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Real-time phase-contrast flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance with low-rank modeling and parallel imaging
DOI: 10.1186/s12968-017-0330-1
© The Author(s). 2017
Received: 5 January 2017
Accepted: 19 January 2017
Published: 10 February 2017
Conventional phase-contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance (PC-CMR) employs cine-based acquisitions to assess blood flow condition, in which electro-cardiogram (ECG) gating and respiration control are generally required. This often results in lower acquisition efficiency, and limited utility in the presence of cardiovascular pathology (e.g., cardiac arrhythmia). Real-time PC-CMR, without ECG gating and respiration control, is a promising alternative that could overcome limitations of the conventional approach. But real-time PC-CMR involves image reconstruction from highly undersampled (k, t)-space data, which is very challenging. In this study, we present a novel model-based imaging method to enable high-resolution real-time PC-CMR with sparse sampling.
The proposed method captures spatiotemporal correlation among flow-compensated and flow-encoded image sequences with a novel low-rank model. The image reconstruction problem is then formulated as a low-rank matrix recovery problem. With proper temporal subspace modeling, it results in a convex optimization formulation. We further integrate this formulation with the SENSE-based parallel imaging model to handle multichannel acquisitions. The performance of the proposed method was systematically evaluated in 2D real-time PC-CMR with flow phantom experiments and in vivo experiments (with healthy subjects). Additionally, we performed a feasibility study of the proposed method on patients with cardiac arrhythmia.
The proposed method achieves a spatial resolution of 1.8 mm and a temporal resolution of 18 ms for 2D real-time PC-CMR with one directional flow encoding. For the flow phantom experiments, both regular and irregular flow patterns were accurately captured. For the in vivo experiments with healthy subjects, flow dynamics obtained from the proposed method correlated well with those from the cine-based acquisitions. For the experiments with the arrhythmic patients, the proposed method demonstrated excellent capability of resolving the beat-by-beat flow variations, which cannot be obtained from the conventional cine-based method.
The proposed method enables high-resolution real-time PC-CMR at 2D without ECG gating and respiration control. It accurately resolves beat-by-beat flow variations, which holds great promise for studying patients with irregular heartbeats.
KeywordsCardiovascular imaging Phase-contrast CMR Cine Real-time flow imaging Model-based reconstruction Low-rank modeling Parallel imaging
Over the past few decades, phase-contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance (PC-CMR) has been developed into a powerful tool for quantification and visualization of blood flow dynamics in the heart and large vessels [1–5]. It has advanced the understanding and diagnosis of various cardiovascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis [6], aneurysms [7], and arteriovenous malformation [8]. Conventional PC-CMR [9, 10] employs electro-cardiogram (ECG) synchronized cine acquisitions with respiration control to acquire data from multiple cardiac cycles, from which averaged velocity maps are obtained. Although this approach has been widely used in biomedical research and clinical practice, it suffers from a number of well-known limitations. For example, it often requires periodic or quasi-periodic cardiac motion to ensure efficient data acquisition; rejection of data caused by irregular cardiac motion often leads to prolonged acquisition time. Additionally, due to its underlying assumption, this approach only obtains averaged flow information over multiple cardiac cycles, failing to resolve beat-by-beat flow variations associated with irregular cardiac motion (e.g., cardiac arrhythmia). Capturing physiological and/or pathological flow variabilities has long been an important goal of PC-CMR research [11–14].
Real-time PC-CMR [15, 16] without ECG gating and respiration control is a promising direction to address these limitations; however, it requires a much higher imaging speed, posing significant challenges for both data acquisition and image reconstruction. A number of techniques have been developed to advance real-time PC-CMR. For example, advanced acquisition methods, such as echo-planar [17, 18], radial [19, 20], and spiral [21–24] acquisition schemes, have been employed for real-time PC-CMR. In addition, real-time PC-CMR also benefits from accelerated data acquisitions. For example, with the emergence of parallel imaging, sensitivity encoding (SENSE) [25] and generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisitions (GRAPPA) [26] have been applied to real-time PC-CMR [27–32]. More recently, model-based reconstruction methods [33, 34] using regularized nonlinear inversion [35] have been developed, achieving 2D real-time flow imaging with a spatial resolution of 1.5 mm and a temporal resolution of 25.6 ms by jointly reconstructing a proton density map, a phase map, and a set of coil sensitivities.
In this work, we present a new model-based method for real-time PC-CMR with sparse sampling. It is based on the integration of a novel low-rank model with parallel imaging. With temporal subspace modeling, the proposed method yields a convex optimization problem, thereby enabling efficient computation. The proposed method achieves real-time PC-CMR without ECG gating and respiration control, and well resolves the beat-by-beat flow variations that cannot be obtained from the conventional cine method. Compared with state-of-the-art real-time PC-CMR techniques, it provides higher temporal resolution. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been systematically evaluated in 2D real-time PC-CMR using both phantom experiments and in vivo experiments. A preliminary account of this work was presented in [36, 37].
where ρ v (r, t) denotes the dynamic image associated with either the flow-compensated (i. e., v = 1) or flow-encoded image sequence (i. e., v = 2, ⋯, N v ), S i (r) the sensitivity map for the i th receiver coil (i = 1, 2, ⋯, N c ), and d v,i (k, t) and η v,i (k, t) respectively the (k, t)-space measured data and measurement noise. Here, the goal is to reconstruct ρ v (r, t) from the undersampled data {d v,i (k, t)}, and then calculate the velocity maps as \( \mathrm{V}\left(\mathbf{r}, t\right)=\frac{\varDelta \phi \left(\mathbf{r}, t\right)}{\uppi}\cdot \)VENC, where Δϕ(r, t) = ∠ ρ v (r, t) − ∠ ρ 1(r, t) denotes the phase difference between the flow-encoded and flow-compensated image sequences, and VENC the pre-specified encoding velocity. Since in real-time PC-CMR, there is no data sharing with ECG gating, (k, t)-space data is often highly undersampled. Direct inversion of {d v,i (k, t)} can incur significant aliasing artifacts and lead to inaccurate velocity measurements.
on which we enforce the low-rank structure, i.e., rank(C) ≤ L. There are a number of ways of imposing low-rank constraints [38, 40, 42, 43]. Here, we use an explicit rank constraint via matrix factorization, i.e., C = UV, where U ∈ ℂ N × L and V ∈ ℂ L × M . In this low-rank representation, the columns of U and rows of V respectively span the spatial subspace and temporal subspace of C.
