采用反向投影算法进行宽带合成孔径声纳数据处理与图像重建

文中提出了宽带合成孔径声纳(synthetic aperture Sonar，简称SAS)成像的反向投影算法(back pmjection，简称BP)。该算法是在时间-空间域中对合成孔径线列阵中备个阵元接收回波的所有频率分量进行相干求和，以充分利用合成孔径上所有回波的能量，从而得到理想的SAS图像。同时，文章中分析了BP算法实现过程中拖尾(tall)现象的产生机理，对BP重建图像进行了斜坡滤波处理。并对载频为15kHz,带宽为20kHz的SAS系统进行了仿真，结果验证了这种算法的有效性。     

LS2F传声器的高频自由场互易校准

为满足空气超声声压量值的溯源需求,利用PULSE分析仪和互易校准仪,采用时间加窗技术对频域信号转换得到的时域信号进行处理,建立了LS2F传声器的高频互易校准装置,实现了实验室标准传声器的20~51 kHz的自由场灵敏度校准。通过对比时间加窗处理前后的实验数据,分析了驻波和墙体发射波对传声器灵敏度的影响。结果表明,高于40 kHz时,时间加窗处理技术能够减小1.0 dB的偏差。     

CCD高分辨成像的梯度解析法

基于序列图像重建的高分辨成像技术需要获取互有位移的序列图像,并需利用图像重建算法进行高分辨率图像重建。为此,设计了一种利用压电陶瓷体控制CCD位移来获取互有微小位移的序列图像的装置,在此基础上提出了一种基于梯度理论从序列图像重建高分辨率图像的算法——梯度解析法。该解析法根据图像灰度场梯度理论,同时考虑了图像的更高频成分,提高了重建图像分辨率。仿真实验显示,该算法与已有算法相比,重建图像的失真度降低40％以上。     

Ultrasonic transmission and reception from bulk-micromachined transducers

Acoustic transduction in air from two bulk-micromachined silicon structures is investigated. Both contain silicon diaphragms of the order of 2 mm² in close proximity to a metallized substrate. One diaphragm is mass-loaded; the other is not. Their resonant frequencies (70 and 360 kHz) are dominated by squeeze film trapping of ambient air, and the Q of each device is about 8. The lower frequency (LF) device is characterized by electrical and acoustic measurements using a calibrated microphone. Novel diagnostic methods that exploit the nonlinear nature of the transducer are described. The adequacy of calibration by reciprocity is confirmed at 70 kHz and applied to the high frequency device. An insertion loss of 19 dB is measured, which compares well with reports of other silicon-based transducers. Observed losses are accounted for by squeeze-film damping applied to the diaphragm-substrate gap. The ability to control the bandwidth by the squeeze film effect, good efficiency, and the relatively standard method of construction could make such ultrasonic transducers useful in specialist applications     

Highly sensitive fiber-optic sensor for dynamic pressuremeasurements

A new type of fiber-optic pressure sensor based on a specially developed side-hole fiber is presented. It allows for unambiguous and fast phase-shift measurements in the range from -π/2 to +π/2 with a sampling rate of 5 kHz and resolution of about 1% of full scale (2 · 10^-3 atm)     

Design and characterization of a PVDF ultrasonic range sensor

An ultrasonic sensor for in-air applications has been fabricated using ferroelectric polymer technology. The proximity sensor, designed to be incorporated into a multiple sensing robotic gripper, consists of two unimodal transducers, a transmitter, and a receiver and is obtained by curving a strip of 40-mum-thick polyvinylidene fluoride. The transducers have a resonance frequency of 63.5 kHz, a quality factor Q approximately equal to 12 and a transverse piezoelectric coupling coefficient k(31) of 0.29. The maximum detectable distance is 300 mm, with an axial resolution of about 3 mm. Furthermore transducers resonating at 380 kHz, which operate at a maximum distance of 100 mm with a resolution of 2 mm can be fabricated by using the same technique. Features and performance of both transmitter and receiver are discussed, together with the echo acquisition and the preprocessing electronic unit.     

