Abstract Background: Adjacent treatment fields are commonly used in external beam radiation therapy, such as mantle and inverted-Y fields for the treatment of Hodgkin’s disease and craniospinal fields used in the treatment of medulloblastoma and head and neck tumors when the lateral neck fields are placed adjacent to the anterior supraclavicular field. In each of these situations, there is a p...

For Resistive Fault Current Limiters (RFCLs) based on high temperature superconducting coated conductors (HTS-CCs), inhomogeneity, in terms of critical current and geometrical imperfections such as stabilizer and substrate thicknesses, plays a very important role and it may limit the penetration of such devices into the electrical market. This paper presents an electro-thermal model, developed ...

Introduction: At high magnetic field strength, B1 inhomogeneity causes undesired effects of non-uniformity in SNR and contrast. For slice selective excitation, 3D RF pulse design proposed in [1,2,3], can be used to mitigate this B1 inhomogeneity effect. These designs are based on playing kz sinc “spokes” of different amplitude at a number of (kx,ky) locations around the k-space origin. The sinc...

Amato [1] on our recent study [2], in which we proposed that ventilation inhomogeneity should be regarded as an additional prospective index along with blood gases, lung mechanics and hemodynamics in a multifactorial method to optimize positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) at the bedside. We agree with Costa and Amato that some ventilation heterogeneity may be good [1]. Especially in patients...

[1] Duan et al. [2011] recently presented analysis of deformation caused by dynamic and static stress changes on fault zones that have reduced strength and effective elastic moduli relative to the ambient rocks. Low-rigidity fault zones were previously proposed to explain anomalous geodetic signals around major crustal faults in the vicinity of large earthquakes [e.g., Fialko et al., 2002; Fial...

FRP (Fiber Reinforced Polymer) Bar reinforced coral concrete beam is a new type of structural member that has been used more and widely in marine engineering recent years. In order to study predict the flexural performance CFRP beams, rigidity, crack morphology failure mode were studied detail. The results show under condition similar reinforcement ratio, rigidity significantly lower than ordin...