We performed both phantom and in vivo studies to evaluate the performance of the proposed method for 2D real-time PC-CMR. The experiments were conducted on a 3.0 T whole body MR scanner (Achieva, Philips Medical System, Best, The Netherlands), equipped with a 32-channel cardiovascular coil. A gradient-echo (GRE) based pulse sequence was adapted to implement the proposed real-time acquisition scheme as shown in Fig. 1. Here neither ECG gating nor respiration control was used to aid data acquisition. Additionally, we performed conventional cine PC-CMR using a vendor-provided GRE-based pulse sequence, in which retrospective ECG gating was used.
Second, in vivo experiments were performed to evaluate the proposed method. Ten healthy volunteers (7 males, age: 22–29 years, median: 25 years), who had no symptoms of cardiovascular diseases, were recruited. In addition, we performed a feasibility study of applying the proposed method for arrhythmia detection, and recruited two patients (2 males, age: 23-year old and 72-year old). This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Tsinghua University, and all the subjects gave written informed consent. Both the cine and real-time flow experiments were performed on the planes perpendicular to the ascending aorta (AAo) and descending aorta (DAo) during free breathing, and with one directional velocity encoding along the FH direction. For the cine acquisition, the retrospective ECG gating was set according to an estimate of each subject's heartbeat period, and three averages were performed to mitigate respiratory motion artifacts. For both the cine and real-time imaging experiments, the following imaging parameters were used: FOV = 240 mm × 225 mm, matrix size = 132 × 124, spatial resolution = 1.80 mm × 1.80 mm, slice thickness = 5 mm, TR/TE = 4.5/2.8 ms, flip angle = 10°, and VENC = 200 cm/s. For the real-time flow imaging, the temporal resolution is 4 × TR = 18 ms, whereas for the cine imaging, the temporal resolution is around 36 ms (with 28 cardiac phases). The total acquisition time was around 94 s for both experiments.
For cine flow imaging, the flow-compensated and flow-encoded images were simply reconstructed from the fully-sampled data. For the proposed real-time flow imaging, we followed the procedure illustrated in Fig. 2. Specifically, we first performed the temporal interpolation and estimated the temporal subspace V from the training data. We then estimated the coil sensitivity maps S i from the temporally averaged (k, t)-space measurements. We further determined the spatial subspace U by solving Eq. (6), followed by forming the time-series images for flow-compensated and flow-encoded images. To improve the computational efficiency, proper coil compression (e.g., [50]) can be adopted. After image reconstruction, phase correction [51] was performed to correct the phase offsets caused by eddy currents. The velocity maps were then extracted for quantitative flow analysis.
We analyzed the results of the phantom and in vivo experiments. For the phantom experiments, the flow waveforms obtained from the cine and real-time flow imaging methods were analyzed for both periodic and aperiodic flow patterns. For the in vivo experiments with healthy subjects, we evaluated the degree of agreement between the flow measurements from the cine method and those from the proposed method. Specifically, we performed a Bland-Altman analysis, as well as a paired Student's t-test, on the peak velocities and stroke volumes obtained from the two methods. Here the peak velocity is defined as the maximum velocity within one cardiac cycle, and the stroke volume is the integral of the flow velocity over one cardiac cycle within the ascending aorta. For the experiments with arrhythmic patients, we evaluated the flow variabilities captured by the proposed method with reference to an external ECG recording of cardiac motion.
To evaluate the effectiveness of imposing a low-rank constraint on the joint Casorati matrix \( \mathbf{C}=\left[\begin{array}{cc}\hfill {\mathbf{C}}_1\hfill & \hfill {\mathbf{C}}_2\hfill \end{array}\right] \), we performed a comparison with an alternative formulation, in which the low-rank constraint is enforced for each individual flow image sequence. The signal-to-noise (SNR) and velocity-to-noise (VNR) were calculated for the magnitude images and velocity maps, respectively. Here SNR was calculated as a ratio between the mean signal intensity over a region of interest (ROI) and the standard deviation of the background, whereas VNR was calculated as a ratio between the mean velocity for the same ROI and the standard deviation for a region in the stationary tissue [52].
Representative results are shown to illustrate the performance of the proposed method. Figure 3 shows the flow waveforms for the phantom experiments obtained from the conventional cine method and the proposed real-time imaging method. Here the input flow waveforms for the pump were also shown. As can be seen, for the flow waveform (I) (i.e., periodic flow), both the cine and real-time imaging methods can capture the flow dynamics. In particular, the peak flows obtained from the two methods were accurate. However, for the flow waveform (II) (i.e., aperiodic flow), only the proposed method resolves the significant flow variations. The conventional cine method, which integrates data into a single cardiac cycle, fails to reconstruct the aperiodic flow dynamics (e.g., erroneous peak flows).
In this work, we introduced a new real-time flow imaging method and systematically demonstrated its effectiveness with both flow phantom experiments and in vivo experiments. Here, it is worth reiterating the key characteristics of the proposed method. First, the proposed method can be used as a viable alternative to the conventional cine flow imaging method in that it provides comparable (if not superior) image quality and flow information for healthy subjects. Second, the proposed method is able to resolve beat-by-beat physiological and/or pathological flow variations, which cannot be obtained from the conventional cine method based on ECG gating and respiration control. Such information is often clinically important (e.g., for assessing cardiac arrhythmia).
