Lattice BGK Simulations of the Blood Flow in Elastic Vessels

The lattice Boltzmann method is applied to study the flow in elastic blood vessels. The volume-flow rate increases considerably when the compliance constant of the blood vessel is below a critical value. There is a region of the compliance constant in which the average volume-flow rate is dramatically enhanced. A harmonic perturbation of the pressure does not change the behaviour of the average volume-flow rate while the harmonic wave attenuates very quickly along the tube when the resonant period is close to that of the input wave. The model, together with the simulation results, is expected to be helpful to understand the mechanism of the blood volume-flow rate related to the compliance constant of the blood vessel, especially on the dependence of the flux of human blood vessel under weather changes, which has medical significance.     

Electron Spin Resonance Properties of Magnetic Granular GMI—Nanostructures in Millimeter Waveband

The millimeter waveband giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) and magnetoresonance (FMR) properties of thin-layered magnetic nanostructures are analyzed experimentally for wide temperature range. The correlation between FMR and GMI features are under discussion. The manifestation of the anisotropy established by the millimeter waveband FMR experiments and possible reasons of anisotropy appearance are given.     

Liquid Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Implementation of Quantum Computation in Subspace

Based on the logical labelling method, we prepare an effective pure state in a subsystem of a three spin system via liquid nuclear magnetic resonance technique. Then with this subspace effective pure state we implement the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm. The tomography for the subspace effective pure state and the corresponding spectrum of the output for the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm agree with theoretical predictions, which shows that we have successfully implemented the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm in a subsystem of a nuclear spin system and demonstrated a subspace quantum computation.     

Design and Analysis of Microstrip-Based RF Birdcage Coil for 1.5 T Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique is widely used to capture the images of the liquid items inside the human body. The radio-frequency (RF) coil is one of the important modules present inside an MRI system, which plays a major role in image quality. In this work, a microstrip-based high-pass RF birdcage coil is proposed for 1.5 T MRI. The cylindrical-shaped birdcage coil consists of 12 microstrip radiating elements and tuning capacitors to achieve a resonance at 63.85 MHz. The coil is made up of 10 mm polytetrafluoroethylene substrate coated by a conducting transmission line of desired length and width. A finite difference time domain simulation is carried out to analyze the return loss (S₁₁), magnetic field homogeneity and Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) parameters of the RF coil. The SAR values of the proposed microstrip-based 1.5 T birdcage coil was compared with 3 T RF birdcage coil. The simulation results indicate the proposed birdcage coil structure gives optimal values of S₁₁, magnetic field homogeneity and SAR.     

Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Blood Flow in Blood Vessels with the Rolling Massage

The rolling massage manipulation is a classic Chinese massage, which is expected to improve the circulation by pushing, pulling and kneading of the muscle. A model for the rolling massage manipulation is proposed and the lattice Boltzmann method is applied to study the blood flow in the blood vessels. The simulation results show that the blood flux is considerably modified by the rolling massage and the explicit value depends on the rolling frequency, the rolling depth, and the diameter of the vessel. The smaller the diameter of the blood vessel, the larger the enhancement of the blood flux by the rolling massage. The model, together with the simulation results, is expected to be helpful to understand the mechanism and further development of rolling massage techniques.     

Clinical 3.0 T Magnetic Resonance Scanner to Be Used for Imaging of Mouse Atherosclerotic Lesions

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a useful tool for non-invasive identification and characterization of atherosclerotic plaques in both basic science and clinical practice. To date, the reported studies on in vivo vascular MRI of small animals, such as mice and rats, are mainly performed on high-field micro-MR scanners, which are not always available in many academic institutions and basic research units. This study aimed to explore the possibility of generating high-resolution MR images of the atherosclerotic aortic walls/plaques of mice using a clinical 3.0 T MR scanner with a dedicated solenoid mouse coil. An atherosclerotic mouse model was first generated by feeding 8 ApoE⁻/⁻ mice an atherogenic diet. MR images of the ascending aortas of these mice were then achieved using a three-dimensional black-blood turbo spin-echo sequence (repetition time TR = 4 heart echo time TE = 10 ms). The MRI displayed a clear view of the aortic lumens and the atherosclerotic lesions, which correlated significantly well with subsequent histological confirmations (linear regression analysis, r = 0.73, P = 0.04). This study demonstrated that a clinical 3.0 T MR scanner can be used for high-resolution imaging of mouse atherosclerotic lesions to some extent.     

