Abstract: A property information acquiring apparatus according to the present invention includes a supporting unit that supports an object person, a holding unit that holds an object area, and a receiving unit that receives information about properties of the object area by being positioned near the supporting unit, wherein the holding unit includes a restricting unit that restricts deformation generated in the supporting unit by the object person being supported by the supporting unit.

Abstract: [Problems] To provide a marker which is useful in diagnosing leukemia and a method of using the same. [Means for Solving Problems] A method of detecting a leukemia cell which comprises detecting a CD34-positive cell being negative in DOCK180 expression from a blood specimen. According to this method, a DOCK180 expression pattern specific to a tumor cell in leukemia, in particular, acute leukemia is confirmed so that information which is useful in diagnosing leukemia and monitoring and determining the severity and degree of recovery of the same by a doctor can be obtained by a convenient procedure using blood specimens and thus provided.

Abstract: The hydrogen storage material of the invention is a hydrogen storage material comprising metal fine particles with hydrogen storage capacity, and an organic compound that has at least two specific groups that can bind with the metal fine particles, and that is bonded with the metal fine particles by the specific groups.

Abstract: The present invention employs an object information acquiring apparatus that includes a light source, a holding plate configured to hold an object, a supporting unit configured to support the holding plate, and a probe configured to receive, via the holding plate, an acoustic wave generated from the object on which light is irradiated from the light source. A light reflecting member is provided between the supporting unit and the holding plate.

Abstract: An image information obtaining apparatus having: a light source; a transducer which detects an acoustic wave and converts the acoustic wave to an electrical signal; a signal processing unit which generates image data, using the electrical signal; and a memory unit which stores a reference acoustic signal produced by the transducer detecting an acoustic wave generated when light is irradiated from the light source onto a phantom having acoustic parameters and optical parameters substantially the same as an object and converting the acoustic wave to an electrical signal, wherein the transducer produces an object acoustic signal by converting the acoustic wave, generated when light is irradiated onto an object from the light source, to an electrical signal; and the signal processing unit subtracts the reference acoustic signal from the object acoustic signal and generates image data from the signal resulting from this subtraction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having absorbing and luminescence wavelengths at relatively longer wavelength side of the visible area, and having thermal stability, which acts as a dye and/or a luminescence material and has practical utility therefor, and a production method thereof.

Abstract: There are provided a ceramic heater in which a defect, such as generation of a gap at the interface between an insulating substrate and a heat-generating resistor, is unlikely to occur in the course of manufacture or use, and a glow plug using the ceramic heater. A ceramic heater 110 includes an insulating substrate 111 extending in the direction of an axis AX and a heat-generating resistor 115, which has a heat-generating portion 116, two lead portions 117, 117 and two lead lead-out portions 118a and 118b. The ceramic heater 110 satisfies an expression S1?0.34 Sa, where Sa is the area of a cross section of the ceramic heater 110 taken perpendicular to the direction of the axis AX, and S1 is the total cross-sectional area of the two lead portions 117, 117 as measured in the cross section.

Abstract: The hydrogen storage material of the invention is a hydrogen storage material comprising metal fine particles with hydrogen storage capacity, and an organic compound that has at least two specific groups that can bind with the metal fine particles, and that is bonded with the metal fine particles by the specific groups.

Abstract: A measurement apparatus capable of measuring a position and a size of an absorber with high accuracy, which includes: a light source unit for emitting a pulse beam; an illumination optical unit for leading the pulse beam emitted by the light source unit to an inside of an inspection object; and an acoustic signal detection unit for detecting a photoacoustic signal generated by the pulse beam in which the illumination optical unit includes a first and second illumination optical units that are arranged so that the inspection object is irradiated with the pulse beam from both sides thereof opposingly; and the acoustic signal detection unit is provided so that a detection surface of the acoustic signal detection unit is positioned on the same side as that of one of irradiation surfaces of the inspection object which the first and second illumination optical units irradiate with the pulse beam.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having absorbing and luminescence wavelengths at relatively longer wavelength side of the visible area, and having thermal stability, which acts as a dye and/or a luminescence material and has practical utility therefor, and a production method thereof.

