We conducted an evaluation of the intercamera (i.e., between cameras) variability in clinically relevant performance characteristics for Symbia gamma cameras (Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA) based on measurements made using nine separate systems. The significance of the observed intercamera variability was determined by comparing it to the intracamera (i.e., within a single camera) vari...

Pulse firing offers significant process and productivity benefits, such as improved temperature uniformity and high heat transfer rates to the product load through maximum system turndown and utilizes the system’s burners at their most efficient firing rates. However, overshoot and undershoot is unavoidable. To minimize these effects, the system operates the burner at an enhanced turndown rate....

Let A be an abelian variety over the function field K of a compact Riemann surface B. Fix model $$f :{\mathcal {A}} \rightarrow B$$ A/K and effective horizontal divisor $${\mathcal {D}}\subset {\mathcal {A}}$$ . We give sufficient condition on {D}}$$ for finiteness set $$(S, {D}})$$ -integral sections every finite subset $$S \subset These integral $$\sigma $$ are algebraic satisfy geometric ( \...

uniformly for 0 < t < c. This result was obtained earlier by E. Post2 under the restriction of continuity on sp(t) but without the condition that p(t) approaches a limit as t becomes infinite. On the other hand the uniformity of the approach was not obtained by Post. In the present note we sketch a theory whereby the integral equation (1) may be solved with no restriction on so(t) as to continu...

A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25-OHD) with different levels vitamin (VD3) during rearing period (1–20 weeks) on laying hen performance, bone quality, and eggshell quality. total four hundred 1-day-old Lohman pullets were randomly allotted into a 2 × factorial design dietary VD3 (300 2800 IU/kg) 25-OHD (0 56 μg/kg). Each treatment had five replicates 20 he...

Introduction:SURGEOSIGHT is a dedicated intra-operative hand-held gamma camera designed and manufactured by our team to be used for lymphoscintigraphy. Although conventional gamma cameras are widely used, they lack the capability of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) imaging in the operation room. Like conventional gamma cameras it is necessary to calibrate SURGEOSIGHT for linearity...

Tonewood for musical instruments is quarter-sawn and frequently quality-graded based on visual appearance, mechanical and acoustic properties. The assessment uses simple human (subjective) observation, and two ‘‘experts’’ can rate the same sample differently. This paper describes the application of integral transforms (Fourier and Radon) for automatic (objective) assessment of the visual appear...