Direct MR arthrography of the shoulder: 2D vs. 3D gradient-echo imaging.

The aim of this study was to determine the value of a fat suppressed 3D gradient-echo sequence (GRE) data set in comparison to a 2D GRE sequence in direct MR arthrography of the shoulder. For this purpose we examined 50 consecutive patients with subacute or chronic disorders of the shoulder using a 1.5 T scanner: Transverse T1-weighted 2D (slice thickness 4 mm) and 3D GRE (slice thickness 1.5 mm reconstructed from 3 mm), oblique coronal T2- and T1-weighted turbo spin-echo (TSE) and sagittal T1-weighted TSE with fat saturation were applied. Visual image analysis of anatomical and pathological structures was performed by two independent observers. A correlation to surgical results was available in 21 patients. Transverse GRE sequences were well suited for analysis of the anterior/posterior labrum, the middle glenohumeral ligament, and cartilage. 3D GRE with fat suppression was slightly superior to 2D GRE without fat suppression in the evaluation of the anterior/posterior labrum, and the middle glenohumeral ligament, whereas for cartilage no significant differences were found between both sequences. Concerning pathological findings, in most of the cases 2D delivered the same results as 3D. In conclusion, a T1-weighted 3D GRE data set with fat saturation in transverse orientation may be useful for evaluation of the anterior/posterior labrum, and the middle glenohumeral ligament. However, similar measured slice thickness of 3 mm-even if interpolated to 1.5 mm-compared to a 2D sequence with 4 mm does not provide significant diagnostic advantages.     

D3+D6 solution and D4+D6 solution

We make the supergravity solutions describing the branes (D3 branes and D4 branes) localized within the D6 branes in the near core region of D6 brane. From the D=11 solutions (M3 branes and M4 branes with the Z_N identifications in the transverse space) we obtain the D=10 supergravity solutions of D3 branes localized within D6 branes and D4 branes localized within D6 branes by reducing the dimension down to D=10 along a circular direction of S³ part of the transverse space. M3 brane solution leads to D=10 background representing D3 branes localized on D6 branes in the region close to the D6 branes core. M4 branes lead to the D4 branes localized on D6 branes in the region close to the D6 brane core.     

Recognition of secondary-structure elements in 3D TOCSY-NOESY spectra of proteins. Interpretation of 3D cross-peak amplitudes

The amplitudes of selected 3D cross peaks in 3D TOCSY-NOESY spectra of proteins are shown to be characteristically different depending on the secondary structure. The sets of 3D cross peaks which make up the pattern for tight turns, β sheets, and α helices are given together with an estimate of the integral amplitude for each of the cross peaks obtained by a series development of the Hamiltonian of lowest order. A 3D TOCSY-NOESY spectrum of BPTI with a comparably short TOCSY mixing time was recorded and the volume integrals of the 3D cross peaks relevant for the recognition of the secondary-structure elements were compared to the amplitudes expected from a lowest order approximation.     

Improvement of 3D acquisition and visualization in MRI.

Three-dimensional (3D) visualization techniques are becoming an ever more important aid in the interpretation of tomographic data. Up to now, however, they have not received widespread use in MRI, because both acquisition and visualization techniques have been inadequate. In this paper we describe new 3D acquisition techniques which can acquire up to 128 slices with a resolution of 256 x 256 pixels in from 8 to 20 min. These techniques produce 3D data sets with excellent contrast and few motion artifacts, which are very well suited for 3D visualization techniques. For the visualization we investigate several rendering techniques, describe some improvements and compare their results. We found that there is no single method which renders all objects equally well. We show which shading method is best suited for different objects and why the other methods fail. Our studies suggest that in a 3D view with several objects each object should be rendered with a separate shading method. In so doing, 3D views can be generated which look like the real human anatomy.     

G.T.D. Analysis of radiation from magnetic line source on dielectric-coated cylinder

G.T.D. Analysis of the radiation from magnetic line source on a conducting circular cylinder with dielectric coating is presented. The G.T.D. solution is computed numerically by the residue series, Taylor series and the method of stationary phased in the shadow, transition and illuminated region, respectively. The numerical results of the G.T.D. solution show good agreement with the eigenfunction results.     

M.H.D. Generators with Superheated Steam

This paper considers a new kind of M.H.D. generator operating at extremely low temperature through the use of a working fluid which is either water vapor or metallic vapors. In the first case conductivity is achieved by seeding with electrolytes. A high thermodynamical efficiency is obtained by combination of an adiabatic expansion with an isothermal compression.     

