A bioelectric inverse imaging technique based on surface Laplacians

A new approach is proposed to solve bioelectric inverse problems by employing the surface Laplacian of the bioelectrical potential. A theoretical investigation was conducted to test the feasibility of epicardial inverse imaging of cardiac electrical activity. A two-sphere homogeneous volume conductor model, where the inner sphere represents the epicardium and the outer sphere the body surface, was used. Radial and tangential current dipoles were used to approximate localized wavefronts propagating from the endocardium to the epicardium, and ectopic myocardial activities. The epicardial potential distribution was reconstructed from the body surface Laplacians with the aid of the Tikhonov zero-order regularization technique, which then was compared with the results obtained from the body surface potentials using the same regularization scheme. The two inverse solutions were compared qualitatively via visual inspection of the reconstructed epicardial potential maps, and quantitatively by examining relative errors and correlation coefficients between the “true” and the reconstructed epicardial potentials. Both qualitative and quantitative results indicate that the surface Laplacians play a positive role in improving the ill-posed nature of the bioelectric inverse problem, which would enhance one's capability of reconstructing important epicardial events such as extrema in the epicardial potential distribution. The present theoretical study suggests that the Laplacian-based inverse imaging technique may have important applications to epicardial inverse imaging and other bioelectric inverse imaging     

Simulating process-induced gate oxide damage in circuits

Advanced processing techniques such as plasma etching and ion implantation can damage the gate oxides of MOS devices and thus pose a problem to circuit reliability. In this paper, we present a simulator which predicts oxide failure rates during and after processing and pinpoints strong charging current locations in the layout where changes can be made to improve circuit hot-carrier reliability. We present the models and experimental results used to develop the simulator and demonstrate the usefulness of this simulator     

Multispectral code excited linear prediction coding and itsapplication in magnetic resonance images

This paper reports a multispectral code excited linear prediction (MCELP) method for the compression of multispectral images. Different linear prediction models and adaptation schemes have been compared. The method that uses a forward adaptive autoregressive (AR) model has been proven to achieve a good compromise between performance, complexity, and robustness. This approach is referred to as the MFCELP method. Given a set of multispectral images, the linear predictive coefficients are updated over nonoverlapping three-dimensional (3-D) macroblocks. Each macroblock is further divided into several 3-D micro-blocks, and the best excitation signal for each microblock is determined through an analysis-by-synthesis procedure. The MFCELP method has been applied to multispectral magnetic resonance (MR) images. To satisfy the high quality requirement for medical images, the error between the original image set and the synthesized one is further specified using a vector quantizer. This method has been applied to images from 26 clinical MR neuro studies (20 slices/study, three spectral bands/slice, 256x256 pixels/band, 12 b/pixel). The MFCELP method provides a significant visual improvement over the discrete cosine transform (DCT) based Joint Photographers Expert Group (JPEG) method, the wavelet transform based embedded zero-tree wavelet (EZW) coding method, and the vector tree (VT) coding method, as well as the multispectral segmented autoregressive moving average (MSARMA) method we developed previously.     

A switched-current sample-and-hold circuit

A switched-current sample-and-hold circuit is reported. The circuit was fabricated in a 0.8-μm BiCMOS process. Measurements indicate a sampling frequency of 57 MHz with 60 dB signal-to-noise-plus-distortion-ratio and suggest that operation at sampling frequencies beyond 80 MHz is feasible. Comparisons of this circuit with other switched-current sample-and-hold circuits are given to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the circuit. The feasibility of the sample-and-hold circuit as an under-sampler intended for the Canadian CT2Plus personal communication system is also presented     

Power control for wireless multimedia CDMA systems

In a wireless multimedia communication system where different types of traffic such as speech, data, and video have different data rates, good power control for individual traffic can ensure quality of service (QoS) and achieve a better throughput at the same time. The authors propose a closed-form power control function based on a parameter called the traffic exponent that simplifies the power control processing and improves the overall CDMA system performance     

超强激光场中H_2~ 的隧道离解和波包演化

利用超强激光脉冲中分子与场相互作用的多电子态模型，数值模拟了分子波包在高低频超强激光场中的演化过程。结果发现，高频场中分子波包的扩展是渐进的，直到脉冲作用结束，分子才完全离解；而在低频场中，分子波包迅速隧穿到离解态，仅在脉冲的前几个周期，波包便溢出相互作用区。另外还比较了高低频场作用下分子的离解几率和离解碎片的动量分布。     

全保偏光纤迈克尔逊干涉仪

报道了全保偏光纤迈克尔逊干涉仪的研究结果.实验中采用熊猫保偏光纤、磨抛型保偏光纤偏振器(消光比为35dB.损耗相似文献   

连续Nd:YAG激光器中Cr~(4 ):YAG被动调Q的稳定性和功率的提高

Ｃｒ４＋ＹＡＧ用于连续ＮｄＹＡＧ激光器被动调Ｑ，激光横模结构和纵模结构以及激光泵浦速率起伏等是引起调Ｑ不稳定的重要因素，运用一定的技术可以使调Ｑ稳定性得到根本性改善；此外应考虑Ｃｒ４＋ＹＡＧ热效应及光学薄膜的激光损伤     

自由电子激光中相对论性电子束的电荷波和电流波

本文根据电子的运动方程和泊松方程描述相对论性电子束。在电子束无微扰时，空间电荷最低消的，因而可使方程线性化。线性化了的方程有指数函数波形式ｅｘｐ的解，由此得出了电子束电子电荷波和电子电流波。     

复杂区域的快速激光雕刻算法研究

本文建立了一种激光雕刻的图形学模型，并在此基础上，提出了一种分块式扫描算法，大大提高了激光雕刻的效率．