background: the purpose of this project was to derive the brachytherapy dosimetric functions described by american association of physicists in medicine (aapm) tg-43 u1 based on high dose rate 192i sources. materials and methods: the method utilized included both simulation of the designed polymethyl methacrylate (pmma) phantom using the monte carlo of mcnp4c and benchmarking of the simulation ...

We study the effects of diffuse Galactic, far-infrared extragalactic source, and radio point source emission on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data anticipated from the MAP experiment. We focus on the correlation function and genus statistics measured from mock MAP foreground-contaminated CMB anisotropy maps generated in a spatially-flat cosmological constant dominated cosmolo...

We develop a nonequilibrium Green's function formalism to study magnonic spin transport through strongly anisotropic ferromagnetic insulator contacted by metallic leads. model the as finite-sized one-dimensional chain, with contacts at first and last sites that inject detect in form of magnons. In presence anisotropy, these magnons become elliptically polarized, conservation is broken. show thi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Diffusion-weighted (DW) MR imaging is a useful technique for detecting ischemia. In adults and neonates, however, temporal changes on DW images after ischemia complicate interpretation. Our purpose was to investigate the temporal evolution of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), diffusion-tensor (DT) imaging components, and anisotropy in neonatal brain after hypoxic-...

primary assumption in most problems of elasticity theory in petroleum geophysics is that the elastic media is isotropic. laboratory experiments confirmed that most rocks are anisotropic. if in one medium, properties vary with directions, it is named as anisotropic. knowledge about anisotropy reduces risk and cost of hydrocarbon production. in the present study, anisotropy of a carbonate reservo...

A new image analysis technique is proposed for the evaluation of local anisotropy and its variability in stochastic texture images. It utilizes the gradient function to provide information on local anisotropy, from two-dimensional (2-D) density images for foil materials like polymer sheets, nonwoven textiles, and paper. Such images can be captured by radiography or light-transmission; results a...

We report results from full QCD calculations with two flavors of dynamical staggered fermions on anisotropic lattices. The physical anisotropy as determined from spatial and temporal masses, their corresponding dispersion relations, and spatial and temporal Wilson loops is studied as a function of the bare gauge anisotropy and the bare velocity of light appearing in the Dirac operator. The anis...

We measure the magnetic susceptibility of ultrathin Co films with an in-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy grown on a vicinal Cu substrate. Above the Curie temperature the influence of the magnetic anisotropy can be investigated by means of the parallel and transverse susceptibilities along the easy and hard axes. By comparison with a theoretical analysis of the susceptibilities we determine th...