An aeroacoustic approach to phonation

A fluid mechanical, or aeroacoustic, point of view is followed to study possible sources of sound during phonation. Concentration is on two features of the vocal tract during phonation: abrupt area change from the glottis to the vocal tract and the finite length of the vocal tract. With these features, a source of sound distinct from the volume velocity source can be identified and a preliminary account of its effect on the acoustic field given. This source of sound is an oscillating force resulting from an interaction of rotational fluid motion with itself. Because of the schematic nature of the geometry of the model used here, this source may be considerably modified in actual phonation. It is concluded that specification of volume velocity is not enough to specify the source during phonation, even neglecting source-tract interaction.     

HBT参数对π源空间分布的敏感性研究(英文)

利用理想高斯源的两粒子关联函数，对单高斯源和双高斯源的两π介子HBT关联效应进行了研究，得出了相应的半径参数和A参数．结果表明，半径参数主要取决于高能重离子碰撞中多数π介子产生的中间区域；对产生π介子的边缘区域的空间分布形状不敏感．在边缘区域内产生的π介子主要影响A参数的变化．π介子源空间分布的非高斯形是导致λ参数减少的一个重要因素．The HBT radius parameters and the HBT λ-parameters of single Gaussian source and double Gaussian source are investigated by using two-pion correlation function in HBT intensity interferometry. It is indicated that the radius parameter is insensitive to the spatial shape of the edge zone of source and is mainly affected by the size of the central zone of pions emitted in high energy heavy-ion collisions. The pions produced at the edge of source influence the λ parameter. The non-Gaus...     

X射线胶片的脉冲光源响应标定

用ＬＦ－１１激光装置的１．０６μｍ脉冲激光加热Ｃｕ靶产生的Ｌ－壳层线辐射作脉冲Ｘ射线源，在曝光量为（０．０１～１０）－７Ｊ·ｃｍ－２范围内，标定了ＫＯＤＡＫＡＡ－５，ＫＯＤＡＫＳＷＲ和ＵＦＳＨ－Ｏ软Ｘ射线胶片的响应曲线，并与用连续光源标定的进行了对比．结果表明，这三种ｘ射线胶片，在强脉冲光源曝光条件下，都存在着胶片响应互易律失效问题，过去用连续光源标定的响应曲线，在激光等离子体诊断实验中，已经不能采用．     

用于标定CCD相机的高精度数控LED点光源

介绍了一种以发光二极管（LED）点光源作为相机标定光源的方法。根据LED点光源的特性,用恒流源给LED点光源提供所需的电流,用光照度计测量LED光源的光强度。由ARM单片下位机控制恒流源;通过串行通讯与上位机交换数据;由计算机作为上位机来管理数控恒流源和光照度计;根据所测光度值来调节电流,直到光度达到预想值。实验分析显示：LED点光源作为标定光源可以达到CCD标定的要求,精度也较高,能够很好地自适应控制LED的光照强度,达到了预期的效果,且系统使用方便灵活,性能稳定可靠。     

Source implementation to eliminate low-frequency artifacts in finite difference time domain room acoustic simulation

The finite difference time domain (FDTD) method is a numerical technique that is straight forward to implement for the simulation of acoustic propagation. For room acoustics applications, the implementation of efficient source excitation and frequency dependent boundary conditions on arbitrary geometry can be seen as two of the most significant problems. This paper deals with the source implementation problem. Among existing source implementation methods, the hard source implementation is the simplest and computationally most efficient. Unfortunately, it generates a large low-frequency modulation in the measured time response. This paper presents a detailed investigation into these side effects. Surprisingly, some of these side effects are found to exist even if a transparent source implementation is used. By combing a time limited approach with a class of more natural source pulse function, this paper develops a source implementation method in FDTD that is as simple and computationally as efficient as a hard source implementation and yet capable of producing results that are virtually the same as a true transparent source. It is believed that the source implementation method developed in this paper will provide an improvement to the practical usability of the FDTD method for room acoustic simulation.     

Sound propagation from the shelfbreak to deep water

Motivated by a phenomenon in an experiment conducted in the Northwestern Pacific indicating that the energy of the received signal around the sound channel axis is much greater than that at shallower depths,we study sound propagation from the transitional area(shelfbreak)to deep water.Numerical simulations with different source depths are first performed,from which we reach the following conclusions.When the source is located near the sea surface,sound will be strongly attenuated by bottom losses in a range-independent oceanic environment,whereas it can propagate to a very long range because of the continental slope.When the source is mounted on the bottom in shallow water,acoustic energy will be trapped near the sound channel axis,and it converges more evidently than the case where the source is located near the sea surface.Then,numerical simulations with different source ranges are performed.By comparing the relative energy level in the vertical direction between the numerical simulations and the experimental data,the range of the air-gun source can be approximated.     

