BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Fast spin-echo short τ inversion recovery sequences have been very useful for MR imaging-guided deep brain stimulation procedures in Parkinson disease. However, high-quality fast spin-echo imaging deposits significant heat, exceeding FDA-approved limits when patients already have undergone deep brain stimulation and need a second one or a routine brain MR imaging for neur...

This paper reports on the effect of fiber crimp frequency on sound absorption capability of staple polypropylene nonwoven batts. Stuffer box was used to impart crimp to spun tow. Crimping of the tow renders the fibers the required textile applicability. In this work, polypropylene batts composed of staple fibers with linear densities of 9, 14, and 18 denier were employed. Three crimp frequency ...

Understanding tumor metabolism is important for the development of anticancer therapies. Immunohistochemical evaluation of colorectal adenocarcinomas showed that cancer cells share common enzyme/transporter activities suggestive of an anaerobic metabolism [high lactate dehydrogenase 5 (LDH5)/hypoxia-inducible factor alphas (HIFalphas)] with high ability for glucose absorption and lactate extrus...

Using the known properties and statistics of intervening quasar absorption systems, we calculate the cumulative absorption out to high redshifts at soft X-ray (E < 1 keV) energies. Although photoelectric absorption in quasar absorption systems provides a signiicant source of opacity at the lowest X-ray energies, the imprint of this absorption is not readily observable since it is generally mask...

ABSTRACT Thin films of indocyanine green J-aggregates in polymers have been prepared and their saturable absorption properties studied in a high intensity regime using a unique ultrashort pulse Ti:sapphire laser (10 fs) with a very broad bandwidth (over 200 nm at −20 dB). The samples showed a surprisingly high stability to irradiation, strong absorption bleaching, and wavelength dependent diffe...