To simplify imaging focusing and calibration tasks, a laser-scanning microscope needs to scan ata moderate frame rate. The inertia of a galvanometric scanner leads to time delays when following external commands, which subsequently introduces image distortions that deteriorate as scan frequency increases. Sinusoidal and triangular waveforms were examined as fast axis driving patterns. The inter...

BACKGROUND We tested interim positron-emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) as a measure of early response to chemotherapy in order to guide treatment for patients with advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma. METHODS Patients with newly diagnosed advanced classic Hodgkin's lymphoma underwent a baseline PET-CT scan, received two cycles of ABVD (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbaz...

A simple flow-injection system, suitable for solution flow rates at microliters-per-minute, has been combined with fast-scan voltammetry for selective determination of methylmercury. A thin Hg film was formed at a Pt microelectrode prior to the measurement. Detection of methylmercury is carried out by measuring the oxidation of methylmercury radicals that have been generated at the Hg microelec...

Carbon-paste electrodes (CPEs) were studied to elucidate the cathodic stripping voltammetric determination of iodine. At an accumulation potential of 1.0 V (vs. SCE), iodide was preconcentrated on CPEs via an ion-pairing reaction, followed by oxidation to iodine. Then a linear scan voltammogram was recorded after 10 s of quiescent time by a cathodic potential scan from 0.7 V to 0.1 V at a scan ...

Etching of copper films by chlorine is induced by a scanning cw laser that locally heats the tllm. In experimental regimes with relatively high laser power, low chlorine pressure and fast scan speed, laser etching of copper is well characterized by a kinetic model based on the calculated temperature rise. In other regimes, a thick nondesorbed copper chloride layer forms on top of the etched cop...

ultrasonography is the only practical method for obtaining images of the posterior segment of the eye when the light-conducting media are opaque. in this study, 182 dogs with ocular abnormalities presented to the department of veterinary surgery and radiology from december 2008-august 2010 were included. all the animals were subjected to detailed ophthalmic examination and b-scan ultrasonograph...

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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...

PURPOSE To develop arrhythmia-insensitive inversion recovery sequences for improved visualization of myocardial scar and quantification of diffuse fibrosis. METHODS A novel preparation pre-pulse, called saturation pulse prepared heart-rate-independent inversion recovery, is introduced, which consists of a combination of saturation and inversion pulses to remove the magnetization history in ea...

A differential-scanning-calorimetric study of the thermal denaturation of a sea-anemone (Radianthus macrodactylus) 8 kDa cytolytic toxin was carried out. The calorimetric traces were found to be irreversible and scan-rate-dependent under the experimental conditions employed. Scan-rate-dependent thermograms were explained in terms of a two-state kinetic model N k -->D, where k is a first-order k...