Microscopes typically collect light over large ranges of angles dispersing plasmonic resonances. While this is an advantage for recording spectra of microscopic particles, it is a disadvantage for sensing by resonance shifts. Adaptations are described herein which enable one to identify, manipulate, and examine narrow plasmonic resonances under a microscope. Noting more general familiarity with...

Neurons from many brain regions display intrinsic subthreshold theta-resonance, responding preferentially to theta-frequency oscillatory stimuli. Resonance may contribute to selective communication among neurons and to orchestrate brain rhythms. CA1 pyramidal neurons receive theta activity, generating place fields. In these neurons the expression of perithreshold frequency preference is controv...

A new two-dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) experiment to separate and correlate the first-order quadrupolar and chemical/paramagnetic shift interactions is described. This experiment, which we call the shifting-d echo experiment, allows a more precise determination of tensor principal components values and their relative orientation. It is designed using the recently introduced symm...

This paper outlines an algorithm to segment images on the short-axis view of the heart, obtained from multislice and multi-phase MR (Magnetic Resonance). Using the data from the segmentation of the slices, the ejection fraction of the heart is calculated for the given sequence. Segmentation is achieved by first filtering the images using Adaptive Smoothing, which smoothes the image without shif...

Atypically developing children including those born preterm or who have autism spectrum disorder can display difficulties with evaluating rewarding stimuli, which may result from impaired maturation of reward and cognitive control brain regions. During functional magnetic resonance imaging, 58 typically and atypically developing children (6-12 years) participated in a set-shifting task that inc...

We experimentally reveal that the short-range attractive force between a Si tip and a Si(111)-(7 x 7) surface is enhanced at specified bias voltages; we conduct force spectroscopy based on noncontact atomic force microscopy with changing bias voltage at a fixed separation. The spectra exhibit prominent peaks and a broad peak, which are attributed to quantum mechanical resonance as the energy le...