In the second half of 1998, four manufacturers (GE, Siemens, Toshiba and Picker, now Philips) extended this concept by launching multi-slice CT scanners. All were 3rd generation helical scanners, with low voltage slip rings, capable of acquiring four CT slices in one x-ray tube rotation (see Fig. 1). Additional four-slice models have been introduced by Toshiba and GE. Some basic specifications ...

This paper investigates the polar slice sampler, a particular type of the Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm known as the slice sampler. This algorithm is shown to have convergence properties which under some circumstances are essentially independent of the dimension of the problem. For log-concave densities, the algorithm provably converges (from appropriate starting point) to within 0.01 of s...

In an effort to design a simulation environment that is more similar to that of neurophysiology, we introduce a virtual slice setup in the NEURON simulator. The virtual slice setup runs continuously and permits parameter changes, including changes to synaptic weights and time course and to intrinsic cell properties. The virtual slice setup permits shocks to be applied at chosen locations and ac...

In the time-slice method, an atmosphere model is forced by the greenhouse gas concentration corresponding to a certain time in the future, e. g. normally at the time of CO2-doubling, while the sea-surface temperature (SST) and sea-ice distribution are taken from a coarse grid transient simulation. This method has the advantage that the model can be integrated with high resolution over several d...

In the early 1980’s Mike Freedman showed that all knots with trivial Alexander polynomial are topologically slice (with fundamental group Z). This paper contains the first new examples of topologically slice knots. In fact, we give a sufficient homological condition under which a knot is slice with fundamental group Z ⋉ Z[1/2]. These two fundamental groups are known to be the only solvable ribb...

We describe two slice sampling methods for taking multivariate steps using the crumb framework. These methods use the gradients at rejected proposals to adapt to the local curvature of the log-density surface, a technique that can produce much better proposals when parameters are highly correlated. We evaluate our methods on four distributions and compare their performance to that of a non-adap...

Gas disasters, such as coal and gas outburst overflow, always occur during the mining of steep extra-thick seam in horizontal, fully mechanized, top slice caving (HFMTCSC) method. To solve these issues guarantee safe efficient Yaojie No. 3 mine, 3DEC software was used this work to investigate overburden movement collapse law well stress redistribution coal-seam deformation characteristics below...

In this paper we introduce and study rational slice monogenic functions. After proving a decomposition theorem for such functions, we are able to prove the Runge approximation theorem for slice monogenic functions. We then show how a similar argument can be used to obtain an analogue of the Runge approximation theorem in the slice regular setting.