background: due to volatility of radioactive iodine solutions, usually internal exposure would occur in personnel that are working in nuclear medicine centers. the activities in the thyroid of individual s who work in nuclear medicine centers of north west provinces of iran were measured using nai (sodium iodide) detectors. in every center, nearly 40 - 500 mci of 131 i and 50 - 600 μ ci of 125 ...

The use of a microcalorimeter X-ray detector with a transition edge sensor in an electron probe to perform quantitative analysis is reported. Two bulk samples of multielement glasses that have been previously characterized by chemical methods for use as standard reference materials were analyzed. The spectra were analyzed against standards using three different correction schemes. In one of the...

A new principle of on-line crook measurement for long size rolling stock while running is devised, instead of customary off line static measurement. Rolled steel beams and plates aretransferred on roller tables generally accompanied with the motion of traverse and rotation. Therefore, the following three measuring methodes are described. (1) For the case of both traverse and rotation are neglig...

In this paper, we study 2D cylindrical Positron Emission Tomography (2D PET) sampling. We show that rectangular sampling schemes are more efficient than usual square schemes. 1. PET and sampling 1.1 PET The aim of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is to map the internal nuclear activity of a patient from exterior measurement. Usually, the patient received some nuclear substance by inhalation o...

Several projects are concentrating their efforts on opening the high energy neutrino window on the Universe with km-scale detectors. The detection principle relies on the observation, using photomultipliers, of the Cherenkov light emitted by charged leptons induced by neutrino interactions in the surrounding detector medium. In the Northern hemisphere, while the pioneering Baikal telescope, has...

We report an upper bound on the strain amplitude of gravitational wave bursts in a waveband from around 800 Hz to 1.25 kHz. In an effective coincident observing period of 62 hours, the prototype laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors of the University of Glasgow and Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, have set a limit of 4.9 x 10FL6, averaging over wave polarizations and incide...

In this work, we present an algorithm that switches between the energy and the entropy based voice activity detectors (VADs) to provide an improved performance under varying signal to noise ratio (SNR) conditions. The motivation for switching has come from the observed complementary behavior in the noise estimation performances of energy and entropy based voice activity detectors when evaluated...

The hallucinogenic serotonin(1A&2A) agonist psilocybin is known for its ability to induce illusions of motion in otherwise stationary objects or textured surfaces. This study investigated the effect of psilocybin on local and global motion processing in nine human volunteers. Using a forced choice direction of motion discrimination task we show that psilocybin selectively impairs coherence sens...

A novel method for extracting parametric junction and corner features in images is presented. By treating each complex feature as a combination of elementary line and edge features, the method provides an efficient way to locate features of interest with reduced number of filtering operations. The Expansion Matching (EXM) method is used to design optimal detectors for a set of elementary model ...