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introduction bolus is a soft and resilient material which is used for increasing skin dose or to even out the irregular patient contour. the main property of various materials used presently as bolus is the water-equivalent electron density. ethyl methacrylate is used as a soft-liner in dentistry and its physical and chemical properties are proved to be nontoxic for human body. the goal of this...

This paper presents a procedure for inserting test points at the outputs of scan elements of a full-scan circuit in such a manner that the peak power during scan testing is kept below a specified limit while maintaining the original fault coverage. If the power in a clock cycle during scan testing exceeds a specified limit (which depends on the peak power the chip has been designed to supply), ...

PURPOSE To propose a method for reducing the radiation dose in cerebral CT perfusion studies by using a variable scan schedule. MATERIALS AND METHODS Original images were obtained with a multi detector-row CT (MDCT) scanner using the following CT perfusion protocol: continuous scans of 1 sec/rotation x 60 sec, four 5-mm-thick contiguous slices. The original images were thinned-out using combi...

Currently, cone-beam computerized tomography (CT) and micro-CT scanners are under rapid development for major biomedical applications. Half-scan cone-beam image reconstruction algorithms assume only part of a scanning turn, and are advantageous in terms of temporal resolution and image artifacts. While the existing half-scan cone-beam algorithms are in the Feldkamp framework, we have published ...

We consider the detection of multivariate spatial clusters in the Bernoulli model with N locations, where the design distribution has weakly dependent marginals. The locations are scanned with a rectangular window with sides parallel to the axes and with varying sizes and aspect ratios. Multivariate scan statistics pose a statistical problem due to the multiple testing over many scan windows, a...

Accumulation of [11C]flumazenil (FMZ) reflects central nervous system benzodiazepine receptor (BZR). We searched for the optimal time for a static PET scan with FMZ as semi-quantitative imaging of BZR distribution. In 10 normal subjects, a dynamic series of decay-corrected PET scans was performed for 60 minutes, and the arterial blood was sampled during the scan to measure radioactivity and lab...

A new linear time scanning algorithm for the exact Euclidean distance transform is presented. It is shorter and uses a smaller data structure than the approximating algorithms of Danielsson. The algorithm consists of two phases. The rst phase uses two scans per line to compute the distance transform over the columns of the image. Then the second phase uses two scans per row. Informally speaking...

After nine years of operation the BABAR experiment at the B factory PEPII (Standford Linear Accelerator Center) stopped data taking in April 2008. The last three month of data taking were devoted to ee collisions at center of mass energies of the Υ(2S), Υ(3S) and to an energy scan above the Υ(4S). Besides the observation of the bottomonium ground state ηb, the center of mass energy dependent ee...

This paper describes a novel, laser-based approach for tracking the pose of a high-speed mobile robot. The algorithm is outstanding in terms of accuracy and computation time. The efficiency is achieved by a closed-form solution for the matching of two laser scans, the use of natural scan features and fast linear filters. The implemented algorithm is evaluated with the high-speed robot Kurt3D (4...