Defect engineering plays an important role in tailoring the electronic transport properties of van der Waals materials. Methods reported so far mainly rely on $e\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}x\phantom{\rule{0.333em}{0ex}}s\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}i\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}t\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}u$ defect type and concentration, hindering realization new types device functionalities associated with engine...

background: the aim of this work was to establish how well gel dosimeters performed, as substitutes for brain tissue compared with standard phantom materials such as water, polymethyl-methacrylate (or pmma), a150 plastic and te- liquid phantom material for dosimetry of neutron beams in boron neutron capture therapy. materials and methods: thermal neutron fluence, photon dose and epithermal neut...

The $R(1)$, $R(3)$, and $P(3)$ rovibrational transitions in the (2-0) overtone band of HD molecule are measured Doppler-free saturation using technique NICE-OHMS spectroscopy. For line, hitherto not observed saturation, we report a frequency $203\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}821\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}936\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}805\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}(60)$ kHz. dispersive line sha...

Introduction In the past decade, the incidence increase of obesity, diabetes and lipid metabolism disorders involved an epidemic increase of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases (NAFLD) which may affect from 10 to 30% of adults and 13% of children in the occidental population. NAFLD can evolve to Non-Alcoholic Steato-Hepatitis (NASH) and may lead to liver fibrosis up to cirrhosis from which compl...

BACKGROUND In integrated PET/MR hybrid imaging the evaluation of PET performance characteristics according to the NEMA standard NU 2-2007 is challenging because of incomplete MR-based attenuation correction (AC) for phantom imaging. In this study, a strategy for CT-based AC of the NEMA image quality (IQ) phantom is assessed. The method is systematically evaluated in NEMA IQ phantom measurements...

Using a mail-delivered questionnaire, we surveyed 590 veteran amputees concerning phantom pain, phantom sensation and stump pain. They were selected randomly from a population of 2974 veterans with long-standing limb amputation(s) using a computer random number generator. Eighty-nine percent responded and of these, 55% reported phantom limb pain and 56% stump pain. There was a strong correlatio...

introduction: in this study, arrangement of a low-cost optical tomography device compared to other methods such as frequency domain diffuse tomography or time domain diffuse tomography is reported. this low-cost diffuse optical imaging technique is based on the detection of light after propagation in tissue. these detected signals are applied to predict the location of in-homogeneities inside p...

introduction: nasopharyngeal carcinoma is one of the most common malignancies in the head and neck region and radiotherapy is its treatment of choice. in spite of the fact that it is widely used, due to the presence of many sensitive organs or tissues in this region, patients may suffer from a wide range of side effects. one such sensitive tissue is the spinal cord. if the absorbed dose to spin...