Abstract: The invention relates to a conductor arrangement (10), to a method for the production thereof, and to a method for using a conductor arrangement, wherein the conductor arrangement for an electric machine, particularly an electric motor, can be moved relative to magnetically active components of the electric machine, wherein the conductor arrangement comprises at least one electrical conductor (12, 13, 14, 15) and a carrier (11) for spatially positioning the conductor, wherein the conductor comprises at least one conductor strand (18, 19, 20, 21) and is arranged in the manner of a coil, and wherein the conductor strand comprises conductor sections (27, 28, 29, 30) that are arranged, at least in sections, perpendicular and parallel to a direction of motion of the carrier or the components, and wherein at least one outer conductor section (27, 28) arranged parallel to the direction of motion has a cross section that is larger than the cross section of the other conductor sections (29, 30).

Abstract: The invention relates to a positioning system (10) for positioning an object relative to a technical facility, in particular an observation, measurement or processing system or the like, comprising an object carrier device for receiving the object to be positioned, and a positioning device (12) for positioning the object carrier device, wherein the positioning device has a drive facility for driving the object carrier device, wherein the drive facility has two linear motors (21; 22), arranged such that positioning of the object carrier device in two axes is possible, wherein the positioning device has a measurement facility (23), and wherein the drive facility and the measurement facility are arranged in a manner interposed between a referencing base (26) of the positioning device and the object carrier device.

Abstract: A method for digitizing and displaying thermographic records of biological or technical structures which makes it possible to recognize abnormal temperature distributions even if they are very small or the corresponding regions differ only very slightly in their temperature value from the adjacent temperature values. In this method, the temperature values at each image point of a thermogram are digitized and the slope of the local change in temperature, i.e. the temperature gradient, is calculated for each image point on basis of its temperature and the measured temperature values of its neighboring points. For a selected image region the local distribution of the temperature gradients is displayed. Abnormal temperature distributions can be recognized from this display at places where large temperature gradients are present.The method is particularly advantageous for use in the field of medicine and serves there for the detection of carcinomas and particularly breast cancer.