The purpose of this work was to extend the verification of Monte Carlo based methods for estimating radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) exams beyond a single CT scanner to a multidetector CT (MDCT) scanner, and from cylindrical CTDI phantom measurements to both cylindrical and physical anthropomorphic phantoms. Both cylindrical and physical anthropomorphic phantoms were scanned on an MDC...

An inexpensive modular perfused chamber (MPC) designed for low- and normal-temperature live-cell imaging is presented. The device consists of four lathed pieces of stainless steel assembled as a cylindrical open chamber that can hold either round or square glass coverslips. The chamber is connected to a thermal-bath operating with recirculation. For image acquisition at 4°C, cooled air is blown...

How does it work? The proteasome consists of a cylindrical 20 S catalytic chamber (see Figure), capped on one or both ends by a 19 S regulatory complex. The regulatory complex (which is made of at least 18 different subunits, six of which are ATPases; not shown in the Figure) recognizes ubiquitinated proteins and is thought to drive their unfolding, although the mechanism is not understood. The...

Several aspects of the procedure and corrections for the calibration of encapsulated radium sources at NBS have recently been investigated. It was found that a chamber equipped with a guard-ring type electrode system allowing the use of a vibrating reed electrometer as a current detector provides more versatility and precision than the gold-leaf electroscope now in use for routine calibrations....

Let A be a set of trivariate irreducible integral polynomials and let D be an A-invariant cylindrical algebraic decomposition (cad) of three-dimensional space. This paper presents a new algorithm for determining the interstack adjacencies in D over a given non-nullifying (for A) 0-cell, 1-cell adjacency in the cad D 0 of the plane induced by D. We show that this new adjacency algorithm for thre...

[1] We present a model of effusive silicic volcanic eruptions which relates magma chamber and conduit physics to time‐dependent data sets, including ground deformation and extrusion rate. The model involves a deflating chamber which supplies Newtonian magma through a cylindrical conduit. Solidification is approximated as occurring at fixed depth, producing a solid plug that slips along its marg...

background: in order to deliver the precise dose to the target in radiotherapy, absorbed dose to water at the reference point should be assessed. when the calibration procedure is performed for a reference dosimeter in the 60co beam of a secondary standard dosimetry laboratory (ssdl), the total uncertainty in absorbed dose to water (dw) is estimated to be approximately 1.5%. this study attempts...

Background: In order to deliver the precise dose to the target in radiotherapy, absorbed dose to water at the reference point should be assessed. When the calibration procedure is performed for a reference dosimeter in the 60Co beam of a Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratory (SSDL), the total uncertainty in absorbed dose to water (Dw) is estimated to be approximately 1.5%. This study attempts...

ALICE [1] is A Large Ion Collider Experiment which will start operation in 2007 in the course of the CERN LHC program. The main tracking device of the experiment is a cylindrical Time Projection Chamber [2] (TPC). A ROOT based software module was developed to monitor online the data stream from the TPC during the commissioning phase at CERN in 2006. The main features of the program as well as r...