Background On delayed-enhancement (DE-CMR), both fat and infarcted myocardium appear bright making them difficult to differentiate. Standard chemical shift fat-suppression (FatSatCS) consists of a fat-frequency selective saturation followed by readout. This approach is suboptimal in clinical DE-CMR sequences which typically have long readout times (100-200ms) and as a result, fat magnetization ...

Digital back-propagation (DBP) has recently been proposed for the comprehensive compensation of channel nonlinearities in optical communication systems. While DBP is attractive for its flexibility and performance, it poses significant challenges in terms of computational complexity. Alternatively, phase conjugation or spectral inversion has previously been employed to mitigate nonlinear fibre i...

Objective(S): In this work, paclitaxel (PX), a promising anticancer drug, was loaded in the basil seed mucilage (BSM) aerogels by implementation of supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) technology. Then, the effects of operating conditions were studied on the PX mean particle size (MPS), particle size distribution (PSD) and drug loading efficiency (DLE). <stron...

Microporous poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) membranes were prepared from PVDF/N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAC) solutions by using upercritical CO2 phase inversion process. As revealed by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), he PVDF membranes exhibit morphological characteristics resulting from both liquid–liquid phase separation and crystallization, i.e.,...

This paper proposes an algebraic expression of noncausal stable inversion based on the two-sided Laplace transform, which is a classic mathematical tool but has not been used very much in the field of control engineering. This expression brings an advantage that computing of stable inversion is reduced to simulation of the response of the plant and the reverse of time horizon without solving th...

A novel shear thickening suspoemulsion is formulated and studied with a new rheo-microscope instrument. The experimental fluid system is comprised of a immiscible blend of Newtonian, low molecular weight poly(dimethylsiloxane) and a shear thickening suspension of colloidal silica in poly(ethylene glycol). The blend is studied as a function of composition where phase inversion is evident at low ...