Mapping of muscle deformation during heating: in situ dynamic MRI and nonlinear registration

We present developments in dynamic magnetic resonance imaging that allow internal structural muscle markers to be followed during heating. This monitoring is based on quantitative characterization of the experimental conditions and their temperature time course. A nonlinear image registration technique was optimized and applied to consecutively acquired images to measure the deformation fields in the muscle. A model coupling local deformation and temperature was obtained, which for the first time takes into account the variations of deformation and temperature in the sample. This modeling opens the way to a better understanding of the mechanisms responsible for mass loss and degradation of the textural properties of muscle during heating.     

Wide range instantaneous temperature measurements of convective fluid flows by using a schlieren system based in color images

In the schlieren method, the deflection of light by the presence of an inhomogeneous medium is proportional to the gradient of its refractive index. Such deflection, in a schlieren system, is represented by light intensity variations on the observation plane. Then, for a digital camera, the intensity level registered by each pixel depends mainly on the variation of the medium refractive index and the status of the digital camera settings. Therefore, in this study, we regulate the intensity value of each pixel by controlling the camera settings such as exposure time, gamma and gain values in order to calibrate the image obtained to the actual temperature values of a particular medium. In our approach, we use a color digital camera. The images obtained with a color digital camera can be separated on three different color-channels. Each channel corresponds to red, green, and blue color, moreover, each one has its own sensitivity. The differences in sensitivity allow us to obtain a range of temperature values for each color channel. Thus, high, medium and low sensitivity correspond to green, blue, and red color channel respectively. Therefore, by adding up the temperature contribution of each color channel we obtain a wide range of temperature values. Hence, the basic idea in our approach to measure temperature, using a schlieren system, is to relate the intensity level of each pixel in a schlieren image to the corresponding knife-edge position measured at the exit focal plane of the system. Our approach was applied to the measurement of instantaneous temperature fields of the air convection caused by a heated rectangular metal plate and a candle flame. We found that for the metal plate temperature measurements only the green and blue color-channels were required to sense the entire phenomena. On the other hand, for the candle case, the three color-channels were needed to obtain a complete measurement of temperature. In our study, the candle temperature was took as reference and it was found that the maximum temperature value obtained for green, blue and red color-channel was ∼275.6, ∼412.9, and ∼501.3 °C, respectively.     

不同激光分布下Nd∶GdVO4晶体热焦距分析

为了研究方形激光晶体Nd∶GdVO4在超高斯泵浦光分布下的热效应,采用半解析的分析方法,进行了理论分析和实验验证.结果表明：当使用输出功率为15 W的半导体激光器端面中心入射时,在抽运端面中心获得1.38 μm最大热形变量（超高斯阶次为2时）和220 mm的热焦距（超高斯阶次为5时）.     

MeV-ion axial surface-channeling from an electron irradiated KCl(0 0 1) surface

Surface-channeling of protons incident with 5 mrad on an electron-irradiated surface is investigated using a 0.55 MeV beam of protons. The target surface is KCl(0 0 1), which is damaged by electron-stimulated desorption with 5 keV electron irradiation. The direction of the incident beam is adjusted along the 〈1 0 0〉 and 〈1 1 0〉 channeling conditions and the channeling-dips of the scattering yields are observed. The irradiation dose-dependence of the minimum yields and widths of the dips is measured. Two dips are compared, i.e., for the 〈1 0 0〉 and 〈1 1 0〉 channelings. By increasing the irradiation dose up to 2 × 10¹⁶ cm⁻², the dip around the 〈1 0 0〉 axis becomes opened, but that of the 〈1 1 0〉 axis becomes shallow. The irradiated surfaces are observed to have many overlapped terraces of sub-micron with monolayer steps. The surface morphology deformed by the irradiation effects to truncate trajectories of the 〈1 0 0〉 channeling protons. This roughness of the surface is more effective for the trajectories of the 〈1 1 0〉 channeling protons. The protons incident on the rough surface along the 〈1 1 0〉 axis are not reflected from the atomic row but reflected by a potential of the surface with steps. Results by a simple computer simulation of the trajectories of protons at stepped surfaces also indicate the scattering processes.     

