Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a structure reducing unit which reduces spatial signal change by a predetermined structure in an X-ray image group in which a plurality of images obtained by capturing a same site of a same subject a plurality of times using an X-ray are aligned in a time series. The structure reducing unit reduces the spatial signal change by the predetermined structure in each image of the X-ray image group using information of an image different from the image of the X-ray image group being processed.

Abstract: A lead frame includes an outer frame. The outer frame includes: one surface; another surface that is opposite to the one surface; a side surface between the one surface and the other surface; a recess that is formed to extend from the one surface to the side surface; and a notch step portion that is formed to extend from the other surface to the side surface.

Abstract: A wire reel is detachably provided in a housing chamber of a binding machine body which binds a reinforcing bar. The wire reel includes a cylindrical hub portion which winds a wire, and a pair of parallel flanges overhanging outward from both external peripheral ends of the hub portions. A side wall inside the hub portion is formed of light-transmitting portions which allow the light from a transmissive photosensor provided in the binding machine body to be transmitted therethrough.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes a stacked body, a first insulator, and a first shim. The stacked body includes electrolyte-electrode assemblies and separators. The electrolyte-electrode assemblies are stacked in a stacking direction and have a first end electrolyte-electrode assembly disposed at a first end of the stacked body. The separators includes a first end separator disposed at the first end of the stacked body between the first end electrolyte-electrode assembly and a first contact end plate having a first contact surface which the first end separator contacts. The first shim is provided in a first recess between the first contact end plate and the first insulator and has a thickness such that an outer peripheral surface of the first end separator is positioned between the first contact surface of the first contact end plate and an outer peripheral surface of the first insulator in the stacking direction.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes a plurality of power generation units, a reactant gas channel, and a coolant channel. The plurality of power generation units are stacked in a stacking direction to provide a stacked body and each includes a first separator, a first electrolyte electrode assembly, a second separator, a second electrolyte electrode assembly, and a third separator. The first electrolyte electrode assembly is provided on the first separator. The second separator is provided on the first electrolyte electrode assembly. The second electrolyte electrode assembly is provided on the second separator. The first electrolyte electrode assembly and the second electrolyte electrode assembly each include an electrolyte and a pair of electrodes sandwiching the electrolyte therebetween. The third separator is provided on the second electrolyte electrode assembly.

Abstract: To provide a media determining apparatus for enabling transparency of a medium to be determined at low cost, the media determining apparatus is provided with a transport section that transports a medium, a sensor including a light emitting device and a light receiving device to detect the medium, and a control section that detects the medium transported with the transport section corresponding to an output voltage of the sensor. The control section determines transparency of the medium by comparing the output voltage A of the sensor before a front end of the medium arrives at a detection position of the sensor, the output voltage B of the sensor when the front end arrives at the detection position, and the output voltage C of the sensor after the front end arriving at the detection position.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a dark correction unit configured to obtain a dark corrected image by removing a dark image obtained in a state without radiation irradiation from an object image obtained by radiation irradiation; an addition value obtaining unit configured to analyze pixel values included in a plurality of dark corrected images and, based on an analysis result of the pixel values including a negative pixel value, obtain an addition value used to correct the negative pixel value; and an adding unit configured to add the addition value to the pixel values of the dark corrected image.

Abstract: An image processing device and a radiography apparatus each include a pixel selection unit configured to select pixels of an image based on pixel values of pixels of the image obtained by capturing an image of a subject, and a subtraction processing unit configured to subtract, from the image, a line artifact extracted using a profile in predetermined direction and is based on the pixels selected by the pixel selection unit.

Abstract: A cable fixing structure of a fuel cell stack fixes together a connector housing containing a substrate and a flat cable joined to the substrate. The cable fixing structure includes a fixing part provided for the connector housing, and having a convexly curved surface, and a heat contraction tube configured to surround the flat cable and the fixing part, and press the flat cable against the convexly curved surface.

Abstract: A radiographing apparatus for identifying a contour of a predetermined target structure of a subject in an image, includes an area setting unit configured to set a contour search area where the contour is to be searched based on anatomical features of the structure of the subject, a contour candidate setting unit configured to set a contour candidate of the target structure, and a contour adjustment unit configured to adjust the contour candidate to approximate the contour candidate included in the contour search area to the contour of the target structure.

