Transcranial focused ultrasound is a promising therapeutic modality. It consists of placing transducers around the skull and emitting shaped ultrasound waves that propagate through the skull and then concentrate on one particular location within the brain. However, the skull bone is known to distort the ultrasound beam. In order to compensate for such distortions, a number of techniques have be...

The paper proposes a novel calibration approach for the Orthoglide-type mechanisms based on observations of the manipulator leg parallelism during motions between the prespecified test postures. It employs a low-cost measuring system composed of standard comparator indicators attached to the universal magnetic stands. They are sequentially used for measuring the deviation of the relevant leg lo...

The paper proposes a novel calibration approach for the Orthoglide-type mechanisms based on observations of the manipulator leg parallelism during motions between the prespecified test postures. It employs a low-cost measuring system composed of standard comparator indicators attached to the universal magnetic stands. They are sequentially used for measuring the deviation of the relevant leg lo...

An accelerometer-array calibration method is proposed in this paper by which we estimate not only the accelerometer offsets and scale factors, but also their sensitive directions and positions on a rigid body. These latter parameters are computed from the classical equations that describe the kinematics of rigid bodies, and by measuring the accelerometer-array displacements using a magnetic sen...

Abstrac tAn in-situ procedure for calibrating the equivalent radius and width of the coil transducer in rotating mode measurements for magnetic field quality analysis is proposed. The standard calibration procedure is not suitable when the coil is longer than the magnet under test, because an average value of the radius and of the width along the length as a whole is obtained. This problem incr...

We present a method for on-orbit, attitudeindependent magnetometer calibration that includes the effect of time-varying bias due to electronics on-board a spacecraft. The calibration estimates magnetometer scale factors, mis-alignments, and constant as well as time-varying bias. Timevarying effects are mitigated by including spacecraft telemetry in the measurement model and estimating constant ...

Magnetometers provide compass information, and are widely used for navigation, orientation and alignment of objects. As magnetometers are affected by sensor biases and eventually by systematic distortions of the Earth magnetic field, a calibration is needed. In this paper, a method for calibration of magnetometers with three Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers is presented. We p...

-Calibration of the spatial sensitivity functions of coil arrays is a crucial element in parallel magnetic resonance imaging (PMRI).In order to overcome the sensitivity miscalibration errors introduced by pre-scan calibration method and decrease the total examination time, a new self-calibrating method for estimating the coil sensitivity profiles was proposed in the paper. From a fullysampled c...

Background: Polymer gel dosimeters combined with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used for dose verification of advanced radiation therapy techniques. However, the uncertainty of dose map measured by gel dosimeter should be known. The purpose of this study is to investigate the uncertainty related to calibration curve and MRI protocol for MAGIC (Methacrylic and Ascorbic acid in Gelatin I...

Magnetic particle imaging visualizes the spatial distribution of superparamagnetic nanoparticles. Because of its key features of excellent sensitivity, high temporal and spatial resolution and biocompatibility of the tracer material it can be used in multiple medical imaging applications. The common reconstruction technique for Lissajous-type trajectories uses a system matrix that has to be pre...