EDXRF测定土壤元素含量及其在有机碳垂直分布特征研究中的应用

针对X射线荧光光谱(XRF)法不确定度计算和测定地质样品中硫的准确度、精密度与可靠性不高的难点,研究了提高土壤中硫分析准确度的途径,建立了土壤中S的XRF分析方法,完善了偏振能量色散XRF测定土壤中主、次、痕量元素的方法,利用不确定度评价、证实了所见方法的有效性和可靠性.测定、获得了研究区土壤元素剖面,通过对短期植被更替土壤剖面的土壤有机碳含量(TOC)、有机碳稳定碳同位素((13C)特征及其与元素垂直分布的关系研究,发现土壤中元素含量与有机碳含量和有机碳稳定碳同位素存在显著相关性.     

微束X射线荧光光谱分析红土中铁锰结核内部微小区域

在中国南方第四纪红土剖面中普遍发育一种黑褐色,形状规则或者不规则的新生体,由于其含有较高的Fe和Mn元素而被称为铁锰结核.铁锰结核被认为是土壤中温度、水分、氧化还原条件变化而形成的土壤新生体,因此它被认为是环境信息的良好载体.尤其是结核内部发育的环带状构造,被认识是结核形成过程气候干湿变化的结果.因此对结核内部微小区域的研究,有助与理解红土母质的风化过程以及结核的形成原因.X射线荧光光谱分析在20世纪80年代初已是一种成熟的分析方法,是实验室、现场分析主、次量和痕量元素的首选方法之一.运用帕纳科ZetiumX射线荧光光谱仪的微小区域分析工具对铜陵第四纪红土中结核内部由核心至边缘的主量元素分布状况进行分析,结果表明,XRF微小区域分析功能可以快速有效的分析样品内元素的分布状况.结核内部元素分布情况来看,铜陵剖面内铁锰结核内部颜色深浅变化主要是由于Mn元素含量的变化而引起的.结核的核心Mn元素含量最高,由核心向边缘呈现高低交替变化特征.指示结核形成初期,由于气候相对干旱,Mn元素由低价离子态氧化成高价化合物后发生淀积.结核内部浅色环带Si和Al元素含量明显较深色环带高,可能代表了相对湿润的气候时期.     

铅染毒大鼠骨中元素微区分布及相关性研究

北京同步辐射装置上的同步辐射X射线探针被用于测定铅染毒大鼠骨中铅和其它元素微区分布,结果发现: 铅主要分布在密质骨内、外边缘, 而锌主要分布在密质骨和密质骨边缘. 同时,钙、磷、锶和铁的分布也同时获得.     

硅中掺杂元素砷的三维微分析

利用同步辐射Ｘ光微区分析和全反射Ｘ射线荧光分析技术测定了硅中掺杂元素砷浓度的三维分布，其中深度剖面分布的测定结果与二次离子质谱进行了对照，两的一致性是比较满意的。     

强非线性时间演化声速剖面的序贯反演

受海面波浪起伏、降雨和内波等海洋动力学过程的影响,浅水声速剖面的时间演化具有高度非线性,针对该问题提出使用改进的粒子滤波方法进行声速剖面序贯反演.该方法通过建立声速剖面的经验正交模型(EOF)以及描述声速剖面时间演化特征的状态空间模型,将声速剖面反演问题建模为状态跟踪问题,利用不敏粒子滤波(UPF:Uncented Particle Filter)算法进行声速剖面序贯反演。仿真试验通过实测声速剖面数据和先验地声参数信息产生接收声场数据,再利用模拟声场数据估计声速剖面的时间变化.结果表明,相比于集合卡尔曼滤波(EnKF:Ensemble Kalman Filter),在计算效率等同的情形下,该方法可以在状态参数的时间跳变点保持良好的跟踪性能,一定程度上克服了现有反演算法在跳变点发散的问题,可以有效提高声速剖面反演精度,尤其在声速剖面时变性较强时具有显著优势.      

