Study of temperature distribution in agar agar phantom heated by 8MHz RF

The Introduction of Agar-agar into Bacteriology.

Among fundamental developments in bacteriology the elaboration of solid culture substrates will always hold first place. With the introduction of a method for isolating micro6rganisms and growing them in pure culture, bacteriologists possessed the means for studying what Ferdinand Cohn (1872) called "Die kleinsten lebenden Wesen." Credit for the discovery of the solid medium technique is common...

On Shear Wave Speed Estimation for Agar-Gelatine Phantom

Conventional imaging of diagnostic ultrasound is widely used. Although it makes the differences in the soft tissues echogenicities’ apparent and clear, it fails in describing and estimating the soft tissue mechanical properties. It cannot portray their mechanical properties, such as the elasticity and stiffness. Estimating the mechanical properties increases chances of the identification of les...

Blood agar, chocolate agar, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

We have read with interest the recent paper by Drancourt et al. in which they reviewed the use of blood agar medium for the primary isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (2). They state that to their knowledge “no comparative study comparing the efficacy of blood-based agars and egg-based agars has been carried out, and even the ability of blood agar to support growth of M. tuberculosis was f...

Behavior of the Serum proteins in starch-agar-gel electrophoresis

Physical basis of RF hyperthermia for cancer therapy (1). Measurement for distribution in absorbed power from radiofrequency exposure in agar phantom.

* Department of Radiology, Shimane Medical University, Izumo 693, Japan. ** Department of Environmental Technology , Fukui Institute of Technology, Fukui 910, Japan. *** Department of Experimental Radiology and Health Physics, Fukui Medical Univer sity School of Medicine, Fukui 910-11. Japan. **** Department of Experimental Radiology , Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, kyoto 606, Japan. (R...