光纤分布式测温系统中基于迭代法的高准确度温度解调算法

提出了一种利用喇曼散射原理的光纤分布式测温系统中基于迭代的高准确度温度解调算法.针对于常规的反斯托克斯-斯托克斯双光路比值的温度解调算法,该迭代算法进一步校正了光纤中双光路衰减系数差对温度敏感带来的温度测量误差,尤其适用于中距离且温度场复杂的测温环境,实现了高准确度的温度测量.通过理论分析确定了该迭代法的迭代格式,测量了相应的光纤参量,并在传感样机上编写相应的代码通过实验予以验证,在0～90℃温度范围,5km测量长度输出的测温曲线符合预期的测温效果.     

Theoretical study of the temperature dependence of the width of magnetic domain walls

The temperature dependence of magnetic domain walls in ferromagnetic systems with strong exchange coupling and weak lattice anisotropy is studied assuming that the thermal influence results mainly from the temperature dependence of the magnetization. We obtain that in lattices with an uniaxial symmetry like Co the wall width increases with temperature, but stays finite up to the Curie temperature T_c. In contrary, for a cubic lattice like Fe the wall width diverges for T → T_c, if only the lattice anisotropy is taken into account. The shape of the domain walls is not conserved, since at T_c the wall is determined only by the lowest order of anisotropy. In addition, the temperature dependence of a domain wall width for a thin magnetic film is determined. Using a special symmetry, we obtain a diverging wall width at a temperature markedly lower than T_c. However, the consideration of additional domain wall modes should modify this result.     

地埋管换热特性实验研究

使用恒温循环媒介,利用热平衡原理,建立了单U型管模拟实验装置,对埋管与岩土间的热传递进行了实验。实验表明,在距埋管较近的范围内,岩土层有较快的温度相应速率,而在较远的范围内,岩土层的温度相应速率较慢。通过埋管换热器传热性能实验,利用线热源模型得到了实验岩土的热导率。     

Synthesis of Novel Superhard Phases in the B-C-N System

Novel ternary diamond-like phases of the B-C-N system were synthesized at pressures up to 30 GPa and temperatures up to 3500 K by static and dynamic compression of graphite-like BN-C solid solutions. Structure and properties of these new phases were studied using X-ray diffraction with synchrotron radiation, analytical transmission electron microscopy (ATEM), electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), microhardness measurements and nanoindentation.     

Effects of radiation on carbapenems: ESR identification and dosimetric features of gamma irradiated solid meropenem trihydrate

In the present work, effects of gamma radiation on solid meropenem trihydrate (MPT), which is the active ingredient of carbapenem antibiotics, were investigated by electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. Irradiated MPT presents an ESR spectrum consisting of many resonance peaks. Heights measured with respect to the spectrum baseline of these resonance peaks were used to explore the evolutions of the radicalic species responsible for the experimental spectrum under different conditions. Variations of the denoted 11 peak heights with microwave power, sample temperature and applied radiation doses and decay of the involved radicalic species at room and at high temperatures were studied. On the basis of the results derived from these studies, a molecular model consisting of the presence of four different radicalic species was proposed, and spectroscopic parameters of these species were calculated through spectrum simulation calculations. The dosimetric potential of MPT was also explored and it was concluded that MPT presents the characteristics of normal and accidental dosimetric materials.     

可双参量同时测量的光纤磁场传感器

设计并制作了一种马赫-曾德尔干涉仪(Mach-Zehnder Interferometer,MZI)与光纤布喇格光栅级联的光纤磁场传感器,其中MZI由相当于分光器的锥结构和相当于耦合器的花生锥结构级联组成,封装在填充了磁流体的毛细管中.由于磁流体的有效折射率会随着外界磁场强度的改变而变化,故可通过观察干涉谱的特征波长的变化来测量外界磁场强度,而光纤布喇格光栅透射峰对磁场强度不敏感.当磁场强度由0mT变化到20mT时,马赫-曾德尔干涉峰的灵敏度为0.11nm/mT.温度特性实验测得马赫-曾德尔干涉峰和光纤布喇格光栅透射峰的温度灵敏度分别为0.401 5nm/℃和0.011 4nm/℃.因此,可利用敏感矩阵实现双参量同时测量.