The miniaturization and three dimensional die stacking in advanced microelectronic packages poses a big challenge to their non-destructive evaluation by acoustic micro imaging. In particular, their complicated structures and multiple interfaces make the interpretation of acoustic data even more difficult. A common phenomenon observed in acoustic micro imaging of microelectronic packages is the ...

CXCR4 is expressed at primary and metastatic sites of osteosarcoma. We developed a novel CXCR4-targeted near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent imaging agent (referred to as CXCR4-IR-783). The binding to representative osteosarcoma cells (F5M2 and F4 for high- and low- CXCR4 expression) was examined. CXCR4-IR-783 fluorescence was also examined in a mouse xenograft model of human osteosarcoma using NIR ...

optical coherence tomography (oct) is a powerful imaging modality used to image various aspects of biological tissues, such as structural information, blood flow, elastic parameters, change of polarization states, and molecular content [1]. in contrast to oct technology development which has been a field of active research since 1991, oct image segmentation has only been more fully explored dur...

PURPOSE We describe the initial assessment of the peripheral quantitative CT (pQCT) imaging capabilities of a cone-beam CT (CBCT) scanner dedicated to musculoskeletal extremity imaging. The aim is to accurately measure and quantify bone and joint morphology using information automatically acquired with each CBCT scan, thereby reducing the need for a separate pQCT exam. METHODS A prototype CBC...

purpose: to characterize the histopathologic, electron microscopic and confocal scan features of ahram mineral water (amw)-induced keratopathy in cadaver corneas. methods: seven cadaver globes were examined, five of which were exposed to amw from the corneal side for different durations (30 seconds, 3, 15, 30, and 60 minutes) and the other two were considered as controls. after performing confo...

Introduction: The structure of a meteorite, such as the spatial distribution and the modal abundances of individual components are fundamental information. So far, this information was obtained from 2D thin sections. It is unclear to what extent this 2D information is representative of the 3D object. The field of stereology has been developed in order to address and quantify this problem [1,2]....

Currently, 3D cone-beam CT image reconstruction speed is still a severe limitation for clinical application. The computational power of modern graphics processing units (GPUs) has been harnessed to provide impressive acceleration of 3D volume image reconstruction. For extra large data volume exceeding the physical graphic memory of GPU, a straightforward compromise is to divide data volume into...

A three-dimensional (3D) X-ray tomographic micro-imaging system has been developed. The optical system is based on a scanning-imaging X-ray microscope (SIXM) optics, which is a hybrid system consisting of a scanning microscope optics with a one-dimensional (1D) focusing (line-focusing) device and an imaging microscope optics with a 1D objective. In the SIXM system, each 1D dataset of a two-dime...

This paper presents a novel method for scanning duplex-printed documents without incurring the unwanted show-through artifact. The proposed method achieves the goal of eliminating the leaked-out reverse-side content by fusing a white backed scan image with a black backed scan image of the document. The fusion is accomplished using a multilayer perceptron having learned a fusion mapping from man...

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