Abstract: A separation device is disclosed along with systems and methods employing the device in blood processing procedures. In one embodiment, a spinning membrane separator is provided. Automated systems and methods are disclosed for separating a unit of previously-collected whole blood into selected blood components, such as concentrated red cells and plasma, including prediction of the hematocrit of the whole blood using a light source and an optical sensor.

Abstract: The present invention provides a device for detecting foreign matter and a method for detecting foreign matter to detect a foreign matter on a surface of an object such as a film of an electrode mixture etc. or a foreign matter contained in the object, thereby to improve the reliability of the object. By irradiating an object with a terahertz illumination light 100 (wavelength of 4 ?m to 10 mm) and detecting a scattered light 660 from an electrode 10 as an example of the object by a scattered light detector 200, a foreign matter on a surface of the electrode 10 or contained in the electrode 10, for example, a metal foreign matter 720, is detected. The electrode 10 is one in which electrode mixture layers 700 each including an active material 701, conductive additive and a binder as components are coated on both surfaces of a collector 710. The scattered light 660 results from a part of a transmitted light 656 reflected by the metal foreign matter 720.

Abstract: Reconstruction in positron emission tomography is performed with partially known attenuation. A PET-CT scanner is used to generate a PET image with time of flight emission information. To limit x-ray dose while providing increased sensitivity at the ends of the CT volume in the PET image, attenuation coefficients for oblique LORs passing outside the CT volume are determined from the time of flight emission information. The attenuation coefficients for LORs within the CT volume are derived from the CT data. An objective function may be maximized for the emission distribution without reconstructing the attenuation distribution.

Abstract: A system for emitting X-ray energy is disclosed. An X-ray emitter emits photons in a first X-ray band toward a first photon conversion layer. The first photon conversion layer receives the photons in the first X-ray band and converts the photons in the first X-ray band to photons in a plurality of different second predetermined X-ray bands. The first photon conversion layer emits the photons in the plurality of different second predetermined X-ray bands in a downstream direction toward a second photon conversion layer.

Abstract: The provided optical system allows selective spectral transfer of radiation, and provides a reflecting field of view at an undesired range directed towards cold surfaces. A removable spectral filter having a high transmittance at a first spectral range and a low transmittance at a second spectral range is disposed outside a cold shield. A reflective surface faces the detecting device and provides the detector a reflecting field of view at the second spectral range directed back towards the cold shield, and a blackened cold skirt thereof. Alternatively, a dichroic mirror is disposed inside the cold shield and has a high reflectance at a first spectral range and a high transmittance at a second range. The detecting device includes a first and a second arm of the cold shield to accommodate respective optical channels.

Abstract: An inspecting device inspects an inspecting target that is a semiconductor device or a photo device. The inspecting device includes: a stage for holding an inspecting target; a femtosecond laser for emitting pulsed light; a galvano mirror for obliquely irradiating the inspecting target with the pulsed light, while changing an optical path of the pulsed light, to scan the inspecting target with the pulsed light; and a detection part for detecting an electromagnetic wave emitted non-coaxially with the pulsed light from the inspecting target in accordance with the illumination with the pulsed light.

Abstract: The invention relates to a radiation detector (100; 101; 102; 103; 104; 105; 106), having a scintillator (120) for generating electromagnetic radiation (202) in response to the action of incident radiation (200). The scintillator (120) has two opposing end faces (121; 122) and a lateral wall (123) between the end faces (121; 122). The radiation detector has, in addition, a conversion system (160) located on the lateral wall (123) of the scintillator (120), said system comprising a plurality of channels (165). Each channel (165) has a photocathode section (130; 131; 132) for generating electrons (204) in response to the action of electromagnetic radiation (202) that is generated by the scintillator (120), said electrons being multipliable by impact processes in the channels (165). A detection system (170) for detecting electrons (204) that have been multiplied in the channels (165) of the conversion system (160) is also provided.

Abstract: A vertical radiation sensitive detector array (114) includes at least one detector leaf (118). The detector leaf includes a scintillator array (210, 502, 807, 907), including, at least, a top side (212) which receives radiation, a bottom side (218) and a rear side (214) and a photo-sensor circuit board (200, 803, 903), including a photo-sensitive region (202, 508, 803, 903), optically coupled to the rear side of the scintillator array. The detector leaf further includes processing electronics (406) disposed below the scintillator array, a flexible circuit board (220) electrically coupling the photo-sensitive region and the processing electronics, and a radiation shield (236) disposed below the bottom of the scintillator array, between the scintillator and the processing electronics, thereby shielding the processing electronics from residual radiation passing through the scintillator array. Some embodiments incorporate rare earth iodides such as SrI 2 (Eu).

