The measured performance of sub-micron Si:SiGe Schottky gated HFETs is compared to Si nMOSFETs. To allow an up-to-date comparison between Si and strained-Si FETs, the different device types have been studied in their respective technologies. RF performance as given by the cut-off and maximum oscillation frequency is given as a function of input power. The evaluation highlights the current immat...

In this paper, we present a circuit technique that supports a superdrowsy mode with a single-VDD. In addition, we perform a detailed working set analysis for various cache line update policies for placing lines in a drowsy state. The analysis presents a policy for an instruction cache and shows it is as good as or better than more complex schemes proposed in the past. Furthermore, as an alterna...

iii Acknowledgements iv Abstract CMOS technology scaling in recent decades has enabled a phenomenal performance improvement in microprocessors by allowing designers to increase the level of integration at higher clock frequencies. Unfortunately, technology scaling has also created unprecedented design challenges, including, but not limited to, the devices' leakage current, the interconnect dela...

† Research supported by NIH/NHLBI Grant HL65425. Abstract—In this paper we present two 4D motion-compensated reconstruction algorithms for gated cardiac SPECT. The algorithms are based on a deformable content-adaptive mesh model, a compact image representation that is well suited for motion tracking of non-rigid objects like the heart. In this paper we introduce a reconstruction method using in...

The purpose of this study is to assess the difference between 4D liver dose calculations versus standard 3D treatment planning and to investigate the dosimetric gain of gating on radiation dose to normal tissue. 4DCT scans are collected for 25 patients with hepatic tumors treated by proton radiotherapy. The 4D treatment planning process explicitly takes into account respiratory motion of abdomi...

BSC1, which was originally identified by its sequence similarity to voltage-gated Na(+) channels, encodes a functional voltage-gated cation channel whose properties differ significantly from Na(+) channels. BSC1 has slower kinetics of activation and inactivation than Na(+) channels, it is more selective for Ba(2+) than for Na(+), it is blocked by Cd(2+), and Na(+) currents through BSC1 are bloc...

Methods Forty two patients referred for transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) were prospectively included. All TEE studies were performed with a three-dimensional transesophageal probe. For full-volume images, 4 gated beats were acquired for offline analysis. The cardiac cycle was divided in proto-systole (S1), mid-systole (S2) and tele-systole (S3) and proto-diastole (D1), mid-diastole (D2) a...

X-ray imaging is integral to the measurement of the properties of hot plasmas. To this end, a suite of gated x-ray imagers have been developed for use in a wide range of experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF). These instruments are sensitive to x-rays over the range of 0.7-90keV and can acquire images at 20ps intervals for source intensities ranging over several orders of magnitude...

Arachnoid adhesions are a common underlying cause for the development of idiopathic syringomyelia by causing CSF flow blockages. There is no direct geometrical relation between the location of the syringomyelia and the responsible arachnoid adhesion. For minimization of the trauma during the surgical intervention, the precise identification of the location of the culprit adhesion appears mandat...