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Objective: To assess the usefulness of combining positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) with lung cancer autoantibody detection in identifying and managing lung nodules. Methods: The researchers identified 160 patients with pulmonary nodules admitted to their hospital between January 2018 and January 2021. These patients were designated as the experimental group. Additionally, 60 healthy individuals without pulmonary nodules were admitted to the hospital during the same period. The individuals constituted the control group. All study participants underwent digital PET/CT detection and had their lung cancer autoantibody levels determined through enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Further testing, such as puncture or surgical pathology, was performed for patients with lung nodules. The aim was to evaluate the significance of combining PET/CT with autoantibody detection in diagnosing and treating lung nodules. Results: The study found that testing multiple autoantibodies together increased sensitivity and accuracy compared to testing individual autoantibodies. Combining PET/CT screening with autoantibody detection improved the diagnostic rate for identifying lung nodules, including benign and suspected malignant ones. Several autoantibodies were significantly higher in the experimental group compared to the control group. Testing for multiple autoantibodies showed higher sensitivity and accuracy than testing for one. Pathological examination confirmed 129 benign nodules and 31 malignant nodules. The median SUVmax values were measured at 0.7 for benign nodules and 4.8 for malignant nodules. The diagnostic efficacy of PET/CT combined with autoantibodies was determined through comparison with pathology testing and was as follows: PET/CT combined with autoantibody detection > PET/CT > autoantibody detection. Conclusion: Combining PET/CT with the detection of autoantibodies enhances the positive diagnostic rate and accuracy of lung nodules in the case of lung cancer. The SUVmax also shows excellent potential as a supplement in diagnosing both benign and malignant lung nodules, providing valuable guidance in determining the pathological types.
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In the present paper, ordered mesoporous silica (KIT-6) as support, nanosized TiO2 into KIT-6 was synthesized by titanium tetraisopropoxide hydrolysis. Then silver was loaded by deposition-precipitation method. Ag-TiO2/KIT-6 composite nanosized photocatalyst was firstly synthesized and a series of correlated catalysts were synthesized by the same preparation method. Methyl orange is presently adopted as a representative organic pollutant to evaluate the photocatalytic performance of the as-synthesized catalysts. The order of photocatalytic activity of the as-synthesized samples was found as Ag-TiO2/KIT-6 > Ag/TiO2 > TiO2/KIT-6 > TiO2 > Ag/KIT-6. Detailed characterizations were conducted by techniques including XRD, N2 physical adsorption, XPS, UV-Vis DRS and TEM. It was found that the Ag-TiO2 /KIT-6 sample shows the highest photocatalytic activity, which should be attributed to the Ag-TiO2 heterojunction structure and higher BET surface area of the Ag-TiO2/KIT-6 sample. Ag-TiO2 heterojunction improves the separation of photogenerated electron-hole pairs, thus enhancing the photocatalytic activity; Ag-TiO2/KIT-6 sample possesses high BET surface area, which facilitates adsorption and transportation of dye molecules, also leading to higher photocatalytic activity.
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Palladium in automotive exhaust catalyst was determined by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). The analytical conditions and the coexisting elements interference were studied. The catalyst was dissolved by the mixture of H2O2 and HCl. Pd in the solution was directly determined by FAAS method. The linearity of working curve ranges from 0.1 to 15 microg x mL(-1); the detection limit is 0.029 microg x mL(-1); the relative standard deviation (RSD) range is from 0.8% to 2.5%; and the recovery rate range is from 99.6% to 101.2%. It is a simple and convenient method for accurate analysis of Pd in the exhaust catalysts.
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For Au-ceria catalysts prepared by deposition-precipitation method, the catalytic performance of water gas shift reaction was studied with different La loadings. In the complete doping range, ceria retains with its cubic fluorite structures. XRD, HRTEM and UV-Vis-DRS, studies showed that La doping can improve the activity of Au-ceria catalyst by stabilizing ceria and modifying its morphology. In addition, the test of catalyst stability evaluation also proved, that a better stability performance of Au-ceria catalyst can be realized by appropriate La doping. The Au/CL5.0 sample with 5 at % La doping showed the best performance in WGS reaction.
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Heating reflux aging technology was first applied to obtain a series of ceria zirconia mixed oxides composed of 0.6CeO2-0.4ZrO2. N2 physical adsorption, FT-Raman, and UV-Vis diffuse spectroscopy techniques were preformed to investigate the relationships between the structure and oxygen storage capacity of ceria zirconia mixed oxides prepared at different pH value of precipitation. The composition of ceria zirconia mixed oxides fluctuated with the pH value of precipitation, leading to the variation in phase ingredients, defects, crystallization and texture. Controlling the pH value of precipitation at 10.5-11.0 can avoid the introduction of Si, improve the texture, phase homogeneity and defects concentration, decrease the degree of crystallization, and increase the oxygen storage capacity.
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Heating reflux aging technology was applied to prepare a series of Ce(x)Zr(1-x)O2 (0.25 < or = x < or = 1) solid solution. The effects of the Ce(x)Zr(1-X)O2 composition on the structure and oxygen storage capacity were characterized using N2 physical adsorp tion, X-ray diffraction (XRD), FT-Raman, UV-Vis diffuse spectroscopy techniques. The texture, structure and thermal stability of ceria-zirconia mixed oxides are closely related to the ratio of cerium to zirconium in the solid solution, with increasing the zirconium content, the specific area increases, and the structure undergoes a change of order --> disorder --> order. Among them, Ce(0.4Zr(0.6)O2 sample possesses the maximum OSC and Ce(0.25)Zr(0.75)O2 sample possesses the best thermal stability.
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A variety of synthesis parameters for the preparation of gold nanoparticles by NaBH4 solution reduction in the W/O microemulsion media consisting of Cetyl Trimethyl Ammonium Bromide (CTAB)/n-hexanol/water system was investigated. The results showed that the molar ratio of water to surfactant (rw) had nothing to do with the gold particle size, but the concentration of the aqueous gold salt solution had a significant effect on the size of gold particle. Through optimizing the preparation parameters, Au/Al2O3 catalysts were prepared with two different methods, then the catalysts were characterized by ultraviolet-visible spectra, XRD and TEM, and the effect of two different preparation methods on active component gold particle size in the catalysts was studied.
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Diffusion Reflectance Spectroscopy (DRS) was employed to study the surface phase structure of ZrO2-based catalysts. The effect of calcining temperature, and the addition of Al2O3 and platinum on the surface and bulk phase structures of zirconia was studied by DRS combined with XRD, DTA and XPS. The same trend was observed that heating to higher temperatures results in the conversion to monoclinic zirconia in undoped samples, while incorporation of an appropriate amount of Al2O3 would stabilize the tetragonal phase zirconia. And the reduction processing of Pt/ZrO2 affects crystallization and phase transitions, resulting in certain fraction of tetragonal ZrO2 transferred to monoclinic ZrO2. The DRS shows an appreciable difference in the corresponding XRD spectra that more monoclinic zirconia formed on the surface of catalyst during the reduction processing of Pt/ZrO2, compared to the bulk of catalyst.
