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  1. Hello everyone A small nitpick for those who love typography and typesetting and such. In my thesis, I indent the first line of all paragraphs but the first ones. However, I'm wondering whether I should indent the first line of new paragraphs starting under tables or figures, when the table/figure is aligned at the top of the page? It looks a bit silly when indented, but it might indeed denote the separation of this paragraph from the former one on the previous page, and might therefore be obligatory (as far as we can call something obligatory in typography). What would be your personal preferences? Thanks! Baccalaureus functionellus
  2. I think he's thinking of it as directly toxic etc., just as would antacidics directly neutralise stomach acid? Can't think of another example than antacidics, actually. Or certain laxatives.
  3. Promotor (specialist in nuclear medicine) called my thesis literature review chapter on positron emission tomography "very sound and accurate" and was very satisfied with it. Made my day!

  4. Futura Pro (Book & Medium & Small Caps Book & Small Caps Medium) No problems in other documents ... I'm starting to think it might have something to do with the file size and all the images in it?
  5. I know, but margins, headers that are mirrored on even/odd pages, section breaks ...
  6. Yes, of course. I'm not even thinking of messing around with the original
  7. There are no problems opening the file in Word 2010. I will try your recommendations, studiot. Thanks! Will keep you updated.
  8. Hmm ... That's what I feared. I'm going to see if I can open it up with MS Office 2010. Still have a product key lying around somewhere
  9. I sure do have back-ups. But typesetting is quite time-consuming itself and I don't feel like doing it over and over again. I did, unfortunately.
  10. Hello everyone I don't know a lot about corrupted files and such, but I fear my thesis document might be one, or be close to being one. Since yesterday (actually since the last big Windows update), everytime I want to open my thesis, Word crashes (Word has stopped working and sometimes, Windows error reporting has stopped working), unless I open it in safe mode, or when I'm quick enough to select everything and change the font. Changing the font, however, is no option. Don't feel like doing that. However, there might be arguments that the font itself is somewhat conflicting, since the problem does not occur using another font. But like I said, that's not really an option. Yes, that's how serious I am about fonts. After all, suspicious that it occurred only since yesterday, no? I'd love it if someone would trust me to send them the thesis file and the font installation files (no viruses, guaranteed), to check where things go wrong, because I simply don't know where to start ... Thank you very much! Function
  11. Thanks! For the following: "1-[(2S,4S,5R)-2-[¹⁸F]fluoro-4-hydroxy-5-(hydroxymethyl)tetrahydro-2-furanyl]-5-methyl-2,4(1H,3H)-pyrimidinedione" Should the S's and the H's be in italics?
  12. You state IUPAC and INN. However, 3'-Deoxy-3'-[18F]fluorothymidine is neither of both. The IUPAC name for that would be 1-[4-fluoranyl-5-(hydroxymethyl)oxolan-2-yl]-5-methylpyrimidine-2,4-dione. Then what is 3'-deoxy-3'-[18F]fluorothymidine?
  13. Consensus and insights by experts in the field Thanks, John!
  14. Hello everyone The ones following my posts regularly will know that I'm writing my thesis on, among other things, nuclear imaging of primary brain tumours. Finding accepted, standardised nomenclature for radiotracers, however, is driving me crazy. I found the Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agent Database on the NCBI website, which offers some abbreviated and full chemical names of radiotracers I'm discussing. However ... I can't seem to agree with the chemical name they give to the substance which has the INN of fludeoxyglucose (18F). Here are some of the names given in the MICAD I need evaluated by some real chemical-linguistic purists here (I'm a bit of a perfectionist and I don't like the discrepancy in ways that fludeoxyglucose (18F) can be written, among other tracers) (abbreviations are given after the hyphen): O-(2-[18F]Fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine - [18F]FET 3'-Deoxy-3'-[18F]fluorothymidine - [18F]FLT [18F]Fluorocholine - [18F]FCH L-[methyl-11C]Methionine - [11C]MET p-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-phenylalanine - [18F]FEP And then this: [18F]Fluoro-2-deoxy-2-D-glucose - [18F]FDG In the text beneath the table containing this chemical name, however, they describe "2-[18F]Fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose", which itself is already in discrepancy with the earlier reported name above. Additionally, a more commonly used name for this radiotracer, by almost every author, seems to be "2-Deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose". Can someone please give some feedback on the nomenclature of these 6 radiotracers? Also mind the italics where given (by the MICAD). What would be the most correct full name for [18F]FDG? I acknowledge that these names are not fully fundamentally chemical (else there would be something with "ethylammonium" in [18F]FCH), but let's ignore that nonetheless. A possible solution could've been to go with the INN of every tracer, however, it seems like only [18F]FDG has an approved INN ... Thanks! Function EDIT: Can this thread be moved to Organic Chemistry or Applied Chemistry?
