Minimizing abdominal wall damage during high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation by inducing artificial ascites

High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is becoming an important tool for tumor treatment [especially hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)] in Asian countries. A HIFU system provides unique advantages of low invasiveness and absence of nonradiation. However, if the target HCC is close to the proximal surface of the liver, HIFU may overheat diaphragm, abdominal wall or skin. To avoid this complication, a method using artificial ascites in the abdominal cavity to separate the liver from the peritoneum, and to serve as a heat sink to cool overlying structures and thereby avoid inducing permanent damage was proposed. Target tissue that was 10 mm below the liver surface was ablated in 12 New Zealand white rabbits: 6 in the experimental group and 6 in the control group. Artificial ascites was established in the experimental group by injecting normal saline into the abdominal cavity until the pressure reached 150 mm H2O. Artificial ascites not only reduced the probability and extent of thermal damage to intervening structures, but also had no adverse affect on the efficacy of HIFU ablation.     

A novel thiourea-hydrazone-based switch-on fluorescent chemosensor for acetate

A novel sensor for acetate containing thiourea and hydrazone structure has been synthesized. The anion recognition via hydrogen-bonding interactions could be monitored by anion complexation, which induced changes in UV-vis and fluorescence spectra. In particular, the recognition process could be easily detected by the ‘naked-eye’. Further insights to the nature of interactions between receptor 1 and AcO⁻ were obtained by ¹H NMR titration experiments.     

Surface plasmon resonance sensors based on Ag-metalized nanolayer in microstructured optical fibers

Surface plasmon resonance sensors based on Ag-metalized nanolayer in microstructured optical fibers are theoretically analyzed by using finite element method (FEM). In our simulations we use Drude-Lorentz model to describe the metal dielectric constant. The numerical results show that the sensitivity of Ag-metalized SPR sensor could reach 1167 nm/RIU and corresponding resolution is 8.57×10⁻⁵ RIU. Compared to conventional Au-metalized SPR sensors the performance of our device is obviously better.     

On the stability of elastic curved bars

A general discussion about the stability of arbitrary elastic curved bars in space under combined actions of bending and twisting is given in this paper. A system of Eqs. (28)–(36) for perturbation functions near some equilibrium state is presented. With appropriate boundary conditions, the nontrivial solution corresponds to the critical state. Five examples are analysed in this paper. Some of them are new results and others are old problems treated using the new method.     

μ+ depolarization inAlGd alloys

The ⁺ depolarization rate in diluteAlGd alloys containing 50 and 450 atomic ppm Gd was measured in a transverse field of 80 Oe over the temperature range 6–300 K. For both alloys, A increased dramatically above 200 K, reaching values of 0.69 and 0.93 s^–1, respectively, near room temperature. The results are interpreted as providing evidence for a thermally-activated trapping mechanism.This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.     

Cayley色图中的Hamilton路

Joseph B.Klerlein 在文[1]中证明了有限 Abell 群Γ具有极小生成元集△使Cayley 色图 D_△(T)为有向 Hamilton 图.本文证明了当Γ是 Abell 群时,连通的cayley 色图D_△(Γ)具有有向 Hamilton 路对任意的△成立,并举例说明一般的D_△(Γ)未必是 Hamilton 图.     

BRST quantization of a scalar particle in a curved background

The BRST formalism is employed to quantize a scalar particle and interactions with an external scalar field (x ) and vector gauge fieldA (x ) in the background of an arbitrary gravitational field. The second-quantized actions are obtained.     

Existence for nonoscillatory solutions of higher-order nonlinear neutral difference equations

In this paper, we consider the following forced higher-order nonlinear neutral difference equation

     

用快波加热燃烧等离子体

在把离子伯恩斯坦波处理成对快阿尔芬波的响应下，导出了点火托卡马克等离子体的离子回旋共振加热的二阶模转换方程。这个二阶方程的数值积分表明，结果与由高阶方程的计算很好地一致。只有在弱阻尼的情况下，α粒子吸收的功率才是重要的。