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Background: Daily or weekly cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans are commonly used for accurate patient positioning during the image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) process, making it an ideal option for adaptive radiotherapy (ART)…

Accurate thermal analysis of composites and porous media requires detailed characterization of local thermal properties in small scale. For some important applications such as lithium-ion batteries, changes in the properties during the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Fazlolah Mohaghegh , Jayathi Murthy

The use of photon counting detection technology has resulted in significant X-ray imaging research interest in recent years. Computed Tomography (CT) scanners can benefit from photon-counting detectors, which are new technology with the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-08 K. Hameed , Rafidah Zainon , Mahbubunnabi Tamal

Context. The wings of the Ca II H and K lines provide excellent photospheric temperature diagnostics. At the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope the blue wing of Ca II H is scanned with a narrowband interference filter mounted on a rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-18 V. M. J. Henriques

This article identifies the process of crystallization of thin high-$\kappa$ dielectric films and an optimal range of annealing temperature in the field of high-$\kappa$ dielectric-based metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) technology for its…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-02 Debaleen Biswas , Anil Kumar Sinha , Supratic Chakraborty

Temperature imaging of nanoscale systems is a fundamental problem which has myriad potential technological applications. For example, nanoscopic cold spots can be used for spot cooling electronic components while hot spots could be used for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Abhay Shastry , Sosuke Inui , Charles A. Stafford

In a standard computed tomography (CT) image, pixels having the same Hounsfield Units (HU) can correspond to different materials and it is, therefore, challenging to differentiate and quantify materials. Dual-energy CT (DECT) is desirable…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Wei Zhao , Tianling Lv , Peng Gao , Liyue Shen , Xianjin Dai , Kai Cheng , Mengyu Jia , Yang Chen , Lei Xing

In this paper, we attempt to employ convolutional recurrent neural networks for weather temperature estimation using only image data. We study ambient temperature estimation based on deep neural networks in two scenarios a) estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Wei-Ta Chu , Kai-Chia Ho , Ali Borji

Photon counting detectors (PCDs) offer promising advancements in computed tomography (CT) imaging by enabling the quantification and 3D imaging of contrast agents and tissue types through multi-energy projections. However, the accuracy of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Juan C. R. Luna , Mini Das

Deep neural networks have received considerable attention in clinical imaging, particularly with respect to the reduction of radiation risk. Lowering the radiation dose by reducing the photon flux inevitably results in the degradation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Khalid L. Alsamadony , Ertugrul U. Yildirim , Guenther Glatz , Umair bin Waheed , Sherif M. Hanafy

CT Perfusion (CTP) imaging has gained importance in the diagnosis of acute stroke. Conventional perfusion analysis performs a deconvolution of the measurements and thresholds the perfusion parameters to determine the tissue status. We…

Accurate quantification in positron emission tomography (PET) is essential for accurate diagnostic results and effective treatment tracking. A major issue encountered in PET imaging is attenuation. Attenuation refers to the diminution of…

The extreme and repeated temperature variation during additive manufacturing of metal parts has a large effect on the resulting material microstructure and properties. The ability to accurately predict this temperature field in detail, and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Lichao Fang , Lin Cheng , Jennifer A. Glerum , Jennifer Bennett , Jian Cao , Gregory J. Wagner

In order to investigate the anomalous heat effect (AHE) in NiCu multilayer thin film, photon radiation calorimetry has been developed. Three types of photon detectors are employed to cover a wide range of wavelengths from 0.3 um to 5.5 um,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-01 J. Kasagi , T. Itoh , Y. Shibasaki , T. Takahashi , S. Yamauchi , Y. Iwamura

This study aims to improve photon counting CT (PCCT) image resolution using denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM). Although DDPMs have shown superior performance when applied to various computer vision tasks, their effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Chuang Niu , Christopher Wiedeman , Mengzhou Li , Jonathan S Maltz , Ge Wang

Computed tomography (CT) images containing metallic objects commonly show severe streaking and shadow artifacts. Metal artifacts are caused by nonlinear beam-hardening effects combined with other factors such as scatter and Poisson noise.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Hyung Suk Park , Sung Min Lee , Hwa Pyung Kim , Jin Keun Seo

Photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) with energy discrimination capabilities hold great potentials to improve the limitations of the conventional CT, including better signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), improved contrast-to-noise ratio…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Xu Dong , Olga V. Pen , Zhicheng Zhang , Guohua Cao

Delamination assessment of the bridge deck plays a vital role for bridge health monitoring. Thermography as one of the nondestructive technologies for delamination detection has the advantage of efficient data acquisition. But there are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-12 Chongsheng Cheng , Zhexiong Shang , Zhigang Shen

Absorption spectroscopy is traditionally used to determine the average gas temperature and species concentration along the laser line-of-sight by measuring the magnitude of two or more absorption transitions with different temperature…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Nathan A Malarich , Gregory B Rieker

The experimental investigation of matter under extreme densities and temperatures as they occur for example in astrophysical objects and nuclear fusion applications constitutes one of the most active frontiers at the interface of material…