Abstract: Culture media, which contain chelated iron, promote cell proliferation of neural stem cells and/or neural progenitor cells while maintaining undifferentiated state and multipotency.

Abstract: A medium, which contains human serum albumin, is useful for proliferating neural stem cells and/or neural progenitor cells.

Abstract: A plant water dynamics sensor usable for measuring the dynamics of water flowing in a fine point of a plant such as a distal end of a new branch or a pedicel comprises a heater-equipped temperature probe including a temperature sensor and a heater; a temperature probe including a temperature sensor; an electrical resistance probe including an electrical resistance measurement electrode; and a support that supports the probes while the probes are aligned parallel to each other. The position of a xylem XY can be detected based on an electrical resistance measured at the electrical resistance probe, so that each of the temperature sensors can be arranged correctly in a position at a phloem PH or at the xylem XY. This facilitates attachment of a plant water dynamics sensor and water dynamics in a plant can be measured with high accuracy.

Abstract: An electronic part embedded substrate is disclosed. The electronic part embedded substrate includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an electronic part, an electrically connecting member, and a sealing member. A method of producing an electronic part embedded substrate is also disclosed. The method includes mounting an electronic part onto a first substrate, laminating a second substrate on the first substrate through an electrically connecting member; and filling a space between the first substrate and the second substrate with a sealing member to seal the electronic part.

Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus includes: a storage unit configured to store original image data associated with a medical image; and an intermediate information generation unit configured to generate, on the basis of the original image data, intermediate information used in predetermined image processing of generating reference image data on the basis of the original image data, and to store the generated intermediate information in the storage unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a first correction unit configured to perform correction processing of subtracting a first dark image obtained in a state without radiation irradiation from an object image, thereby removing a dark component of the object image; an evaluation value obtaining unit configured to obtain an evaluation value by a varying dark component included in a corrected image that has undergone the correction processing based on the first dark image and a second dark image obtained after the first dark image; and a second correction unit configured to perform correction processing of removing the varying dark component from the corrected image based on the evaluation value.

Abstract: A permanent magnet of an embodiment includes: a composition represented by a composition formula: R(FepMqCurCo1-p-q-r)z, where R is at least one element selected from rare-earth elements, M is at least one element selected from Zr, Ti, and Hf, and relations of 0.3?p?0.4, 0.01?q?0.05, 0.01?r?0.1, and 7?z?8.5 (atomic ratio) are satisfied; and a structure including a cell phase having a Th2Zn17 crystal phase, and a cell wall phase existing to surround the cell phase. An average magnetization of the cell wall phase is 0.2 T or less.

Abstract: An electronic part embedded substrate is disclosed. The electronic part embedded substrate includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an electronic part, an electrically connecting member, and a sealing member. A method of producing an electronic part embedded substrate is also disclosed. The method includes mounting an electronic part onto a first substrate, laminating a second substrate on the first substrate through an electrically connecting member; and filling a space between the first substrate and the second substrate with a sealing member to seal the electronic part.

Abstract: The magnet has a composition expressed by RpFeqMrCutCo100-p-q-r-t. The magnet has a metallic structure including a main phase having a Th2Zn17 crystal phase. The main phase has crystal grains. 5% or less of the crystal grains having a grain diameter equal to or smaller than 10 ?m, 40% or less of the crystal grains having crystal orientation perpendicular to (001) plane of the Th2Zn17 crystal phase in a direction deviated 30 degrees or more relative to an axis of easy magnetization.

Abstract: The embodiments provide a high-performance permanent magnet. The permanent magnet includes a sintered body having a composition expressed by a composition formula RpFeqMrCutCo100-p-q-r-t, with carbon in a range from 50 mass ppm to 1500 mass ppm. The sintered body also includes a metallic structure. The metallic structure includes a main phase having a Th2Zn17 crystal phase, and a secondary phase having a carbide phase of the M element of the composition formula. A ratio (I2/I1) of a maximum intensity I2 of a diffraction peak at an angle 2? in a range from 37.5 degrees to 38.5 degrees to a maximum intensity I1 of a diffraction peak at the angle 2? in a range from 32.5 degrees to 33.5 degrees is greater than 25 but no greater than 80 in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by applying an X-ray diffraction measuring method to the sintered body.