The measurement of radioactivity deposited in the lung is often performed with an array of germanium detectors placed over the chest of the individual. The detector array size can be from four to eight detectors depending on the size of the germanium detector and Dewar assembly. Typically, large area diameter germanium detectors (70 mm diameter) consist of four detectors, and the larger arrays ...

Adaptive least mean square (LMS) filters with or without training sequences, which are known as training-based and blind detectors respectively, have been formulated to counter interference in CDMA systems. The convergence characteristics of these two LMS detectors are analyzed and compared in this paper. We show that the blind detector is superior to the training-based detector with respect to...

Background: A variable resolution X-ray (VRX) CT scanner provides a great increase in the spatial resolution. In VRX CT scanners, the spatial resolution of the system and its field of view (FOV) can be changed according to the object size. One of the main factors that limit the spatial resolution of VRX CT scanner is the effect of the X-ray focal spot. Materials and Methods: A theoreti...

PURPOSE The MOSkin is a MOSFET detector designed especially for skin dose measurements. This detector has been characterized for various factors affecting its response for megavoltage photon beams and has been used for patient dose measurements during radiotherapy procedures. However, the characteristics of this detector in kilovoltage photon beams and low dose ranges have not been studied. The...

The decorrelating detector is known to eliminate multiaccess interference when the signature sequences of the users are linearly independent, at the cost of enhancing the Gaussian receiver noise. In this paper, we present a blind adaptive decorrelating detector which is based on the observation of readily available statistics. The algorithm recursively updates the filter coefficients of a desir...

We are developing two-dimensional 16 × 25 pixel detector arrays of both unstressed and stressed Ge:Ga photoconduc-tive detectors for far-infrared astronomy from SOFIA. The arrays, based on earlier 5 × 5 detector arrays used on the KAO, will be for our new instrument, the Far Infrared Field Imaging Line Spectrometer (FIFI LS). The unstressed Ge:Ga detector array will cover the wavelength range f...

measurement of bose-einstein correlations in the production of like-signed pion pairs has been made with the amy detector at tristan. an event sample of 10120 hadronic events with ranging between 50 to 61 gev was used. these measurements indicate a strength of the enhancement of ? = 0.61m.07, with a typical correlation size of ro = 1.16±.08 fm. this value of ? is consistent with measurements at...

In this paper we study the use of an adaptive quantization step size, instead of a fixed one, for the Scalar Costa Scheme. We propose an adaptation method based on Weber’s law. This allows for a more effective embedding, which is also shown to render the watermark robust against sample value scaling. A model for the bit error probability due to the estimation of the adaptive quantization step s...

A measurement of the inelastic proton-proton cross-section at centre-of-mass energy of √ s= 7TeV using the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is presented. Events are selected by requiring hits in scintillator counters mounted in the forward region of the ATLAS detector and the dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20μb−1. In addition, the total cross-section is studied ...