We suggest that Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS) measurements of tissue blood flow primarily probe relative red blood cell (RBC) motion, due to the occurrence of multiple sequential scattering events within blood vessels. The magnitude of RBC shear-induced diffusion is known to correlate with flow velocity, explaining previous reports of linear scaling of the DCS "blood flow index" with t...

To consider effective countermeasures against groundwater contaminated with dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) such as chlorinated solvents, it is first important to understand the mechanism of their migration in heterogeneous aquifer. In addition, numerical analysis models to simulate such a complex migration in heterogeneous aquifer are required. The displacement pressure, which is a mi...

purpose: doing plyometric training with and without the vessel occlusion is an effective practice for rapid increase of muscles strength their hypertrophy. we evaluated the effects of plyometric training with and without the vessel occlusion on electromyographic parameters. methods: in this quasi-experimental study, 22 females were selected through convenience sampling method. they were randoml...

vessel extraction is a critical task in clinical practice. in this paper, we propose a new approach for vessel extraction using an active contour model by defining a novel vesselness‑based term, based on accurate analysis of the vessel structure in the image. to achieve the novel term, a simple and fast directional filter bank is proposed, which does not employ down sampling and resampling used...

An investigation of 3-dimesional (3D) effects on electrical impedance tomography is reported. 3D effects in measurement, simulation and analytical models are described. A 3D attenuation range (75% attenuation) from the sensing plane is suggested as one third of process vessel’s diameter. The imaging trajectory of an axially moving object is found towards the central axis of a process vessel whe...

We optimize speckle variance optical coherence tomography (svOCT) imaging of microvasculature in high and low bulk tissue motion scenarios. To achieve a significant level of image contrast, frame rates must be optimized such that tissue displacement between frames is less than the beam radius. We demonstrate that higher accuracy estimates of speckle variance can enhance the detection of capilla...

This paper describes the procedure developed at MARINTEK for the automatic optimisation of hull lines to reduce the ship resistance as well as the wake wash generated by a ship within the given constraints. The methodology, developed computer programs and used constraints are described. The methodology is exercised using lines of a fast ship. A numerical comparison is performed between the resi...

Vibration ball-milling in a zirconia-lined vessel afforded clean and quantitative nucleophilic displacement reactions between 4-methoxybenzylthiolate salts and nucleoside 5'-halides or 5'-tosylates in five to 60 minutes. Under these conditions, commonly-encountered nucleoside cyclisation byproducts (especially of purine nucleosides) were not observed. Liquid-assisted grinding of the same 5'-iod...

The human lungs are divided into five independent compartments called lobes. The lobar fissures separate the lung lobes. It is hypothesized that the lobar surfaces slide against each other during respiration. We propose a method to evaluate the sliding motion of the lobar surfaces during respiration using lobe-by-lobe mass-preserving non-rigid image registration. We measure lobar sliding by eva...

Abstract In a gas fluidized bed, bubbles are mainly responsible for the displacement and mixing of bed particles, with direct impact on heat mass transfer. this work, motion solids in wake region an isolated bubble rising vibrated is experimentally studied using combined digital image averaging techniques. The results show that behavior depends vibration phase position bed. Particles penetrate ...