Application of focusing arrays to the problems of acoustic brightness thermometry

Theoretical and experimental studies on the localization of heated objects by the methods of acoustic brightness thermometry are carried out. It is demonstrated that, in the case of using a single focusing array, the spatial localization of heated objects depends on the size of the source. One-and two-dimensional tomography of a real heated source is performed by an acoustic thermal tomograph with a focusing array. The results agree well with the data calculated according to the suggested model. The applicability of correlation focusing acoustic brightness thermometry to the localization of a heated source is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. It is demonstrated that a considerable increase in the spatial resolution of the method leads to a significant loss in sensitivity.     

发光二极管应用于光动力学疗法的可行性分析

讨论了发光二极管(Light-emitting-diode,LED)在航天医学中作为激光器的替代光源用于光动力学疗法(Photodynamic therapy,PDT)的可行性。分析了发光二极管用于光动力学疗法的优势,介绍了LED用于不同类型光敏剂进行PDT治疗的实验研究,概括了LED-PDT治疗系统在国内外的研制现状。说明了LED替代激光器作为PDT的激发光源是可行的。LED作为我国航天医学领域中的一种重要光源,为维护航天员的健康将会发挥重要作用。     

Laser conferral of a directed character to near-field energy transfer

With sufficient intensity, an off-resonant laser beam can modify the character of electromagnetic near-field radiation produced by a nanoscale point source, narrowing its spatial distribution. The mechanism, for which the laser frequency is significantly off-resonant from the emission radiation, is detailed and analyzed through a quantum electrodynamical analysis. Results are calculated for various positions of a polarization-sensitive probe relative to the point source, sited within the throughput beam, and contour maps exhibit variations in the registered signal over a range of input intensities. A key feature is the clear exhibition of directed propagation features, usually emergent only in the wave zone, within the near-field region of the source.     

Enhanced sound transmission from water to air at low frequencies

Excitation of acoustic radiation into the air from a low-frequency point source under water is investigated using plane wave expansion of the source spectrum and Rayleigh reflection/transmission coefficients. Expressions are derived for the acoustic power radiated into air and water as a function of source depth and given to lowest order in the air/water density ratio. Near zero source depth, the radiation into the water is quenched by the source's acoustic image, while the power radiated into air reaches about 1% of the power that would be radiated into unbounded water.     

Point-wise measurements of MRS volume selection performance are insensitive to magnetic susceptibility effects of phantom materials

The purpose was to analyse magnetic susceptibility effects on accuracy of point-wise measurements of signal profiles in the assessment of MRS volume selection performance. An existing phantom design consisting of a sphere with a movable signal source was used for the investigation. The influence from the phantom on magnetic field homogeneity was measured with phase sensitive 1H imaging and 31P spectroscopy on a 1.5 T whole body MR system. The susceptibility effects for such a phantom design can be separated in 1/ A variation in the background magnetic field, which is caused by the stationary structures and has a significant influence on spatial accuracy. 2/ A magnetic field distortion, which is caused by the movable signal source and has very little influence on accuracy. The spatial inaccuracy due to susceptibility effects in this phantom, was 0.03 mm for positions of the signal source covering a 40-mm VOI. Susceptibility effects from the movable signal source were substantial but had very little influence on spatial accuracy. Still, improvements of this phantom design are possible. Point-wise measurements using a phantom with a movable signal source is inherently insensitive to susceptibility effects from the signal source and permits accurate signal profile measurements of high spatial (sub-mm) resolution.     

Modal Doppler theory of an arbitrarily accelerating continuous-wave source applied to mode extraction in the oceanic waveguide

A Doppler-based method for using a moving narrow-band source to extract the modes of acoustic propagation in a range-independent shallow ocean waveguide over a partial-water-column spanning vertical line array (VLA) is introduced. Because the modal components propagate at distinct frequencies in the case of uniform radial source motion, the modal depth functions may be isolated and extracted from a frequency decomposition of the field. Because Doppler broadening due to radial source accelerations degrades the effectiveness of the extraction method, the method incorporates a technique to compensate for Doppler broadening. As the basis for the compensation technique, a theory is introduced for describing the VLA field from an accelerating cw source. By connecting the range of the source at the time a signal feature is emitted (the retarded time) to the range of the source at the time the signal feature arrives at the receiver (the contemporary time), the theory incorporates the Doppler effects associated with the finite group velocities of the modal components. The mode extraction method and compensation technique are applied to simulation and ocean data.     

