Qing Guo

• McMaster University

Complete reporting assists readers in confirming the methodological rigor and validity of findings and allows replication. The reporting quality of observational functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies involving clinical participants is unclear. We sought to determine the quality of reporting in observational fMRI studies involving cli...

Background: Sample size calculations are rarely performed for functional magnetic resonance imaging studies involving clinical populations. This may be due to uncertainty as to the size of expected effect and the variance of the blood oxygenation level dependent response. Moreover, existing sample size methods ignore the costs associated with perfo...

Background: Sample size calculations are rarely performed for functional magnetic resonance imaging studies involving clinical populations. This may be due to uncertainty as to the size of expected effect and the variance of the blood oxygenation level dependent response. Moreover, existing sample size methods ignore the costs associated with perfo...

To investigate the efficacies of point-of-care test of heart-type fatty-acid binding protein (H-FABP) and its combinations with the conventional biomarkers in the diagnosis of early acute myocardial infarction (AMI). 227 patients suspected of AMI were consecutively recruited in two centers. Biomarkers including H-FABP, myoglobin (MYO), creatine kin...

To determine if iridium implant (IM) and external-beam radiation therapy (EBRT) is better than standard EBRT in locally advanced prostate cancer. Patients with T2 and T3 prostate cancer with no evidence of metastatic disease were randomly assigned to EBRT of 66 Gy in 33 fractions during 6.5 weeks or to IM of 35 Gy delivered to the prostate during 4...