A dosimetry system using commercially available pin silicon photodiodes as the sensor is evaluated for in-phantom dose measurements in x-ray CT and other diagnostic radiology. System sensitivity measured as a function of the effective energy of x rays was between 0.37 and 0.49 V/mGy at an effective energy range between 23.5 and 72 keV. The minimum detectable organ dose with 25% uncertainty was ...

Mohamed O. Shaker et al. 175 A new CMOS voltage-controlled fully-differential transconductor is presented. The basic structure of the proposed transconductor is based on a four-MOS transistor cell operating in the triode or saturation region. It achieves a high linearity range of ± 1 V at a 1.5 V supply voltage. The proposed transconductor is used to realize a new fully-differential Gm-C low-pa...

The methodology developed provides for a systematic way to find an infinite number of the novel stable bright and dark ‘‘soliton islands’’ in a ‘’sea of solitary waves’’ of the non linear Schrödinger equation model with varying dispersion, non linearity and gain or absorption. It is shown that solitons exist only under certain conditions and the parameter functions describing dispersion, non li...

Objective(s): 99mTc-PSMA SPECT/CT is a cost effective alternative for 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT. The aim of this study was to directly compare these two techniques in patients with prostate cancer. Methods: 28 man with prostate cancer were studied using 99mTc-PSMA SPECT/CT and 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT in a shor...

This research presents the review of Analog to Digital Convertor (ADC). For ADC there are mainly four different methods, Flash ADC, Pipelined ADC, Successive Approximation ADC, and Sigma Delta ADC. The Flash ADC is the Fast ADC. For Designing the ADC, the parameters important are Static and Dynamic. In static parameters Differential Non Linearity Error (DNLE), Integral Non Linearity Error (INLE...

An overview on linearity and efficiency performance optimisation in power amplifier (PA) is presented, stressing the required trade-off demanded to PA designers. For efficiency improvement, the harmonic tuning strategies are discussed, with their advantages and major drawbacks. For linearity improvement, the IMD sweet spot optimisation strategies is presented as a solution to obtain low intermo...

A criticism often levelled at functional languages is that they do not cope elegantly or eeciently with problems involving changes of state. In a recent paper 26], Wadler has proposed a new approach to these problems. His proposal involves the use of a type system based on the linear logic of Girard 7]. This allows the programmer to specify the \natural" imperative operations without at the sam...

A 49 year old man with previous history of colectomy for colon cancer was referred to our department for further evaluation of suspicious hepatic lesions noticed during an abdominal CT scan. 99mTc-RBC scan revealed multiple hot spots in the region of the liver, correlating to the CT and liver-spleen scan. Further follow-ups of the patient revealed no remarkable change in the size or numbe...

This paper describes an on-line procedure for segmenting freehand sketches into 2D primitives and smooth curves by knowledge-based nonlinear thresholding operations. Drawing position, direction, speed and acceleration information is used for establishing fuzzy knowledge and inferring user’s intention. The procedure can be divided into three stages: (1) obtaining corner points based on the fuzzy...

Optical computed tomography (CT), in conjunction with radiochromic gels and plastics, shows great potential for radiation therapy dose verification in 3D. However, an effective quality assurance (QA) regime for the various scanners currently available still remains to be developed. We show how the favourable properties of the PRESAGE® radiochromic polymer may be exploited to create highly sophi...