Abstract: A method for determining the hydration, fitness and/or nutrition status of a human body, or of segments of the human body, comprises providing values each of a mass or volume fraction of intracellular water and a mass or volume fraction of extracellular water of the human body or the segment, defining a two-dimensional parameter space, determining a reference line within the parameter space, locating a position within the parameter space which corresponds to the associated values of the mass or volume fraction of intracellular water and the mass or volume fraction of extracellular water of the human body or the segment, determining a distance between the position and the reference line, and deriving a mass or volume, or a mass or volume fraction, of hydration from the determined distance from the reference line for the human body or the segment.

Abstract: A method for determining the hydration, fitness and/or nutrition status of a human body, or of segments of the human body, comprises providing values each of a mass or volume fraction of intracellular water and a mass or volume fraction of extracellular water of the human body or the segment, defining a two-dimensional parameter space, determining a reference line within the parameter space, locating a position within the parameter space which corresponds to the associated values of the mass or volume fraction of intracellular water and the mass or volume fraction of extracellular water of the human body or the segment, determining a distance between the position and the reference line, and deriving a mass or volume, or a mass or volume fraction, of hydration from the determined distance from the reference line for the human body or the segment.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for detecting position and arrival time of accelerated particles, particularly in a linear particle accelerator, and to an apparatus for carrying out said method. When a correction is triggered, the apparatus according to the invention digitally processes a triggering signal by means of a programmable digital synthetic system being set in a manner that it is equivalent, referring to the time response, to the analogue correction signal received. The output from said synthetic system is deducted from the measurement, therefore, the correction signal is entirely deleted from the measurement. A special adaptive algorithm takes care for the time response compliance of the synthetic system with alterations in the analogue circuit generated due to the warming of the circuit itself.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for the precise measurement of dependency on amplitude and phase of a plurality of high frequency signals, preferably in the synchrotron accelerator of elementary particles. The essence of the solution according to the invention lies in that with a single measuring device and without any aliasing it is achieved a resolution of 0.2 micron and repeatability of measurements of 1 micron down to the lower frequency limit of a few MHz.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for the precise measurement of dependency on amplitude and phase of a plurality of high frequency signals, preferably in the synchrotron accelerator of elementary particles. The essence of the solution according to the invention lies in that with a single measuring device and without any aliasing it is achieved a resolution of 0.2 micron and repeatability of measurements of 1 micron down to the lower frequency limit of a few MHz.