to make an accurate estimation of the uptake of radioactivity in an organ using the conjugate view method, corrections of physical factors, such as background activity, scatter, and attenuation are needed. the aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of four different methods for background correction in activity quantification of the heart in myocardial perfusion scans. the organ activit...

We analyze the operation of a four-qubit Bacon-Shor code with simultaneous continuous measurement of noncommuting gauge operators. The error syndrome in this case is monitored via time-averaged cross-correlators of the output signals. We find the logical error rate for several models of decoherence, and also find the termination rate for this quantum error detecting code. The code operation is ...

The concept of threshold ring signature in code-based cryptography was introduced by Aguilar et al. in [1]. Their proposal uses Stern’s identification scheme as basis. In this paper we construct a novel threshold ring signature scheme built on the q-SD identification scheme recently proposed by Cayrel et al. in [14]. Our proposed scheme benefits of a performance gain as a result of the reductio...

In this paper, network error control coding is studied for robust and efficient multicast in a directed acyclic network with imperfect links. The block network error control coding framework, BNEC, is presented and the capability of the scheme to correct a mixture of symbol errors and packet erasures and to detect symbol errors is studied. The idea of syndrome-based decoding and error detection...