Backscattered rf signals used to construct conventional ultrasound B-mode images contain frequency-dependent information that can be examined through the backscattered power spectrum. The backscattered power spectrum is found by taking the magnitude squared of the Fourier transform of a gated time segment corresponding to a region in the scattering volume. When a time segment is gated, the edge...

A method of pitch-synchronous acoustic analysis of hoarseness requiring a voice sample of only four fundamental periods is presented. This method calculates a noise-to-signal (N/S) ratio, which indicates the depth of valleys between harmonic peaks in the power spectrum. The spectrum is calculated pitch synchronously from a Fourier transform of the signal, windowed through a continuously variabl...

To treat the noise in low-dose x-ray CT projection data more accurately, analysis of the noise properties of the data and development of a corresponding efficient noise treatment method are two major problems to be addressed. In order to obtain an accurate and realistic model to describe the x-ray CT system, we acquired thousands of repeated measurements on different phantoms at several fixed s...

Performances of ∆Σ modulators are evaluated by applying a coherently sampled tone and by estimating powers of the in–band tones and noise. In particular, the power of the shaped noise is usually estimated by subtracting the evaluated input tone from the output data and by integrating the power spectral density estimated by means of the periodogram. Although the coherency, the finite number of p...

Spatial-frequency tuning at two different spatial frequencies was determined by measuring the detectability of a signal grating that was made difficult to see by low- or high-pass visual noise. The signals were vertical sinusoidal gratings of different spatial frequencies. The detectability of the signal was measured in two-alternative forced-choice tasks with different temporal envelopes: (1) ...

Intra-cardiac impedance (ICI) is one of the major determinants of success during internal cardioversion of atrial fibrillation(AF) and is consequently of significant importance in the development of more effective cardioversion therapies. In this study, the voltage and current waveform delivered during internal cardioversion of patients with persistent AF treated using a novel low-tilt rectilin...

Power generation using waste-gas is an effective and green way to reduce the emission of the harmful blast furnace gas (BFG) in pig-iron producing industry. Condition monitoring of mechanical structures in the BFG power plant is of vital importance to guarantee their safety and efficient operations. In this paper, we describe the detection of crack growth of bladed machinery in the BFG power pl...

In this paper, a method for suppressing residual vibrations in flexible payloads, carried by robot manipulators, is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The proposed method is based on the preconditioning of the robot joint trajectories using FIR digital filters. Several classes of FIR filters such as: a) Parks-McClellan, b) Window-based methods (using Hamming, Hanning, Boxcar, Kaiser, Bar...