Abstract: A method and system for acquiring a series of medical images includes receiving medical imaging data corresponding to photons emitted from a subject having received a dose of a radiotracer. Determining, from the medical imaging data, coincidence events including photon coincidence events involving two photons and photon coincidence events involving more than two photons. The photon coincidence events involving two photons and photon coincidence events involving more than two photons are processed and use to reconstruct a series of medical images of the subject.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to develop and provide an epithelial ovarian cancer diagnosis marker with which epithelial ovarian cancer can be detected inexpensively, conveniently, and low invasively with high accuracy, and a method for determining the presence or absence of epithelial ovarian cancer using the marker. The present invention provides a glycoprotein having a glycan-linked asparagine residue at a particular site of the glycoprotein secreted from an epithelial ovarian cancer cell, or a fragment thereof having the glycan as an epithelial ovarian cancer diagnosis marker. The present invention also provides a method for determining the presence or absence of epithelial ovarian cancer using the glycoprotein.

Abstract: Provided are electronic devices having quantum dots and methods of manufacturing the same. An electronic device includes a first nanorod, a quantum dot disposed on an upper surface of the first nanorod, and a second nanorod that covers a lateral surface of the first nanorod and the quantum dot. The first nanorod and the second nanorod are of opposite types.

Abstract: Provided is a micro-chip for diagnosis, including a unit process part located apart from a rotation center, which includes: a target substance capturing unit having a capture passage and a capturing means filling a capture passage; a sample storing unit connected to capture passage and giving an inner space in which a sample is stored; a washing buffer chamber connected to the capture passage and giving an inner space in which a washing buffer is stored; an elution buffer chamber connected to the capture passage and giving an inner space in which an elution buffer is stored; a reaction solution chamber giving a space in which a reaction solution required for a PCR process is stored; a discharge passage connected to the target substance capturing unit and the reaction solution chamber; a wasted solution chamber connected to the discharge passage; and a target substance chamber connected to the discharge passage.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a noise cancellation apparatus and method, which select in advance parameters to be used for noise cancellation in a reference voice signal section by generating a reference voice signal in advance before a voice signal is generated, thus improving noise cancellation effects. The noise cancellation apparatus includes a parameter initialization unit for determining an initial value of a parameter to be used for noise cancellation, based on reference signals filtered for respective frequencies, a parameter estimation unit for receiving the initial value of the parameter, and estimating the parameter in response to signals that are input after being filtered for respective frequencies, a gain estimation unit for calculating gains for respective frequencies based on the parameter from the parameter estimation unit, and a gain application unit for cancelling noise by applying the gains to the signals that are input after being filtered for respective frequencies.

Abstract: A machine tool design method includes: receiving a finite element model of tool-spindle system including a cutting tool, a working spindle speed range, and a target cutting depth; providing a simplified finite element model of main frames of machine tool and initializing its configuration parameters including an equivalent stiffness and an equivalent mass; combining the simplified finite element model of main frames of machine tool with the finite element model of tool-spindle system to construct an equivalent machine tool model; according to a response of the configuration parameters, proceeding a cutting stability prediction of the equivalent machine tool model, and computing an objective function value based on a predicted result; and determining whether the objective function value meets a preset design requirement, if yes, employing the configuration parameters to be references to design a machine tool, if not, updating the configuration parameters and proceeding the cutting stability prediction again.

Abstract: Provided is a brain activity training apparatus for training to cause a change in correlation of connectivity among brain regions, utilizing measured correlations of connections among brains regions as feedback information. From measured data of resting-state functional connectivity MRI of a healthy group and a patient group (S102), correlation matrix of degree of brain activities among prescribed brain regions is derived for each subject. Feature extraction is executed (S104) by regularized canonical correlation analysis on the correlation matrix and attributes of the subject including a disease/healthy label of the subject. Based on the result of regularized canonical correlation analysis, by discriminant analysis through sparse logistic regression, a discriminator is generated (S108). The brain activity training apparatus feeds back a reward value to the subject based on the result of discriminator on the data of functional connectivity MRI of the subject.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for manufacturing a P-type MOSFET, comprising: forming a part of the MOSFET on a semiconductor substrate, the part of the MOSFET comprising source/drain regions in the semiconductor substrate, a replacement gate stack between the source/drain regions above the semiconductor substrate, and a gate spacer surrounding the replacement gate stack; removing the replacement gate stack of the MOSFET to form a gate opening exposing a surface of the semiconductor substrate; forming an interface oxide layer on the exposed surface of the semiconductor; forming a high-K gate dielectric layer on the interface oxide layer in the gate opening; forming a first metal gate layer on the high-K gate dielectric layer; implanting dopant ions into the first metal gate layer; and performing annealing to cause the dopant ions to diffuse and accumulate at an upper interface between the high-K gate dielectric layer and the first metal gate layer and a lower interface between the high-K gate diele

Abstract: A device packaging method and a device package using the same may be provided. The device packaging method includes forming a package sacrificial layer by applying a first material on a substrate on which a device has been formed; forming a package cap by applying a second material on the package sacrificial layer; generating gas molecules from the package sacrificial layer by applying external stimuli such as light or heat to the package sacrificial layer; and heating the gas molecule and forming a cavity between the device and the package cap.

