Abstract: A phantom body (PB) for use in a differential phase contrast imaging apparatus (IM) for calibration of same. The phantom body (PB) allows for simultaneous calibration of three different image signal channels, namely refraction, phase shift and small angle scattering.

Abstract: The invention relates to a modification arrangement for an X-ray generating device, a modification method, a computer program element for controlling such device and a computer readable medium having stored such computer program element. The modification arrangement comprises a cathode, an anode (2) and modification means, e.g. a modification device. The cathode is configured to provide an electron beam (15). The anode (2) is configured to rotate under impact of the electron beam (15) and is segmented by slits (21) arranged around the anode's circumference. The modification means are configured to modify the electron beam (15) when the electron beam (15) is hitting one of the anode's rotating slits (21).

Abstract: A respiration appliance, system, and method for supporting the airway of a subject as the subject breaths. The flow of gas from the lungs of the subject during exhalation is leveraged to provide support to the airway. In particular, a body that encloses one or more external orifices of the subject provides a resistance differential between inhaled gas flows and exhaled gas flows that supports the subject's airway.

Abstract: A method is described of probing a network route using a pairs of probe packets in which the first packets are typically smaller than the second. A first pair of probe packets with size ratio [L1/L2] and a second pair of probe packets with different size ratio [M1/M2] are transmitted onto a network route. An indicator of time taken for the second probe packet in the packet pairs to traverse the network route is derived and it is identified whether the values of the derived indicators vary or are substantially the same. The method, which can be used to probe home or domestic networks, indicates whether the first link in the route is or is not a bottleneck link, thereby providing further information about the route. A test apparatus, gateway device and computer to perform the method are also disclosed.

Abstract: Depiction, within a single imaging modality, of an intervention device and body tissue surrounding the device, is improved by interrogating a subject that includes the intervention device and the tissue. An image is created using, for a parameter, a value, of the parameter (160), better suited to one or the other of a device region depicting the intervention device and a tissue region depicting the tissue. The value is used to yield respectively either a first image (152) or a second image (154). Respective presets may correspondingly have different values for the parameter. From jointly the first image and the second image which are both of the single modality, a combination is formed that is an image of the intervention device depicted as surrounded by the tissue. The combinations may be formed dynamically and ongoingly.

Abstract: A guard element (4) for use in a hair cutting unit as a guard of a movable hair cutting element of the hair cutting unit has a disc-shaped base (10) and an annular wall (20) comprising a main part (21) extending from the periphery of the base (10), and a flange-shaped part (22) comprising an outwardly bent section (24). The annular wall (20) is reinforced on the basis of at least one of a design where a smallest inner periphery of the flange-shaped part (22) has a diameter which is smaller than a diameter of a largest inner periphery of a straight section (23) of the main part (21) connected to the periphery of the base (10), and a design where a free end section (25) of the flange-shaped part (22) is at least partially bent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a light emitting diode component, comprising a light emitting semiconductor structure having a top surface, and a micro-optical multilayer structure arranged to guide light out from said light emitting semiconductor structure, said micro-optical multilayer structure comprising a plurality of layers, wherein an i+1:th layer is arranged on top an i:th layer in a sequence as seen from said semiconductor structure, wherein a refractive index, ni, of the i:th layer is greater than a refractive index, ni+l, of the i+1:th layer, and wherein a thickness of the i+1:th layer is greater than a thickness of the i:th layer. The present invention also relates to a light emitting diode comprising such a light emitting diode component.

Abstract: In a predictive outcome assessment test for predicting whether a patient undergoing a breast cancer treatment regimen will achieve pathological complete response (pCR), differential gene expression level information are generated for an input set of genes belonging to the TGF-? signaling pathway. The differential gene expression level information compares baseline gene expression level information from a baseline sample (70) of a breast tumor of a patient acquired before initiating (71) a breast cancer therapy regimen to the patient and response gene expression level information from a response sample (72) of the breast tumor acquired after initiating the breast cancer therapy regimen by administering a first dose of bevacizumab to the patient. A pCR prediction for the patient is computed based on the differential gene expression level information for the input set of genes belonging to the TGF-? signaling pathway. Related predictive outcome assessment test development methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A waveguide structure for optical coupling is provided. The waveguide structure includes a first waveguide embedded in a cladding of a lower refractive index than the first waveguide, a second waveguide of a higher refractive index than the cladding, and an intermediate waveguide. The first waveguide and the second waveguide are physically arranged at the same side of the intermediate waveguide to establish an optical coupling between the first waveguide and the second waveguide through the intermediate waveguide. The first waveguide material has a refractive index value smaller than or equal to 3.

Abstract: A system and method for offer targeting is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for offer targeting may comprise: providing a plurality of offers and a plurality of groups, wherein each group comprises one or more accounts; maintaining an offer counter for each of the plurality of groups; and assigning the plurality of offers, in a predetermined order, to the plurality of groups by repeating the following steps: (1) assigning an offer to one or more groups, wherein the one or more groups are selected from groups that are pre-qualified for the offer based on a plurality of business rules, and the selection of the one or more groups is based at least in part on the offer counters of the one or more groups; (2) incrementing offer counters associated with the one or more groups; and (3) sorting the plurality of groups based on the incremented offer counters.