印度洋中北部声速剖面结构的时空变化及其物理机理研究

海洋的声速结构对水下声传播有重要影响,在印度洋中北部复杂多变的海洋物理和水文环境中, 获取声速剖面的时空统计分布规律对水下目标探测和水下声通信有重要意义. 由于垂直梯度法在声速结构分析中的局限性及其在印度洋中北部海域的适用性问题, 采用多元统计分析中的最优分割法对声速跃层进行分析,并应用最近10年的地转海洋学实时观测阵 数据对印度洋中北部海域声速剖面的特征量进行了计算,获得了声速跃层的垂直结构特征和时空变化规律; 还利用经验正交函数(EOF)表示方法,分析了印度洋中北部声速剖面拟合精度随EOF阶次的分布特点. 根据印度洋的海洋物理特征,揭示了声速剖面特征量时空演变的内在物理机理.研究结果表明: 最优分割法是适合印度洋声速结构的跃层判断方法,并提出了相应的判断准则参数; 声速剖面拟合精度随EOF阶次变化的区域性分布特征较明显,其季节性变化较小; 印度洋中北部的深海声道轴只在5°S以南明显存在,在15°S---25°S 附近海域存在三个跃层;印度洋中北部声速剖面结构可分为单跃层、双跃层Ⅰ型、 双跃层Ⅱ型和三跃层四种类型以及春夏秋冬四个季节模态. 声速剖面的分析结果对于水声传播和声纳系统的使用具有一定参考意义.     

固体核磁共振技术在骨基生物材料研究中的应用

骨是人体的结构组织之一,又是重要的造血器官,它在支持和保护体内器官、贮存钙和磷、参与人体代谢和为肌肉提供附着等方面具有重要的作用,因此了解骨的微观结构对预防和治疗骨疾病有重要意义.由于骨形态多样化,无机和有机成分共存,而且骨样品对物理和化学处理十分敏感,因此对其研究存在许多实验困难.与其他表征技术相比,固体核磁共振(NMR)检测对骨样品不需要任何处理,不会破坏其自身结构,可以实现原位检测.另外,骨头中的许多元素(~1H、~(13)C、~(31)P、~(19)F、~(43)Ca、~(29)Si、~(25)Mg和~(87)Sr)都是NMR可观察核,因此高分辨固体NMR技术是研究骨基生物材料的强有力工具,该文综述了近年来固体NMR技术在骨基生物材料研究中的应用进展.     

用初-边值方法研究具有固定边界的等离子体Kink不稳定性

本文解出了具有固定边界的平衡等离子体磁面方程的解析解和数值解。用简化的Lax-Wendroff方法求出了压力、速度和磁场的扰动值。得到了线性增长率、平均β和平均β_p以及安全因子。我们发现:1.具有凹向电流剖面的等离子体比具有均匀电流剖面的等离子体更稳定,而具有凸向电流剖面的等离子体是最不稳定的;2.具有逆磁电流的等离子体比具有顺磁电流的等离子体更稳定。 关键词：     

新疆薰衣草微量元素的化学计量学分析

采用原子吸收/荧光光谱法测定了新疆不同产地薰衣草中的13种微量元素含量.结果表明,各元素线性关系良好,相关系数r≥0.9991,加标回收率在94.0％-108.0％之间,RSD＜4.78％,具有较好的准确度和精密度.并采用主成分分析和聚类分析对其特征元素进行评价.主成分分析结果表明Zn、Fe、Mg、K、Na、Cu、Mn、Cr和Ni等9种元素是薰衣草的特征无机元素.聚类分析结果表明18个薰衣草样品可以聚类成3大类.聚类分析和主成分分析是薰衣草无机元素分析的有效方法.     

Ta2O5/Ta界面分析的新模型

对Ta₂O₅/Ta样品界面区的深度剖面曲线进行了研究。基于离子溅射引起影响层存在的考虑,提出一种解释该曲线的新模型。通过此模型能很好地拟合实验曲线,并反映了溅射过程中的离子混合效应、原子堆积效应及相应的特征参数。样品由阳极氧化法制得,其厚度为500埃。表面分析在PHI-590型扫描俄歇微探针上完成,所有测量均在室温下进行。研究表明:深度剖面曲线并不符合误差函数分布;影响层的厚度为30—50埃,它是进行深度剖面分析时,决定元素俄歇信号强度的第一位重要因素;深度剖面 关键词：     

Application of Biot's theory to ultrasonic characterization of human cancellous bones: determination of structural, material, and mechanical properties

