Abstract: A crystalline oxide semiconductor film with an enhanced electrical property is provided. By use of a mist CVD apparatus, a crystalline oxide semiconductor film with a corundum structure and a principal plane that is an a-plane or an m-plane was obtained on a crystalline substrate by atomizing a raw-material solution containing a dopant that is an n-type dopant to obtain atomized droplets, carrying the atomized droplets by carrier gas onto the crystalline substrate that is an a-plane corundum-structured crystalline substrate or an m-plane corundum-structured crystalline substrate placed in a film-formation chamber, and the atomized droplets were thermally reacted to form the crystalline oxide semiconductor film on the crystalline substrate.

Abstract: Provided are an X-ray CT apparatus and a control method of the same capable of reducing focal blur even in a case where an X-ray focal spot is moved. There is provided an X-ray CT apparatus including: an X-ray tube including a cathode that generates an electron beam and an anode that collides with the electron beam to radiate an X-ray; an X-ray detector configured to detect the X-ray; a rotating plate configured to rotate the X-ray tube and the X-ray detector around a subject; and an image processing unit configured to generate a tomographic image of the subject based on projection data acquired by the X-ray detector during rotation of the rotating plate, in which the cathode, which has a plurality of electron sources that are arranged within a plane facing the anode and emit the electron beam, is configured such that a position of an electron source, from which an electron beam is to be emitted, is selectively controlled based on a target position of an X-ray focal spot in the anode.

Abstract: A body sheet for a vapor chamber includes a first body surface, a second body surface disposed opposite to the first body surface, and a penetration space extending from the first body surface to the second body surface. The penetration space extends in a first direction in plan view. As seen in a cross section perpendicular to the first direction, the penetration space includes a first opening positioned on the first body surface and a second opening positioned on the second body surface. The second opening extends from a region overlapping with the first opening in plan view to a position overlapping with the first groove in plan view.

Abstract: A material decomposition apparatus for performing decomposition of a material in an object. The apparatus includes a data storage section for storing correction data preliminarily generated by decomposing one of three or more materials into the other two materials, a data input section to which radiation data of the object is inputted, the radiation data being divided into a plurality of energy levels, and a decomposition processing section for repeatedly performing two-material decomposition for decomposition of the other two materials of the three or more materials using the radiation data at different energy levels and the correction data to perform decomposition of the inside of the object into the three or more materials.

Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a memory and a processor. The processor acquires travel information including acceleration of a moving body. The processor presents, to the moving body, information regarding cargo collapse on the moving body that is specified on the basis of a distribution of the acceleration of the moving body in multiple axes on the basis of the travel information.

Abstract: A particle beam therapy apparatus has a position and posture setter that moves a movable body, that is at least one of the irradiation nozzle and the treatment table. A movement path of the movable body is determined when adapting the positional posture of the movable body from one condition among a plurality of prescribed conditions to another condition. An evaluation value is obtained for adapting the positional posture of the movable body to each of a plurality of prescribed conditions. This evaluation value is for a case of moving the movable body according to the movement path. A setting order is determined for adapting the positional posture of the movable body to each prescribed condition based on the evaluation value; and the positional posture of the movable body is adapted to each of the plurality of prescribed conditions by moving the movable body according to the determined movement path.

Abstract: A high-definition guide image for supporting a procedure that uses an X-ray fluoroscopic image is generated from 3D images taken in advance by a CT device and an MRI device, and the generated image is displayed. A parameter value is acquired from the parameters set in an X-ray imaging device upon taking the fluoroscopic image. After performing registration between the 3D CT image and the 3D MRI image, using the parameter value of the X-ray imaging device, the direction of light passage of the cone beam is set on each of the 3D CT image and the 3D MRI image, and 2D projected images are generated therefrom respectively. Then, the generated 2D projected images are superimposed and the superimposed image is displayed as the guide image.

Abstract: The metal magnetic powder includes Co as a main component, and an average particle size (D50) of 1 nm to 100 nm. An X-ray diffraction chart of the metal magnetic powder has a first peak that appears in a range of a diffraction angle 2? of 41.6±0.3°, and a second peak that appears in a range of a diffraction angle 20? of 47.4±0.3°. When a full width at half maximum of the first peak is set as FW1, and a full width at half maximum of the second peak is set as FW2, a ratio (FW2/FW1) of FW2 to FW1 is 1 to 5.

Abstract: A metal magnetic powder includes: metal nanoparticles having an average particle size (D50) is 1 nm to 100 nm, and a main phase of hcp-Co; and an additive elements ? including at least one of Fe, Ni, and Cu.

Abstract: To provide a radiation imaging device which, even when a subpixel fails during operation of the photon counting detector, can correct an output signal of the pixel including the failed subpixel. A radiation imaging device that has a photon counting detector to count radiation photons and can correct an output signal of a pixel including a failed subpixel even if the subpixel fails during operation of the photon counting detector. The photon counting detector comprises: a pixel comprised of a plurality of subpixels; a data processing section that calculates an output signal of the pixel according to the number of radiation photons counted in each of the subpixels; and a failure detection section that detects a failure of the subpixel according to the number of radiation photons counted in the subpixel and outputs the position of the failed subpixel.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including: at least a semiconductor layer having a corundum structure, the semiconductor layer including a first surface having at least a first side and a second side shorter than the first side, the first surface being a c-plane or an m-plane, a direction of the first side being a direction of a c-axis or a direction of an m-axis.

Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device, including: a gate electrode having at least a part buried in a semiconductor layer; a deep p layer having at least a part buried in the semiconductor layer to a same depth as a buried lower end portion of the gate electrode or a position deeper than the buried lower end portion; and a channel layer, wherein: the deep p layer is formed by a crystalline oxide semiconductor; and a carrier concentration of the deep p layer is higher than a carrier concentration of the channel layer.

Abstract: A battery pack case, including: a battery cell housing part made of metal, the battery cell housing part being configured to accommodate, from one side in a second direction, a battery cell in a state in which a plurality of the battery cells are stacked in a first direction perpendicularly intersecting the second direction and are compressed in the first direction, and the battery cell housing part being configured to support a restoring force of the battery cell; and a flow path forming part made of resin, the flow path forming part being provided integrally with the battery cell housing part, the flow path forming part being disposed at another side, in the second direction, of the battery cell, and the flow path forming part configuring a part of a cooling air flow path part through which battery cell cooling air flows.

Abstract: There is provided a PCCT apparatus capable of correcting a band artifact of one material decomposition image and a band artifact of another material decomposition image. The PCCT apparatus obtains projection data divided into plural energy bins by irradiating a subject with X-rays, and includes: a first correction unit that corrects a band artifact of a first material decomposition image among plural material decomposition images created on the basis of the projection data, and calculates a first correction amount that is a correction amount for the band artifact; an energy calculation unit that calculates an average energy of X-rays that transmit the subject; and a second correction unit that corrects the band artifact of a second material decomposition image using a second correction amount that is a correction amount calculated on the basis of the first correction amount and the average energy.

Abstract: Noise is reduced for a medical image for which noise cannot be quantified by a general-purpose image quality evaluation index. An image processor has a preprocessor that generates input images including an original image and one or more images with reduced noise compared with the original image; and a noise reduction processor outputs an image, which is obtained by reducing noise from the original image based on the input images, by applying a learned network. The learned network used in the noise reduction processor is constructed by performing deep learning using a plurality of learning sets in which one or more of a medical image including noise, a noise-reduced image obtained by performing noise reduction processing on the medical image, and an intermediate image obtained during the noise reduction processing are input images and a correct image is obtained based on the input images an output image.

Abstract: A photon counting circuit, a radiographic imaging apparatus, and a threshold setting method are provided, in which the photon counting circuit is capable of sufficiently reducing a difference between a target threshold value and a threshold value set for a pixel even if each pixel of a photon counting detector is divided into a plurality of subpixels. In the photon counting circuit for counting, for each pixel, electrical charges generated depending on photon energy of radiation applied to an object, a pixel is divided into a plurality of subpixels. When N is a natural number, a threshold value of each of the subpixels is selected from among top N discrete values of a plurality of discrete values arranged in order of proximity to a target threshold value corresponding to the photon energy so as to minimize a difference between the target threshold value and an average of the threshold values of the respective subpixels included in the pixel.

Abstract: A directional coupler includes: a hollow coaxial line including a central conductor forming a main line and an outer conductor surrounding the central conductor and having an opening formed therein; a dielectric substrate covering the opening and provided with film-shaped ground conductors, wherein a film-shaped ground conductor covers a rear surface of the dielectric substrate facing the central conductor via the opening and a film-shaped ground conductor covers a front surface of the dielectric substrate, respectively, and are grounded; and a coupling line provided on the rear surface of the dielectric substrate in a region surrounded by the ground conductor formed on the rear surface and serving as an auxiliary line, wherein the ground conductor formed on the front surface is provided with a conductor-removed portion in which a portion of a conductor film in a region facing the coupling line via the dielectric substrate is removed.

Abstract: In a first aspect of a present inventive subject matter, a method of etching an object to be etched with an etching liquid that contains bromine, and the object contains at least gallium and/or aluminum.

Abstract: A cooling structure includes a power storage stack including power storage cells, first and second end plates, a refrigerant supply path for supplying refrigerant, and first paths each provided in a clearance between two of the adjacent power storage cells. The first end plate is configured to form a second path communicating with the refrigerant supply path in a clearance between a first end of the power storage stack and the first end plate. The second end plate is configured to form a third path communicating with the refrigerant supply path in a clearance between a second end of the power storage stack and the second end plate. The power storage stack is cooled to have a temperature distribution in which the power storage cells disposed on the second end side have temperatures higher than the temperatures of the power storage cells disposed on the first end side.

Abstract: A semiconductor device with enhanced semiconductor characteristics that is useful for power devices. A semiconductor device, including: an n-type semiconductor layer; an electrode; two or more p-type semiconductors provided between the n-type semiconductor layer and the electrode, the n-type semiconductor layer containing a corundum-structured crystallin oxide semiconductor as a major component, a number of the two or more p-type semiconductor that is equal to or more than three, and the two or more p-type semiconductors that are embedded in the n-type semiconductor layer.