The propagation of millimeter and centimeter waves in tropospheric waveguides close to the sea

A calculation is given for the average field produced by a narrow-beam source in a tropospheric waveguide close to the sea. The source is taken to be below the inversion layer. The roughness of sea is taken into account by introducing an effective dielectric constant derived from the average reflection coefficient. Curves are given showing the variation of the average field in the waveguide as a function of height at different distances from the source.Izvestiya VUZ. Radiofizika, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 867–875, 1966     

Contribution of field effects to the achievement of higher brightness ion sources

The use of field effects for the delivery of high brightness ion beams is considered. Two solutions have been experimentally investigated, which are intended to increase the supply function in a field ion microscope: a liquid fed field ionization source and a field desorption source. Their performances and characteristics have been compared and they suggest two different regimes of emission. The field desorption source seems however more likely to produce reliable results. Brightnesses on the source side of the order of 10⁸ to 10⁹A/cm²sr are expected but much care must be devoted to the design of the electrostatic transfer optics of the gun to take full benefit of the intrinsic properties of such large solid angle emitters.     

From Kerr to Heisenberg

In this paper, we consider the space-time of a charged mass endowed with an angular momentum. The geometry is described by the exact Kerr–Newman solution of the Einstein equations. The peculiar symmetry, though exact, is usually described in terms of the gravito-magnetic field originated by the angular momentum of the source. A typical product of this geometry is represented by the generalized Sagnac effect. We write down the explicit form for the right/left asymmetry of the times of flight of two counter-rotating light beams along a circular trajectory. Letting the circle shrink to the origin the asymmetry stays finite. Furthermore it becomes independent both from the charge of the source (then its electromagnetic field) and from Newton’s constant: it is then associated only to the symmetry produced by the gravitomagnetic field. When introducing, for the source, the spin of a Fermion, the lowest limit of the Heisenberg uncertainty formula for energy and time appears.     

A simplified fuzzy model to mimic a nonlinear system, applied to aplasma source

This paper develops a fuzzy model to simulate the behaviour of a nonlinear system, in particular a plasma source, with a view to developing a control system for processing plasmas employing a helicon source. Genetic algorithms are employed to optimize fuzzy rules related to the parameters of the fuzzy model which contain a set of variable zeros and poles of the nonlinear system as well as its time delay. A practical application of the fuzzy model is to estimate the electron number density of a low-temperature plasma. Based on the membership functions of the input and output, a set of fuzzy rules by which the variable zeros and poles are identified is derived and optimized using a genetic algorithm. The principal reason for investigating the proposed fuzzy model is the subsequent computer-aided design of a fuzzy controller to control the nonlinear system. Two experimental results are presented to validate the fuzzy model method. One shows a computer simulation and the other predicts the real-time behaviour of the plasma source as its input parameters are varied     

Scaling of transverse nuclear magnetic relaxation due to magnetic nanoparticle aggregation

The aggregation of superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) nanoparticles decreases the transverse nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation time of adjacent water molecules measured by a Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) pulse-echo sequence. This effect is commonly used to measure the concentrations of a variety of small molecules. We perform extensive Monte Carlo simulations of water diffusing around SPIO nanoparticle aggregates to determine the relationship between and details of the aggregate. We find that in the motional averaging regime scales as a power law with the number N of nanoparticles in an aggregate. The specific scaling is dependent on the fractal dimension d of the aggregates. We find for aggregates with d=2.2, a value typical of diffusion limited aggregation. We also find that in two-nanoparticle systems, is strongly dependent on the orientation of the two nanoparticles relative to the external magnetic field, which implies that it may be possible to sense the orientation of a two-nanoparticle aggregate. To optimize the sensitivity of SPIO nanoparticle sensors, we propose that it is best to have aggregates with few nanoparticles, close together, measured with long pulse-echo times.     

如何解决光电灵敏电流计的零点漂移

大家知道，在磁场中的运动电荷不管受不受其它外力作用，洛仑兹力总是不做功．因为洛仑兹力总是跟速度方向垂直，它只改变速度方向，不改变速度大小．但在有些实际问题中，经常需要将洛仑兹力巧妙地进行分解，运用在某个方向上做功或者与其它外力在某个方向上叠加产生加速度来分析处理问题，现举例说明。     

屏蔽电缆对脉冲X射线响应的数值计算

 结合蒙特卡洛方法和时域有限差分(FDTD)方法,计算了电缆受脉冲X射线辐照时介质层内的运流电流密度,并以此为麦克斯韦方程的源,计算得到了电缆两端接匹配负载时的芯线响应电流。该方法综合考虑了电缆芯线、介质层和屏蔽层的沉积电荷对芯线响应电流的影响。计算结果表明：芯线响应电流大小与电缆受辐照长度成正比,电流由辐照中心向两边流走;源区越靠近中心位置,电流幅度越小,源的中心位置处,电流为零,源区存在静电场;源区外,电流大小相等,方向相反。最后,利用有限差分法计算得到的电场强度反推出了芯线电荷数,与蒙特卡洛方法计算的结果相比,FDTD方法计算的要低20%,该误差可能由将3维问题近似为1维问题所引起。