In this paper, the spherical harmonic convolution approach for HCP materials [1] is extended into a generalised form for the principal purpose of bulk texture determination in cubic polycrystals from ultrasonic wave speed measurements. It is demonstrated that the wave speed function of a general single crystal convolves with the polycrystal Orientation Distribution Function (ODF) to make the re...

INTRODUCTION: High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) requires more diffusion-weighted (DW) measurements than traditional diffusion tensor imaging acquisitions, but it can resolve some fibre crossings. This comes at the price of a longer acquisition time, which can be problematic for clinical studies involving children and people inflicted with certain diseases. Excessive motion of th...

PURPOSE Diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) is an imaging technique that has been successfully applied to resolve white matter crossings in the human brain. However, its accuracy in complex microstructure environments has not been well characterized. THEORY AND METHODS Here we have simulated different tissue configurations, sampling schemes, and processing steps to evaluate DSI performances' und...

The uniaxial orientational order in a macromolecular system is usually specified using the Hermans factor which equivalent to second moment of system's orientation distribution function (ODF) expanded terms Legendre polynomials. In this work, we show that for aligned materials are two-dimensional (2D) or have measurable 2D intensity distribution, such as carbon nanotube (CNT) textiles, not appr...

High Angular Resolution Imaging (HARDI) can better explore the complex micro-structure of white matter compared to Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI). Orientation Distribution Function (ODF) in HARDI is used to describe the probability of the fiber direction. There are two type definitions of the ODF, which were respectively proposed in Q-Ball Imaging (QBI) and Diffusion Spectrum Imaging (DSI). Som...

Q-ball imaging (QBI) is a high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) technique which has been proven very successful in resolving multiple intravoxel fiber orientations in MR images. The standard computation of the orientation distribution function (ODF, the probability of diffusion in a given direction) from q-ball uses linear radial projection, neglecting the change in the volume eleme...

Osteoclasts, the multinucleated cells that resorb bone, develop from hematopoietic cells of monocyte/macrophage lineage. Osteoclast-like cells (OCLs) are formed by coculturing spleen cells with osteoblasts or bone marrow stromal cells in the presence of bone-resorbing factors. The cell-to-cell interaction between osteoblasts/stromal cells and osteoclast progenitors is essential for OCL formatio...

We describe studies carried out in the DNA context to test how a common fluorescence quencher, dabcyl, interacts with oligodeoxynucleoside fluorophores (ODFs)--a system of stacked, electronically interacting fluorophores built on a DNA scaffold. We tested twenty different tetrameric ODF sequences containing varied combinations and orderings of pyrene (Y), benzopyrene (B), perylene (E), dimethyl...

Techniques for exploring texture-property-process relationships in various deformation processes are derived from a reduced-order model of texture evolution. The orientation distribution function (ODF) in polycrystals is represented over the Rodrigues space in a discrete form using finite element interpolation techniques. Linear programming algorithms are developed for retrieving ODFs with extr...