投影式头戴静脉显像光学系统的设计

为了辅助静脉穿刺及相关的医疗操作, 设计了一款基于投影式头戴显示器(HMPD)的静脉显像系统, 其光学系统由近红外成像系统和穿透型HMPD构成。利用光学设计软件ZEMAX优化设计近红外成像系统, 使其具有F/2.6的大数值孔径, 有利于弱反射红外光的收集成像。穿透型HMPD采用与近红外成像系统相同的光学结构, 有利于简化系统的加工装调。设计结果表明, 近红外成像系统成像质量优异, 分辨率达到QXGA(2 048×1 536)。穿透型HMPD具有18 mm的大出瞳直径及25 mm的大出瞳距离, 场曲小于0.03 D, 畸变小于0.32%, 达到QXGA分辨率显示模式。与现行的静脉显像系统相比, 本显像系统结构简单紧凑、佩戴舒适, 且具有超高分辨率, 是一款适用于辅助医疗的目视系统。     

Studying the potential of point detectors in time-resolved dose verification of dynamic radiotherapy

Modern megavoltage x-ray radiotherapy with high spatial and temporal dose gradients puts high demands on the entire delivery system, including not just the linear accelerator and the multi-leaf collimator, but also algorithms used for optimization and dose calculations, and detectors used for quality assurance and dose verification. In this context, traceable in-phantom dosimetry using a well-characterized point detector is often an important supplement to 2D-based quality assurance methods based on radiochromic film or detector arrays. In this study, an in-house developed dosimetry system based on fiber-coupled plastic scintillator detectors was evaluated and compared with a Farmer-type ionization chamber and a small-volume ionization chamber. An important feature of scintillator detectors is that the sensitive volume of the detector can easily be scaled, and five scintillator detectors of different scintillator length were thus employed to quantify volume averaging effects by direct measurement. The dosimetric evaluation comprised several complex-shape static fields as well as simplified dynamic deliveries using RapidArc, a volumetric-modulated arc therapy modality often used at the participating clinic. The static field experiments showed that the smallest scintillator detectors were in the best agreement with dose calculations, while needing the smallest volume averaging corrections. Concerning total dose measured during RapidArc, all detectors agreed with dose calculations within 1.1 ± 0.7% when positioned in regions of high homogenous dose. Larger differences were observed for high dose gradient and organ at risk locations, were differences between measured and calculated dose were as large as 8.0 ± 5.5%. The smallest differences were generally seen for the small-volume ionization chamber and the smallest scintillators. The time-resolved RapidArc dose profiles revealed volume-dependent discrepancies between scintillator and ionization chamber response, which confirmed that correction factors for ionization chambers in high temporal and spatial dose gradients are dominated by the volume averaging effect. The unique scaling of the scintillator volumes indicated how such time-dependent volume averaging corrections could be quantified. The time-resolved measurements further supported the claim that small-volume water equivalent detectors are most likely to accurately detect changes in dose delivery, although exact positioning of detectors remains critical.     

A rapid method for detection of cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) on human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs)

Detection of cell surface proteins is widely used as molecular markers for initiation, progression and severity of many diseases. In particular, detection of cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) on endothelial cells is important as it indicates the extent of inflammation associated with several diseases including arthritis, asthma, tumor metastasis, etc. Here, we report, a rapid method for detection of CAMs on endothelial cells by covalently immobilizing TNF-α induced cells on a photoactivated polystyrene microtiter plate at 50 °C in 45 min followed by performing enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) technique at elevated temperature. Our method reduced the time of cell-ELISA to 3 h with results akin to conventional cell-ELISA carried out in 38 h. The method thus described herein could be potentially useful in clinical and research laboratories for rapid detection of cell surface proteins including CAMs on intact cell samples.     

基于DSP的静脉识别系统

提出了一种基于ADSP-BF533的静脉识别系统设计方法。整个系统由静脉图像采集、静脉图像处理和识别两个模块组成。静脉图像由普通黑白模拟摄像机在近红外光照下获取;静脉图像处理和识别的核心单元是一颗ADI生产的Blackfin 533 DSP(ADSP-BF533),其速度可以满足后端处理的需要,可以实现静脉图像细化、特征提取及识别等功能。     

Isoform-specific quantification of endothelins in HUVEC culture supernatants by on-line high-performance liquid chromatography/electrospray mass spectrometry

A method for the quantitative analysis of endothelin peptides in human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC) culture supernatants is reported. The analysis is isoform-specific and employs solid-phase extraction and subsequent HPLC fractionation followed by HPLC-ESIMS analysis. The peptide vasoactive-intestinal-contractor (VIC) was used as internal standard for the HPLC-ESIMS analysis. Linearity of calibration curves was from 50 fmol to 25 pmol. The limit of detection of the HPLC-ESIMS step using a buffer matrix was estimated at 50 fmol (S/N > 3). The overall limit of detection for supernatants of HUVEC was 500 fmol/mL. In HUVEC culture supernatants only ions of endothelin-1 (ET1) were observed. Basal levels were determined to be 1.8 +/- 0.3 pmol/mL. Quantitative results obtained for ET1 were in agreement with those obtained by using a standard addition method and by an ELISA method.     