Ultrasonic Plasma Spray--A New Plasma Spray Process

The method of arc- ultrasonic is introduced into plasma spray process. The process of spray ZrO2-NiCoCr AlY thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) using air plasma spray (APS) process is studied. A exciting source which can be adjusted from audio frequency to several hundred thousand Hertz is designed successfully. The ultrasonic exciting source is coupled with conventional DC spraying power supply. A few ultrasonic frequencies are selected in the testing. Several parts of the coatings with the coupling arc- ultrasonic are compared with the coatings without it. The results show: with 50 kHz and 80 kHz ultrasound, the coating qualities are improved, whereas 30 kHz has an opposite effect.     

Angular resolution of the Ohya air shower detector

Accurate measurements of the total number of muons in an air shower are important for the discrimination of showers produced by astronomical gamma rays from those produced by protons. In order to perform this discrimination, muon detectors with a total area of about 400 m² have been constructed in the Ohya stone mine. At ground level, scintillation detectors have been distributed for determining the total number of electrons in the air shower. The arrival direction of the air shower determined by usual timing information was examined using independent data on the arrival direction determined by muons in the shower. The angular resolution thus obtained at the shower maximum is 1.7° in the south-north plane and 2° in the east-west plane. The difference of the resolution is due to the asymmetric arrangement of scintillation detectors.     

19F solid-state NMR spectroscopic investigation of crystalline and amorphous forms of a selective muscarinic M3 receptor antagonist,in both bulk and pharmaceutical dosage form samples

The purpose of the following investigation was to display the utility of ¹⁹F solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in both distinguishing between solid forms of a selective muscarinic M₃ receptor antagonist and characterizing the active pharmaceutical ingredient in low-dose tablets. Ambient- and elevated-temperature solid-state ¹⁹F fast (15 kHz) magic-angle spinning (MAS) NMR experiments were employed to obtain desired spectral resolution in this system. Ambient sample temperature combined with rotor frequencies of 15 kHz provided adequate ¹⁹F peak resolution to successfully distinguish crystalline and amorphous forms in this system. Additionally, elevated-temperature ¹⁹F MAS NMR further characterized solid forms through ¹⁹F resonance narrowing brought about by the phenomenon of solvent escape. Similar solvent dynamics at elevated temperatures were utilized in combination with ambient-temperature ¹⁹F MAS NMR analysis to provide excipient-free spectra to unambiguously identify the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) conversion from crystalline Form I to the amorphous form in low-dose tablets. It is shown that ¹⁹F solid-state NMR is exceptionally powerful in distinguishing amorphous and crystalline forms in both bulk and formulation samples.     

Continuous extraction of trapped air from bubble ice or water for on-line determination of isotope ratios

We describe a new continuous extraction system for trapped air from bubble ice or water for on-line determination of the isotopic composition of the main air components nitrogen and oxygen (delta15N, delta18O, and delta17O). Studies of the composition of air from bubbles trapped in polar ice are providing fundamental information about ancient atmospheric composition and, therefore, are an important tool to learn more about Earth's climate. The new system proved to work reliably for standard air admixed and subsequently removed from a water stream. The precision (1 SD) of standard measurements is approximately 0.04/1000 for delta15N, approximately 0.1/1000 for delta18O, and approximately 0.15/1000 for delta17O. Ice measurements with the new on-line system are promising. Continuous measurements of nitrogen as well as oxygen isotope ratios can be performed with a spatial resolution of approximately 3 cm and nearly the same precision as for the standards. However, the measured delta values of ice are generally lower, as compared to ice measured with conventional techniques, as a result of a time-dependent dissolution process of air in water associated with kinetic fractionation, which affects standard and sample differently. By modeling the dynamics of the this dissolution process, we found a reason for the lack of accuracy and propose an improvement of the system that will lead to a better accuracy of the ice measurements.     

A 3.2 kHz, 14-Bit Optical Absolute Rotary Encoder With a CMOS Profile Sensor

We have developed a 3.2 kHz, 14-bit optical absolute rotary encoder system using a profile sensor and a slit disc. The profile sensor, which we have designed for this purpose, is a unique CMOS area image sensor aimed at high-speed position detection of X and Y axes. Y axis profile data from the profile sensor is used for recognition of an index code on the slit disc, and X axis profile data is used for position detection of the index code. This combination of two-axis information enables high resolution even with a small number of index codes (64 indexes) and a small amount of digital calculations. Experimental results show that this system can detect rotation with an angular resolution of 14 bits (0.022deg) and a maximum detection speed of 3.2 kHz.     

