Ultrasonic-magnetorheological combined (UMC) finishing is a new technique for the ultra precision machining of aspheric surfaces, especially for high quality workpieces with small-radius concave surfaces or freeform s...
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(纸本)9780878492336
Ultrasonic-magnetorheological combined (UMC) finishing is a new technique for the ultra precision machining of aspheric surfaces, especially for high quality workpieces with small-radius concave surfaces or freeform surfaces. The characteristic of UMC finishing is discussed, and an experimental equipment for UMC finishing with 5 axes is developed. According to requirements of deterministic removal in UMC finishing and the experimental equipment, post processing algorithm for aspheric surfaces is researched. The derivation process and computer simulation result of the algorithm is presented. The error analysis is conducted and the error control method is also proposed. A series of experiments have been conducted, and experimental results show that high quality surfaces can be achieved by the post processing algorithm.
Computed tomography (CT) scanners and CT exams increase continuously. The researchers aim to minimize the ionizing radiation dose by introducing new CT protocols, providing diagnostic CT images with a lower radiation ...
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(纸本)9781450376983
Computed tomography (CT) scanners and CT exams increase continuously. The researchers aim to minimize the ionizing radiation dose by introducing new CT protocols, providing diagnostic CT images with a lower radiation dose to patients. However, such studies encounter difficulties, when the radiation dose is lowered, the quality of images becomes less and sometimes not diagnostic. In this study, the researcher aims to provide a low dose brain CT protocol, in order to then determine if the images match the quality criteria of Brain CT; and determine the diagnostic appearance of the images. Then, the researcher will compare the results obtained from the Brain CT, as well as the brain post-processingalgorithm to determine which one provides a better diagnostic image, and a better match for the quality criteria of Brain CT, by the Numerical criterion (1: weak, 2: moderate, 3:perfect) which is used by expert medical imaging technologists, On a sample of 35 patients; the first brain CT was conducted by 22 milli-gray (mGy) volume computed tomography dose index (CTDIvol); the resulting image was noisy, with a poor match for quality criteria, then CTDIvol was raised to 25 mGy, then to 30 mGy, and finally to 33.8 mGy. At this point, the image was acceptable to complete the study. Four radiologists have been engaged to determine if the image provides diagnostic appearance, then six expert medical imaging technologists were involved to determine the quality criteria. These steps were followed for the Brain CT before and after applying the post-processingalgorithm. Then the results were compared with the reference study of brain CT. The results for low dose brain CT were diagnostic and matching the quality criteria for brain CT. After applying the brain post-processingalgorithm the image's diagnostic appearance was disturbed, the suggested protocol by the study provided a 47% dose reduction, from the standard protocol which uses 63 mGy. The problem of signal reduction is solved
Unidentified and/or misidentified tablets always present challenges to both patients and health care professionals alike. Consumption of these misidentified tablets often results in adverse drug reaction and sometimes...
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Unidentified and/or misidentified tablets always present challenges to both patients and health care professionals alike. Consumption of these misidentified tablets often results in adverse drug reaction and sometimes may even cause ill health leading to death. Thus, identification of unknown tablets is an important task in the medical industry. This study proposes an algorithm that uses the text imprinted on the tablet images to identify unknown images. Text imprinted on pills often contains important information that can be used to identify tablets. In this study, multiple feature sets were extracted from tablet images. The proposed work first identifies the text region, from which the text is recognised using support vector machine classifier. A post processing algorithm based on the confusion model combined with n-grams is used to correct the substitution, insertion and deletion errors in the text recognised. Finally, the corrected text is matched with a template tablet database to identify similar tablets. Experimental results showed that the proposed system is efficient with respect to accuracy and can be safely used by both common public and health care professionals to identify tablets.
This work details the fabrication processes for a broadband antenna on a MEMS steerable platform. The platform is capable of rotation around two independent axes through the use of four silicon torsion hinges. The dev...
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(纸本)9781424449682
This work details the fabrication processes for a broadband antenna on a MEMS steerable platform. The platform is capable of rotation around two independent axes through the use of four silicon torsion hinges. The device is fabricated using traditional bulk micromachining techniques. Silicon is used as the substrate material due to its well understood processing characteristics. The antenna is modified from the Fourpoint antenna and operates between 10-16 GHz. The device is characterized using an HP 8510C Vector Network Analyzer and is used for target detection in a custom built anechoic chamber. An artificial neural network post processing algorithm is implemented on the measured data for the detection of metal, glass and wood spheres with a diameter of 3/8"".
In order to deal with the error of oblivious key distribution caused by quantum channel noise, a new quantum privacy query (QPQ) protocol with six-qubit with decoherence is proposed. When the error rate caused by quan...
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In order to deal with the error of oblivious key distribution caused by quantum channel noise, a new quantum privacy query (QPQ) protocol with six-qubit with decoherence is proposed. When the error rate caused by quantum channel noise is less than 30%, the final key bit error rate of this protocol is better than that of other QPQ protocols using the same post-processingalgorithm. Furthermore, the protocol is also a cheat-sensitive protocol, in which dishonesty of either party can be detected.
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