The orientational behavior of microtubules assembled in strong magnetic fields has been studied. It is shown that when microtubules are assembled in a magnetic field, they align with their long axis parallel to the magnetic field. The effect of several parameters known to affect the microtubule assembly are investigated with respect to their effect on the final degree of alignment. Aligned samp...

The tremendous interest in magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) is reflected in published research that ranges from novel methods of synthesis of unique nanoparticle shapes and composite structures to a large number of MNP characterization techniques, and finally to their use in many biomedical and nanotechnology-based applications. The knowledge gained from this vast body of research can be made more...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain functional activity relies principally on changes in cerebral hemodynamics, which are more spatially and temporally distributed than the underlying neuronal activity changes. We present a novel MRI technique for mapping brain functional activity by directly detecting magnetic fields induced by neuronal firing. Using a well-established visuomotor paradig...

A method to determine the poloidal mode number m in a spherical tokamak based on magnetic probe data was developed. Perturbed magnetic fields at Mirnov coils are calculated for distributed helical filamentary currents on rational surfaces assuming the maximum current amplitude, m and n (toroidal mode number), and the toroidal location of the filaments. These free parameters were determined from...

In magnetic resonance iimaging- (MRI-) ultrasound (US) guided biopsy, suspicious lesions are identified on MRI, registered on US, and targeted during biopsy. The registration can be performed either by a human operator (visual registration) or by fusion software. Previous studies showed that software registration is fairly accurate in locating suspicious lesions and helps to improve the cancer ...

The anisotropic optical response of Si(111)-(4x1)/(8x2)-In in the midinfrared, where ab initio studies predict significant changes in the band structure between competing models of this important quasi-1D system, has been measured using infrared spectroscopic ellipsometry (IRSE) and reflection anisotropy spectroscopy (RAS). Both IRSE and RAS of the (8x2) phase show that the anisotropic Drude ta...

INTRODUCTION Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) is a noninvasive monitoring technique that provides significant biochemical information on the molecules of the organism under investigation. Metabolite quantification of MRSI data needs to be accurate to help in brain tumor diagnosis. The quantities of interest are the metabolite concentrations, which can be computed from the weighti...

In this article an accurate and efficient technique for tissue typing is presented. The proposed technique is based on Canonical Correlation Analysis, a statistical method able to simultaneously exploit the spectral and spatial information characterizing the Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) data. Recently, Canonical Correlation Analysis has been successfully applied to other type...

We investigate electron paramagnetic resonance spectra of bismuth-doped silicon, at intermediate magnetic fields B≃0.1-0.6  T, theoretically and experimentally (with 9.7 GHz X-band spectra). We identify a previously unexplored regime of "cancellation resonances," where a component of the hyperfine coupling is resonant with the external field. We show that this regime has experimentally accessib...

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