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Purpose: With the development of spectral CT, several novel spectral filters have been introduced to modulate the spectra, such as split filters and spectral modulators. However, due to the finite size of the focal spot of X-ray source,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Yifan Deng , Hao Zhou , Hewei Gao

The performance of electron energy-loss spectrometers can often be limited by their electron-optical aberrations. Due to recent developments in high energy-resolution and momentum-resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), there is…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-28 Yueming Guo , Andrew R. Lupini

Computed Tomography (CT) imaging is one of the most influential diagnostic methods. In clinical reconstruction, an effective energy is used instead of total X-ray spectrum. This approximation causes an accuracy decline. To increase the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Neda Gholami , Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi , Mahmood Fazlali , Antonio Rueda-Toicen , Hector Zenil , Andrew Adamatzky

Quantitative imaging is an important feature of spectral X-ray and CT systems, especially photon-counting CT (PCCT) imaging systems, which is achieved through material decomposition (MD) using spectral measurements. In this work, we present…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Sen Wang , Yirong Yang , Jooho Lee , Grant M. Stevens , Adam S. Wang

We apply point-particle effective field theory (PPEFT) to electronic and muonic 4He+ ions, and use it to identify linear combinations of spectroscopic measurements for which the theoretical uncertainties are much smaller than for any…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-28 C. P. Burgess , P. Hayman , Markus Rummel , Laszlo Zalavari

Empirical estimates of the band power covariance matrix are commonly used in cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum analyses. While this approach easily captures correlations in the data, noise in the resulting covariance estimate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 L. Balkenhol , C. L. Reichardt

A PET scanner based on silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) has been widely used as an advanced nuclear medicine imaging technique that yields quantitative images of regional in vivo biology and biochemistry. The compact size of the SiPM allows…

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Buildings rarely perform as designed/simulated and and there are numerous tangible benefits if this gap is reconciled. A new scientific yet pragmatic methodology - called Enhanced Parameter Estimation (EPE) - is proposed that allows…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Kris Subbarao , Srijan Didwania , T. Agami Reddy , Marlin Addison

The analysis of panel count data has garnered considerable attention in the literature, leading to the development of multiple statistical techniques. In inferential analysis, most works focus on leveraging estimating equation-based…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-08 Udita Goswami , Shuvashree Mondal

The direct evaluation of manifestly optimal, cut-sky CMB power spectrum and bispectrum estimators is numerically very costly, due to the presence of inverse-covariance filtering operations. This justifies the investigation of alternative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 H. F. Gruetjen , J. R. Fergusson , M. Liguori , E. P. S. Shellard

The new simple method of the energy reconstruction for a combined calorimeter, which we called the e/h method, is suggested. It uses only the known e/h ratios and the electron calibration constants and does not require the determination of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. A. Kulchitsky , M. V. Kuzmin , V. B. Vinogradov

The Inverse Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) problem on recovering electrical conductivity tensor and potential in the body based on the measurement of the boundary voltages on the electrodes for a given electrode current is analyzed.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Ugur G. Abdulla , Vladislav Bukshtynov , Saleheh Seif

Semiconductor device models are essential to understand the charge transport in thin film transistors (TFTs). Using these TFT models to draw inference involves estimating parameters used to fit to the experimental data. These experimental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Neel Chatterjee , Somya Sharma , Sarah Swisher , Snigdhansu Chatterjee

The energy spectra of the b and bbar quarks in e+e- -> t tbar with t -> b W (tbar -> bbar W) are calculated assuming CP violation in the production process. Expressions for the corresponding CP violating asymmetries and optimal observables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 A. Bartl , E. Christova , T. Gajdosik , W. Majerotto

Material decomposition for imaging multiple contrast agents in a single acquisition has been made possible by spectral CT: a modality which incorporates multiple photon energy spectral sensitivities into a single data collection. This work…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Matthew Tivnan , Steven Tilley , J. Webster Stayman

For dose calculations in ion beam therapy, it is vital to accurately determine the relative stopping power (RSP) distribution within the treated volume. Currently, RSP values are extrapolated from Hounsfield units (HU), measured with x-ray…

Hard X-Ray bremsstrahlung continuum spectra, such as from solar flares, are commonly described in terms of power-law fits, either to the photon spectra themselves or to the electron spectra responsible for them. In applications various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-20 J. C. Brown , J. Kasparova , A. M. Massone , M. Piana

Energy-Based Models (EBMs) have proven to be a highly effective approach for modelling densities on finite-dimensional spaces. Their ability to incorporate domain-specific choices and constraints into the structure of the model through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jen Ning Lim , Sebastian Vollmer , Lorenz Wolf , Andrew Duncan

We discuss methods for estimating EB and TB spectra of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy maps covering limited sky area. Such odd-parity correlations are expected to vanish whenever parity is not broken. As this is indeed the case…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-18 Julien Grain , Matthieu Tristram , Radek Stompor

This study presents a novel optimisation technique for atomic structure calculations using the Flexible Atomic Code, focussing on complex multielectron systems relevant to $r$-process nucleosynthesis and kilonova modelling. We introduce a…