Abstract: The invention provides for a Dixon method of controlling a magnetic resonance imaging (100) system. Acquiring (200) Dixon magnetic resonance data (142), first calibration magnetic resonance data (144), and second calibration magnetic resonance data (146) using pulse sequence commands (140). To cause the magnetic resonance imaging system to execute multiple pulse repetitions (310). The multiple pulse repetitions causes the magnetic resonance imaging system to generate a Dixon readout gradient (320) along a readout direction (402). The pulse sequence commands cause the processor to perform one or more first modified pulse repetitions (306) and one or more second modified pulse repetitions (308).

Abstract: A method (400) for determining a user's compliance with a guided cleaning session during use of an oral cleaning device (10) includes the steps of: (i) providing (410) an oral cleaning device including a sensor (28), a guidance generator (46), and a controller (30); (ii) providing (420), by the guidance generator, a guided cleaning session to the user; (iii) generating (430), at a first location during the guided cleaning session, sensor data from the sensor indicating a position or motion of the oral cleaning device; (iv) comparing (440) the generated sensor data to expected sensor data for the first location; and (v) generating (450), based on the comparison, an estimate of the user's compliance with the guided cleaning session.

Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a network device (such as a patient monitoring device) and related method and non-transitory media including one or more of the following: a wireless communication interface; patient monitoring hardware for measuring at least one physiological parameter of a patient; and a processor configured to: provide a protocol stack for enabling communication via the wireless communication interface, transmit the at least one physiological parameter via the protocol stack and the wireless communication interface, request wireless access point (AP) information about a plurality of APs from the protocol stack, generate a connectivity report based on the AP information, and transmit the connectivity report to a remote server via the protocol stack and the wireless communication interface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a skin treatment device comprising a housing (10) with a handle section (11), a disc-shaped skin treatment element (21), a drive mechanism incorporated in said housing and coupled to said skin treatment element for driving said skin treatment element into rotational movement about a rotational axis, wherein said skin treatment element has a first skin treatment surface (22) and a second skin treatment surface (25), said first skin treatment surface (22) being oriented axially with respect to said rotational axis, said second skin treatment surface (25) being oriented radially with respect to said rotational axis and extending along a circumference of the skin treatment element.

Abstract: A level shifting circuit receives a first input signal and complement of the first input signal as inputs and generates a level shifted first output signal and complement of the first output signal as outputs. The level shifting circuit includes a number of transistors that support body biasing. One set of body bias signals applied to certain ones of those transistors is generated as a function of the logical combination of the first input signal and the first output signal. Another set of body bias signals applied to certain other ones of those transistors is generated as a function of the logical combination of the complement of the first input signal and the complement of the first output signal. The conditional body bias applied to the transistors of the level shifting circuit makes the circuit operational for level shift at very low supply voltage levels.

Abstract: A computer (10) displays an information data set (22) in a viewport (30) using a first type of rendering (42) when the viewport is in a first viewport geometry space (52), and displays the information data set in the viewport using a second type of rendering (44) when the viewport is in a second viewport geometry space (54). The viewport may be resized by a user. While displaying the first type of rendering, resizing of the viewport into the second viewport geometry space is detected and in response the computer transitions to displaying the information data set using the second type of rendering. Likewise, while displaying the information data set in the viewport using the second type of rendering, resizing of the viewport into the first viewport geometry space is detected and in response the computer transitions to displaying the information data set using the first type of rendering.

Abstract: An ultrasound device comprises a transducer arrangement and an acoustically transmissive window over said arrangement, said window comprising an elastomer layer having conductive particles dispersed in the elastomer, the elastomer layer having a pressure-sensitive conductivity. An electroactive material actuator is provided for biasing the transducer arrangement towards the transmissive window. The electroactive material actuator is controlled in dependence on a measured pressure-sensitive conductivity. In this way, a feedback system is provided for controlling a contact pressure. The device can be implemented with low cost and with low power consumption.

Abstract: An illuminable pointer assembly for an instrument panel includes a transparent or translucent base, a transparent or translucent pointer blade, and a hub mounted on the base and supporting the pointer blade. The assembly is miniaturized or capable of being miniaturized by integrating reflectors into a lower surface of the pointer blade to internally reflect light propagated upwardly through the base in a lateral direction to uniformly illuminate the pointer blade.

Abstract: An ultrasound transducer assembly is disclosed, comprising: a plurality of ultrasound transducer elements for receiving ultrasound waves and for providing transducer signals corresponding to the respectively received ultrasound waves. The assembly comprises a plurality of signal combiners for providing different output signals on the basis of the transducer signals, and a plurality of timing elements for providing different time shifts to the transducer signals. Each of the ultrasound transducer elements is connected to a plurality of the signal combiners for providing the transducer signals including the different time shifts to different of the signal combiners.

Abstract: A system and method for mapping interluminal structures includes an elongated flexible instrument (102). An optical shape sensing device (152, 154) is disposed within the flexible instrument and is configured to determine a shape of the flexible instrument relative to a reference. The shape sensing device is configured to collect information based on its configuration to map an interluminal structure during a procedure. An imaging enabled ablation device (117) is mounted at or near a distal end portion of the flexible instrument.