Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome (AGS) is an inflammatory genetic disease inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. Common features of this disease are encephalopathy, splenomegaly and hepatomegaly, muscle stiffness, irritability, unstoppable crying, seizures and dilation in growth. According to previous studies, primary genes responsible for this Syndromes are as followed: TREX 1, RNASEH2A, RNASEH...

The design, analysis, assembly methods, and optical-bench test results for a miniature injection-molded plastic objective lens used in a fiber-optic confocal reflectance microscope are presented. The five-lens plastic objective was tested as a stand-alone optical system before its integration into a confocal microscope for in vivo imaging of cells and tissue. Changing the spacing and rotation o...

During a presentation at the 2006 North Sea Flow Measurement Workshop on new and current flare metering technologies, infrared and other optical methods of gas flow measurement were referred to as “blue-sky” technology. The inference was that these technologies, whilst they might have merit, probably would not be available for some time, if ever. In reality, this is far from true, as at least o...

This paper proposed a MATLAB-based graphical user interface (GUI) development named as Centralized Failure Detection System (CFDS) to increase the efficiency, survivability, and reliability of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) customer access network. This program will be installed with optical line terminal (OLT) at central office (CO) to monitor the network system and identify any fiber fault that occ...

PURPOSE To compare the optical performance of 6 presbyopia-correcting intraocular lenses (IOLs) of different designs (accommodating or multifocal and aspheric or spheric). SETTING Alcon Laboratories, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, USA. METHODS The optical performance of 6 IOLs were compared using modulation transfer function (MTF) and the United States Air Force 1951 Resolution Target (AFT) testi...

Histology of biological specimens is largely limited to investigating two-dimensional structure because of the sectioning required to produce optically thin samples for conventional microscopy. With the advent of three-dimensional optical imaging technologies such as optical coherence tomography (OCT), diffuse optical tomography (DOT), and multiphoton microscopy (MPM), methods of tissue prepara...