A novel MOEMS pressure sensor: Modelling and experimental evaluation

This paper presents a novel MOEMS (Micro Opto Electromechanical Systems) pressure sensor suitable for localized precision measurements in high temperature environments. The sensor is based on a micromachined Fabry-Perot device (MFPD) that uses a thin film microcantilever beam as the top mirror and a silicon substrate as the bottom mirror of the optical microcavity. The major effect that the viscosity and density of the air surrounding the MFPD have on the viscous damping provides the mechanism for the detection of the pressure. A major advantage of this configuration is that there is no need for a sealed microcavity since the air is trapped by the viscous damping effects. The sensor has been tested up to 90 psi and pressure sensitivities of about 0·04%/psi with a MFPD sensor with a resonant frequency of about 46·7 kHz have been measured.     

Chromatic aberration of an air-coupled ultrasonic Fresnel zone-plate

A micromachined Fresnel zone-plate has been used to focus ultrasonic waves in air over a range of frequencies (450 to 900 kHz). The zone-plate was mounted upon a planar micromachined air-coupled capacitance transducer, which was capable of generating toneburst ultrasonic waves in air over a wide frequency bandwidth (<100 kHz to 2 MHz). A second air-coupled capacitance detector (apertured to 200 mum) was scanned in the field of the zone-plate source in order to image the generated ultrasonic field at various frequencies of operation. It was found that the ~680 mum spot size of the experimental zone-plate did not vary appreciably with changing frequency, whereas the focal length increased markedly with increasing frequency (from ~5 mm at 450 kHz up to ~15 mm at 900 kHz). These findings are shown to be in excellent agreement with previously reported theoretical predictions by the authors.     

Optical observations of acoustical radiation force effects on individual air bubbles

Previous studies dealing with contrast agent microbubbles have demonstrated that ultrasound (US) can significantly influence the movement of microbubbles. In this paper, we investigated the influence of the acoustic radiation force on individual air bubbles using high-speed photography. We emphasize the effects of the US parameters (pulse length, acoustic pressure) on different bubble patterns and their consequences on the translational motion of the bubbles. A stream of uniform air bubbles with diameter ranging from 35 microm to 79 microm was generated and insonified with a single US pulse emitted at a frequency of 130 kHz. The bubble sizes have been chosen to be above, below, and at resonance. The peak acoustic pressures used in these experiments ranged from 40 kPa to 120 kPa. The axial displacements of the bubbles produced by the action of the US pulse were optically recorded using a high-speed camera at 1 kHz frame rate. The experimental results were compared to a simplified force balance theoretical model, including the action of the primary radiation force and the fluid drag force. Although the model is quite simple and does not take into account phenomena like bubble shape oscillations and added mass, the experimental findings agree with the predictions. The measured axial displacement increases quasilinearly with the burst length and the transmitted acoustic pressure. The axial displacement varies with the size and the density of the air bubbles, reaching a maximum at the resonance size of 48 microm. The predicted displacement values differ by 15% from the measured data, except for resonant bubbles for which the displacement was overestimated by about 40%. This study demonstrates that even a single US pulse produces radiation forces that are strong enough to affect the bubble position.     

基于邻域重构模型的高分辨SAR图像精确配准

合成孔径雷达(SAR)的成像过程使其高分辨图像的几何形变呈现局部性.针对高分辨SAR图像精确配准问题,本文提出一种基于邻域重构模型的局部转换函数.邻域重构模型首先采用重构系数刻画参考图像中每个像素点的几何位置;接着给出了一种重构控制点的选择标准使每个像素的配准误差达到最小;最后根据重构系数及控制点坐标对输入图像进行再抽样以实现配准.与经典分片线性映射相比,该模型从理论上给出了一种区域剖分准则:对于每个像素选取能使配准误差能达到最小的控制点作为重构控制点.对模拟数据和真实SAR图像进行了试验,结果表明,该模型能有效地提高配准精度.     

