introduction 3d reconstruction of an object from its 2d cross-sections (slices) has many applications in different fields of sciences such as medical physics and biomedical engineering. in order to perform 3d reconstruction, at first, desired boundaries at each slice are detected and then using a correspondence between points of successive slices surface of desired object is reconstructed. mate...

It has been a long-standing problem in $N$-electron systems as to how solve the Dyson equation with quasiparticle wave functions defined $\ensuremath{\langle}\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Psi}}}_{0}^{N}\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}|\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}{\ensuremath{\psi}}_{s}(\mathbit{r})\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}|\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Psi...

Two cosmological models with non-phantom matter having the same expansion of the universe as phantom cosmologies are constructed. The first model is characterized by the evolving gravitational “constant” G and a dark energy component with a non-conserved energy-momentum tensor. The second model includes two interacting components, the dark energy component and the matter component. Closed form ...

An analysis with a transferred hyperfine field has been performed on the spectra of $^{115}\mathrm{In}$ nuclear quadrupole resonance experiments heavy fermion superconductor ${\mathrm{Ce}}_{3}{\mathrm{PtIn}}_{11}$ exhibiting co-occurrence two successive antiferromagnetic orderings (${T}_{\mathrm{N}1}$ = 2.2 K and ${T}_{\mathrm{N}2}$ 2.0 K) followed by superconducting transition (${T}_{\mathrm{c...

Defect engineering plays an important role in tailoring the electronic transport properties of van der Waals materials. Methods reported so far mainly rely on $e\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}x\phantom{\rule{0.333em}{0ex}}s\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}i\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}t\phantom{\rule{0}{0ex}}u$ defect type and concentration, hindering realization new types device functionalities associated with engine...

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...

The $R(1)$, $R(3)$, and $P(3)$ rovibrational transitions in the (2-0) overtone band of HD molecule are measured Doppler-free saturation using technique NICE-OHMS spectroscopy. For line, hitherto not observed saturation, we report a frequency $203\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}821\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}936\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}805\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}(60)$ kHz. dispersive line sha...

BACKGROUND In integrated PET/MR hybrid imaging the evaluation of PET performance characteristics according to the NEMA standard NU 2-2007 is challenging because of incomplete MR-based attenuation correction (AC) for phantom imaging. In this study, a strategy for CT-based AC of the NEMA image quality (IQ) phantom is assessed. The method is systematically evaluated in NEMA IQ phantom measurements...

Using a mail-delivered questionnaire, we surveyed 590 veteran amputees concerning phantom pain, phantom sensation and stump pain. They were selected randomly from a population of 2974 veterans with long-standing limb amputation(s) using a computer random number generator. Eighty-nine percent responded and of these, 55% reported phantom limb pain and 56% stump pain. There was a strong correlatio...