As with other model-based methods, the proposed method involves model selection (i.e., selection of the rank L). Generally, the selection of L needs to balance the model representational power, the number of measurements (i.e., acquisition time), and signal-to-noise ratio [40]. In this work, we manually selected L to trade off the above factors, and it consistently yielded good reconstruction performance, although it is worthwhile to investigate other principled model selection methods (e.g., [53, 54]) in future research.
The proposed formulation results in a convex optimization problem, which enables efficient computation. For example, the runtime for reconstructing an in vivo dataset (from 94 s real-time acquisition) takes around 10 min on a workstation with 64 GB RAM and 3.47 GHz CPU. The computational efficiency may be further improved by an implementation on graphical processing units. Such an investigation is beyond the scope of this paper, but is worthwhile to explore for future research.
In addition to rank constraint, sparsity constraint can also be incorporated to accelerate PC-CMR. It has been demonstrated in [40, 43, 55] that joint low-rank and sparsity constrained reconstruction leads to improved performance for dynamic MRI. Along this line, we can extend the proposed real-time flow imaging method by exploiting our early work [56] in cine flow imaging, although such an extension will come with additional computational cost.
The flow-compensated and flow-encoded images share similar magnitude but different phase differences. We can extend the proposed method to exploit such information and impose a stronger constraint in the model-based reconstruction. However, the resulting formulation can involve a joint reconstruction of magnitude and phase images, which generally leads to a non-convex optimization problem. To solve such a problem, specialized algorithms and proper initialization are often needed. In contrast, the proposed method here employs a low-rank model to exploit the spatiotemporal correlation between flow images, which leads to a simple convex problem formulation and efficient computation. Given that the two models may have different trade-offs, comprehensively evaluating their advantages and drawbacks is a very interesting open problem to be explored in future work.
In this work, we demonstrate the performance of the proposed method for 2D real-time flow imaging, in which through-plane flow was imaged. Considering the complex flow patterns and blood vessel geometry, it is highly desirable to perform 3D real-time flow imaging. However, 3D real-time flow imaging generally involves a more challenging trade-off between spatial resolution, temporal resolution, and imaging time, and a significantly more challenging computational problem. We are investigating an extension of the proposed method to 3D real-time flow imaging, and the results will be reported in future work.
This paper is focused on the development of a novel real-time flow imaging technique, which should serve as a foundation for our subsequent clinical studies. Given that the proposed method well resolves beat-by-beat flow variations, it can provide more information on hemodynamics for patients with significant irregular heartbeats. In the future work, we plan to conduct systematic study of the proposed method for various potential clinical applications (e.g., atrial fibrillation, premature atrial contraction or congenital heart disease).
It is also worthwhile to remark on the potential limitations of the proposed method. First, note that the aforementioned spatial and temporal resolution both refer to nominal resolution. For a linear shift-invariant reconstruction method (e.g., conventional Fourier reconstruction), the resolution can be characterized through the point spread function. However, for a nonlinear reconstruction method (e.g., sparsity [57] or low-rank constrained reconstruction [38, 40]), rigorously characterizing the resolution has been a long-standing open problem. In this work, we turn to reporting the nominal spatial and temporal resolution, although it is worthwhile to perform an in-depth study of resolution characterization for these advanced image reconstruction methods in future research.
Second, it is useful to create gold standard data sets for studying real-time flow imaging. Due to the undersampling nature of real-time imaging experiments, it is often difficult to generate an ideal reference for systematic quantitative evaluation. For example, in the phantom experiments, the input flow waveforms for the pump deviate from the flow measurements during the constant flow due to the phantom response to the flow/pressure in the tubing system. In the future, we hope to build a more advanced flow imaging phantom, in which better reference data sets can be generated.
A new model-based method was introduced for high-resolution real-time PC-CMR without ECG gating and respiration control. It integrates the novel low-rank model with parallel imaging, which enables high-quality image reconstruction from highly undersampled (k, t)-space data for real-time PC-CMR. The effectiveness and utilities of the proposed method have been demonstrated for 2D real-time PC-CMR with both phantom experiments and in vivo experiments. We expect that the proposed method will enhance the practical utility of real-time PC-CMR for various clinical applications.
- AAo:
Ascending aorta
- DAo:
Descending aorta
Field of view
Generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisitions
Phase-contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance
Sensitivity encoding
Echo time
Repetition time
Encoding velocity
The authors thank Prof. Zhi-Pei Liang at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for insightful discussions. The authors also thank Dr. Zechen Zhou and Shuo Chen at Tsinghua University for the help with data acquisition.
This work was partially supported by the National Key R&D Program during the "13th Five-Year Plan" (2016YFC1301601), and National Institute of Health (NIH-RO1-EB013695).
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Author's contributions
AS conceived the study, developed the imaging technique, performed data collection and analysis, and drafted the manuscript. BZ conceived the study, developed the imaging technique, assisted in the interpretation of the results, and revised the manuscript. YL and QH assisted with the experimental study. RL participated in the design of experimental study, assisted in the interpretation of the results, and revised the manuscript. CY supervised the project and revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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The One Piece characters do not belong to me even though I wish I owned Zoro.
This is my first time trying to write a story. Please read&review.
Late Night Snack
Chapter 1
It is in the middle of the night and everything is quiet. The water is calm and there are stars showing brightly in the dark sky.
Everyone aboard the Going Merry are asleep except for two people.
Sanji is up in the crows nest sitting down with a cigarette sticking out of his mouth. He is on watch duty because it is his turn.
After taking a few puffs of his cigarette, he hears a door open. He turns his head to see who is up so late. The door heads to down below.
Oh please let it be my sweet Nami-san!
A figure comes out of the darkness through the doorway.
Sanji sees green hair. He is a little disappointed because it wasn't Nami. It is the swordsman Zolo.
