Fiber-free non-contact near-infrared (NIR) imaging devices using wide-field detectors are emerging apart from the contact and fiber-based NIR devices. Unlike the fiber-based devices that can image deep tissues, the fiber-free noncontact devices have been used only for subsurface imaging (≤1 cm) to date. A new compact (7 × 8 × 12 cm3) handheld Near-Infrared. Optical Scanner (NIROS) has been deve...

Optic neuritis is commonly associated with diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, infections, taking special drugs, etc. but recently we have observed a patient that presented retro bulbar optic neuritis as a manifestation of antiphospholipid syndrome. A 35 y/o young woman with the history of chickenpox admitted to the Qhaem hospital (Mashhad, Iran) with the c/o progressive pain and blurred visio...

This work accounts for an investigation about the diurnal variation of total spectral transmittance of solar irradiance under dominant wind conditions as case studies. Such a work is carried out in Athens for the first time. The spectral transmittance values estimated were derived using Ž . ground-based spectral measurements of beam irradiance in the range 310–575 nm UV and VIS . The data were ...

This paper deals with the thermal transmittance measurement focused on buildings and specifically in building energy retrofitting. Today, if many thermal transmittance measurements in a short time are needed, the current devices, based on the measurement of the heat flow through the wall, cannot carry out them, except if a great amount of devices are used at once along with intensive and tediou...

Stress-induced failure is a critical concern that influences the mechanical reliability of an indium tin oxide (ITO) film deposited on a transparently flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate. In this study, a cycling bending mechanism was proposed and used to experimentally investigate the influences of compressive and tensile stresses on the mechanical stability of an ITO film depo...

The starch separated from 21 different Indian potato cultivars from four locations was evaluated for physicochemical, thermal and pasting properties. The relationships between the different properties of starches were determined using Pearson’s correlation analysis. Amylose content was positively correlated to hot paste viscosity (r = 0.460, P 6 0.05) and negatively correlated to transmittance ...

Single crystals of nonlinear optical material bis (guanidinium) hydrogen phosphate monohydrate (G2HP) belonging to non centrosymmetric space group P 21c were successfully grown by the slow evaporation method. Optical transmittance and second harmonic generation of the grown crystals have been studied by UV-vis-NIR spectrum and Kurtz powder technique respectively. The transmittance of G2HP cryst...

The techniques most often used to determine components of the third-order susceptibility, x(3), include degenerate four-wave mixing, 1 nearly degenerate threeand four-wave mixing, 2 ellipse rotation, 3 optical third-harmonic generation,4 photoacoustics,5 beam-distortion methods,6 8 and nonlinear transmission.9 Some of these have been adapted to measure the anisotropy of x<a) .2•5•6•9 We introdu...