PURPOSE In optical-CT, the use of a refractively matched polyurethane solid-tank in place of a fluid bath has the potential to greatly increase practical convenience, reduce cost, and possibly improve the efficacy of flood corrections. This work investigates the feasibility of solid-tank optical-CT imaging for 3D dosimetry through computer simulation. METHODS A matlab ray-tracing simulation p...

The feasibility of real-time portal imaging during radiation therapy, through the Cherenkov emission (CE) effect is investigated via a medical linear accelerator (CyberKnife(®)) irradiating a partially-filled water tank with a 60 mm circular beam. A graticule of lead/plywood and a number of tissue equivalent materials were alternatively placed at the beam entrance face while the induced CE at t...

The paper deals with the study of SISO and MIMO processes using PID controller for a coupled tank process. The PID controllers have found wide acceptance and applications in the industries. In spite of their simple structures, PID controllers are proven to be sufficient for many practical control problems. This paper presents the PID controller design for controlling liquid level of coupled tan...

Synonyms Indices i = orders j = productstock tanks s = products k = components l = component tanks n = event points Sets I = orders Ij = orders which can be performed in productstock tank j Is = orders which order product s J = productstock tanks Ji = productstock tanks which are suitable for performing order i Js = productstock tanks which can store product s N = event points within the time h...

Gamow-Teller strength functions in full (pf) spaces are calculated with sufficient accuracy to ensure that all the states in the resonance region have been populated. Many of the resulting peaks are weak enough to become unobservable. The quenching factor necessary to bring into agreement the low lying observed states with shell model predictions is shown to be due to nuclear correlations. To w...

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We consider a tank containing a fluid. The tank is subjected to directly controlled translations and rotations. The fluid motion is described by linearized wave equations under shallow water approximations. For irrotational flows, a new variational formulation of Saint-Venant equations is proposed. This provides a simple method to establish the equations when the tank is moving. Several control...

In this paper we consider three-tank system as a hybrid system with discrete (on/off) valves and then we use Hybrid System’s Description Language to acquire a Mixed Logical Dynamical model of the system. In order to obtain a relatively accurate model of three-tank system, instead of using straight line approximation method for linearization of valves in whole space, we use Piecewise Affine meth...