Why is he up so late?
Sanji watches as the shirtless Zolo heads for the kitchen.
"What are you doing up so late, Cabbage head?"
Before Zoro goes into the kitchen, he says loud enough so that Sanji can hear him, "None of your business Shitty Cook." He disappears into the kitchen with the door closing behind him.
Sanji is looking at the window that is apart of the kitchen. He sees the light turn on and sees Zoro go by a cabinet above the counter. Zoro opens the door and pulls out a bowl, then he goes by a drawer and gets a spoon from it. Zolo then walks away from the counter to where Sanji can no longer see him. Sanji smiles and climbs down the crows nest. He's very curious on what Zoro could be doing. He starts walking towards the kitchen door.
Zoro had gotten an ice cream container from the freezer and scooped out ice cream putting it in the bowl he had gotten. He puts the ice cream container away and then takes a seat at the table. He takes his spoon, scoops up some strawberry ice cream, places the ice cream he scoops into his mouth then closing his mouth around it, and then pulls the spoon the spoon out of his mouth with mouth still closed causing the ice cream to slide off the spoon onto his tongue. He savors the taste and doesn't want to eat it fast because he doesn't want a brain freeze.
The way he is seated is where the table is against the wall. His chair is next to the table with the back against the wall. He is leaning back with his head resting against the wall while he has his bowl of ice cream in one hand and with the spoon in the other.
Sanji stops at the kitchen door. He looks through the door window and watches Zoro while smiling.
Zoro has eaten most of the ice cream so there wasn't much left in his bowl. The ice cream was melting. He takes a big scoop of ice cream and brings it towards his mouth but some of it falls off the spoon landing on his chest. He quickly finishes up the ice cream and sets his bowl and spoon down.
The ice cream slides down his chest, over his abs, and then down his stomach. He places his finger onto his stomach a little above the belly button stopping the ice cream from going down further.
"Well aren't you being mess. Your suppose to eat the ice cream, not wear it."
Zoro looks up at Sanji who has come into the kitchen. Zoro glares at him.
Sanji smiles at Zoro's glare.
"I know that." Zoro looks back down and starts bringing his finger to his mouth until someone grabs his wrist and stops him. He looks up and sees Sanji in front of him, right in front of him where Zoro has to move his head back. "What?"
"You need to be cleaned up." Sanji bends over just a little and brings Zoro's hand towards his face. He places Zoro's finger with the ice cream on it into his mouth and closes his lips around it.
Zoro's eyes went wide. "…."
Sanji pulls his finger out of his mouth. He had removed the ice cream with his tongue. He keeps a hold on Zoro's wrist and smiles at him.
"Why did you do that?" Zoro looks at his wrist and then back up at Sanji. "And let go of me."
Sanji just continues smiling. His left hand is holding onto Zoro's right wrist. He then grabs Zoro's left wrist with his right hand. He then pins Zoro's wrists against the wall Zoro is sitting against.
Zoro can't move now. "Let go of me you dam cook!"
"Not until you've been cleaned up." Sanji then bends down more with his face close to Zoro's stomach close to his skin. He then moves closer and places his tongue very little below where the ice cream trail ended. He moves his tongue up a little against Zoro's skin up the ice cream trail.
Zoro's muscles and body tense up. He wanted to say something but words wouldn't come out of his mouth. He is looking down at Sanji, watching him. 'Why is he doing this?'
Sanji's tongue moves up more going over Zoro's abs and past his scar.
Zoro then stops breathing, either he somehow forgot to breathe or he just couldn't anymore.
Sanji continued up the ice cream trail but then going a little past to where the trail had started.
Zoro figured out that he couldn't do anything so he had rested his head against the wall when Sanji had went past his scar. This all felt weird to him, he doesn't understand why Sanji I doing this to him. He just couldn't fight back.
After licking up all the ice cream, Sanji made sure there was no more. He then looks at the swordsman's face. Zoro's eyes are closed.
"Are you done Cook?"
"Almost." Sanji puts his face close to Zoro's and looks at his lips. He leans in closer and licks Zoro's lips once and then stands up releasing Zoro.
Zoro's eyes had snapped open right after the cook licked his lips. He lifts his head up from the wall and looks at Sanji. "What the hell?"
"There, done." Sanji smiles and then leaves the kitchen leaving a shocked swordsman in the kitchen. He climbs back up into the crows nest and sits down. Wow, I can't believe I did that. He smiles again and then pulls a cigarette out of his pocket and brings it towards his mouth but stops. He doesn't want to get rid of the taste of the swordsman and ice cream out of his mouth so he puts the cigarette back in his pocket.
He stares off across the water listening to the very light breeze. He hears someone come out of the kitchen.
Why the hell did he do that to me? Forget it, I don't want to know what he was thinking. I hope I'm dreaming. Zoro pinches his arm very hard and winces slightly. Nope, not a dream. He heads down into the men's bedroom and lays down in his hammock. He looks up at the ceiling. Hope that was a one time thing and that he doesn't do that again.
Are you sure?
Of course I am.
No your not.
You know you liked what the love cook did to you.
No I didn't. Wait, why am I talking to you? Who are you?
I'm you, you idiot.
Oh, right. Then why am I talking to myself?
Cause you have no one else to talk to even though you could go up to the crows nest and talk to Sanji.
Hell no. He is a freak. He might do to me again what he did in the kitchen or something weirder.
And would you mind?
Yes! Now go to sleep, I'm getting a headache. Zoro then drifts into a peaceful slumber.
Sometime after 1:30 am, a tall blonde hair cook comes into the bedroom and goes by the sleeping swordsman. It is a little cold in the room so Sanji picks up a blanket and covers him from his neck to his feet.
Zoro stirred lightly but doesn't wake up.
Sanji goes by Ussop and shakes him lightly by the shoulders. He makes his voice low so that only Ussop will hear him. "Ussop, wake up. Its your turn for the watch."
