UNLABELLED Integrated whole-body PET/MR facilitates the implementation of a broad variety of respiratory motion correction strategies, taking advantage of the strengths of both modalities. The goal of this study was the quantitative evaluation with clinical data of different MR- and PET-data-based motion correction strategies for integrated PET/MR. METHODS The PET and MR data of 20 patients w...

introduction:surgeosight is a dedicated intra-operative hand-held gamma camera designed and manufactured by our team to be used for lymphoscintigraphy. although conventional gamma cameras are widely used, they lack the capability of the sentinel lymph node (sln) imaging in the operation room. like conventional gamma cameras it is necessary to calibrate surgeosight for linearity distortion, ener...

Ž . To increase the sensitivity with which time-resolved Fourier transform infrared FT-IR difference spectra are measured, the detector is often AC-coupled. Thus, the measured interferograms correspond to spectra with both positive and negative intensities. The presence of signed intensities presents problems for the standard Mertz and Forman phase correction methods. The Mertz Signed phase cor...

This paper presents new application-specific digital signal processor (ASDSP) instructions and their hardware accelerator to efficiently implement Reed-Solomon (RS) encoding and decoding, which is one of the most widely used forward error control (FEC) algorithms. The proposed ASDSP architecture can implement various programmable primitive polynomials, and thus, hardwired RS codecs can be repla...

Use of a repetition time similar to, or shorter than, metabolite T(1)s is common in NMR spectroscopy of biological samples to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. Conventionally, the partial saturation that results from this is corrected using saturation factors. However, this can lead to erroneous results in the presence of chemical exchange or nonconstant T(1)s. We describe an alternative appro...

The signal to noise ratio of quantum sensing protocols scales with the square root of the coherence time. Thus, increasing this time is a key goal in the field. By utilizing quantum error correction, we present a novel way of prolonging such coherence times beyond the fundamental limits of current techniques. We develop an implementable sensing protocol that incorporates error correction, and d...

This paper proposes a new wireless-signal map-matching method for calibrating non-line-of-sight error in urban environments. As compared with the conventional map-matching methods that utilize a continuously-tracked sigle user trajectory, the proposed map-matching method utilizes bulks of different user locations for comparison with ideal map information. By appying the proposed method to the s...

In this paper we describe a methodology for detecting preposition errors in the writing of non-native English speakers. Our system performs at 84% precision and close to 19% recall on a large set of student essays. In addition, we address the problem of annotation and evaluation in this domain by showing how current approaches of using only one rater can skew system evaluation. We present a sam...

To overcome the poor communication environment between the underwater acoustic signal transmitter and receiver, previous research applied underwater acoustic OFDM communication system which had efficient bandwidth capacity and could mitigate multi-path delay spread effect via guard interval. Concurrently with this OFDM signal, additional data could be transmitted through spread spreading techni...

This paper considers delay-free, low complexity, joint source-channel coding (JSCC) for communication of two correlated Gaussian memoryless sources over a Gaussian Multiple Access Channel (GMAC). Schemes are proposed both for cooperative and distributed encoders. The cooperative case is mainly studied to get an idea about how close one can expect to get to the performance upper bound with a zer...