  15. I missed out on this one. Thanks, Strange. "Conventionally" might just do fine!
  16. But it's not approximately. It's exactly, e.g., "50 % of the SUVmax" that would be the threshold of the MTV50 delineative isocontour A50. It's just that some researches have arbitrarily chosen this value and seen that this value may indeed correspond with true tumoural metabolic volume. However, I cannot say that we have chosen this threshold arbitrarily, because other authors have already shown that it may indeed, to some degree, correspond to some metabolic tumour volume. Additionally, multiple such thresholds have been described: the most important thresholds are 50 % of the SUVmax, 41 % of the SUVmax, 1.3 times the SUVbackground, 1.5 times the SUVbackground (that is, the mean SUV of random background - normal - tissues), and 1.6 times the SUVbackground. And I will define all these isocontour-delineated MTVs. But thus, these isocontours are not generated fully automatically, yet semiautomatically, that is, still based on a manual input of values that are "..." (?) chosen.
  17. In my thesis I will define the MTVs of tumours based on 5 such "experience-based" thresholds to compare these between different tumour types.
  18. In what way? It's for my Master's thesis :/
  19. What about "semiquantitatively"?
  20. Hello Since English is not my native language, I'd like to ask you guys to find a word that describes the following: A threshold for a positron emission tomography isocontour (that is, all voxels [cf. three-dimensional pixels] with a same standardised uptake value, or SUV) could be e.g. 50 % of the SUVmax (that is, the maximal SUVmax within the region that is bordered by this "A50" isocontour). Several authors have described that the A50 isocontour may be a good cut-off to get a certain metabolic tumour volume (MTV50). However, delineation with this A50 isocontour is not fully objective or automatically done, since a cut-off value (threshold) of 50 % of the SUVmax must still be set manually. I don't like to say that the 50 % threshold is "arbitrarily" chosen (since it's not completely random, though based on several observations and author-specific findings and consensus), but what could I say? Thanks F
  21. Anyone ever heard of PMOD for PET scan VOI determination and quantification of PET parameters? If so, know why it's such a pain in the ass?

  22. If it'd be unhealthy to sleep with windows closed, that'd mean that it'd be unhealthy to live with windows closed. And good luck with that in the Winter. I sleep all the time with my window closed to prevent "premature wakefulness" due to trafic noise, yet do not have headache complaints. I'm not fond of earplugs; they make me hear everything that's happening in my mouth and ears, and I just hate the feeling of plugged ears
  23. Hello everyone I've read that it's not uncommon to put the font of front matter (that is, before the main contents) of a document, thesis ... in a smaller size than the main corpus. Now my front matter would be the following stuff, title and cover pages excluded, and in order: Copyright information Signature page Quote Acknowledgements ToC List of symbols and abbreviations List of tables List of figures Preface Abstract Dutch abstract After which Chapter 1 commences. Now, without any doubt, I'll put 1-3, 5-8 in a smaller font (just 1 pt smaller, makes quite a difference). My question is, what would you do with 4 and 9-11? Should I also put these in a smaller font, since they can also be considered to be front matter, or should I put them in the regular font size, since they are mostly continuous text? There are no university guidelines about this, and this is rather a personal preference question, but I'd like to hear some opinions. Thanks! Function
  24. Yeah, I saw that a bit later when I posted it and was secretly hoping no one would mention it. Darn it. --- A similar situation exists between us Flemings and the Dutch. We supposedly both speak "Dutch (Nederlands)", but there's no way comparing "Dutch Dutch (Nederlands Nederlands)" with "Flemish Dutch (Vlaams Nederlands)". However, "Flemish Dutch" is not officially recognised and thus we all just speak "Dutch". (Though we Flemings sometimes refer to "Dutch Dutch" as "Hollands" [which has no appropriate English translation]) Likewise, I think it the statement that all Anglo-Saxon countries speak English is justifiable.
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