Ussop opens his eyes and says to Sanji loud, "I don't wanna…" Ussop's mouth was then covered by Sanji's hand.
Sanji whispers, "Shut up. Now go get in that crows nest before I kick your ass. And don't talk loud next time, I won't let you wake them up." He mainly meant that he didn't want Ussop to wake up Zoro from his peaceful sleep but Sanji wasn't going to tell Ussop that.
"Is it.." Ussop then stopped talking because Sanji was glaring at him. He was talking loud again and Sanji didn't want him to. He then whispers," Is it cold out there?"
Sanji whispers back, "You might want a blanket."
"Ok." Ussop gets up and leaves the bedroom and heads up into the crows nest with a blanket.
Sanji goes over to his own hammock which is across from Zoro's on the other side of the room. After taking his shoes off, he lays in the hammock on his side with his back to the wall with him looking at Zoro. Covering himself up with the blanket up to his neck, he just layed there.
For the next whole hour, he watches Zoro. Watches as his chest rises with each breath he takes. At one point, he found himself breathing that same rhythm as Zoro. He watches as the moon shines through the window showing the handsome features of Zoro's face and then disappear when the moon was hidden behind the clouds.
You know Zoro, you look a lot more nicer and calmer when you are sleeping.
Sanji smiles and in a soft whisper says, "Good night Zoro, sweet dreams." Closing his eyes and starting to fall asleep, he thinks of supplies they will need to get when they arrive at the next island. Milk, cheese, meat,.. With a smile, he last thinks. ..and strawberry ice cream. He then falls into a nice slumber.
To be continued.
What did you think on my first try? Does anyone else like strawberry ice cream? Hehe, I do! Hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Please R&R.

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Above all, according to friends and former colleagues, he wanted a knighthood. He would have been the first Turkish Cypriot to possess such an honour. It was this ambition which drove him to invest huge sums in the Conservative Party. He claims he donated pounds 1.5m.
Conservative Central Office has always refused to comment on the level of his contributions. But the administrators of Nadir's companies have identified contributions of pounds 440,000. The Independent has discovered that he gave pounds 500,000 more than this.
It was not just the knighthood, according to one source who was close to him before the collapse of Polly Peck. He was emotionally drawn to Mrs Thatcher and, being a generous man, gave substantial sums to the Spastics Society and to orphanages in his native Cyprus.
He was feted by senior members of the Tory party. In 1983, he was introduced to Norman Tebbit, then a Cabinet minister, by Mehmet Sakir, a business partner.
Lord Tebbit said yesterday that he had no role in soliciting funds from Nadir, and that he could not remember whether he was even aware of the donations. 'I find your attitude strange - that you choose to believe people who have been engaged in criminal conspiracies and they are obviously trying to suggest that all sorts of people in public life . . . have run errands for them,' he said.
'I was not a friend of Mr Nadir; I was not a friend of this other gentleman's; and I did not run errands for them.'
Nadir also had access to Lord Howe, and the former party treasurer, Lord McAlpine of West Green. Sources, who once advised the ambitious magnate, talk of dinners at Number 10 hosted by Mrs Thatcher, and relate the numbing disenchantment that came when he failed to become a knight in 1985. 'He was furious. He wanted respect as one of Britain's leading businessmen,' a former business associate said.
There were more donations and, according to well-informed sources, the search for social honours continued. One of Nadir's former public relations advisers has told the Independent that he was instructed to obtain the discredited entrepreneur a knighthood in 1989, and was promised a pounds 100,000 commission if successful. The Tories indicated that a knighthood was possible. Nadir should make a donation to the party's Industrial Fund. In response, Nadir pledged pounds 300,000 over two years.
This second bid for a knighthood was carefully orchestrated. He increased the level of his donations to charity. He promised pounds 5m to the Spastics Foundation, the NSPCC received pounds 150,000 and large sums were also pledged to the Royal Opera House, Sadler's Wells and the Royal Society of Arts. 'There was a point,' said the adviser, 'when Asil was making more donations to charities than anyone else in the country.'
The campaign was master-minded by the adviser reporting directly to Elizabeth Forsyth, Nadir's then personal assistant. At least two of the heads of the charities concerned wrote letters to Mrs Thatcher, the then Prime Minister, pointing out Nadir's good works and suggesting he be considered for a knighthood, but with no success.
In reply to one of them, a Downing Street aide wrote that the Prime Minister was 'glad to receive it' and added that she would give it her 'full and careful consideration'.
The Conservative Party denies knowing that any of Nadir's donations were tainted or illegal. But it was warned well before the 1992 election to beware his gifts.
It transpired shortly before the election that he was making donations without telling his shareholders, as required under company law. Polly Peck's administrators are considering suing the Conservative Party for the return of these funds.
The Tories have refused to disclose just how much Nadir contributed to their funds - but in 1988, at least, he was believed to have donated more than any other individual. A television documentary last year revealed contributions between 1985 and 1990 amounting to around pounds 440,000 drawn on accounts of Polly Peck International and his Jersey-registered company Unipac. In 1987, Mrs Thatcher wrote to thank him for a pounds 50,000 donation just before the election and said that he had 'helped ensure a decisive victory'.
Sir John Cope, then deputy chairman of the party and the honorary joint treasurer, admitted the Polly Peck administrators had contacted him regarding nine cheques paid to the Tories which were not declared in the company accounts. He said it was not his responsibility to ensure that donors complied with company law.
But Nadir made contributions significantly earlier than this. The pounds 500,000 contributed between 1983 and 1985 was paid, according to one source, from accounts in Switzerland.
But gradually Nadir grew impatient with the Tories. The man who was once praised by Lord McAlpine, the former party treasurer, for his 'consistent support' and in particular a pounds 60,000 gift to the Conservative Industrial Fund, eventually turned on the party.
