Certain regions of the body can be relatively difficult to image optimally by computed tomography (CT). The lower neck falls into this category. A routine transverse image at this level includes the shoulders, which can cause beam hardening [1] . Beam hardening reduces subject contrast and often produces streak artifacts between the shoulders [2, 3]. This image degradation is especially trouble...

Energetic proton acceleration from concave targets, the fronts of which were irradiated with 40 fs laser pulses with an intensity of 10 W/cm, has been studied as a function of the depth of the concave shape. Three kinds of targets, a triangular concave target, a circular concave target and a parabolic concave target are considered. When the depth of the concave shape was varied, the peak proton...

Structure isomers of the Au(10)(-) cluster and their chemical reactivity with O(2) are studied using photoelectron spectroscopy under different experimental conditions. In addition to the global minimum triangular D(3h) structure, at least three low-lying isomers (X', X'', and X''') are observed distinctly using argon tagging and O(2) titration. The D(3h) structure has a very high electron affi...

The idealized raked-wedge hull has a triangular waterplane with its base of finite beam at the transom stern and its apex of zero beam at the stem of the bow. The sections are rectangular and the draft increases linearly from zero at the stern to the maximum draft at the bow. This hullform provides a challenge for the traditional linear wave-making theory. Nevertheless, there is good agreement ...

Many of the papers studying the screw-drive system dynamic model concentrated on the control methodologies that is why vibrational models are either simple lumped models or simplified flexible beam models. In this paper a screw-drive system dynamic model and its vibrations are discussed. The screw is considered as an EulerBernoulli type flexible beam with fixed-free boundary conditions and the ...

A method of expanding the 1700 MeV, 100 mA proton beam of the APT linear accelerator onto the 19 by 190 cm target has been devised using eight ferrite dipole magnets. These magnets deflect the beam in the x and y-plane, and thereby paint the target area uniformly with a rastered pattern. Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT)-based power modulators drive the raster magnets with triangular cur...

The superprism behavior of Photonic Crystal (PC) due to different geometrical shapes, e.g., circular, hexagonal and square of air holes arranged in triangular lattice has been studied. Structures rely on phase velocity sensitivity in a 2D photonic crystal slab to observe and compare the angular magnification in the uniform medium outside the PC. The observation of superprism behavior has been m...

We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration of coherent solid-state light detection and ranging (LIDAR) using optical phased arrays in a silicon photonics platform. An integrated transmitting and receiving frequency-modulated continuous-wave circuit was initially developed and tested to confirm on-chip ranging. Simultaneous distance and velocity measurements were performed...

Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) with different shapes and disk-shaped Ag NP pairs with varying interparticle distance is studied using dark-field optical microscopy and spectroscopy (DFOMS). Disk-, square-, and triangular-shaped Ag NPs were fabricated on indium tin oxide-coated glass substrates by electron beam lithography. The LSPR spectra collected from si...