Nonlinear Negative Imaginary (NI) systems arise in various engineering applications, such as controlling flexible structures and air vehicles. However, unlike linear NI systems, their theory is not well-developed. In ...
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Bacterial motion in porous media are essential for their survival, proper functioning, and variousapplications. Here we investigated the motion of Escherichia coli bacteria in microsphere-mimicked porousmedia. We obse...
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The incredible thermo-mechanical properties of biological materials arise from the microscopic scale due to a complex hierarchical mechanism, which is regulated by microinstabilities at the molecular level. The descri...
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The incredible thermo-mechanical properties of biological materials arise from the microscopic scale due to a complex hierarchical mechanism, which is regulated by microinstabilities at the molecular level. The description of such complex structures is allowed by both the know-how introduced by the advent of single molecule force spectroscopy experiments, which gives the possibility of studying such systems in different thermal and mechanical conditions, and the possibility of correctly mimicking their behaviour at the lowest scale by introducing mathematical models based on non-convex energies. In this thesis, different classes of models are introduced to describe the important features of phase transition, decohesion and damage under different conditions of applied forces and displacement, thermal fields and rates of loading. By increasing the level of complexity of such models, different phenomena have been analyzed. For instance, by introducing a chain of bistable units to mimic the behaviour of a titin molecule undergoing unfolding, it has been described the effect of the handling device in single molecule experiments, which strongly affects the system’s mechanical response, leading to large errors in the measure of the resulting force or displacement. Temperature effects are considered within a Statistical Mechanics framework, also in the case when non local interactions are introduced. Indeed, phenomena such as the presence of a stress peak in the force-extension diagram and corresponding to the generation and nucleation of a phase is experimentally observed in tensile tests on memory shape nanowires or polymer materials and can be described as a competition between interfacial energy terms and entropic effects. The cooperativity of weak interactions, such as hydrogen bonds, has been also studied to highlight phenomena such as decohesion and fracture in biological systems. Indeed, simple amino acids are arranged in a multiscale fashion resulting in high perfo
Management of patient data at the Technical Implementation Unit of the Community Health Center (UPT. Puskesmas) of Rhee Sumbawa District has not been fully computerized. The need for the development of an Information ...
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For many diseases applications, it is beneficial to simultaneously observe multiple biomarkers at a time. However, current PET systems are unable to image multiple tracers in one session due to annihilation photons be...
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(数字)9798350388152
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(纸本)9798350388169
For many diseases applications, it is beneficial to simultaneously observe multiple biomarkers at a time. However, current PET systems are unable to image multiple tracers in one session due to annihilation photons being indistinguishable across radiotracers. However with the utilization of one or more positron emitting radionuclides that also emit a prompt gamma (positron + prompt gamma ray emitter), the latter signal can be used to unmix the tracer signals and facilitate multiplex PET or mPET. With the use of prompt-gamma-positron emitters, an issue arises with the correct identification of the two annihilation photons in a triple photon coincidence. In this work, we present a maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) framework that uses spatial, timing, and energy information to return the most probable line of response (LOR). We validate our method using simulated data. Results indicate we can achieve > 99% accuracy at identifying the correct LOR for a
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Magnetic monopoles, despite their ongoing experimental search as elementary particles, have inspired the discovery of analogous excitations in condensed matter systems. In chiral condensed matter systems, emergent mon...
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The increasing number of autonomous vehicles will result in a safety factor that must be maintained. One of the crucial prerequisites for this is proper localization, especially at intersections where most road accide...
The increasing number of autonomous vehicles will result in a safety factor that must be maintained. One of the crucial prerequisites for this is proper localization, especially at intersections where most road accidents occur each year. This research is proposed to improve the localization process, which has drawbacks such as the inaccurate Global Positioning System (GPS) when satellite signals are blocked, and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), which is expensive and needs heavy computing time. This is done by implementing the High Definition Map (HD Map) method, which maps the condition of an area that is stored as memory on an autonomous vehicle computer. The proposed system uses a monocular camera to be processed into a semantic segmentation feature map at the pixel level, then uses point cloud to reconstruct a 3D intersection model, which is then segmented semantically as well so that position data is obtained after merging using the occupancy grid and scoring function. The results of this CNN-based approach localization produce less accuracy and Mean Intersection over Union (MIoU) values with 60% average accuracy and 62.3 MioU when compared to GPS data and other 3D semantic segmentation systems, but the proposed approach can save costs and computational burden.
We propose dipole and quadrupole indices for interacting insulators with point group symmetries. The proposed indices are defined in terms of many-body quantum multipole operators combined with the generator of the po...
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We propose dipole and quadrupole indices for interacting insulators with point group symmetries. The proposed indices are defined in terms of many-body quantum multipole operators combined with the generator of the point group symmetry. Unlike the original multipole operators, these combined operators commute with the Hamiltonian under symmetry and therefore their eigenvalues are quantized. This enables a clear identification of nontrivial multipolar states. We calculate the multipole indices in representative models and show their effectiveness as order parameters. Furthermore, we demonstrate a bulk-boundary correspondence: a nonzero index implies the existence of edge/corner states under the point group symmetry.
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S. J. ZouG. ChinnC. S. LevinElectrical Engineering
Stanford University Stanford California United States of America Radiology
Stanford University Stanford California United States of America Radiology
Electrical Engineering Bioengineering Physics Molecular Imaging Program Stanford University Stanford California United States of America
Motion correction (MC) is crucial in cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) to mitigate artifacts caused by cardiac, respiratory, and body motion. Motion correction not only improves image quality also leads to ac...
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(数字)9798350388152
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(纸本)9798350388169
Motion correction (MC) is crucial in cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) to mitigate artifacts caused by cardiac, respiratory, and body motion. Motion correction not only improves image quality also leads to accurate quantification of cardiac health. In this study, we explore the effectiveness of optical flow based motion correction for gated cardiac PET. We present a novel method of joint estimation and denoising of parametric *** also present preliminary results of parametric image based optical flow MC, a novel MC method. By jointly denoising and estimating parametric images we see a $\lt4 \mathrm{~dB}$ increase in PSNR for Patlak $K$ image compared to no denoising and see at least a 1 dB PSNR gain with our MC method over all noise scenarios.
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