Lord McAlpine alleges that in 1991 he was summoned to Nadir's Berkeley Square offices and warned that unless the Tory party worked to reduce or lift the charges against him he would tell all about his contributions. Nadir claims that: 'Lord McAlpine himself came to my office once to say to me how unfortunate my treatment was, and that was it.' At the time he was on bail of pounds 3.5m - the largest in British criminal charges - awaiting trial for theft and false accounting; a trial which he escaped by fleeing to Turkish northern Cyprus last month.
He may choose to be indiscreet now; and this could embarrass the Tories who are fighting to retain confidentiality over sources of funds. The Tories remain reliant on large donations from individuals and a raft of corporate donors. Local party contributions now amount to only about 7 per cent of their known budget. It has emerged that before the 1992 election, they received around pounds 7m from unidentified foreign donors who do not have a vote in Britain.
Tomorrow, Sir Norman Fowler, the Tory chairman, faces the powerful cross-party home affairs select committee which will be asking him about the role of Nadir and other foreign donors in the Tory party.
Meanwhile, Asil Nadir still appears to have influence in the party, as the Attorney-General disclosed last week. Seven MPs made representations to his office over the manner in which the Serious Fraud Office conducted its investigation into Nadir. These included Michael Mates, a Northern Ireland Minister, and Michael Heseltine, President of the Board of Trade.
Nadir may have believed he had influence. But, finally, despite his donations, he did not. Charges against him remained. Friends went so far as to conceive a plot that allegedly involved attempting to bribe the trial judge. It is thought that it was the discovery of this plot by the Serious Fraud Office that prompted his sudden departure to northern Cyprus.
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Acta Medica Medianae
Zoran PERIĆ, Slobodan ANTIĆ, Vojislav CVETKOVIĆ, Slađana JOVIĆ, Milica LAZOVIĆ and Irina STOJANOVIĆ
Clinic for the Protection of Mental Health, Neurology and Development Age Psychiatry of the Clinic Center, Niš
In 90 patients with clinically mild diabetes neuropathy (DN) with no clinic signs of any affection of the nervus trigeminus (NTR) and of the nervus facialis (NF) including 50 with the insulin-independent diabetes (IND) and 40 with the insulin-dependent diabetes (IZD) of average age between 44,23±12,56 years of average diabetes duration of 9,42±7,85 years, the latencies (in ms) Rl, R2 and R2' of the blink reflex response (BR) after the nervus supraorbital is electric stimulation are determined. Besides, in the given patients the values (in m/s) of the motor (MBP) and of the sensitive transmission rate (SBP) of the impulse along the nervus peroneus (NP) and the nervus tibialis (NT) are also determined. The control group consisted of 50 healthy persons of respective age.
On the same day when the electrophysiological examination was done, the following biochemic parameters were determined in the patients' serum, namely, the glycemia profile with calculation of the glycemia average value (MBG) as well as the values of the glycolized chemoglobine (HgAl), of the basal insulin level and of sodium (Na) and potassium (K). After that, the correlation between the given electrophysiological and the biochemic parameters was examined as well as that between the given parameters and the age of the examined and the diabetes duration.
A statistically significant correlation (p<0,00l) between the value of the latent R1 of the BR response and the value of the MBG and HgAl in the patients with the IND is registered, while the given correlation is not registered in the patients with the IZD. An important correlation (p<0,05) is determined between the value of the latencies of the Rl and R2 BR responses in the patients with the IZD as well as between the values of the latencies of the R1 and R2' BR responses in the examined persons with the IND while in all the patients there is an important correlation (p<0,01) between the values of the latencies of the R2 and R2' BR responses is registered. There is no important correlation (p>0,()5) between the values of the other examined parameters registered.
The obtained results show that hyperglycemia causes the emergence of the transitory dysfunction of the NTR and/or the NF in the patients with the IND and the clinically mild DN. The dysfunction of the NTR and/or the NF is approximately symmetrically present on the left and the right side in the patients with the IND and the clinically mild DN while in the persons with the IZD and the clinically mild DN there is asymmetry of the functional disturbance in the system of the NT-NF complex which is probably related to different effects of the right and left brain hemispheres structure upon the function of the BR reflex arc parts in the brain stem. In the given patients (with the IZD and the clinically mild DN) there are more prominent and lasting functional disturbances at the NTR and/or NF level since such persons suffer from diabetes for a considerably longer period of time. There is no important correlation between the transitory dysfunction of the NTR and/or NF and the dysfunction of the NP and the NT in the patients with the clinically mild DN.
Key words: Transitory dysfunction, nervus trigeminus, nervus facialis, blink reflex, diabetes neuropathy


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Alex Salmond has rapidly wiped out the prospect of taking a seat in the House of Lords following his resignation, saying rocks would sooner "melt with the sun".
The First Minister announced he will be stepping down from his post as leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) on Friday after his defeat in the independence referendum.
He stressed he is not retiring completely from political life and will continue to serve as MSP for Aberdeenshire East.
A future seat in the House of Lords, however, does not seem to be on the cards.
"The rocks would melt with the sun before I'd ever set foot in the House of Lords," he told Sky.
Mr Salmond previously used the phrase, which appears in Robert Burns' song A Red, Red Rose, to illustrate his opposition to tuition fees for Scottish students.
His deputy Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: "This is what a principled politician sounds like, Westminister."
.@alexsalmond - 'The rocks will melt with sun be4 I set foot in H of Lords'. This is what a principled politician sounds like, Westminster— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) September 21, 2014
During an interview on the Murnaghan programme, Mr Salmond also claimed No voters had been "tricked" in the referendum by David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg's last-minute promises of devolution.
Disagreement between Labour and the Conservatives about the "devo-max" arrangement have reportedly surfaced already and the plans have sparked a backbench rebellion calling for an "English Parliament".
Mr Salmond, 59, has spent 20 years as SNP leader and seven years as First Minister.
