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The transient behaviour of organic electrochemical transistors (OECT) is complex due to mixed ionic-electronic properties that play a central role in bioelectronics, sensing and neuromorphic applications. We investigate the impedance…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-06 Juan Bisquert , Scott T. Keene

The InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a first-light instrument for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). It combines a diffraction limited imager and an integral field spectrograph. This paper focuses on the electrical system of IRIS.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-24 A. C. Trapp , James Larkin , Ken Magnone , Timothee Greffe , Tim Hardy , Jennifer Dunn , Eric Chisholm , Chris Johnson , Ryuji Suzuki

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an emerging medical imaging modality for luminal organ diagnosis. The non-constant rotation speed of optical components in the OCT catheter tip causes rotational distortion in OCT volumetric scanning.…

While micro-CT systems are instrumental in preclinical research, clinical micro-CT imaging has long been desired with cochlear implantation as a primary example. The structural details of the cochlear implant and the temporal bone require a…

Unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) provides a flexible way to match or compare nonnegative finite Radon measures. However, UOT requires a predefined ground transport cost, which may misrepresent the data's underlying geometry. Choosing such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-09 Emanuele Pardini , Katerina Papagiannouli

The safety of train operations is largely dependent on the health of rail tracks, necessitating regular and meticulous inspection and maintenance. A significant part of such inspections involves geometric measurements of the tracks to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Lihao Qiu , Ming Zhu , JeeWoong Park , Yingtao Jiang , Hualiang , Teng

Safety is paramount for mobile robotic platforms such as self-driving cars and unmanned aerial vehicles. This work is devoted to a task that is indispensable for safety yet was largely overlooked in the past -- detecting obstacles that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Chen Zhou , Jiaolong Yang , Chunshui Zhao , Gang Hua

We report a proof-of-concept demonstration of a tunable infrared (IR) optical coherence tomography (OCT) technique with detection of only visible range photons. Our method is based on the nonclassical interference of frequency correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-09 Anna V. Paterova , Hongzhi Yang , Chengwu An , Dmitry A. Kalashnikov , Leonid A. Krivitsky

Theory for a gridded inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion system is presented that shows a net energy gain is possible if the grid is magnetically shielded from ion impact. A simplified grid geometry is studied, consisting of two…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-19 John Hedditch , Richard Bowden-Reid , Joe Khachan

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) poses a significant challenge in the field of computer vision. While substantial efforts have been made over the past two decades to improve the detection capabilities of IRSTD algorithms, there has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Saed Moradi , Alireza Memarmoghadam , Payman Moallem , Mohamad Farzan Sabahi

X-ray Computed Tomography (X-ray CT) is a well-known non-destructive imaging technique where contrast originates from the materials' absorption coefficients. Novel battery characterization studies on increasingly challenging samples have…

Spectral CT offers enhanced material discrimination over single-energy systems and enables quantitative estimation of basis material density images. Water/iodine decomposition in contrast-enhanced CT is one of the most widespread…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Matthew Tivnan , Grace Gang , Wenchao Cao , Nadav Shapira , Peter B. Noel , J. Webster Stayman

In recent years, multiple Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) systems have grown in popularity due to their enhanced accuracy and stability from the increased field of view (FOV). However, integrating multiple LiDARs can be challenging,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Minwoo Jung , Sangwoo Jung , Ayoung Kim

Glaucoma is a chronic visual disease that may cause permanent irreversible blindness. Measurement of the cup-to-disc ratio (CDR) plays a pivotal role in the detection of glaucoma in its early stage, preventing visual disparities. Therefore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Rukhshanda Hussain , Hritam Basak

Ultrasound Computed Tomography (USCT) has great potential for 3D quantitative imaging of acoustic breast tissue properties. Typical devices include high-frequency transducers, which makes tomography techniques based on numerical wave…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-08-12 N. Korta Martiartu , C. Boehm , A. Fichtner

We describe the commissioning of a system which has been built to investigate optimal operation of CCDs for the LSST telescope. The test system is designed for low vibration, high stability operation and is capable of illuminating a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Daniel Weatherill , Kirk Arndt , Richard Plackett , Ian Shipsey

Purpose: Electron density is the most important tissue property influencing photon and ion dose distributions in radiotherapy patients. Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) enables the determination of electron density by combining the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-06-29 Christian Möhler , Patrick Wohlfahrt , Christian Richter , Steffen Greilich

Existing universal lesion detection (ULD) methods utilize compute-intensive anchor-based architectures which rely on predefined anchor boxes, resulting in unsatisfactory detection performance, especially in small and mid-sized lesions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Manu Sheoran , Meghal Dani , Monika Sharma , Lovekesh Vig

Optical tomographic cross-sectional images of biological samples were made possible by interferometric imaging techniques such as Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). Owing to its unprecedented view of the sample, OCT has become a gold…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-13 Pedro Mecê , Elena Gofas-Salas , Michel Paques , Kate Grieve , Serge Meimon

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive medical imaging modality utilizing the current-density/voltage data measured on the surface of the subject. Calder\'on's method is a relatively recent EIT imaging algorithm that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Siyu Cen , Bangti Jin , Kwancheol Shin , Zhi Zhou