Abstract: An acrylic resin composition for use in film production by solution casting contains an acrylic polymer containing, as structural units, 30 to 100 wt % of methyl methacrylate units and 0 to 70 wt % of other monomer units copolymerizable with the methyl methacrylate units; and an ionic emulsifier. The content of the ionic emulsifier is from 0.1 to 10 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the acrylic polymer.

Abstract: The carotid artery plaque properties are quantitatively determined by a carotid artery echo whereby predicting incidence of cerebral infarction or myocardial infarct. A method includes obtaining, coloring, and displaying steps. In the obtaining step, the integrated amounts per unit time of echo signals corresponding to pixels of an echo image of carotid artery plaque are obtained. The signals are obtained when the image is obtained by an IBS method. In the coloring step, the relationship between ranges and colors is referenced. The available full range of the integrated amount is previously divided into the ranges. The colors are assigned to the ranges. The pixels are classified into the ranges in accordance with the integrated amounts corresponding to the pixels. The pixels of the image are colored in colors corresponding to the ranges of the pixels. In the displaying step, the colored echo image is displayed on a display portion 30.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a film that exhibits well-balanced physical properties such as high surface hardness, excellent transparency, excellent cracking resistance, and excellent anti-whitening on bending when laminated on a plastic molded body, and is therefore suitable for decorative molding applications. The film is an acrylic resin film obtained by forming, into a film, an acrylic resin composition containing an acrylic resin and a rubber-containing graft copolymer, the rubber-containing graft copolymer being obtained by polymerizing monomer components (B-1) to (B-4) in order so that rubber particles obtained by polymerizing (B-1) to (B-3) have an average particle size of 0.2 to 0.4 ?m. The monomer component (B-1) comprises 40 to 100 wt % of an acrylate, 60 to 0 wt % of a monofunctional monomer copolymerizable therewith, and 0.05 to 10 parts by weight of a polyfunctional monomer.

Abstract: A diagnostic imaging apparatus including: an imaging section imaging a site of an examinee to generate image data; a biological signal acquisition section acquiring signal data which is periodical movement of the site of the examinee; a storage section storing the generated image and acquired biological signal data; a biological signal analysis section analyzing the signal data to detect signal waveforms; and a control section calculating evaluation values indicating steadiness of the periodical movement among the respective periods, causing the biological signal analysis section to perform extraction from among the plurality of successive periods on the basis of the calculated evaluation values and a time difference or time ratio threshold range, reading out image data generated during an extracted adaptive period, among the image data stored in the storage section, from the storage section, and causing a display section to display the read-out image data.

Abstract: The carotid artery plaque properties are quantitatively determined by a carotid artery echo whereby predicting incidence of cerebral infarction or myocardial infarct. A method includes obtaining, coloring, and displaying steps. In the obtaining step, the integrated amounts per unit time of echo signals corresponding to pixels of an echo image of carotid artery plaque are obtained. The signals are obtained when the image is obtained by an IBS method. In the coloring step, the relationship between ranges and colors is referenced. The available full range of the integrated amount is previously divided into the ranges. The colors are assigned to the ranges. The pixels are classified into the ranges in accordance with the integrated amounts corresponding to the pixels. The pixels of the image are colored in colors corresponding to the ranges of the pixels. In the displaying step, the colored echo image is displayed on a display portion 30.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention capable of improving the strength and surface gloss of a molded article is comprising 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin (a) and 0.5 to 30 parts by weight of a core-shell polymer composition (b), wherein the core-shell polymer composition (b) is obtained by polymerizing a shell-constituting component in the presence of a core obtained by polymerizing a core-constituting component, the core-constituting component contains 70% to 99.95% by weight of an alkyl acrylate having an alkyl group of 2 to 18 carbon atoms, 0.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention capable of improving the strength and surface gloss of a molded article is comprising 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin (a) and 0.5 to 30 parts by weight of a core-shell polymer composition (b), wherein the core-shell polymer composition (b) is obtained by polymerizing a shell-constituting component in the presence of a core obtained by polymerizing a core-constituting component, the core-constituting component contains 70% to 99.95% by weight of an alkyl acrylate having an alkyl group of 2 to 18 carbon atoms, 0.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition having excellent weather resistance and high impact resistance in the present invention is the thermoplastic resin composition containing 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin (A) and 0.5 to 20 parts by weight of a graft copolymer (B), wherein the graft copolymer (B) consists of 50% to 99.5% by weight of a core (bc) and 0.5% to 50% by weight of a non-crosslinked shell (bs), the core (bc) is constituted of only layer having a glass transition temperature of 20° C. or lower, and the non-crosslinked shell (bs) is obtained by polymerizing a monomer mixture for non-crosslinked shell, containing 52% to 100% by weight of an acrylic ester and 0% to 48% by weight of a vinyl monomer copolymerizable with the acrylic ester.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to propose a novel thermoplastic resin composition having high impact resistance without degrading weather resistance even when the content of an impact modifier is small. A thermoplastic resin composition includes 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin (a) and 0.5 to 20 parts by weight of an impact modifier (b) containing a graft copolymer (b-1) containing at least one (meth)acrylate flexible polymer phase and a rigid polymer phase serving as the outermost part of the graft copolymer, a water-soluble polymer compound (b-2) having a physical gel-forming property, and a gelling agent (b-3). In the thermoplastic resin composition, the content of the water-soluble polymer compound (b-2) having the physical gel-forming property is 0.01 to 3.0 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the graft copolymer (b-1) and the content of the rigid polymer phase serving as the outermost part in the graft copolymer (b-1) is 0.5 to 10 percent by weight.