With advanced PET system development, processing a high number of channels online is necessary and critical, especially for applications with one-to-one coupled crystals and silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). We are de...
With advanced PET system development, processing a high number of channels online is necessary and critical, especially for applications with one-to-one coupled crystals and silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). We are developing an RF-penetrable TOF-PET brain dedicated insert with lutetiumyttrium oxyorthosilicate (LYSO) crystals one-to-one coupled to SiPMs. There are 768 crystal-SiPM channels per detector module, and a PET insert ring comprises 16 detector modules. A compact design to process 12288 channels with a designed 20 kcps singles count rate per channel in real-time is challenging. In this paper, we developed an FPGA-based data acquisition (DAQ) system using a commercial evaluation board and characterized its performance with two full detector modules; each having 768 crystal-SiPM channels. We achieved a global energy resolution of 11.46 ± 0.02% FWHM and a global coincidence time resolution of 224.47 ± 0.15ps FWHM over 1536 SiPM-crystal channels with DAQ online processing. All parameters including global energy resolution, global CTR, coincidence count rate, and random count rate changed less than 3% between offline processing and online DAQ processing.
In this work, we report the second-order nonlinear optical susceptibility χ(2) for epsilon phase Gallium Oxide (ϵ-Ga2O3) thin film on sapphire. ϵ-Ga2O3 exhibits hexagonal P63mc space group symmetry, which is a non-ce...
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The limitations of machine size and cost are main problems for coffee harvesting using machine picking. Therefore, the prototype of Robusta coffee harvesting machine with portable and low cost was designed and created...
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The limitations of machine size and cost are main problems for coffee harvesting using machine picking. Therefore, the prototype of Robusta coffee harvesting machine with portable and low cost was designed and created in this research. Moreover, the effects of bristle hardness, bristle size and brush rotation speed on the coffee harvesting efficiency were investigated. The experimental results showed that the prototype of portable Robusta coffee harvesting machine was effective to harvest the Robusta coffee. It provided the highest coffee harvesting efficiency of 75.24% by using the bristle hardness of 75 shore A, bristle size of 8 mm and brush rotation speed of 700 rpm. The bristle hardness, bristle size and brush rotation speed were significantly affected the coffee harvesting efficiency. The coffee harvesting efficiency was increased when increasing the bristle hardness from 60 shore A to 75 shore A and the brush rotation speed from 600 rpm to 700 rpm. On the other hand, the increase of bristle size from 8 mm to 10 mm provided the lower coffee harvesting efficiency.
Exploiting the Cherenkov luminescence from 511 keV photoelectric interactions is a potential solution to re-introduce BGO scintillators in time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET). Recent improvements in ...
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Correction for 'Polyaniline nanorods dotted on graphene oxide nanosheets as a novel super adsorbent for Cr(VI)' by Shouwei Zhang , , 2013, , 7854-7858, https://***/10.1039/C3DT50149C.
Correction for 'Polyaniline nanorods dotted on graphene oxide nanosheets as a novel super adsorbent for Cr(VI)' by Shouwei Zhang , , 2013, , 7854-7858, https://***/10.1039/C3DT50149C.
Managing the traffic system is a multifaceted challenge, imposing various solutions to prevent congestion. Traffic management aims to create an efficient control system with numerous advantages, including reduced fuel...
Managing the traffic system is a multifaceted challenge, imposing various solutions to prevent congestion. Traffic management aims to create an efficient control system with numerous advantages, including reduced fuel emissions, lower stress levels, and enhanced driving discipline. Max Pressure stands as one of the techniques for traffic control, designed to adapt and enhance network throughput by considering pressure, defined as the difference between upstream and downstream queue lengths. Recent developments have yielded improved performance in Max Pressure through learning. In this adaptive control mechanism, the concept of Max Pressure is integrated as a reward function within reinforcement learning. This study introduces the “Max Pressure learning” concept, revealing its potential for creating adaptable traffic controllers. By modifying the pressure equation and transforming it into a performance metric, the original Max Pressure concept effectively responds to diverse traffic conditions. This paper showcases research findings demonstrating the surprising effectiveness of pressure as a control mechanism in the context of the learning process. Ultimately, using pressure enables controllers to efficiently alleviate gridlock situations in traffic, highlighting its promising role in optimizing traffic management and enhancing overall traffic system performance.
Atomic defects in solid-state materials are promising candidates for quantum interconnect and networking applications. Recently, a series of atomic defects have been identified in the silicon platform, where scalable ...
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Disordered hyperuniform many-particle systems are recently discovered exotic states of matter, characterized by a complete suppression of normalized infinite-wavelength density fluctuations, as in perfect crystals, an...
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Disordered hyperuniform many-particle systems are recently discovered exotic states of matter, characterized by a complete suppression of normalized infinite-wavelength density fluctuations, as in perfect crystals, and lack of conventional long-range order, as in liquids and glasses. In this work, we begin a program to quantify the structural properties of nonhyperuniform and hyperuniform networks. In particular, large two-dimensional (2D) Voronoi networks (graphs) containing approximately 10,000 nodes are created from a variety of different point configurations, including the antihyperuniform hyperplane intersection process (HIP), nonhyperuniform Poisson process, nonhyperuniform random sequential addition (RSA) saturated packing, and both non-stealthy and stealthy hyperuniform point processes. We carry out an extensive study of the Voronoi-cell area distribution of each of the networks through determining multiple metrics that characterize the distribution, including their higher-cumulants (i.e., skewness 1 and excess kurtosis 2). We show that the HIP distribution is far from Gaussian, as evidenced by a high skewness (γ1 = 3.16) and large positive excess kurtosis (γ2 = 16.2). The Poisson (with γ1 = 1.07 and γ2 = 1.79) and non-stealthy hyperuniform (with γ1 = 0.257 and γ2 = 0.0217) distributions are Gaussian-like distributions, since they exhibit a small but positive skewness and excess kurtosis. The RSA (with γ1 = 0.450 and γ2 = -0.0384) and the highest stealthy hyperuniform distributions (with γ1 = 0.0272 and γ2 = -0.0626) are also non-Gaussian because of their low skewness and negative excess kurtosis, which is diametrically opposite non-Gaussian behavior of the HIP. The fact that the cell-area distributions of large, finite-sized RSA and stealthy hyperuniform networks (e.g., with N ≈ 10, 000 nodes) are narrower, have larger peaks, and smaller tails than a Gaussian distribution implies that in the thermodynamic limit the distributions should exhibit compact suppo
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