Artifacts due to enhancement, reverberation, and multi-path reflection are commonly encountered in medical ultrasound imaging. These artifacts can adversely affect an automated image quantification algorithm or interfere with a physician's assessment of a radiological image. This paper proposes a soft wavelet thresholding method to replace regions adversely affected by these artifacts with the ...

X-ray reflectivity and angular dependence of x-ray fluorescence ~ADXRF! techniques have been employed for a quantitative study of the Te depth profile and structural changes in a series of CdS/CdTe heterojuctions annealed at various temperatures. The temperature dependence of surface roughening and Te migration is observed in both reflectivity and fluorescence experiments. Changes in the interf...

purpose : to evaluate usefulness of anterior segment optical coherence tomography (as-oct) in evaluation of filtering bleb functionality and to correlate its findings with clinical bleb examination methods : in this cross-sectional, descriptive study 55 eyes with apparently functional bleb were evaluated. following a comprehensive ophthalmic examination, filtering bleb grading was performed bas...

Multilayer mirrors capable of > 99.9% reflectivity in the far infrared (70-200 microm wavelengths) were constructed using thin silicon etalons separated by empty gaps. Calculations indicate that only three periods are required to produce 99.9% reflectivity because of the large difference between the index of refraction of silicon (3.384) and the vacuum (1). The mirror was assembled from high-pu...

The performance of solar cells (SCs) can be enhanced significantly by employing 2D photonic crystals (2D-PCs). They can either be used as omnidirectional, broadband antireflection coatings (ARCs) or applied to thin-film SCs (where PC effects are much more significant than in generic SCs). Although multilayer ARCs are commonly used, problems related to material selection, thermal mismatch, sensi...

Real-time severe weather algorithms that are used to identify various storm attributes can be adversely affected by the presence of meteorological and non-meteorological contaminants such as anomalous propagation (AP), ground clutter (GC), clear-air return or biological scatters in the radar reflectivity data. We examine the Quality Control Neural Network, a new algorithm which classifies preci...