the use of mammography film-screen is limited in general radiography. the purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of mammographic film-screen and standard film-screen systems in the detection of small bone fractures. radiographs were taken from patients' extremities and neck areas using mammography film-screen and standard film-screen (n=57 each). fourteen other radiographs were ...

We present a microfluidic technique for precision patterning thin-film metals (silver and gold) without the need for photolithography. This technique is employed for the fabrication of metal resistors that are subsequently utilized as temperature sensors, strain gauges, and fluid flow sensors. Patterns of thin film metal are fabricated by premixing and flowing electroless silver or gold plating...

In this article, we report that the origins of 1/f noise in pm-Si:H film resistors are inhomogeneity and defective structure. The results obtained are consistent with Hooge's formula, where the noise parameter, αH, is independent of doping ratio. The 1/f noise power spectral density and noise parameter αH are proportional to the squared value of temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR). The ...

Thick film technology is known to be a widely used tool for the fabrication of electronic circuits. It is normally based on the screen-printing and firing of various pastes differing in composition and electrical properties under different firing temperature. They are then classified as conductor, resistor, dielectric, and soldering pastes.1 Recently, the application of thick film technology ha...

In this article, a broadband polarization insensitive metamaterial absorber has been proposed for C-band (4–8 GHz) applications using lumped resistors. The unit cell of the proposed structure is based on an inverted Minkowski fractal loop, where four lumped resistors are mounted to obtain a broad absorption band at the expense of 5 mm thick dielectric substrate, which is only 0.033k0 with respe...

ZnO-based varistors protect electronic circuits against overvoltage. High temperature from the range of 1150–1300 C is required for proper sintering of such material. Varistor inks with lower firing temperature are needed for application in thick-film and LTCC technology. ZnO-based thick-film composition was prepared and varistors were fabricated on alumina and LTCC substrate. Different topolog...

Thick films of nearly equiatomic Co–Pt produced by electrodeposition into nanoporous membranes exhibit an isotropic magnetic phase with square hysteresis loops sMr /Ms=0.95d and coercivity of up to 1.3 T. The initial magnetization curve is characteristic of pinning-type magnets. The coercivity can be controlled by the choice of annealing temperature or alloy composition, which depends on the ch...

We compared the diagnostic performance characteristics of newly developed method, the rapid dipstick test, which provides colorimetric determination by developing antibody to the lactate dehydrogenase enzyme of parasites, with conventional standard thick-blood film examination. For the rapid test, OptiMAL commercial kits were used. The results were also evaluated with clinical findings from pat...