Methods Twenty-four volunteers had fine effect of intestinal contents tagging by diatrizoate meglumine,good colorectal distension effect,fine image quality of dual-energy fusion colorectal images,and with informed consents were enrolled in this study.The single-source dual-energy CT colonography with sequential acquisitions and volume scanning was performed with an Acquilion ONE 320 row CT scanner,tube voltage 135 kVp/80 kVp.The intestinal contents conducted the dual-energy electronic cleaned based on decomposition of intestinal contents tagging by diatrizoate meglumine,soft tissue and air.The intestinal contents in one segment of intestinal lumen being 100％ electronically cleaned served as the basic standard,the electronic cleaning effects were divided into the 5 grades:excellent,good,moderate,fair and poor;and grade 1-3 were effective fecal electronic cleaning.Results The grade 1,2,3,4,5 of electronic cleaning effect for solid as the main intestinal contents were 22.2％,53.3％,17.8％,6.7％ and 0％ respectively;and which of electronic cleaning effect for liquid as the main intestinal contents were 47.5％,47.5％,5.0％,0％ and 0％ respectively.The together total effective electronic cleaning of intestinal contents was 97.9％ and the electronic cleaning effect was good.Conclusion Electronic cleaning could be used in the intestinal contents tagging by diatrizoate meglumine for single-source dual-energy CT colonography with sequential acquisitions and volume scanning.
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Objective To investigate the prevalence of human bocavirus(HBoV)among children with acute respiratory tract infection(ARTI)in Guangdong Province.Methods Four hundred and forty-seven nasopharyngeal aspirates or swabs samples from children with ARTI in Guangdong Province were collected from June 2007 to May 2008.HBoV capsid protein VP gene fragments were detected using polymerase chain reaction(PCR).Positive PCR products were sequenced.The DNA and translated amino acid sequences were aligned with known HBoV sequences in GenBank and phylogenetic analysis was also done.Results The positive rate of HBOV was 5.1%of samples from 447 ARTI cases.Ten samples were positive for both HBoV and other respiratory virus,which was 43.5%of positive samples.The main diagnosis for HBoV positive children included wheezing pneumonia,bronchiolitis and bronchial pneumonia.HBoV positive children ranged from 42 days to 6 years old,and most of them were younger than one year.HBOV infection was more common during summer,early autumn and late spring.Through sequence alignment and phylogenetie analysis,the DNA sequences and amino acid sequences of VP gene fragments of isolated HBoV strains showed 97.8%-98.8%and 99.3%-100.0%identity with ST1,respectively.Conclusions HBoV is one of the important pathogens of lower respiratory tract infection in children in Guangdong Province,which is more prevalent in infants younger than one year.Although VP gene fragment of HBoV is conservative in general,there are still some missense mutations.