Transition from analogue-to-digital nuclear electronics for precise gamma radiation spectroscopy: advantages and limitations

All-Digital Phase-Locked Loops, its Advantages and Performance Limitations

The All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop has several advantages when compared with traditional charge-pump based PLL. We will introduce some of its advantages in this paper, showing how they can be used to improve the system’s performance. In addition, performance limitations of the system will be discussed.

Radiation dose to the nuclear medicine nurses

Background: People who have been administrated radiopharmaceuticals could be a source of radiation to their relatives, medical nurses, and people who are in contact with them. The aim of this work was to estimate radiation dose received by nuclear medicine nurses. Materials and Methods: In this study, the dose rates at various distances of 5 – 100 cm from 70 patients, who were administered diag...

Report of Workshop on "Digital Electronics for Nuclear Structure Physics"

From Analogue to Digital Speech Sounds

Sound is a medium used by humans to carry information. The existence of this kind of medium is a pre-requisite for language. It is organized into a code, called speech, which provides a repertoire of forms that is shared in each language community. This code is necessary to support the linguistic interactions that allow humans to communicate. How then may a speech code be formed prior to the ex...

Superconducting analogue electronics for research and industry

This paper gives a brief review of superconducting electronics in research and industry. Examples will show how science benefits from the development and how superconducting devices have found their way into industry and to some commercial products. Impact in terms of enabling new research in other fields (e.g. radio astronomy, medicine), in industry (certification, safety, metrology, etc) and ...

Larynx preservation: advantages and limitations.

For a long time standard treatment approach for resectable squamous cell carcinoma of larynx was surgery with or without subsequent radiotherapy. Surgery, particulary total laryngectomy, has been associated with serious impairment of quallity of life. Between nonsurgical approaches, concurrent cisplatin based chemoradiotherapy has become a very promising treatment modality for larynx preservati...