This paper is devoted to the experimental determination of distinctive macroscopic structural (porosity, tortuosity, and permeability) and mechanical (Biot-Willis elastic constants) properties of human trabecular bones. Then, the obtained data may serve as input parameters for modeling wave propagation in cancellous bones using Biot's theory. The goal of the study was to obtain experimentally those characteristics for statistically representative group of human bones (35 specimens) obtained from a single skeletal site (proximal femur). The structural parameters were determined using techniques devoted to the characterization of porous materials: electrical spectroscopy, water permeametry, and microcomputer tomography. The macroscopic mechanical properties, Biot-Willis elastic constants, were derived based on the theoretical consideration of Biot's theory, micromechanical statistical models, and experimental results of ultrasonic studies for unsaturated cancellous bones. Our results concerning structural parameters are consistent with the data presented by the other authors, while macroscopic mechanical properties measured within our studies are situated between the other published data. The discrepancies are mainly attributed to different mechanical properties of the skeleton frame, due to strong structural anisotropy varying from site to site. The results enlighten the difficulty to use Biot's theory for modeling wave propagation in cancellous bone, implying necessity of individual evaluation of input parameters.     

Group velocity, phase velocity, and dispersion in human calcaneus in vivo

Commercial bone sonometers measure broadband ultrasonic attenuation and/or speed of sound (SOS) in order to assess bone status. Phase velocity, which is usually measured in frequency domain, is a fundamental material property of bone that is related to SOS, which is usually measured in time domain. Four previous in vitro studies indicate that phase velocity in human cancellous bone decreases with frequency (i.e., negative dispersion). In order to investigate frequency-dependent phase velocity in vivo, through-transmission measurements were performed in 73 women using a GE Lunar Achilles Insight commercial bone sonometer. Average phase velocity at 500 kHz was 1489 +/- 55 m/s (mean +/- standard deviation). Average dispersion rate was -59 +/- 52 m/sMHz. Group velocity was usually lower than phase velocity, as is expected for negatively dispersive media. Using a stratified model to represent cancellous bone, the reductions in phase velocity and dispersion rate in vivo as opposed to in vitro can be explained by (1) the presence of marrow instead of water as a fluid filler, and (2) the decreased porosity of bones of living (compared with deceased) subjects.     

Ultrasonic non-destructive measurements of cortical bone thickness in human cadaver femur

The knowledge of the cortical bone thickness profile in human bone has a two-fold clinical significance: to study the stress occurring in a loaded bone structure to optimize the design of prostheses; and to predict the onset of advanced bone disease such as osteoporosis. In this study, the cortical bone thickness in three embalmed human cadaver femora were measured non-destructively using an ultrasonic technique. These thickness measurements were also made using a computed tomographic (CT) scanning method. Subsequently bones were sectioned and the actual bone thicknesses in the same regions were measured using a micrometer. The correlation coefficient between the actual thickness and the ultrasonically measured thickness was 0.95 and with the CT was 0.62. Thus, these results show that, under present experimental conditions, ultrasonic thickness measurements compare well with the micrometer actual thickness results. This technique, when fully developed, can be used as a non-destructive tool for quantitative cortical bone thickness measurements. Moreover, the ultrasonic technique does not use ionizing radiation.     

Effects of draining cochlear fluids on stapes displacement in human middle-ear models.

Displacement-frequency characteristics of the stapes footplate were measured in five human temporal bones before and after draining the vestibule. Measurements were made in the 0.125-8 kHz range at 80 dB input sound pressure level, using a laser Doppler vibrometer. A circuit model was also used to predict stapes displacement. The temporal bone studies show a slight decrease in stapes footplate displacement at low frequency, and little change above 1 kHz. The displacement change is not as great as that found by other investigators or predicted by the model. There is little difference in stapes motion in temporal bones when the inner ear is intact or drained.     

A method for vibrational assessment of cortical bone

Large bones from many anatomical locations of the human skeleton consist of an outer shaft (cortex) surrounding a highly porous internal region (trabecular bone) whose structure is reminiscent of a disordered cubic network. Age related degradation of cortical and trabecular bone takes different forms. Trabecular bone weakens primarily by loss of connectivity of the porous network, and recent studies have shown that vibrational response can be used to obtain reliable estimates for loss of its strength. In contrast, cortical bone degrades via the accumulation of long fractures and changes in the level of mineralization of the bone tissue. In this paper, we model cortical bone by an initially solid specimen with uniform density to which long fractures are introduced; we find that, as in the case of trabecular bone, vibrational assessment provides more reliable estimates of residual strength in cortical bone than is possible using measurements of density or porosity.     

