Time-intensity measurements of ultrasonic-contrast microbubbles based on the dilution theory have been used to assist blood flow estimation. The compartment model has been employed to describe the dilution process. Under the linear and time-invariant assumption, the time-intensity curve measured at the output of a compartment (i.e., blood mixing chamber) is the convolution of the input time-int...

A retention-time-locked mass spectral database was created specifically for indoor air analysis by thermal desorption/gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy (TD/GC/MS). This Indoor Air Toxics Database contains locked retention times and mass spectra for 171 volatile and semivolatile organic compounds that are targets in various indoor air methods. In combination with Agilent's Deconvolution Repor...

In this work, we evaluated three iterative deconvolution algorithms and compared their performance to partial volume (PV) correction based on structural imaging in brain positron emission tomography (PET) using a database of Monte Carlo-simulated images. We limited our interest to quantitative radioligand PET imaging, particularly to (11)C-Raclopride and striatal imaging. The studied deconvolut...

It is well known that blind channel deconvolution enables the receiver to equalize the channel simply by analyzing the received digital signal. Much of the work in 1990’s faces the challenge presented by multiple-output systems, exploiting cyclostationarity properties and multivariate formulation of the incoming data. Our proposal is twofold: on one hand, we develop a theoretical analysis of a ...

Summary White reflectivity is not a fundamental assumption in the convolutional models. However the deconvolution algorithms should be modified slightly to honour color in the reflectivity series. This color correction is just possible when enough well-log information is available to build a mathematical model for the regional reflectivity. A method for correcting reflectivity color effects in ...

Recovering the input of a system from a noisy lecture of the output is both a typical inverse ill-posed problem and a transmission paradigm. If the input-output relation is given by a convolution integral, we are concerned with the well-known deconvolution problem, which occurs in several scientific frameworks. In this paper, we develop an original information theoretic analysis and we design a...

Abstract: The cross-range resolution of forward-looking phase array radar (PAR) is limited by the effective antenna beamwidth since the azimuth echo is the convolution of antenna pattern and targets’ backscattering coefficients. Therefore, deconvolution algorithms are proposed to improve the imaging resolution under the limited antenna beamwidth. However, as a typical inverse problem, deconvolu...

New mass spectral deconvolution algorithms have been developed for comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography/quadrupole mass spectrometry (GC × GC/qMS). This paper reports the first use of spectral deconvolution of full scan quadrupole GC × GC/MS data for the quantitative analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles (PASH) in coal tar-con...

Rapid oscillations of visceral lipolysis have been reported. To examine the putative role of the CNS in oscillatory lipolysis, we tested the effects of beta(3)-blockade on pulsatile release of FFAs. Arterial blood samples were drawn at 1-minute intervals for 120 minutes from fasted, conscious dogs (n = 7) during the infusion of saline or bupranolol (1.5 micro g/kg/min), a high-affinity beta(3)-...