3D harnessing of light with 2.5D photonic crystals

It is emphasized that two‐dimensional photonic crystals (2D PC) have not only a great potential for the development of 2D nanophotonics in the inplane waveguided configuration, but that they may also open the way to other brilliant developments, with an extension to out‐of‐plane operation, along a 2.5D nanophotonics approach. In this 2.5D approach, a 1D–2D high index contrast lateral structuration is combined with a 1D high index contrast vertical structuration, using multilayer membrane stacks including 1D–2D photonic crystal membranes, thus resulting in so‐called 2.5D PC. As a specific illustration of recent achievements along this approach, new families of VCSEL structures are presented.     

On superembedding approach to multiple D-brane system. D0 story

We develop superembedding approach to multiple D-particle (D0-brane) system. In flat target D=10$D=10$ type IIA superspace this produces the supersymmetric and Lorentz covariant version of the Matrix model equations. The equations following from our superembedding approach to multiple D0 in curved type IIA superspace shows the Myers ‘dielectric brane effect’, i.e. interaction with higher form gauge fields which do not interact with a single D0-brane.     

测定核间距的不对称2D NOESY方法——1.从不对称2D NOESY峰强度求取完整的混合系数矩阵

本文提出不对称2D NOESY实验方法来测定完整的2D NOESY混合系数矩阵。理论研究表明,不对称2D NOESY实验信澡比要比传统2D NOESY的高,不对称2D NOESY峰强度矩阵是非对称的,因此可以只用不对称2D NOESY的非对角峰强度来求得完整的2D NOESY混合系数矩阵,避免测量大分子等复杂自旋系统的严重重叠的对角峰强度所引起的困难,而这是传统2D NOESY实验方法所无法作到的。本文最后应用数值模拟方法对理论研究结果进行了计算验证。     

Evidence for B0 --> D+ D- and observation of B- --> D0D- and B- -->D0D*- decays

We report evidence for B(0) --> D(0)D(-) and the first observation of the decay modes B(-) --> D(0)D(-) and B(-) --> D(0)D(*-) based on a sample of 152 x 10(6) BB events collected by the Belle detector at KEKB. The branching fractions for B(0) --> D(+) D(-), B--->D(0)D(-), and B--> D(0)D(*-) are found to be (1.91 +/- 0.51 +/- 0.30) x10(-4), (4.83 +/- 0.78 +/- 0.58) x 10(-4), and (4.57 +/- 0.71 +/- 0.56) x 10(-4), respectively. Charge asymmetries in the B---> D(0)D(-) and B(-) --> D(0)D(*-) channels are consistent with zero.     

Comparison of 1D, 2D and 3D quench onset simulations

Measured and simulated minimum quench energies (MQE) for short samples are doubtful when estimating disturbance tolerance of an impregnated superconducting magnet. If measurements are performed at liquid cryogen, the cooling provided by the cryogen causes MQE to be high. At a conduction-cooled system, the transverse heat conduction is neglected causing low MQE. Even though these conditions can be artificially brought closer to the ones in an impregnated magnet, it is difficult to estimate by short-sample measurement the MQE of a superconducting coil. These similar difficulties are present at simulations. On the other hand, 1D and 2D measurements and simulations can be used, e.g., to compare wires or consider effect of insulation layer thickness, but according to the results only in a rough quantitative way. In this paper, we compare MQE and normal zone propagation velocity simulations of an MgB₂ wire with 1D, 2D and 3D finite element method models to focus on the different results given by the models employing different dimensions.     

测定核间距的不对称2D NOESY方法Ⅲ.从不对称2D NOESY重叠峰强度求取完整混合系数矩阵

建立了包括重叠峰在内的不对称2D NOESY峰强度来求取完整混合系数矩阵的方法。并应用数值模拟方法验证了其正确性。该方法充分利用了不对称2D NOESY重叠峰强度来求解完整混合系数矩阵,这对大分子体系中核间距的准确计算是有价值的。     

2D/3D CFETR真空室电磁计算

基于ANSYS对CFETR真空室简化模型进行了2D/3D电磁分析,得到了真空室磁场强度以及电磁力的分布。分析结果显示2D/3D真空室的磁场强度及电磁力分布基本一致,这表明了可以使用2D模型替代3D模型对未来真空室简化模型进行电磁分析。     

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基于ANSYS对CFETR真空室简化模型进行了2D/3D电磁分析,得到了真空室磁场强度以及电磁力的分布.分析结果显示2D/3D真空室的磁场强度及电磁力分布基本一致,这表明了可以使用2D模型替代3D模型对未来真空室简化模型进行电磁分析.     

