Introduction: Recent significant progress in hyperpolarized (HP) noble gas MRI has made it possible to exploit a novel method of evaluating lung function or structure and to have a deep understanding of lung physiological changes. Xe has inherent features of high solubility in lung tissues and large chemical shift distribution. It has been shown that measurement of recovery process of dissolved...

PURPOSE To determine the postoperative refractive error in eyes with intraocular gas tamponade in combined phacovitrectomy using a Z-haptic intraocular lens (IOL). METHODS This prospective non-randomized case-control study compared patients with combined phacovitrectomy with or without intraocular gas tamponade to cataract surgery-only. The main outcome measure was the IOL power prediction er...

Air-blown gasification of biomass in fluidized bed reactors produces relatively low concentrations of hydrogen. The combination of a catalyst and calcium-based sorbent is being developed to increase the efficiency of converting producer gas from biomass gasification into hydrogen. The conversion process entails reforming the methane and tar, and converting carbon monoxide into hydrogen by the w...

Context The CO2CRC is involved in research, development and demonstration of a number of different methods for the large scale capture of carbon dioxide. The Engineering Development Group within the CO2CRC is involved with assessing and optimization the process designs associated with the capture of CO2. The Engineering Development Group recently assessed a number of capture methods for air blo...

We developed a micro-gas detector based on a Fabry-Pérot (FP) cavity embedded in a microfluidic channel. The detector was fabricated in two steps: a silicon substrate was bonded to a glass slide curved with a micro-groove, forming a microfluidic FP cavity; then an optical fiber was inserted through a hole drilled at the center of the groove into the microfluidic FP cavity, forming an FP cavity....

After pneumonectomy (Pnx), mechanical strain on the remaining lung is an important signal for adaptation. To examine how mechanical lung strain alters gas exchange adaptation after Pnx, we replaced the right lung of adult dogs with a custom-shaped inflatable silicone prosthesis. The prosthesis was kept 1) inflated (Inf) to reduce mechanical strain of the remaining lung and maintain the mediasti...

Our present study investigated whether the ventilatory and gas exchange responses show different dynamics in response to sinusoidal change in cycle work rate or walking speed even if the metabolic demand was equivalent in both types of exercise. Locomotive parameters (stride length and step frequency), breath-by-breath ventilation (V̇E) and gas exchange (CO2 output (V̇CO2) and O2 uptake (V̇O2)) re...

CO hydrogenation and oxidation were conducted over Ir supported on TiO2 ZrO2 catalysts using a feed mimicking the water–gas shift reformate stream. The influence of support interaction with catalysts’ redox chemisorption properties activity selectivity evaluated. Both oxidised to CO2 in absence H2, conversion 70% was obtained at 200 °C. For presence H2 these catalysts, favoured due spillover oc...

The sensing of carbon dioxide (CO2) at room temperature, which has potential applications in environmental monitoring, healthcare, mining, biotechnology, food industry, etc., is a challenge for the scientific community due to the relative inertness of CO2. Here, we propose a novel gas sensor based on clad-etched Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) with polyallylamine-amino-carbon nanotube coated on the s...