Confocal line detection has been shown to improve contrast in light-sheet-based microscopy especially when illuminating the sample by Bessel beams. Besides their self-reconstructing capability, the stability in propagation direction of Bessel beams allows to block the unwanted emission light from the Bessel beam's ring system. However, due to phase aberrations induced especially at the border o...

In this paper some Turán type inequalities for the general Bessel function, monotonicity and bounds for its logarithmic derivative are derived. Moreover we find the series representation and the relative extrema of the Turánian of general Bessel functions. The key tools in the proofs are the recurrence relations together with some asymptotic relations for Bessel functions.

h thii paper, an asymptotic expression of the incomplete gamma matrix function and integral expressions of Bessel matrix functions are given. Results are applied to study the asymptotic behavior of the modified Bessel function. @ 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords-Bessel function, Incomplete gamma function, Asymptotics.

We demonstrate the generation of Bessel beams using an acousto-optic array based on a liquid filled cavity surrounded by a cylindrical multi-element ultrasound transducer array. Conversion of a Gaussian laser mode into a Bessel beam with tunable order and position is shown. Also higher-order Bessel beams up to the fourth order are successfully generated with experimental results very closely ma...

A novel filarial serine protease inhibitor (SPI) from the human parasitic nematode Onchocerca volvulus, Ov-SPI-1, was identified through the analysis of a molting third-stage larvae expressed sequence tag dataset. Subsequent analysis of the expressed sequence tag datasets of O. volvulus and other filariae identified four other members of this family. These proteins are related to the low molecu...

PURPOSE Almost all patients with epithelial ovarian cancer receive chemotherapy and, concurrently, the synthetic steroid hormone dexamethasone to alleviate the side effects. This study aims to test the impact of steroid hormones on the apoptosis of epithelial ovarian cancer cells and to identify its mediators. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Tumor cell lines from 19 patients with advanced epithelial ovar...

INTRODUCTION Preliminary data suggested that non-invasive methods could be useful to assess presence of oesophageal varices (OV) in liver cirrhosis. The primary objectives were to investigate non-invasive markers for diagnosing and grading OV in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS This study included a total of 106 consecutive treatment-naive patients with primary bi...

This paper is part of the collection initiated in [12], aiming to evaluate the entries in [8] and to provide some context. This table contains a large variety of entries involving the Bessel functions. The goal of the current work is to evaluate some entries in [8] where the integrand is an elementary function and the result involves the so-called modified Bessel function of the second kind, de...

Circadian rhythms in mammals are regulated not only globally by the master clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), but also locally by widely distributed populations of clock cells in the brain and periphery that control tissue-specific rhythmic outputs. Here we show that the oval nucleus of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST-OV) exhibits a robust circadian rhythm in expression o...