background: the aim of this work was to establish how well gel dosimeters performed, as substitutes for brain tissue compared with standard phantom materials such as water, polymethyl-methacrylate (or pmma), a150 plastic and te- liquid phantom material for dosimetry of neutron beams in boron neutron capture therapy. materials and methods: thermal neutron fluence, photon dose and epithermal neut...

BACKGROUND Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations using medical-image-based anatomical vascular geometry are now gaining clinical relevance. This study aimed at validating the CFD methodology for studying cerebral aneurysms by using particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements, with a focus on the effects of small geometric variations in aneurysm models on the flow dynamics obtained wi...

PURPOSE To develop an anthropomorphic phantom to simulate heart, lung, and blood motion. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is sensitive to image distortion and artifacts caused by motion. Imaging phantoms are used to test new sequences, but generally, these phantoms lack physiological motion. For the validation of new MR-based endovascular interventional and other techniques, we developed a dyna...

Based on dilatonic dark energy model, we consider two cases: dilaton field with positive kinetic energy(coupled quintessence) and with negative kinetic energy(phantom). In the two cases, we investigate the existence of attractor solutions which correspond to an equation of state parameter ω = −1 and a cosmic density parameter Ωσ = 1. We find that the coupled term between matter and dilaton can’...

background: in myocardial perfusion spect imaging, images are degraded by photon attenuation, the distance-dependent collimator, detector response and photons scatter. filters greatly affect quality of nuclear medicine images materials and methods: a phantom simulating heart left ventricle was built. about 1mci of 99mtc was injected into the phantom. images were taken from this phantom. some fi...

MnPdGa, a compound crystallizing in the ${\mathrm{Ni}}_{2}\mathrm{In}$ structure, is material displaying magnetic ordering near room temperature and potential ambient-temperature magnetocaloric. Screening based on electronic structure calculations suggest that MnPdGa may exhibit high magnetocaloric figure of merit due to its strong magnetostructural coupling. Here we report preparation employ h...

The deformable lung phantom was developed to account for the patient breathing motion, and to evaluate for a deformable image registration algorithm. The phantom consisted of an acryl cylinder filled with water and a latex balloon located in the inner space of the cylinder. A silicon membrane was attached to the inferior end of the phantom. This silicon membrane was designed to simulate a real ...

As a trilogy, this first paper along with the authors' two companion articles introduces alternate approaches to standard $R$-matrix parametrization of nuclear cross sections. The authors present evidence so-called shadow poles in theory for ${}^{134}$Xe. number and location depends upon how one continues operators complex wave numbers. also establish new pole sections, called $w\phantom{\rule{...