Noise analysis for position-sensitive detectors

A study of the different noise sources in a position sensitive detector (PSD)-transimpedance amplifier (TIA) sensing system is presented and the dominant noise sources are identified. The effect of these noise sources on the position detection capability of the sensing system is analyzed. An expression derived for the position resolution of the phase method of position detection reveals the position resolution depends inversely on the modulation frequency of the light source and the square of the amplitude of the currents flowing through the metal electrodes, and is dependent on the position of the incident light beam. Simulation results show that the best achievable position resolution is at the center of the PSD and becomes worse as one moves away from the center toward the edges. Compared to the 4 nm/√Hz position resolution that is achievable using the amplitude method of position detection, the phase method of position detection provides a resolution of 9 nm/√Hz and 6 nm/√Hz corresponding to a modulation frequency of 50 kHz and 70 kHz respectively     

Scanning tomographic acoustic microscopy using shear waves

We propose to use shear waves instead of longitudinal waves in a novel scanning tomographic acoustic microscope (STAM) in which the specimens are solid. When a specimen with a shear modulus is immersed in the microscope's water bath, mode conversion takes place at the water-solid interface. The shear wave energy is detectable and can be used for image reconstruction. Although wave transmission in most solid specimens is limited to about 20 degrees for longitudinal waves, it is about twice that for shear waves. Also, velocities of shear waves are lower than those of longitudinal waves and hence the wavelengths at the same frequency are smaller. For these and other reasons we can expect that for many specimens the resolution of a shear-wave STAM to be substantially better than that of a longitudinal-wave STAM. We use computer simulation in order to compare the operation of a shear-wave STAM with that of the conventional longitudinal-wave STAM. We have simulated tomographic reconstruction for each. The corresponding critical angles of incidence are computed and tomographic reconstructions of a particular solid specimen is obtained by using the back-and-forth propagation algorithm (BFP). Our simulation results show that shear-wave STAM has better resolution than longitudinal-wave STAM.     

Bayesian reconstruction for SPECT: Validation with monte carlo simulation,experimental phantom,and real patient data

A method for Bayesian image reconstruction from projections is applied to Monte Carlo simulation, experimental phantom, and real patient data from a SPECT acquisition system. This statistical image reconstruction method has three distinct aspects: (1) it uses a priori information about image density distribution of a multinomial process; (2) it considers a spatial correlation of nearby image elements; and (3) it incorporates the Poisson nature of photon detection fluctuation. The Monte Carlo simulation data are generated by computer codes for selected mathematical phantoms containing hot and cold rods. The experimental phantom data are acquired with a Triad SPECT system using radioactive phantoms containing hot and cold rods. The real patient data are obtained from a patient brain scan using the Triad SPECT system. A parallel beam geometry is used. The data are acquired from 120 projection angles uniformly distributed from 0 to 360 degrees. At each projection angle, a 128 X 128 projection image is measured. This 128 X 128 projection samples are equally spaced along the axis of detector rotation and perpendicular to the axis, respectively. Each image slice is reconstructed using a 128 X 128 pixel array. Comparisons between this Bayesian method and maximum likelihood method and filtered backprojection method are give. An improvement in noise suppression is demonstrated using the Bayesian method while image resolution is preserved.     

High-speed high-resolution fiber diameter variation measurement system

A fiber diameter variation measurement system is described which is capable of measuring transparent fibers with 0.02% diameter resolution and 6-microm axial resolution at a measurement rate of 1 kHz and with a working distance of >100 mm. The principles of its operation are discussed in detail, and experimental confirmation of its performance is reported. A theoretical calculation of the optimum obtainable diameter resolution for a given set of experimental parameters is also presented.     

A fourth-order single-bit switched-capacitor /spl Sigma/-/spl Delta/ modulator for distributed sensor applications

In this paper, we present a switched-capacitor sigma-delta (/spl Sigma/-/spl Delta/) modulator for high resolution applications. In particular, this /spl Sigma/-/spl Delta/ modulator is well suited for distributed sensor networks. The circuit, implemented in a double-poly, double-metal 0.6 /spl mu/m CMOS technology, is based on a fourth-order single-loop architecture with a sampling frequency of 256 kHz. The chip consumes 50 mW from a single 5-V supply and achieves a signal-to-noise ratio of 104.9 dB over a bandwidth of 400 Hz, corresponding to a resolution of 17.1 bits.