A study on sensitivity correction factor of gamma camera in whole body bone image

The aim of this study was to calculate a reasonable correction factor that could be corrected when the sensitivity of each gamma camera is measured and a whole body bone scan is performed as a follow-up examination. Seven pieces of equipment were used to analyse the sensitivity measurements of each gamma camera based on the source sensitivity measurement method recommended by the IAEA. These were BRIGHTVIEW, PRECEDENCE, ECAM, ECAM signature, ECAM Plus, SYMBIA T2 and INFINIA. The ^99mTc line source for the sensitivity measurement was generated in 4–7 kcps, which are the common values in a whole body bone scan. All the cameras were equipped with a low-energy and high-resolution parallel multi-hole collimator and set at a window width and photo peak of 15% and 140 keV, respectively. After placing the ^99mTc source as closely as possible to the collimator, the count was measured for 60 and 120 seconds to calculate correction factor. To determine if the correction factor calculated using the ^99mTc line source could be applied to a whole body bone scan of a real patient, a whole body bone scan was performed on 27 patients before applying the correction factor for comparative analysis. According to the experimental results using the ^99mTc line source, the gamma camera sensitivity was the highest for ECAM plus, followed in order by the gamma cameras, ECAM signature, SYMBIA T2, ECAM, BRIGHTVIEW, INFINIA and PRECEDENCE. When the results were used to calculate the correction factor based on the ECAM gamma camera, which had a medium-degree of sensitivity, the respective correction factors were 1·07, 1·05, 1·03, 1·00, 0·90, 0·83 and 0·72. The correction factors calculated based on the experiment using a ^99mTc line source were similar to those calculated based on the whole body bone scan. Clinical application of correction factor for measured sensitivity enables estimation of factor correction depending on difference in equipment when image is read, which improves accuracy and reliability of examination, and is expected to be used especially for continuous follow-up examination.     

New trends on moving object detection in video images captured by a moving camera: A survey

This paper presents a survey on the latest methods of moving object detection in video sequences captured by a moving camera. Although many researches and excellent works have reviewed the methods of object detection and background subtraction for a fixed camera, there is no survey which presents a complete review of the existing different methods in the case of moving camera. Most methods in this field can be classified into four categories; modeling based background subtraction, trajectory classification, low rank and sparse matrix decomposition, and object tracking. We discuss in details each category and present the main methods which proposed improvements in the general concept of the techniques. We also present challenges and main concerns in this field as well as performance metrics and some benchmark databases available to evaluate the performance of different moving object detection algorithms.     

基于摄像机的交互技术在展演建筑中的应用

本文主要讲述何为基于摄像机的交互技术以及如何在展演建筑中使用该交互技术，使展项更富有感染力和趣味性，使参观者更容易融入其中。     

Irradiance‐independent camera color calibration

For a digital color camera to represent the colors in the environment accurately, it is necessary to calibrate the camera RGB outputs in terms of a colorimetric space such as the CIEXYZ or sRGB. Assuming that the camera response is a linear function of scene luminance, the main step in the calibration is to determine a transformation matrix M mapping data from linear camera RGB to XYZ. Determining M is usually done by photographing a calibrated target, often a color checker, and then performing a least‐squares regression on the difference between the camera's RGB digital counts from each color checker patch and their corresponding true XYZ values. To measure accurately the XYZ coordinates for each patch, either a completely uniform lighting field is required, which can be hard to accomplish, or a measurement of the illuminant irradiance at each patch is needed. In this article, two computational methods are presented for camera color calibration that require only that the relative spectral power distribution of the illumination be constant across the color checker, while its irradiance may vary, and yet resolve for a color correction matrix that remains unaffected by any irradiance variation that may be present. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Col Res Appl, 39, 540–548, 2014     

Live delivery of neurosurgical operating theater experience in virtual reality

A system for assisting in microneurosurgical training and for delivering interactive mixed reality surgical experience live was developed and experimented in hospital premises. An interactive experience from the neurosurgical operating theater was presented together with associated medical content on virtual reality eyewear of remote users. Details of the stereoscopic 360‐degree capture, surgery imaging equipment, signal delivery, and display systems are presented, and the presence experience and the visual quality questionnaire results are discussed. The users reported positive scores on the questionnaire on topics related to the user experience achieved in the trial.     

Historical data learning based dynamic LSP routing for overlay IP/MPLS over WDM networks

Overlay IP/MPLS over WDM network is a promising network architecture starting to gain wide deployments recently. A desirable feature of such a network is to achieve efficient routing with limited information exchanges between the IP/MPLS and the WDM layers. This paper studies dynamic label switched path (LSP) routing in the overlay IP/MPLS over WDM networks. To enhance network performance while maintaining its simplicity, we propose to learn from the historical data of lightpath setup costs maintained by the IP-layer integrated service provider (ISP) when making routing decisions. Using a novel historical data learning scheme for logical link cost estimation, we develop a new dynamic LSP routing method named Existing Link First (ELF) algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms the existing ones under different traffic loads, with either limited or unlimited numbers of optical ports. Effects of the number of candidate routes, add/drop ratio and the amount of historical data are also evaluated.     

A fast IP lookup scheme for high speed routers

Abstract

One of the key design issues for the next generation of IP routers is the IP lookup mechanism. IP lookup is an important action in a router, that is, to find the next hop for each incoming packet with a longest‐prefix‐match address in the routing table. In this paper, we propose an IP lookup mechanism with the number of memory accesses for an IP lookup being one in the best case and being four in the worst case. The forwarding table needed by our mechanism is small enough to fit in the SRAM. For example, a large routing table with 40000 routing entries can be compacted to a forwarding table of 260KBytes in our scheme.     

The Bulk Production Of Colour Prints

Some indication of the use of Phenidone in PQ developer systems in large scale motion picture laboratory practice is given. Various characteristics, which were examined on a plant scale before MQ systems were abandoned in favour of PQ systems, are discussed; the stabilities and economics of the two systems are compared.     

Socket在C#程序中的应用

本文给出TCP/IP协议中间件Socket的运行机制,利用C#语言提供的Socket类设计了C/S模式下的网络通信过程,通过多线程实现服务器与客户端的信息传输,为相关设计提供参考。