X-ray Surveys and Wide-Field Optical/Near-Infrared Imaging with JDEM

Evaluation of Reflection Optical Imaging Characteristics Using Fluorescence with Near Infrared Wavelength at Different Depths of Tissue Equivalent Phantom

Observing Cluster Galaxies and their Progenitors with JDEM

The Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) is expected to have a field-of-view that is several orders of magnitude larger than that of current instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope, with only slightly reduced sensitivity and resolution. This contribution gives a brief discussion of the impact that JDEM would have on studies of galaxies in clusters at 0.5 < z < 2 and of the most massive galaxies a...

A Large Population of Mid-infrared Selected, Obscured Active Galaxies in the Boötes Field

We identify a population of 640 obscured and 839 unobscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at redshifts 0.7 < z . 3 using multiwavelength observations of the 9 deg2 NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS) region in Boötes. We select AGNs on the basis of Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) colors obtained by the IRAC Shallow Survey. Redshifts are obtained from optical spectroscopy or photometric red...

Improving 3-D Imaging Breast Cancer Diagnosis Systems Using a New Method for Placement of Near-Infrared Sources and Detectors

The objective of this research was to improve 3-D imaging system by near-infrared light emission in breast tissue to achieve a more accurate diagnosis of tumor. The results of repeated experiments in this research have shown that with this imaging system, a more accurate diagnosis of abnormal area depends on the location of the sources and detectors. Therefore, an optimal location model has bee...

Proposed instrumentation for PILOT

PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed Australian/European optical/infrared telescope for Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, with target first light in 2012. The proposed telescope is 2.4m diameter, with overall focal ratio f/10, and a 1 degree field-of-view. In median seeing conditions, it delivers 0.3" FWHM widefield image quality, from 0.7-2.5 microns...