Alex A. Volinsky

Laser Photoacoustic Detection of Pulmonary and Tracheobronchial Suture Leaks

ABSTRACT Background Prolonged postoperative air leak (PAL) after thoracic surgery remains a major cause of morbidity, extended hospital stays, and bronchopleural fistula. Existing intraoperative aerostasis assessment methods, including water submersion testing, iodine indicator i...

Content analysis of undefined arbitrary unit labels in scientific figures

Purpose: In scientific notation, “a.u.” denotes atomic units, but in figure labels it is also widely used to mean arbitrary units. This technically incompatible dual usage motivated this study, which examined the prevalence, disciplinary distribution, and editorial handling of th...