Observation of Influence of Nucleons＇ Motion on Kaons Collective Flow in Dense Medium

In order to extract the information of the momentum-dependent interaction of kaons under the extreme condition, the properties of the positively charged kaons produced in a heavy ion collision are studied via a simple model which has an invariable nucleon＇s velocity. Our special attention is focused on the observation of the dependence of the kaon＇s properties on the motion of nucleons in a hot and dense nuclear environment. Starting from two kinds of kaon quasiparticle models defined in transport theories for simulating heavy ion collisions, we calculate the effective mass and potential of the K＋＇s produced in the collisions and find that these properties not only depend closely on the velocity of nucleons but the dependence varies with kaon＇s quasiparticle model. It is clearly shown that the motion of nucleons reduces the momentum of K＋＇s at a given rapidity and thus weakens the rapidity distribution of K＋＇s directed flow in realistic nuclear collisions.     

Observation of F = 2 Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Magnetic Field

Multiple-component Bose-Einstein condensation has been observed in a magnetic field generated by a controllable magnetic quadrupole-Ioffe-configuration trap. Different distributions of atoms in spinor Bose Einstein condensates are created by changing the time difference of switching-off current in quadrupole-Ioffe-configuration coils and bias coils of the magnetic trap. A simple analysis is carried out to explain some phenomena of the experiment.     

Single—Shot Magnetic Resonance Imaging of a Moving Object Based on the High—Speed Spiral—Scan Echo Planner Technique at 4.7T

The single-shot spiral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique was implemented and optimized on a Bruker Biospec 47/30 scanner.The technique includes the pulse sequence for generation and detection of the k-space MRI signal (free induction decay (FID)),and PC-based programs for the data grid and image reconstruction.The temporal resolution is 70ms (14images per second),which consists of a data acquisition time as short as 13.7ms,a spin-echo time of 13.6ms and a magnetization recovery time of 43ms.This makes it possible to take real-time images of moving objects.The technique is demonstrated using a pendulum (tube) filled with water.     

Ferromagnetic Resonance and the Dynamics of the Magnetic Moment in a “Josephson Junction—Nanomagnet” System

JETP Letters - The dynamics of a nanomagnet coupled to a Josephson junction has been studied. Although a magnetic field induced by the superconducting current in the Josephson junction is very...     

Magnetic Resonance Frequency Shifts of Spin-Polarized Cesium Atoms in a Cs–Rb Mixture

The interaction of spin-polarized cesium atoms with cesium and rubidium atoms under conditions of optical orientation of atoms is considered. On the basis of data on spin-exchange complex cross sections in the Cs–Cs and Cs–Rb systems, a calculation of a magnetic resonance frequency shift of cesium atoms in a Cs–Rb mixture, as well as comparison of the calculated values of the frequency shift with experimental data, is performed.     

Transverse Flow of Kaons in Heavy—Ion Collisions

The transverse flow of positively charged kaons from heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energy is investigated within the framework of the quantum molecular dynamics model.The calculated results whow that the experimental data are only consistent with those including the kaon mean-field potential from the chiral Lagrangian.This indicates that the transverse flow pattern of kaons is a useful probe of the kaon potential in a nuclear medium.     

Formation of Singularities in One—Dimensional Hydromagnetic Flow

Two results on the formation of singularities in solutions to the system of one-dimensional hydromagnetic dynamics are presented.In particular,it is shown that shocks form from a smooth spatial periodic flow in a finite time if the initial amounts of entropy and the “magnetic field” in each period are smaller than those of sound waves.A quantitative estimate of blow-up time is also given.     

MHD Instability Analysis of Liquid Metal Free Surface Jet Flow in Non-Uniform Magnetic Fields

In order to solve the magneto-hydrodyna-mics(MHD) problems, it is neccessary to combine Maxwell‘s equations with fluid mechanics equations. But, under the first order approximation the mass point motivation equations and electromagnetic basic laws are     

Observation of E×B Flow Velocity Profile Change Using Doppler Reflectometry in HL-2A

A broadband, O-mode sweeping Doppler reflectometry designed for measuring plasma E×B flow velocity profiles is operated in HL-2A. The main feature of the Doppler reflectometry is its capability to be tuned to any selected frequency in total waveband from 26-40 GHz. This property enables us to probe several plasma layers within a short time interval during a discharge, permitting the characterization of the radial distribution of plasma fluctuations. The system allows us to extract important information about the velocity change layer, namely its spatial localization. In purely Ohmic discharge a change of the E×B flow velocity profiles has been observed in the region for 28 〈 r 〈 30cm if only the line average density exceeds 2.2×10^19 m^-3. The density gradient change is measured in the same region, too.     

Centrality Dependence of Flow in High—Energy Nucleus—Nucleus Collisions

Directed flow and elliptic flow of final state particles in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions in the EMU01 experiment have been studied.The dependences of directed flow and elliptic flow on incident energy and impact centrality of outgoing particles are presented.The results exhibit strong dependence of flow on centrality and energy.We also suggest a more reliable way to determine the event plane resolution here.