Classification of Raman spectra using the correlation kernel

The classification of Raman spectra can be very useful in a wide range of diagnostic applications including bacterial identification. Before any form of classification can be carried out on the Raman spectra, some form of pre‐processing is commonly applied. This pre‐processing greatly affects the accuracy of the results and introduces user bias and over‐fitting effects. In this paper, we propose using support vector machines with the correlation kernel. The use of the correlation kernel on Raman spectra has not been presented before in any published work. Our results illustrate that the correlation kernel is ‘self‐normalizing’ and produces superior classification performance with minimal pre‐processing, even on highly noisy data obtained using inexpensive equipment. Such effective classification approaches can lead to clinically valuable diagnostic applications of Raman Spectroscopy. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Effect of viscous damping on power transmissibility for the vibration isolation of building services equipment

Vibration isolation plays an important role in both the vibration and noise control of building services equipment. To evaluate vibration isolation performance, the force transmissibility method is commonly adopted. However, increasing the damping effect in the force transmissibility method reduces both the resonance peak value and the isolation performance in the “isolation region”. The limitation of the method is that the transmitted displacement of a floor structure and the interaction of mounting points are neglected. To include the floor displacement and the interaction of mounting points, Mak and Su recently proposed the power transmissibility method to assess the performance of vibration isolation. In this paper, the effect of viscous damping on power transmissibility is investigated. A practical procedure for experimentally determining the damping ratio is also given.     

Correction strategy for diffusion-weighted images corrupted with motion: application to the DTI evaluation of infants' white matter

Objective

Diffusion imaging techniques such as DTI and HARDI are difficult to implement in infants because of their sensitivity to subject motion. A short acquisition time is generally preferred, at the expense of spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio. Before estimating the local diffusion model, most pre-processing techniques only register diffusion-weighted volumes, without correcting for intra-slice artifacts due to motion or technical problems. Here, we propose a fully automated strategy, which takes advantage of a high orientation number and is based on spherical-harmonics decomposition of the diffusion signal.

Material and methods

The correction strategy is based on two successive steps: 1) automated detection and resampling of corrupted slices; 2) correction for eddy current distortions and realignment of misregistered volumes. It was tested on DTI data from adults and non-sedated healthy infants.

Results

The methodology was validated through simulated motions applied to an uncorrupted dataset and through comparisons with an unmoved reference. Second, we showed that the correction applied to an infant group enabled to improve DTI maps and to increase the reliability of DTI quantification in the immature cortico-spinal tract.

Conclusion

This automated strategy performed reliably on DTI datasets and can be applied to spherical single- and multiple-shell diffusion imaging.     

PLE spectra analysis of the sub-structure in the absorption spectra of CdSeS quantum dots

The semiconductor CdSeS quantum dots (QDs) embedded in glass are analysed by means of absorption spectra, photoluminescence (PL) spectra and photoluminescence excitation (PLE) spectra. The peaks of absorption spectra shift to lower energies with the size of QD increasing, which obviously shows a quantum-size effect. Using the PLE spectra, the physical origin of the lowest absorption peak is analysed. In PLE spectra, the lowest absorption peak can be deconvoluted into two peaks that stem from the transitions of 1S_3/2--1S_e and 2S_3/2--1S_e respectively. The measured energy difference between the two peaks is found to decrease with the size of QD increasing, which agrees well with the theoretical calculation for the two transitions. The luminescence peak of defect states is also analysed by PLE spectra. Two transitions are present in the PLE, which indicates that the transitions of 1S_3/2--1S_e and 2S_3/2--1S_e are responsible for the defect states luminescence.     

Nonlinear Absorption and Dispersion Response in Optically Dense Media Driven by a Single-Mode Laser

Taking the density-dependent near dipole-dipole （NDD） interaction into consideration, we theoretically investigate the response of nonlinear absorption and dispersion in optically dense media of three-level atoms driven by a single-mode probe laser. The influence of the NDD effects on the absorption and dispersion spectra of the probe field is predicted via numerical calculations. It is shown that the NDD effects reduce gradually to transient absorption and amplification with the increase of the strengths of the NDD interaction, but do not change the steady-state behavior. Due to the presence of the NDD effects, steady-state absorption spectra exhibit asymmetric double-peak structure and overall shifts when a continuous-wave （cw） probe field is applied. However, frequency dispersion spectra are insensitive to them near the zero detuning.     

Mössbauer spectroscopy study of spin structure and its in-field and temperature dynamics in B2 ordered Fe(Al) alloys

The experimental data from Mössbauer spectroscopy and magnetic measurements are presented as functions of the temperature and external magnetic field for a B2-type ordered Fe ₆₆ Al ₃₄ alloy.     

硼酸晶体结构分析及拉曼光谱测试

对硼酸(H3BO3/B(OH)3)粉末进行XRD测试,确定其空间结构和所属对称点群;对硼酸晶体进行晶格振动模式分析,确定其有18个拉曼活性模式4Ag+2E1g+5E2g;并对其进行50~3800cm-1波段的Raman散射测试,利用理论结果对谱图进行了讨论,确定了各振动峰的特性。     

环境光对谷氨酸钠溶液激光拉曼光谱的影响

探讨了环境光的存在,对谷氨酸钠溶液的激光拉曼光谱的影响。研究表明,不同的环境光,自然光和室内荧光灯光,会对拉曼光谱产生不同的干扰效应,存在着特征谱峰、负峰或尖锐正峰, 干扰的影响不能忽略。建议在进行溶液激光拉曼光谱检测时,需在暗室或暗罩中进行,以完全隔离环境光的影响。     

Eu3+摩尔浓度对Y2O2S:Eu3+,Mg2+,Ti4+红色长余辉材料光谱的影响

用高温固相法制备了Y2O2S：Eu^3 ,Mg^2 ,Ti^4 红色长余辉材料。测量了该材料的余辉曲线,余辉时间为1h以上;由X射线衍射得到晶体结构为Y2O2S.测量了不同Eu^3 摩尔浓度下的激发光谱和发射光谱,得到从^5DJ(J=0,1,2,3)^-7FJ(J=0,1,2,3,4,5)的发射谱线,并得到位于260,345,468和540nm激发峰。由于激活剂饱和效应,Y2O2S：Eu^3 ,Mg^2 ,Ti^4 发射光谱中513．6,540．1,556．4,587．3和589．3nm属于从^5D2,^5D1到^7FJ(J=0,1,2,3,4)跃迁的发射峰随Eu^3 摩尔浓度的增加相对削弱;激发谱包括位于350nm左右属于电荷转移态吸收(Eu^3 -O^2-,Eu^3 -S^2 )的激发主峰和在可见光区位于468,520和540nm属于Eu^3 离子4f-4厂吸收的激发峰。随着Eu^3 摩尔浓度的增加,位于468,520和540nm的激发峰相对增强。     

诺氟沙星的荧光光谱研究及其应用

采用荧光光谱法研究了诺氟沙星在不同pH条件下的光谱行为,发现诺氟沙星在pH 3.04的水溶液中具有较强的荧光发射,与中性介质相比荧光发射光谱红移了30 nm。据此分别建立了药物制剂中和人体尿液中诺氟沙星的荧光光谱法和同步-导数荧光光谱法。经样品测定,其线性范围为0.016～0.96 μg·mL-1,检出限为0.016 μg·mL-1, 回收率为99.7%～100.94%, 相对标准偏差为1.65%～2.86%。