The use of beam interference in combination with a large-area photoconductive emitter for the generation of pulsed terahertz (THz) radiation is presented. An interference pattern with a period twice that of the THz emitter is generated with a transmission phase grating, placed directly in front of the photoconductive emitter. This way, efficient THz generation is achieved with a single metallis...

Targeted radioimmunotherapy in non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphoma (NHL) offers an efficacious therapy and minimal toxicity compared to conventional chemotherapy. Iodine 131 tositumomab ((131)I-TST) is a murine monoclonal antibody against the CD20 cell surface protein and is directly covalently conjugated to (131)I, a radioactive beta and gamma emitter. While initially approved for use in relapsed, r...

Treatment of malignant brain tumors with conventional approaches is largely unsuccessful because curative doses generally cannot be delivered without excessive toxicity to normal brain. Radioimmunotherapy is emerging as an attractive alternative for glioma therapy because of the potential for more selectively irradiating tumor cells while sparing normal tissues. Several institutions are engaged...

Introduction: The choice of optimal radionuclides for radioimmunotherapy depends on several factors, especially the radionuclide and antibody. The dosimetric characteristics of a non-internalizing and an internalizing monoclonal antibody (MAb) labeled with beta emitting radionuclides were investigated. Methods: Using Geant4-DNA Monte Carlo simulation, we ...

A laboratory soil column experiment was first conducted to analyze water movement in latosol of sugarcane field under drip irrigation from single-point source at different emitter discharge rates. Next, a mathematical model of soil water movement under drip irrigation from single-point source was built using Hydrus-3D, which could accurately simulate the shape of the wetted soil volume and the ...

In this work, we tested whether plastic scintillation (PS) is a suitable alternative to liquid scintillation (LS) and Cerenkov techniques for beta emitter detection. The main advantage of this alternative is the reduction of mixed waste produced as consequence of the measurement process. In addition, the quality parameters obtained with PS are as reliable as those obtained with LS and allow det...

Bremsstrahlung spectral photon distributions produced by continuous beta particles of beta emitter 147Pm and 45Ca in thick targets studied in a photon energy region 10-30 keV. The bremsstrahlung spectral photon distribution measured with X-PIPS Si (Li) detector. The experimental results were compared with the theoretical bremsstrahlung distribution obtained from ordinary bremsstrahlung (OB) the...

Self-aligned selective-emitter cells have been fabricated using a self-doping paste by co-firing the front and back contacts. Good ohmic contacts with ~0.774 fill factor were obtained on 100 Ω/sq. emitters after alloying the self-doping Ag grid by a 900°C spike firing in a belt furnace. Screen-printed selective emitter Fz Si cells gave an efficiency of 16.4%. Selective-emitter cells with effect...

introduction: an appropriate water resources management and planning is necessary due to the scarcity of water resources and rapidly growing world population. in this regard, selecting appropriate methods for irrigation is one of the most important issues. drip irrigation is a recent advanced irrigation method in which fertilizers can be efficiently applied along with irrigation water. drip fer...

Low frequency noise characteristics of new high voltage, high performance complementary polysilicon emitter bipolar transistors have been studied. The influence of the base biasing resistance, emitter geometry, and temperature on the noise spectra are discussed. The npn transistors studied exhibited 1/f and shot noise. The pnp transistors, on the other hand, are characterized by significant gen...