采用超声导波特征参量的骨质疏松识别方法

骨质的定期检测对骨质疏松的防治至关重要。本文研究了骨质疏松对超声导波在人体长骨中传播的影响。提出采用多尺度小波变换方法对接收到的导波信号进行处理,通过分析在不同传播距离下高阶小波细节分量所占信号总能量的变化,来判断是否患有骨质疏松症。在13位志愿者的小腿胫骨上进行超声测量,得到导波信号。经多尺度小波变换方法的分析处理结果显示在13位志愿者中,有7位志愿者的超声导波信号随着传播距离的改变,其主要频率成分发生了明显的变化,显示这7位志愿者患有骨质疏松症。这一诊断结果与X射线技术诊断结果相比,准确率可以达到92.3%,表明本文所提出的利用小波多尺度变换方法对长骨进行超声诊断具有较好的潜力。      

Ultrasonically determined thickness of long cortical bones: Three-dimensional simulations of in vitro experiments

It was reported in a previous study that simulated guided wave axial transmission velocities on two-dimensional (2D) numerically reproduced geometry of long bones predicted moderately real in vitro ultrasound data on the same bone samples. It was also shown that fitting of ultrasound velocity with simple analytical model yielded a precise estimate (UTh) for true cortical bone thickness. This current study expands the 2D bone model into three dimensions (3D). To this end, wave velocities and UTh were determined from experiments and from time-domain finite-difference simulations of wave propagation, both performed on a collection of 10 human radii (29 measurement sites). A 3D numerical bone model was developed with tuneable fixed material properties and individualized geometry based on X-ray computed tomography reconstructions of real bones. Simulated UTh data were in good accordance (root-mean-square error was 0.40 mm; r(2)=0.79, p<0.001) with true cortical thickness, and hence the measured phase velocity can be well estimated by using a simple analytical inversion model also in 3D. Prediction of in vitro data was improved significantly (by 10% units) and the upgraded bone model thus explained most of the variability (up to 95% when sites were carefully matched) observed in in vitro ultrasound data.     

Diagnosis of osteoporosis based on multi-scale wavelet parameters of ultrasonic guided waves

Evaluating bone regularly is important to prevent and control the disease of osteoporosis. Impact of osteoporosis on ultrasonic guided waves propagating in human long bones is studied in this paper. Multi-scale wavelet transform is proposed to process the received guided waves, and by analyzing energy changes in detail components of high order wavelet at different propagating distance to assess if osteoporosis happened. The guided waves signals are collected from the tibias of 13 volunteers. Based on the analysis of multi-scale wavelet transform, the high order detail components d6 and d5 changed dramatically with the propagation of ultrasonic guided waves along long bones, which means these 7 volunteers are diagnosed with osteoporosis. Compared with X-ray diagnosis, the effectiveness of this method can reach 92.3% in 13 volunteers. This suggests the multi-scale wavelet transform method is potential in ultrasonic assessment of bone quality.     

Use of Pulse-Echo Ultrasound Imaging in Transcranial Diagnostics of Brain Structures

The results are presented from computer simulations of acoustic pulse propagation in heterogenous media mimicking the human head in two-dimensional and three-dimensional geometries. In the three-dimensional experiment, the cranial bone is presented as a liquid layer with a speed of sound corresponding to that of longitudinal waves in the bone. In the two-dimensional experiment, both longitudinal and transverse waves are considered. Based on data obtained in the numerical experiments, the possibility of obtaining ultrasound images of point scatterers by compensating for aberrations introduced by cranial bones is studied. It is shown that even a simple time delay correction along straight rays greatly improves the quality of an ultrasound image obtained through a nonuniform-thickness solid layer.     

Effect of trabecular bone material properties on ultrasonic backscattering signals

In this study, ultrasonic backscattering signals in cancellous bones were obtained by finite difference time domain （FDTD） simulations, and the effect of trabecular material properties on these signals was analyzed. The backscatter coefficient （BSC） and integrated backscatter coefficient （IBC） were numerically investigated for varying trabecular bone material properties, including density, Lame coefficients, viscosities, and resistance coefficients. The results show that the BSC is a complex function of trabecular bone density, and the IBC increases as density increases. The BSC and IBC increase with the first and second Lame coefficients. While not very sensitive to the second viscosity of the trabeculae, the BSC and IBC decrease as the first viscosity and resistance coefficients increase. The results demonstrate that, in addition to bone mineral density （BMD） and microarchitecture, trabecular material properties significantly influence ultrasonic backseattering signals in cancellous bones. This research furthers the understanding of ultrasonic backscattering in cancellous bones and the characterization of cancellous bone status.