Cloud 3D effects on broadband heating rate profiles: I. Model simulation

Solar broadband heating directly drives the atmospheric and ocean circulations, and is largely determined by cloud spatial 3-diminesional (3D) structures. To study the cloud 3D effects on radiation, a 3D broadband Monte-Carlo radiative transfer model, along with an Independent Pixel/Column Approximation (IPA) method, is used to simulate radiation and heating rate of three typical cloud fields generated by cloud resolving models (CRM). A quantitative and statistical estimation of cloud 3D effects has been developed to investigate the impact of cloud 3D structures on both heating rate strength, STD_Bias, and vertical distribution, CorrCoef. The cloud 3D structures affect some clouds more in heating rate strength and others more in vertical distribution. It is crucial to use the combination of CorrCoef and STD_Bias for better quantitative evaluation of the 3D effects. Furthermore, there is no simple way to define a critical resolution (or average radius), within which the IPA heating rate profiles closely represent the true 3D heating rate profiles. The critical radius (or resolution) strongly depends on solar incident angle as well as cloud vertical distribution. Also, the critical radii for clear-sky columns are larger than for cloudy columns, although the corresponding STD_Bias for clear-sky columns are smaller than for cloudy columns. Analysis based on two different statistical average methods illustrates that the cloud 3D effects due to the dimensionality difference between the 3D clouds (circle average) and 2D clouds (line average) significantly impact on the heating rate profiles.     

2D separated-local-field spectra from projections of 1D experiments

A novel procedure for reconstruction of 2D separated-local-field (SLF) NMR spectra from projections of 1D NMR data is presented. The technique, dubbed SLF projection reconstruction from one-dimensional spectra (SLF-PRODI), is particularly useful for uniaxially oriented membrane protein samples and represents a fast and robust alternative to the popular PISEMA experiment which correlates (1)H-(15)N dipole-dipole couplings with (15)N chemical shifts. The different 1D projections in the SLF-PRODI experiment are obtained from 1D spectra recorded under influence of homonuclear decoupling sequences with different scaling factors for the heteronuclear dipolar couplings. We demonstrate experimentally and numerically that as few as 2-4 1D projections will normally be sufficient to reconstruct a 2D SLF-PRODI spectrum with a quality resembling typical PISEMA spectra, leading to significant reduction of the acquisition time.     

四维NMR谱

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Comparison of 87Rb N-resonances for D1 and D2 transitions

We report an experimental comparison of three-photon-absorption resonances (N-resonances) for the D1 and D2 optical transitions of thermal (87)Rb vapor. We find that the D2 N-resonance has better contrast, a broader linewidth, and a more symmetric line shape than the D1 N-resonance. Taken together, these factors imply superior performance for frequency standards operating on alkali D2 N-resonances, in contrast with coherent population trapping resonances, for which the D2 transition provides poorer frequency standard performance than the D1 transition.     

6D microstate geometries from 10D structures

We use the formalism of Generalised Geometry to characterise in general the supersymmetric backgrounds in type II supergravity that have a null Killing vector. We then specify this analysis to configurations that preserve the same supersymmetries as the D1–D5–P system compactified on a four-manifold. We give a set of equations on the forms defining the supergravity background that are equivalent to the supersymmetry constraints and the equations of motion. This study is motivated by the search of new microstate geometries for the D1–D5–P black hole. As an example, we rewrite the linearised three-charge solution of arXiv:hep-th/0311092 in our formalism and show how to extend it to a non-linear, regular and asymptotically flat configuration.     

Comparison of 2D S-Transform Profilometry and 2D Windowed Fourier Transform Profilometry

Both two-dimensional (2D) Windowed Fourier Transform and 2D S Transform are popular time–frequency analysis tools for processing signals. But fewer articles reported the application of 2D S Transform in Fringe pattern analysis. This paper studies the 2D S Transform and compares it with 2D Windowed Fourier Transform. The phase calculation formula based on the 2D Windowed Fourier Transform “ridge” coefficients and 2D S Transform “ridge” coefficients are deduced respectively. A comparison between them is carried out to show their own characteristic in fringe patterns analysis based on the structured-light illumination. It verifies that the 3D reconstruction result of 2D ST is better than that of 2D WFT because of the employment of the adjusted windows by frequency parameters.