1.A PROPOSAL OF A SIMPLE COMBINATION TEST FOR RELATIVE LOCAL ENDURANCE FOR GENERAL POPULATION
AKIHISA HASEBE ; SETSUKO TERADA ; HIDEAKI MATSUKI ; FUMIO OSAKA ; HITOSHI KASUGA ; HITOSHI YUNOKI ; YOSHIO ISHIBASHI
Japanese Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine 1976;25(4):183-195
We have tried to design a method to measure health degrees as one of ideas to grasp the activity of general population.
We should like to suggest to measure relative local endurance and to observe its index or their mutual index ratio measurement of their endurance in each item.
Exercise method was already reported in the report (1) .
Loading time by standing arm test (SAT) is 1 minute, knee test (KT) is 30 seconds, sit up test (ST) is 30 seconds for general population.
Extimate formulas on index are given as follows,
SAT=120-2Y/ (P1+P2) ×4×1.36×100=2206-37Y/P1+P2
KT=120-2X/ (P1+P2) ×4×1.22×100=2459-41X/P1+P2
_??_ST30=120-3Z/ (P1+P2) ×4×1.20×100=2500-63Z/P1+P2
_??_ST30=120-3Z/ (P1+P2) ×4×1.38×100=2174-63Z/P1+P2
X, Y and Z show frequency of impossible in each exercise.
The above index itself can be compared with index in another person, but for the individual SAT/KT and ST/KT show that balance of moving and in case need SAT+ KT and SAT+KT+ST can be compared as the whole body endurance.
After this, we are expected to investigate whether the health degree in each individual can be observated or not, by these methods.
2.Comparison of Magnetic Resonance Cisternography Imaging Techniques
Kosuke SHIMAD ; Masahiko TANAKA ; Masashi TAGUCHI ; Ikuya YAMAZAKI ; Yoshio KASUGA
Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine 2019;68(1):52-58
Cisternography was performed using three weighted imaging techniques─constructive interference in steady state (CISS), sampling perfection with application optimized contrasts using different flip angle evolution (T2-SPACE), and T2-weighted imaging─in 15 patients with no history of intracranial lesions to determine which techniques are useful in diagnosis. Images were acquired using 1.5T and 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines. The contrastnoise ratio (CNR) and the presence and number of artifacts were evaluated. CNR was highest for T2-SPACE and CISS. There were no significant differences in artifacts between the techniques with 1.5T MRI but significantly more artifacts in CISS images with 3.0T MRI. In conclusion, T2-SPACE imaging can produce cisternographic images with high contrast and few artifacts.