Abstract: A medical image registration method and apparatus are described. By performance of a medical image registration method, a highly accurate registered image, in which breathing deformation information is considered, may be obtained by generation of non-real-time medical images in which the breathing deformation information is reflected before a medical procedure is conducted and by rigid registration of a real-time medical image and the generated non-real-time medical images during the medical procedure.

Abstract: The invention provides the nucleotide sequence and amino acid sequence of the CDR3 domain of the T cell receptor (TCR) gene of a WT1-specific cytotoxic T cell (CTL) against WT1 protein. Also provided are a method for testing for and treating cancer using the nucleotide sequence and amino acid sequence, and a chip, primer set, kit, and device for testing for cancer comprising the nucleotide sequence and amino acid sequence.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a MOSFET, including: forming a shallow trench isolation (STI) in a semiconductor substrate to define an active region for the MOSFET; performing etching with the STI as a mask, to expose a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and to protrude a portion of the STI with respect to the surface of the semiconductor substrate, resulting in a protruding portion; forming a first spacer on sidewalls of the protruding portion; forming a gate stack on the semiconductor substrate; forming a second spacer surrounding the gate stack; forming openings in the semiconductor substrate with the STI, the gate stack, the first spacer and the second spacer as a mask; epitaxially growing a semiconductor layer with a bottom surface and sidewalls of each of the openings as a growth seed layer; and performing ion implantation into the semiconductor layer to form source and drain regions.

Abstract: A touch panel may include a substrate, a touch unit region and a covering layer. The touch unit region includes first electrode and a second electrode isolated from the first electrode. The covering layer covers at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode and has a touch surface. A distance between the touch surface and the first electrode or the second electrode ranges between 0.01 micrometers and 100 micrometers. A mutual capacitance value between the first electrode and the second electrode ranges between 0.1 pF and 10 pF when a touch has not occurred yet.

Abstract: A coal gasification process is provided based on the grading conversion of carbon hydrogen components of coal, wherein the coal gasification process comprises a carbonization process, a carbon monoxide-producing process and a shift reaction process. By blending the coke-oven gas, carbon monoxide and hydrogen produced in the above processes in different ratios, coal gasification syngases with various carbon hydrogen ratios can be obtained. Further, the coal gasification process does not need pure oxygen to take part in the reactions, and has several advantages, such as high gasification efficiency, low equipment investment costs, less limitation on the types of coal and flexible adjustment of the gasification products.

Abstract: The present subject matter describes Ni—Al—Zr alloys, which include Ni as the major component, with the additions of 9-20% Al and 4-14% Zr by atomic percentage. In one embodiment, the present subject matter describes a group of alloy compositions in a Nickel-Aluminium-Zirconium (Ni—Al—Zr) system corresponding to a concentration range of about 9-20% Al and about 4-14% Zr by atomic percentages, and the balance being Ni. In other embodiment, the present subject matter includes at least one cutectic constituent including at least two of the intermetallic compounds or phases Ni3Al, NiAl, Ni5Zr, Ni7Zr2 and derivatives that are realized within the aforementioned composition group.

Abstract: As a result of dedicated studies, the present inventors succeeded in discovering, for the first time, that fibrogenesis could be suppressed at the physiological tissue level by inhibiting sulfation at position 4 or 6 of GalNAc, which is a sugar that constitutes sugar chains. Furthermore, the present inventors conducted studies using various disease model animals, and as a result, successfully demonstrated that inhibitors of sulfation at position 4 or 6 of GalNAc had therapeutic effects on diseases caused by tissue fibrogenesis (tissue fibrogenic disorders).

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for encoding/decoding a moving picture based on adaptive scanning. The moving picture apparatus and method can increase a compression rate based on adaptive scanning by performing intra prediction onto blocks of a predetermined size, and scanning coefficients acquired from Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) of a residue signal and quantization differently according to the intra prediction mode. The moving picture encoding apparatus includes: a mode selector for selecting and outputting a prediction mode; a predictor for predicting pixel values of pixels to be encoded of an input video based on the prediction mode to thereby output a residue signal block; a transform/quantization unit for performing DCT onto the residue signal block and quantizing the transformed residue signal block; and an encoder for adaptively scanning and encoding the quantized residue signal block based on the prediction mode.

Abstract: Provided are compounds comprising oligonucleotides complementary to a fibronectin transcript. Certain such compounds are useful for hybridizing to a fibronectin transcript, including but not limited to a fibronectin transcript in a cell. Such hybridization results in modulation of splicing of the fibronectin transcript. Such compounds are used to treat one or more symptoms associated with fibrosis. Such compounds are used to treat one or more symptoms associated with renal fibrosis.

Abstract: A device is disclosed for reconstitution and delivery of an injectable pharmaceutical. A diluent is provided in a pressurized reservoir, while separately a syringe with a needle contains a pharmaceutical such as a lyophilized drug. When the pressurized reservoir is coupled to the interior of the syringe, such as by piercing the pressurized reservoir with the needle, the pressurized reservoir forces the diluent into the syringe where the diluent can mix with and reconstitute the pharmaceutical. A variety of techniques are disclosed for pressurizing the reservoir and fluidly coupling the reservoir with the syringe. The techniques disclosed herein may, for example, be adapted for use with a conventional syringe and needle.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the prevention and/or treatment of metastatic cancer. Certain example embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for preventing and/or treating a metastatic cancer in a subject. The method comprises administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of a chemokine receptor CCX-CKR.