Introduction: Temporal bone osteomyelitis is more commonly seen in immunocompromised patients and is very rare in non-immunocompromised individuals. Mucormycosis is a fulminating fungal infection caused by Mucor which is a saprophytic fungus commonly seen in diabetic patients. Here we report a case of temporal bone osteomyelitis in a child with a traumatic history which was causing clinical fe...

Seismic images and the geologic information they provide contribute significantly to our understanding of the earth’s subsurface. In this thesis, I focus on methods relevant for constructing and interpreting seismic images, including methods for velocity estimation, seismic imaging, and interpretation, which together address key aspects of reflection seismic data processing. Specifically, I pro...

[1] The seismic signals of hundreds of rockfalls within Dolomieu crater, Piton de la Fournaise volcano, Réunion Island, have been analyzed to investigate a possible link between physical rockfall-generating processes and associated seismic signal features. Moreover, indirect observation of rockfalls via the seismic signals they generate can provide useful data for studying volcanoes and the tem...

Spectral analysis is an important step in seismic data processing and interpretation. The frequency contents of seismic traces vary with time due to the fact that the earth is non-stationary medium. Methods were available to improve the temporal and spectral resolution, such as windowed Fourier transform, wavelet transform, S-transform and Matching Pursuit Decomposition, etc. This paper describ...

High-resolution seismic reflection techniques successfully imaged structural features associated with a sinkhole that formed catastrophically as a result of dissolution of the Permian-age Hutchinson Salt in central Kansas. Symmetric steep sided chimney structure formed instantaneously, which over time has continued to gradually enlarge and elongate to the east, forming an open bowl. Orthogonal ...

S U M M A R Y The resolution of the 3-D density structure in the Earth’s deep interior has long eluded geoscientists. High-quality data from digital seismic instruments emplaced this decade have renewed interest in the measurement of low-frequency Earth normal modes with the goal of extracting heterogeneous density structure. Here we perform a series of synthetic experiments aimed at investigat...

The interevent time distribution characterizes the temporal occurrence in seismic catalogs. Universal scaling properties of this distribution have been evidenced for entire catalogs and seismic sequences. Recently, these universal features have been questioned and some criticisms have been raised. We investigate the existence of universal scaling properties by analyzing a Californian catalog an...

There are numerous methods for interpolating uniformly sampled, aliased seismic data, but few can handle the combination of nonuniform sampling and aliasing. We combine the principles of Fourier reconstruction of nonaliased, nonuniformly sampled data with the ideas of frequency-wavenumber f-k interpolation of aliased, uniformly sampled data in a new two-step algorithm. In the first step, we est...