Practical applications imaging

The classical computer tomography (CT), including the medical one, has already been demonstrated its efficiency in many practical applications. At the same time, the request of the all-round survey of the object, which is usually unattainable, makes it important to find alternative approaches with less rigid restrictions to the number of projections and accessible views for observation. In the last time, it was understood that one effective way to withstand the extreme lack of data is to introduce a priori knowledge based upon classical inverse theory (including Maximum Entropy Method (MEM)) of the solution of ill-posed problems [1-6]. As shown in [6] for objects with binary structure, the necessary number of projections to get the quality of image restoration compared to that of CT using multistep reconstruction (MSR) method did not exceed seven and eould be reduced even further. 

Multiway and particularly three-way analysis of data has become an important subject in chemometrics. This is the result of the development of hyphenated detection methods (such as in combined chromatography-spectrometry) and yields three-way data structures the ways of which are defined by samples, retention times and wavelengths. In multivariate process analysis, three-way data are obtained from various batches, quality measures and times of observation [55]. In image analysis, the three modes are formed by the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the pixels within a frame and the successive frames that have been recorded. In this rapidly developing field one already finds an extensive body of literature and only a brief outline can be given here. For a more comprehensive reading and a discussion of practical applications we refer to the reviews by Geladi [56], Smilde [57] and Henrion [58]. 

During the past three decades there has been a rapid increase in the number of commercial applications of photopolymer technology. To facilitate this brief survey of the wide variety of imaging and non-imaging uses of photopolymer chemistry, the practical applications of this technology have been classified into 6 general categories ... 

Photodimerization of cinnamic acids and its derivatives generally proceeds with high efficiency in the crystal (176), but very inefficiently in fluid phases (177). This low efficiency in the latter phases is apparently due to the rapid deactivation of excited monomers in such phases. However, in systems in which pairs of molecules are constrained so that potentially reactive double bonds are close to one another, the reaction may proceed in reasonable yield even in fluid and disordered states. The major practical application has been for production of photoresists, that is, insoluble photoformed polymers used for image-transfer systems (printed circuits, lithography, etc.) (178). Another application, of more interest here, is the use that has been made of mono- and dicinnamates for asymmetric synthesis (179), in studies of molecular association (180), and in the mapping of the geometry of complex molecules in fluid phases (181). In all of these it is tacitly assumed that there is quasi-topochemical control in other words, that the stereochemistry of the cyclobutane dimer is related to the prereaction geometry of the monomers in the same way as for the solid-state processes. 

A recent development in nuclear medicine that illustrates how advances in basic research are transformed into practical applications is positron emission tomography or PET. PET creates a three-dimensional image of a body part using positron emitting isotopes. Positrons, positively charged electrons, are a form of antimatter. Antimatter consists of particles that have the same mass as ordinary matter, but differ in charge or some other property. For example, antipro-... 

In addition to the immediate practical application of imaging flow fields within reactors, data sets such as these are of use in developing, implementing, and validating numerical codes for the prediction of flow and chemical conversion in process units. In particular, if the 3-D MR image of the internal structure of the reactor is used directly as the simulation lattice in the flow-field simulation code, the subsequent comparison of MR velocity data with the predictions of the code enables a direct evaluation of the ability of the code to predict the flow field. This point is important because often when numerical predictions are compared with experimental results, assumptions have to be made in constructing the simulation lattice itself, which means that the final comparison is influenced not only by the ability of the code to predict the flow field but also the ability to construct a... 

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The drawback of organic transistor-based sheet image scanners so far, which has been a serious bottleneck in practical applications, has been the slow operating frequency. To overcome this problem we have used a new circuit concept, double... 

In thTs communication, we will illustrate the application of the Video Fluorometer to simultaneous analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and warfarin and its metabolite 7-OH warfarin. We hope to convince the reader of the utility of "higher-order" strategies in fluorescence analysis made practicable by imaging detector based instrumentation. 

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