The detectors within an infrared focal plane array (FPA) characteristically have responses that vary from detector to detector. It is desirable to remove this “nonuniformity” for improved image quality. Factory calibration is not sufficient since nonuniformity tends to drift over time. Field calibration can be performed using uniform temperature sources but requires briefly obscuring the field-...

Introduction: Non-uniformity test is essentially the only required daily QC procedure in nuclear medicine practice. Noise creates statistical variation or random error in a flood image. Non-uniformity on the other hand does not have statistical nature and may be regarded as systemic error. The present methods of non-uniformity calculation do not distinguish between these two types of erro...

I ncreasing production efficiency is becoming a major theme for producers in order to maintain or increase their economic return in an increasingly competitive global market. In the case of irrigated agriculture, producers must also address increasing public concern about water conservation, water quality, and environmental protection. Two irrigation management issues require attention in order...

We investigate computing models that are presented as families of finite computing devices with a uniformity condition on the entire family. Examples of such models include Boolean circuits, membrane systems, DNA computers, chemical reaction networks and tile assembly systems, and there are many others. However, in such models there are actually two distinct kinds of uniformity condition. The f...

The micro-orifice uniform deposit impactor– droplet freezing technique (MOUDI-DFT) combines particle collection by inertial impaction (via the MOUDI) and a microscope-based immersion freezing apparatus (the DFT) to measure atmospheric concentrations of ice nucleating particles (INPs) as a function of size and temperature. In the first part of this study we improved upon this recently introduced...

With promising properties of fast imaging speed, large field-of-view, relative low cost and many others, back-illuminated sCMOS cameras have been receiving intensive attention for light level in the past several years. However, due to pixel-to-pixel difference camera noise (called non-uniformity) cameras, researchers may hesitate use them some application fields, sometimes wonder whether they s...

introduction: the different factors that affect the camera uniformity of single photon emission computed tomography (spect) technique have been analyzed including peak shift (%) and window width of energy. the effect of peak shift and window width on spect image uniformity has been investigated using a point source to perform intrinsic flood images. methods:the relation between calculated integ...

To solve the problem that a parameter search easily falls into local optimum and two-dimensional electron density profile construction error is large in process of backscatter ionogram inversion, an improved method using neighborhood-aided multistep fitting proposed. The ionospheric inversion results adjacent space are combined reconstructed by correction method. introduction auxiliary informat...

-The factors influencing imaging quality of industrial digital radiographic imaging system are analyzed detailedly. This imaging system is a new type industrial digital radiographic imaging system developed by author, The structure of ray conversion screen and its non-uniformity, the discordance analysis of scientific grade CCD and vignetting effect of the optical system are introduced. The cor...