Thermomagnetic surgery for cancer

Thermomagnetic Surgery is a unique technique that takes advantage of the phenomenon of hysteresis heating of a ferromagnetic material to produce intense but controlled temperatures within solid organs or tumors to cause coagulation necrosis. By controlling the power of the electromagnetic coil system, the degree of heating of the tumor can be controlled through temperature monitoring that allows limitation of the area of destruction to the disease process and avoids damage to surrounding structures. If the ferromagnetic material is delivered by the arterial route to the tumor or organ, there is an additional beneficial effect of ischemic necrosis of the tissue and in time more concentration of the ferromagnetic particles. This new technique is applicable to selected cases of human cancer because no ill effect has been shown to exposure of the electromagnetic field or the ferromagnetic material in experimental animals.     

基于手指静脉特征图像的加密研究

移动互联下的信息安全是目前研究的热门,本文从手指静脉图像的加密出发,首先对手指静脉图像的特征进行了提取,通过构建图像平滑器来获得静脉图像的大小,明暗区域的选择和特征图像的加强来获得采集后的静脉特征图像,其次对静脉图像采用基于小波基函数,Arnold映射,二次Logistic 映射和Baker变换的混合加密方式对进行加密。在相关系分析和差分攻击分析等方面实验比较,说明本文的算法具有很好的安全性和低耗时性,能够完全适应在移动互联环境中推广。     

Expression of integrin β1 and its roles on adhesion between different cell cycle hepatocellular carcinoma cells (SMMC-7721) and human umbilical vein endothelial cells

To investigate expression of integrin β₁ and its roles on adhesion between different cell cycle hepatocellular carcinoma cell (HCC) and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC), the synchronous G₁ and S phase HCC were achieved through thymine-2-deoxyriboside and colchicines sequential blockage method and double thymine-2-deoxyriboside blockage method, respectively. Expression of integrin β₁ on hepatocellular carcinoma cells was detected with flow cytometer. Further, the adhesive force of HCC to HUVEC and the role of integrin β₁ in this adhesive course were studied by micropipette aspiration technique. The results showed that percentage of each cyclic phases of the controlled HCC (non-synchronous) are: G₂+M phase, 11%; G₁ phase, 54%; S phase, 36%; the synchronous rates of G₁ and S phase HCC amount to 74 and 98%, respectively. The expressive fluorescent intensity of integrin β₁ in G₁ phase HCC is depressed significantly than the values of S phase and controlled HCC. Accordingly, the adhesive forces of G₁ phase HCC to HUVEC was significantly lower than the value of S phase cells (P<0.01), but it has no remarkable difference when compared the adhesive force values of S phase HCC with control; the contribution of integrin β₁ was about 50% in the adhesion of HCC to HUVEC. It suggested that HCC would be synchronized preferably in G₁ and S phase with thymine-2-deoxyriboside and colchicines, the adhesive molecule integrin β₁ expressed in a high lever in HCC and presented differences in vary cell cycle, and integrin β₁ played an important roles in adhesion of HCC to HUVEC. Possibly, S phase HCC take a great action in this adhesive course.     

彩色多普勒超声联合Fibroscan评分系统在慢性乙肝纤维化诊断中的应用研究

本研究探讨了彩色多普勒超声联合Fibroscan评分系统在慢性乙肝纤维化诊断中的应用价值。选取行超声引导下肝穿刺活检的慢性乙肝患者300例,其中235例有肝纤维化(观察组)和65例无肝纤维化(对照组),统计分析了这两组患者和不同肝纤维化分期患者的彩色多普勒超声参数[门静脉主干内径(mPVD)、脾静脉内径(SVD)、门静脉血流量(mPBF)、门静脉主干平均血流速度(mPVm)、门静脉淤血指数(CI)、脾静脉平均血流速度(sVm)、脾静脉血流量(sVBF)]和肝脏硬度值(LSM)。结果显示,各参数联合诊断CHB肝纤维化的AUC最高,为0.876(P<0.05);SVD、mPVD、CI、LSM与肝纤维化分期呈正相关,mPVm与肝纤维化分期呈负相关(P<0.05);LSM诊断肝纤维化分期的AUC最大(P<0.05)。可见采用彩色多普勒超声与FibroScan定向瞬时弹性成像系统检测SVD、mPVD、CI、mPVm、LSM参数可诊断CHB肝纤维化,且各参数均与肝纤维化程度密切相关,有望成为评估肝纤维化及严重程度的无创性检测方法。