Abstract: A vibrating mirror element includes a drive control portion configured to control the driving of a correction drive portion to keep the turning angle velocity of a mirror portion substantially constant by oscillating the mirror portion about an axis at a non-resonance frequency in a direction opposite to a direction in which a resonant drive portion oscillates the mirror portion.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods of characterizing a subterranean formation sample including collecting a sample from a formation, and analyzing the formation to obtain an image with 100 nm or less resolution, wherein the analyzing comprises atomic force microscopy (AFM), infrared spectroscopy (IR), and thermal analysis. Kerogen maturity, mineralogy, kerogen content, mechanical properties, and transition temperatures—including registered maps of those quantities—may be obtained in 5 minutes or less. Some embodiments may use a scanning electron microscope.

Abstract: An optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dosimeter system. An OSL reader configured to produce data indicative of a radiation exposure, one or more OSL dosimeters fabricated from a thermoluminescent material, a light stimulation source configured to stimulate the OSL dosimeter to produce luminescence emissions, and a light-detection system that measures the intensity of such luminescence emissions and converts the electrical signal to a binary string that can be processed by an appropriately programmed computer configured to analyze data from the reader and produce data indicative of an extent of radiation exposure. Dose information is obtained without requiring heating of the dosimeter. The dosimeter can be interrogated multiple times with minimal loss of dose information.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel method and a device for determining middle and protein bound uremic toxins in the biological fluids. More specifically, the present invention relates to an optical method utilizing fluorescence, preferable fluorescence of the spent dialysate, and a specific model, including a unique set of optical spectral components at certain wavelengths, to determine, preferable on-line, the concentration of the middle and protein bound uremic toxins such as beta2-microglobulin (B2M), and indoxyl sulfate (IS).

Abstract: A bearing (X) inside which a lubricant is able to be sealed is provided with: a rotary motion body (X2) that moves when a rotation drive force is applied; and a rotation angle indicator (X6) that is provided on the rotary motion body (X2) and that is moved, in conjunction with the movement of the rotary motion body (X2), to a position that corresponds to the rotation angle of the rotary motion body (X2).

Abstract: Improvement in luminescence intensity is demanded from a scintillator material. The present invention provides a new scintillator material by adding a specific element selected from thallium and indium to a material having a basic composition represented by an alkali element:copper:a halogen element=3:2:5.

Abstract: A detecting apparatus includes a substrate that permits visible light to pass therethrough, a converting element that includes a pixel electrode, an impurity semiconductor layer, and a semiconductor layer arranged in that order from a side adjacent to the substrate and is configured to convert radiation or light into charge, and a light source configured to emit the visible light through the substrate to the converting element. The pixel electrode includes a metal layer that permits the visible light to pass therethrough.

Abstract: A solid state detector with alpha rhombohedral red boron is disclosed. The solid state detector detects neutrons, especially thermal neutrons. The detector may include a body of alpha rhombohedral red boron disposed between electrodes, a power supply for applying a voltage to said electrodes, and a detecting device that detects and measures a current pulse emitted from said body of alpha rhombohedral red boron to detect the neutrons.

Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of acquiring high-precision range information in a short time is provided. Alternatively, a semiconductor device capable of acquiring the range information and image information concurrently in a short time is provided. The accuracy of range information is increased by performing infrared light irradiation more than once to acquire a detection signal and making infrared light irradiation periods identical and extremely short. By detecting light reflected from substantially the same points of an object by adjacent photodiodes, the accuracy of range information can be maintained even when the object is a moving object. By overlapping a photodiode absorbing visible light and transmitting infrared light with a photodiode absorbing infrared light, range information and image information can be acquired concurrently.

Abstract: A vehicle detection device includes: an antenna configured to sense electromagnetic waves; an image generation unit configured to generate a radio wave image; a road surface region detection unit configured to detect a road surface region in the radio wave image; a symmetry axis setting unit configured to set a first symmetry axis at a part of the boundary of the road surface region; a road surface reflection region setting unit configured to set a horizontal central line at a center of the radio wave image and set a road surface reflection region between the central line and the first symmetry axis; and a vehicle detection unit configured to compare the waveform of pixel outputs in the road surface reflection region with the waveform of pixel outputs in the road surface region and to detect the road surface reflection region as a vehicle.

Abstract: A spectrometer has a first and second light sources (12, 14) which generate light radiation (24) in a first and second wavelength ranges, and a mirror unit (16) for deflecting the light radiation (24, 26) into a measurement path (18), arranged so that the radiation of both wavelength ranges (24, 26) runs through on the same optical path. A detector (20) detects radiation (24, 26) running through the measurement path (18) and an evaluation unit (22) evaluates the radiation (24, 26) incident at the detector (20) and for determining a concentration of a measurement gas component present in the measurement path (18). The mirror unit (16) is configured as a micromirror array (32) and that a single micromirror (34) only deflects a portion of the radiation (24, 26).

Abstract: The direction of the main axis of a bearing is adjusted by turning a supporting base (12a) that is supporting the bearing, and by then receiving a neutron beam that has been transmitted through the bearing from the direction of the main axis thereof, and converting it into an electromagnetic wave, and by then forming images using the received electromagnetic wave, lubricant distribution data that shows the distribution of a lubricant inside the bearing is acquired.