Defect engineering plays an important role in tailoring the electronic transport properties of van der Waals materials. Methods reported so far mainly rely on $e\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}x\phantom{\rule{0.333em}{0ex}}s\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}i\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}t\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}u$ defect type and concentration, hindering realization new types device functionalities associated with engine...

background: the aim of this work was to establish how well gel dosimeters performed, as substitutes for brain tissue compared with standard phantom materials such as water, polymethyl-methacrylate (or pmma), a150 plastic and te- liquid phantom material for dosimetry of neutron beams in boron neutron capture therapy. materials and methods: thermal neutron fluence, photon dose and epithermal neut...

The $R(1)$, $R(3)$, and $P(3)$ rovibrational transitions in the (2-0) overtone band of HD molecule are measured Doppler-free saturation using technique NICE-OHMS spectroscopy. For line, hitherto not observed saturation, we report a frequency $203\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}821\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}936\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}805\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}(60)$ kHz. dispersive line sha...

The objective of this work is to gain insight in the distortions on the local SAR distribution by various major anatomical structures in the neck. High resolution 3D FDTD calculations based on a variable grid are made for a semi-3D generic phantom based on average dimensions obtained from CT-derived human data and in which simplified structures representing trachea, cartilage, spine and spinal ...

The use of electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs) is a promising method for the dosimetric verification of external beam, megavoltage radiation therapy-both pretreatment and in vivo. In this study, a previously developed EPID back-projection algorithm was modified for IMRT techniques and applied to an amorphous silicon EPID. By using this back-projection algorithm, two-dimensional dose distr...

BACKGROUND In integrated PET/MR hybrid imaging the evaluation of PET performance characteristics according to the NEMA standard NU 2-2007 is challenging because of incomplete MR-based attenuation correction (AC) for phantom imaging. In this study, a strategy for CT-based AC of the NEMA image quality (IQ) phantom is assessed. The method is systematically evaluated in NEMA IQ phantom measurements...

Using a mail-delivered questionnaire, we surveyed 590 veteran amputees concerning phantom pain, phantom sensation and stump pain. They were selected randomly from a population of 2974 veterans with long-standing limb amputation(s) using a computer random number generator. Eighty-nine percent responded and of these, 55% reported phantom limb pain and 56% stump pain. There was a strong correlatio...

A point light source flickering on and off during a sac-cade projects a pattern onto the retina. The perceived pattern differs from the retinal pattern, with this difference reflecting the perisaccadic shift of spatiotopic coordinates. Hershberger (1987) characterized the perceptual pattern as a phantom array, fixed in space, with the sequential order of the flashes creating an impression of ap...