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o treatment and 4 weeks after treatment; the efficacy was compared among the three groups. RESULTS Compared before treatment, the H-B grading and FDI scores were significantly improved 2 weeks and 4 weeks into treatment and 4 weeks after treatment (P0.05). CONCLUSION The three treatment methods are all safe and effective for acute-stage Bell's palsy. The suspension moxibustion combined with hormone therapy are superior to suspension moxibustion or hormone therapy alone. Early treatment of suspension moxibustion is safe and effective for Bell's palsy, and has obvious synergistic effect with hormone. For the patients who cannot use hormone, suspension moxibustion could replace hormone, which is non-inferior to hormone.OBJECTIVE To observe the clinical effect of electronic moxibustion on dysphagia in patients with achalasia of cricopharyngeus muscle after stroke. Liraglutide solubility dmso METHODS Sixty patients with dysphagia of achalasia of cricopharyngeus muscle were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group, 30 cases in each group. One patient in the observation group and 2 cases in the control group dropped off. The patients in the control group were treated with routine medical treatment, acupuncture treatment and swallowing rehabilitation training; the patients in the observation group were additionally treated with electronic moxibustion at Lianquan (CV 23), Tiantu (CV 22), Tianding (LI 17) and Futu (LI 18), 30 min each treatment. Both groups were treated 5 times a week for 4 weeks. The musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) was applied to test the activity of parapharyngeal wall and the dysphagia score of Ichiro Fujishima was compared before and after 4-week treatment. RESULTS After treatment, the activity of the parapharyngeal wall and the dysphagia score of Ichiro Fujishima were increased in both groups (P less then 0.01, P less then 0.05). The changes of activity of parapharyngeal wall and dysphagia score of Ichiro Fujishima in the observation group were greater than the control group (P less then 0.05, P less then 0.01). CONCLUSION Electronic moxibustion can improve the impaired swallowing function and reconstruct the normal swallowing process.OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical effect of acupuncture at the affected side and both sides of the pharyngeal acupoints for true bulbar paralysis after cerebral infarction. METHODS A total of 66 patients with true bulbar paralysis after cerebral infarction were randomly divided into an unilateral group and a bilateral group, 33 cases in each group, 1 case dropped off in each group at last. On the basis of conventional drugs and electro-nape-acupuncture treatment, the patients in the unilateral group were treated with acupuncture at the affected side's Tunyan, Fayin and Zhifanliu (Extra), while patients in the bilateral group were treated with acupuncture at the both sides' Tunyan, Fayin and Zhifanliu. The treatment was performed once a day, 6 days a week, and the clinical effect was assessed after 21-day therapy. The swallowing and vocalization of the two groups were evaluated by dysphagia grading scale, Kubota water swallowing test and GRBAS grading scale before and after treatment. RESULTS After 21 days of treatment, the scores of the dysphagia grading scale in the two groups were both improved (P less then 0.01), and the unilateral group was superior to the bilateral group (P less then 0.01). The GRBAS grading scale and Kubota water swallowing test grading after treatment were improved in both groups (P less then 0.01), and the unilateral group was superior to the bilateral group (P less then 0.05, P less then 0.01). CONCLUSION Acupuncture at the pharyngeal acupoints of the affected side achieves much better therapeutic effect on true bulbar paralysis as compared with the acupoints of the bilateral sides.SIGNIFICANCE Confocal laser scanning enables optical sectioning in clinical fiber bundle endomicroscopes, but lower-cost, simplified endomicroscopes use widefield incoherent illumination instead. Optical sectioning can be introduced in these simple systems using structured illumination microscopy (SIM), a multiframe digital subtraction process. However, SIM results in artifacts when the probe is in motion, making the technique difficult to use in vivo and preventing the use of mosaicking to synthesize a larger effective field of view (FOV). AIM We report and validate an automatic motion compensation technique to overcome motion artifacts and allow generation of mosaics in SIM endomicroscopy. APPROACH Motion compensation is achieved using image registration and real-time pattern orientation correction via a digital micromirror device. We quantify the similarity of moving probe reconstructions to those acquired with a stationary probe using the relative mean of the absolute differences (MAD). We further demonstrate mosaicking with a moving probe in mechanical and freehand operation. RESULTS Reconstructed SIM images show an improvement in the MAD from 0.85 to 0.13 for lens paper and from 0.27 to 0.12 for bovine tissue. Mosaics also show vastly reduced artifacts. CONCLUSION The reduction in motion artifacts in individual SIM reconstructions leads to mosaics that more faithfully represent the morphology of tissue, giving clinicians a larger effective FOV than the probe itself can provide.SIGNIFICANCE Monte Carlo (MC) light transport simulations are most often performed in regularly spaced three-dimensional voxels, a type of data representation that naturally struggles to represent boundary surfaces with curvature and oblique angles. Not accounting properly for such boundaries with an index of refractivity, mismatches can lead to important inaccuracies, not only in the calculated angles of reflection and transmission but also in the amount of light that transmits through or reflects from these mismatched boundary surfaces. AIM A new MC light transport algorithm is introduced to deal with curvature and oblique angles of incidence when simulated photons encounter mismatched boundary surfaces. APPROACH The core of the proposed algorithm applies the efficient preprocessing step of calculating a gradient map of the mismatched boundaries, a smoothing step on this calculated 3D vector field to remove surface roughness due to discretization and an interpolation scheme to improve the handling of curvature.