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Alex Salmond stepped down as Scotland's First Minister and the leader of the SNP after the country voted no to independence
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Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond delivers his final independence speech to supporters in Perth
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Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling taking part in a live television debate in Glasgow on 25 August
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Following his resignation, David Cameron paid tribute to his leadership.
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There are some questions that confront Apple users time and time again when a new iPhone is released: should I buy it? Didn't I just buy this one? What the hell am I spending my money on anyway?
The simplest way to answer these queries is to point to the biggest single difference between the iPhone 6, the iPhone 6 Plus and all previous iPhones: it's the screen, stupid.
Yep, if the 4-Inch display on your iPhone 5 feels small (or, shock-horror, if you're still peering at the positively microscopic 3.7-inch screen of earlier models) then it's definitely worth considering the new iPhones.
As more and more of our lives are conducted not just on our computers but on our mobile devices, having a bigger screen is just becoming more useful – not only for tapping out emails but for watching movies (yes, some people do actually do this) or just browsing the web.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook announces the iPhone 6 during an Apple special event at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts on September 9, 2014 in Cupertino, California.
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Mint: A money managing app
The screen on the iPhone 6 measures 4.7-inches diagonally and that of the iPhone 6 Plus is a healthy 5.5-inches across. These aren't the biggest displays on the market (in fact, 4.7-inches is distinctly average now) but Apple wants to take advantage of them, offering new orientations for apps (ie use your email in landscape) and a couple of new features (such as 'reachability' – tap the home screen button to shift the top half of the screen into thumb's reach).
The new models also come with the expected upgrades – including a new 128GB storage option, a faster processor (even better for graphic intensive games) and the addition of a barometer that measures elevation.
The cameras on both devices have also had a healthy bump – not spectacularly so, but noticeable, and certainly desirable if you snap pictures on your iPhone - and in the US at least, they'll offer new opportunity for contactless payments via Apple Pay.
And all this new hardware isn't just faster, Apple says it's more energy efficient too, meaning that the iPhone 6 has 14 hours of talk time while the iPhone 6 Plus can last for 24 hours on a call (remember, bigger = bigger battery too). Both are significantly better than the iPhone 5s, which gets 10 hours on the line before running out of battery.
But why shouldn't you upgrade? Well, for one, most of the features that will be exciting on the new iPhones are actually just part of iOS 8 – the latest update to Apple's mobile operating system – and this will be coming as free upgrade to all iPhones from the 4s onwards from September 17.
Additionally, most prosaically, and most obviously: new iPhones ain't cheap. Unless your mobile network is offering a deal of some sort you'll be shelling out a minimum of £539 for the iPhone 6 and £619 with the iPhone 6 Plus. That's with 16GB of storage, with these prices rising to £699 and £789 for the 128GB configuration. That's certainly not walking around money.Reuse content


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- Minimum stay:1-5 nights
- Sleeps:4
- Bedrooms:2
- Bathrooms:2
- Property type:Condo
- Internet:Yes
- Pets considered:No
- Wheel chair accessible:No
About the Property
Condo, 2 bedrooms, 2 Baths, Sleeps 4, en suite washer/dryer
We have added can lighting in the living room, a new large dining room table and chairs. There is laminate floor throughout.
There is free off-street parking for TWO vehicles.
No matter the season, the condominium is also within easy walking distance of the FREE transportation provided by Breckenridge that will take you down into town or up to the base of Peak 8. In the summer you are within easy walking distance of the fun park located at the base of Peak 8. Very convenient because there is no parking at the fun park itself.
From the central bus stop near the gondola, you can also board the FREE Summit County 'Stage' that will take you to the other Summit County ski areas (Copper Mountain, Keystone, and Arapahoe Basin) and the nearby towns of Frisco and Silverthorne, including the discount shopping mall in Silverthorne.
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The wood dining room table will comfortably seat your party with room to spare.
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Note: There is NO hot tub or pool in the complex, but Breckenridge has a first-class recreation center approximately 1 1/2 miles from the condo. The rec center has a pool, slide, two hot tubs (inside and outside), exercise equipment in a room with spectacular views of the ski area, a short indoor track, rock climbing wall, and sport courts.
This is a non-smoking unit (condominium and deck) and Grandview covenants (and the owners' allergies) do NOT allow pets.
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Keywords: Condominium, first floor, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, washer & dryer in unit; large private deck just off living room.
SUMMER TIME NOTES: Our unit is located a short walk from the Breckenridge Fun Park, located at the base of Peak 8. The Fun Park will be open from June 10th through September 5th. NOTE: There is no public parking at the base of Peak 8 for the Fun Park, so the condo is ideally situated to take in the activities: gold runner coaster, Breckflyer zip line, alpine super slide, superbungee trampoline, rock climbing wall, restaurant, and more! (Alternatively, you can drive/walk downtown and take a free gondola ride up to the Fun Park.)
Member since: 2005
Property Type
- Condo
- On floor 1
- 880 sq. ft.
