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Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37583393

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Introduction: Infertility is an important issue with a high social and psychological burden. From the perspective of Persian Medicine (PM), uterine cold temperament is one of the important causes of female infertility. Aim: The aim of this study was to study the effect of PM or Iranian traditional medicine on improving ovulation and fertility. Methods: From January 2017 to August 2017, sixty infertile women with eugonadotropic ovulation disorder were randomly divided into two groups. Both groups were treated with clomiphene citrate, except that the intervention group also received metabolic Persian diet (MPD). In each cycle, the dominant follicles and endometrium were investigated with ultrasound. At the end of the cycle, beta human chorionic gonadotropin (ß-HCG) was evaluated and if positive, another ultrasound was performed two weeks later to confirm early pregnancy. Results: The number of dominant follicles from the first to third cycle increased from 2.15 ± 1.14 to 2.28 ± 0.61 in the intervention group and decreased from 1.86 ± 0.79 to 1.30 ± 0.47 in the control group. The dominant follicle size changed from 16.00 ± 4.08 to 18.78 ± 2.78 and from 15.05 ± 3.11 to 15.80 ± 3.89 in the intervention and control groups, respectively. But endometrial thickness did not change significantly in the intervention group. Pregnancy results based on ß-HCG and ultrasound findings were positive in 19 and 16 patients in the intervention group and in 10 and 7 patients in the control group, implying significantly higher numbers in the first group. Conclusion: It seems that MPD may be effective in the success of ovulation induction.

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Opt Express ; 30(19): 34256-34275, 2022 Sep 12.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36242442

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A conventional optical lens can enhance lateral resolution in optical coherence tomography (OCT) by focusing the input light onto the sample. However, the typical Gaussian beam profile of such a lens will impose a tradeoff between the depth of focus (DOF) and the lateral resolution. The lateral resolution is often compromised to achieve a mm-scale DOF. We have experimentally shown that using a cascade system of an ultrasonic virtual tunable optical waveguide (UVTOW) and a short focal-length lens can provide a large DOF without severely compromising the lateral resolution compared to an external lens with the same effective focal length. In addition, leveraging the reconfigurability of UVTOW, we show that the focal length of the cascade system can be tuned without the need for mechanical translation of the optical lens. We compare the performance of the cascade system with a conventional optical lens to demonstrate enhanced DOF without compromising the lateral resolution as well as reconfigurability of UVTOW for OCT imaging.

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J Med Life ; 15(2): 168-173, 2022 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35419109

ABSTRACT

Avicenna used his medical knowledge and experience of scientists from different nations to create a new style in medicine. For this reason, his textbook, Canon of Medicine, has been considered a medical reference in all universities worldwide for centuries. In this article, some valuable and interesting diagnostic and therapeutic clinical experiences mentioned in the Canon of Medicine are described in five sections. This research was conducted to review Avicenna's specific clinical observations and interventions in PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus databases using the keywords "Avicenna" and "Canon of Medicine". In this article, we presented several examples of diagnostic and therapeutic clinical experiences mentioned in the Canon of Medicine in 5 areas, including semiology, therapeutic strategy, urology, neurology, obstetrics, and gynecology. Canon of Medicine, as a complete medical series containing the medical experiences from different nations and Iranian medical scientists, has influenced the world's medical knowledge for several centuries. Some of Avicenna's clinical and experimental views can be useful from both a historical point of view and new research.


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Gynecology , Medicine, Arabic , Physicians , Humans , Iran , Medicine, Arabic/history
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Integr Med Res ; 10(1): 100483, 2021 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32802742

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BACKGROUND: Pandemics of infectious diseases have long been regarded as societal challenges. This study aimed to summarize the theories of Persian medicine for controlling respiratory disease-related pandemics and to compare these theories with the findings of modern medicine. METHODS: We searched the classic medical reference books of the 9th to 19th centuries for the terms 'polluted air' and 'pandemic', and we searched 4 databases (PubMed, Google Scholar, Science Direct, and Scopus) with the keywords 'COVID-19', 'pandemic', 'history', and 'prevention programs'. The results were collected and subjected to content analysis. RESULTS: From the point of view of traditional Iranian physicians, disease prevention is primarily possible by avoiding pathogenic factors. As a secondary solution, reducing one's susceptibility to the disease is crucial; this can be achieved through cleansing the body and strengthening the mood, reducing food intake, decreasing the internal humidity, disinfecting the house with herbal fumigation, and making use of pleasant aromas. Some of these recommendations are reaffirmed by modern research. CONCLUSION: Persian medicine techniques may be preventive during respiratory, influenza-like disease pandemics. However, rigorous studies are needed to confirm this hypothesis.

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Opt Express ; 27(5): 7249-7265, 2019 Mar 04.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30876292

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We demonstrate that optical beams can be spatially and temporally shaped in situ by forming 3D reconfigurable interference patterns of ultrasound waves in the medium. In this technique, ultrasonic pressure waves induce a modulated refractive index pattern that shapes the optical beam as it propagates through the medium. Using custom-designed cylindrical ultrasonic arrays, we demonstrate that complex patterns of light can be sculpted in the medium, including dipole and quadrupole shapes. Additionally, through a combination of theory and experiment, we demonstrate that these optical patterns can be scanned in radial and azimuthal directions. Moreover, we show that light can be selectively confined to different extrema of the spatial ultrasound pressure profile by temporally synchronizing lightwave and ultrasound. Finally, we demonstrate that this technique can also be used to define spatial patterns of light in turbid media. The notion of in situ 3D sculpting of optical beam paths using ultrasound interference patterns can find intriguing applications in biological imaging and manipulation, holography, and microscopy.

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Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc ; 2019: 6008-6011, 2019 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31947216

ABSTRACT

Graded-index (GRIN) fibers have been used as implantable optical waveguides to guide light and relay images through the depth of the tissue. We have recently shown that non-invasive ultrasound can generate refractive index gradients within the tissue that form virtual GRIN lenses for imaging and photostimulation deep into the tissue. Here we present the theory behind this idea by analyzing the coupled acoustic-photonic system that models the interaction of light with the ultrasonically modulated medium. We will discuss how changing the parameters of ultrasound will change the confinement and guiding of light within the modulated medium. We will also demonstrate that using a custom-designed cylindrical ultrasonic array, the pressure interference can be controlled to sculpt complex patterns of light in the medium, such as dipole and quadrupole shapes, suitable for multisite imaging. Finally, we will discuss experimental results corroborating the theoretical predictions to generate single and multisite in situ virtual lenses that can be used for fluorescent imaging of mouse brain tissue that expresses green fluorescent protein (GFP).


Subject(s)
Lens, Crystalline , Lenses , Refractometry , Animals , Brain , Mice , Ultrasonography
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