TY - JOUR A1 - Maas, Marnix C. A1 - Vos, Eline K. A1 - Lagemaat, Miriam W. A1 - Bitz, Andreas A1 - Orzada, Stephan A1 - Kobus, Thiele A1 - Kraff, Oliver A1 - Maderwald, Stefan A1 - Ladd, Mark E. A1 - Scheenen, Tom W. J. T1 - Feasibility of T₂-weighted turbo spin echo imaging of the human prostate at 7 tesla JF - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine N2 - Purpose To demonstrate that high quality T₂-weighted (T2w) turbo spin-echo (TSE) imaging of the complete prostate can be achieved routinely and within safety limits at 7 T, using an external transceive body array coil only. Methods Nine healthy volunteers and 12 prostate cancer patients were scanned on a 7 T whole-body system. Preparation consisted of B₀ and radiofrequency shimming and localized flip angle calibration. T₁ and T₂ relaxation times were measured and used to define the T2w-TSE protocol. T2w imaging was performed using a TSE sequence (pulse repetition time/echo time 3000–3640/71 ms) with prolonged excitation and refocusing pulses to reduce specific absorption rate. Results High quality T2w TSE imaging was performed in less than 2 min in all subjects. Tumors of patients with gold-standard tumor localization (MR-guided biopsy or prostatectomy) were well visualized on 7 T imaging (n = 3). The number of consecutive slices achievable within a 10-g averaged specific absorption rate limit of 10 W/kg was ≥28 in all subjects, sufficient for full prostate coverage with 3-mm slices in at least one direction. Conclusion High quality T2w TSE prostate imaging can be performed routinely and within specific absorption rate limits at 7 T with an external transceive body array. Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.24818 SN - 1522-2594 VL - 71 IS - 5 SP - 1711 EP - 1719 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tran, Duc Hung T1 - Multiple corporate governance attributes and the cost of capital – Evidence from Germany JF - The British Accounting Review N2 - This paper investigates the extent to which corporate governance affects the cost of debt and equity capital of German exchange-listed companies. I examine corporate governance along three dimensions: financial information quality, ownership structure and board structure. The results suggest that firms with high levels of financial transparency and bonus compensations face lower cost of equity. In addition, block ownership is negatively related to firms' cost of equity when the blockholders are other firms, managers or founding-family members. Consistent with the conjecture that agency costs increase with firm size, I find significant cost of debt effects only in the largest German companies. Here, the creditors demand lower cost of debt from firms with block ownerships held by corporations or banks. My findings demonstrate that a uniform set of governance attributes is unlikely to satisfy suppliers of debt and equity capital equally. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2014.02.003 SN - 0890-8389 VL - 46 IS - 2 SP - 179 EP - 197 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Behbahani, Mehdi T1 - An Experimental Study of Thrombocyte Reactions in Response to Biomaterial Surfaces and Varying Shear Stress T2 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Systems Prague, Czech Republic, August 14-15, 2014 Y1 - 2014 SP - Paper 125 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Yang, Peng-Fei A1 - Kriechbaumer, Andreas A1 - Albracht, Kirsten A1 - Sanno, Maximilian A1 - Ganse, Bergita A1 - Koy, Timmo A1 - Shang, Peng A1 - brüggemann, Gert-Peter A1 - Müller, Lars Peter A1 - Rittweger, Jörn T1 - A novel optical approach for assessing in vivo bone segment deformation and its application in muscle-bone relationship studies in humans JF - Journal of Orthopaedic Translation Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jot.2014.07.078 SN - 2214-0328 SN - 2214-031X VL - 2 IS - 4 SP - 238 EP - 238 PB - Elsevier CY - Singapore ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Edip, Kemal A1 - Garevski, Mihail A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Sheshov, Vlatko A1 - Bojadjieva, Julijana A1 - Gjorgjiev, Igor T1 - New coupled finite-infinite element approach for wave propagation simulation of unbounded soil media T2 - 2nd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology 2014 (2nd ECEES) : joint event of the 15th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and the 34th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission : Istanbul, Turkey, 25-29 August 2014 / European Association for Earthquake Engineering (EAEE) ; Vol. 2 Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-1-5108-1021-1 SP - 1556 EP - 1561 PB - Curran Associates, Inc. CY - Red Hook, NY ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dalguer, Luis A. A1 - Churilov, Sergey A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Renault, Philippe A1 - Hyun, An Jun T1 - Dynamic analysis of a reinforced concrete electrical nuclear building of SMART 2013 project subjected to earthquake excitation using ABAQUS T2 - Workshop SMART2013 : Paris, France, November 25th - 27th, 2014 Y1 - 2014 SP - 1 EP - 12 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Altay, Okyay A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Klinkel, Sven A1 - Taddei, Francesca T1 - Vibration mitigation of wind turbine towers by tuned liquid column dampers T2 - Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2014 Porto, Portugal, 30 June - 2 July 2014 / A. Cunha, E. Caetano, .... (eds.) Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-972-752-165-4 SP - 1531 EP - 1538 CY - Porto ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Edip, Kemal A1 - Garevski, Mihail A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Sesov, Vlatko A1 - Bojadjieva, Julijana A1 - Gjorgjiev, Igor T1 - Boundary effects on seismic analysis of multi-storey frames considering soil structure interaction phenomenon T2 - Seismic design of industrial facilities : proceedings of the International Conference on Seismic Design of Industrial Facilities (SeDIF-Conference) ; [Aachen, 26. - 27. September 2013] / Chair of Structural Statics and Dynamics, RWTH Aachen. Sven Klinkel ..., ed Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-658-02809-1 (Print) ; 978-3-658-02810-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02810-7_47 SP - 569 EP - 576 PB - Springer Vieweg CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Giresini, Linda A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Andreini, M. A1 - De Falco, A. A1 - Sassu, M. T1 - Numerical calibration of a macro-element for vaultes system in historic churches T2 - 9th International Conference on Structural Analyses of Historical Conctruction, 14 - 17 October, 2014, Mexico City Y1 - 2014 SP - 1 EP - 12 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rosin, Julia A1 - Butenweg, Christoph T1 - Seismic isolation of cylindrical liquid storage tanks T2 - Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2014 Porto, Portugal, 30 June - 2 July 2014 / A. Cunha, E. Caetano, .... (eds.) Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-972-752-165-4 SP - 3145 EP - 3152 CY - Porto ER -