House Rules
Accommodation Type
- Vacation Rental
- Guests Provide Their Own Meals
- Wheelchair Inaccessible
Bedrooms: 2 Bedrooms, Sleeps 4, Beds for 4
Bedroom 2: 1 queen
lighted ceiling fan; tub/shower combo in hallway ...moreless
Bedroom 1: 1 queen
master bdrm, queen bed, lighted ceiling fan, walk-in shower...moreless
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Bathrooms: 2 Bathrooms
Other Amenities
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- Historic
- Sports & Activities
- Tourist Attractions
- Churches
- Cinemas
- Health/Beauty Spa
- Library
- Live Theater
- Museums
- Playground
- Recreation Center
- Restaurants
Local Services & Businesses
- ATM/Bank
- Fitness Center
- Groceries
- Hospital
- Medical Services
Leisure Activities
- Bird Watching
- Boating
- Horseback Riding
- Outlet Shopping
- Photography
- Scenic Drives
- Shopping
- Sight Seeing
- Sledding
- Walking
- Wildlife Viewing
Location Type
- Mountain View
Only 150 yards to the 4 O'clock run which connects with Snowflake lift & takes you to the Base of Peak 8...moreless
Sports & Adventure Activities
- Basketball Court
- Cross Country Skiing
- Cycling
- Fishing
- Fly Fishing
- Golf
- Hiking
- Hot Air Ballooning
- Kayaking
- Mountain Biking
- Mountain Climbing
- Racquetball
- Rock Climbing
- Sailing
- Skiing
- Snowboarding
- Snowmobiling
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Whitewater Rafting
- Wind-Surfing
- Dining Area
- Seating for 4 people
- Broadband Access:
- Clothes Dryer:
- Fireplace
- Gas Fireplace:
- Hair Dryer
- Heating:
- Internet:
- Iron & Board
- Linens Provided:
- Living Room
- Parking:
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Cooking Utensils:
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- Dishwasher
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Kitchen w/ IKEA cabinets w/ full-access rollout drawers. No kneeling for something in that far back corner!...moreless
- Microwave
- Oven:
Pantry Items:
Full range of spices; carton of refrigerated soy milk, cold cereal, and instant coffee for your first breakfast. ...moreless
Building Type
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Spring - Early summer
Apr 24 - May 31, 2017
3 night min stay
Summer - Early Fall
Jun 1 - Sep 5, 2017
3 night min stay
Fall 2017
Sep 6 - Nov 9, 2017
3 night min stay
Early ski 2017
Nov 10 - Dec 14, 2017
3 night min stay
Holiday 2017 -2018
Dec 15 - Jan 3, 2018
5 night min stay
Additional information about rental rates
- Refundable cleaning fee $1
- Tax Rate 12.275%
For ALL PayPal transactions add a 3.5% fee
NO pets permitted; a NO smoking unit.
"Instant quotes" require a $1.00 fee, hence the refundable (uncharged) $1.00 cleaning fee
May until opening day of ski season: Long term rentals are welcome. NO tax is required for rentals of 30+ days
Deposit due with reservation; full payment required for reservations w/i 30 days of check in. See my return email. Personal checks are appreciated. VISA, MC, AMERICAN EXPRESS accepted via PayPal, guest pays PayPal fee. Check in information, directions, lock box & wi-fi codes provided when final payment is confirmed. Damage deposit returned within 10 days after checkout to payee's address.
Owner's cancellation policy:
Policy available by contacting owner when booking
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Car: Not Necessary
Unit is approx 1 1/2 miles from the Breckenridge city recreation center with pool, water slide, two hot tubs, climbing wall, weight room, indoor walking/jogging track, basketball and racquet ball courts
Owner info
Year Purchased: 2006
About the owner: My wife and I are retired and purchased this condo as a short-term rental unit.
Why the Owner Chose Breckenridge, CO, USA:
Breckenridge is lovely, historic, and retains its small-town personality with a wide range of year-round activities. There are the usual winter slope-side activities. Plus, there is the 2 Adventure Park in nearby Frisco where the family can enjoy 'tubing'. In the summer there is the well-known, summer-long music festival and the Fun Park which is located @ the Base of Peak 8. In the summertime, Frisco's Adventure Park converts to a mountain bike riding area with a wide-range of challenging bumps and jumps. Breckenridge is close to the nearby ski areas of Copper Mountain, Keystone, Arapahoe Basin, and Vail is just over its name-sake pass. Breckenridge is conveniently located west of Denver and Denver International Airport via Interstate 70. The summer and fall provide a restful retreat from the heat of the Great Plains. After the snow melts, there is a paved bike path that connects Breckenridge with Dillon-Silverthorne and continues on to Copper Mountain and Vail (via the paved bike path up/over Vail Pass).
The Unique Benefits at this Condo:
During ski season, the unit is conveniently located just off the 4 O'clock run with quick access to the Snowflake Lift. Coming home for a hot lunch after a morning on the slopes is both pleasant and cost effective. After the snow is gone, you can walk down into town on the 4 O'clock ski run into town where you see birds, rabbits, squirrels, even deer and the occasional fox. The 4 O'clock run ends on Park Avenue just across from the River Walk entertainment complex. In the summer, Breckenridge has a 'fun park' at the base of Peak 8 with an alpine slide, maze, and other attractions. There is no parking at the base of Peak 8, but the condo is just a short walk from the Fun Park.
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Living room, 2 recliners, pull out queen sofa, 37'' flat screen, gas fire place
Kitchen / Dining Area
Master bedroom, log queen bed, full width closet, large & small chest of drawers
Second Bedroom, queen bed, full width closet, tall chest of drawers
A male moose crossing Grandview Drive. Moose can be 'grumpy', do not approach!
Oct 5, 2014: snow is beginning to paint the slopes white!
And the snow continues, the railing makes a good snow gauge
Breckenridge Int'l Ice Sculpture contest. Jan 27 -Feb 8, 2015
First snow @ condo, Columbus Day, 2014
Living room w/ IKEA fold out couch, 2 recliners, flat screen TV & gas fireplace
Remodeled kitchen w/ ice maker
Master Bath with walk-in shower, comfort height toilet
The local fox on summer patrol; he's a beggar, but please no 'people food'
Summer view towards Peak 8 from the spacious, private deck. Propane BBQ on deck.
Spring snow, even deeper in 2014. Reserve now for 2014-2015 season!
Large outdoor private deck in summertime
Breckenridge Int'l Ice Sculpture contest. Be sure to see it in the daytime, too.
The local fox on winter patrol. He's a beggar, but please no 'people food'.
This listing was first published here in 2007.
Date last modified - Tuesday, April 25, 2017
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2017 guide to summer camps
Looking for something for the kids to do this summer, learn something new and have fun? The 2017 Summer Camp Guide features local camps for all ages and interests.