Abstract: [Problems] To provide a marker which is useful in diagnosing leukemia and a method of using the same. [Means for Solving Problems] A method of detecting a leukemia cell which comprises detecting a CD34-positive cell being negative in DOCK180 expression from a blood specimen. According to this method, a DOCK180 expression pattern specific to a tumor cell in leukemia, in particular, acute leukemia is confirmed so that information which is useful in diagnosing leukemia and monitoring and determining the severity and degree of recovery of the same by a doctor can be obtained by a convenient procedure using blood specimens and thus provided.

Abstract: A novel high-performance material is provided. A certain aspect of the present invention lies in a 2,3-bis(N,N-bis(p-anisyl)4-aminophenylethynyl)dimethylfumarate producing method, characterized by illuminating light onto 2,3-bis(N,N-bis(p-anisyl)4-aminophenylethynyl)dimethylmaleate. Also, a further certain aspect of the present invention lies in a 2,3-bis(N,N-bis(p-anisyl)4-aminophenylethynyl)dimethylmaleate producing method, characterized by illuminating light onto 2,3-bis(N,N-bis(p-anisyl)4-aminophenylethynyl)dimethylfumarate. According to this constitution, there can be obtained a high-performance material by a simple technique.

Abstract: There are provided a ceramic heater in which a defect, such as generation of a gap at the interface between a heat-generating resistor and an insulating substrate, is unlikely to occur in the course of manufacture or use, and a glow plug using the ceramic heater. A ceramic heater 110 includes an insulating substrate 111 extending in the direction of an axis AX and a heat-generating resistor 115, which has a heat-generating portion 116, two lead portions 117, 117 and two lead lead-out portions 118a and 118b. The ceramic heater 110 satisfies an expression a?0.15(b+c) in a section of the ceramic heater perpendicular to the direction of the axis AX, where a represents a minimum gap a between the pair of lead portions 117, 117 on the minimum-gap-associated imaginary straight line, and b and c represent dimensions of the pair of lead portions 117, 117.

Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes a measurement unit which measures the spectroscopic characteristics of the inside of a specimen by irradiating a plurality of types of light, each of which has a different wavelength within the wavelength range of 600 nm to 1,000 nm, on the specimen, an arithmetic processing unit which calculates the ratio of both collagen and lipid relative to the whole of a plurality of ingredients including collagen and lipid from a measurement result of the measurement unit and the absorption coefficients of each ingredient, and determines the relationship of the fitting coefficients of the lipid and collagen and the state of biological tissue, and then determines the state of biological tissue of the specimen from the ratio of collagen and the ratio of lipid which were calculated, and a display unit which displays a result of processing by the arithmetic processing unit.

Abstract: A measurement apparatus measures a spectroscopic characteristic and a structural characteristic of a specimen. At the measurement site of the specimen, a modulation of light from the light source part by an acousto-optical effect and a generation of the ultrasound echo signal simultaneously occur, the light detecting unit detects modulated light that is simultaneously generated, and the ultrasound detecting unit detects the ultrasound echo signal that is simultaneously generated.

Abstract: A measurement apparatus is configured to measure a spectroscopic characteristic of a measurement site in a specimen by applying acousto-optical tomography. The measurement apparatus includes a measurement unit configured to measure a light intensity of each of measurement areas that are set differently from the measurement site on a light propagation path from the measurement site to a detection position of a light detector and a signal processing device configured to sequentially modify the spectroscopic characteristics of the measurement areas and the measurement site on the light propagation path from the detection position of the light detector to the measurement site by using a light intensity that is measured by the measurement unit in the measurement area that is closer to a surface layer of the specimen than the measurement site.

Abstract: A measurement apparatus is configured to measure a spectroscopic characteristic of a specimen. The measurement apparatus includes a light source configured to generate light to be irradiated onto the specimen, an ultrasound generating unit configured to generate an ultrasound, an ultrasound focusing unit configured to focus the ultrasound generated by the ultrasound generating unit on a measurement area of the specimen, a light detecting unit configured to detect modulated light derived from the light by an acousto optical effect on the measurement area of the specimen, and a control unit configured to control, based on an output of the light detecting unit, at least one of an intensity and a frequency of the ultrasound generated by the ultrasound generating unit, an ultrasound focusing size made by the ultrasound focusing unit, and an intensity of the light generated from the light source.

Abstract: There are provided a ceramic heater in which a defect, such as generation of a gap at the interface between an insulating substrate and a heat-generating resistor, is unlikely to occur in the course of manufacture or use, and a glow plug using the ceramic heater. A ceramic heater 110 includes an insulating substrate 111 extending in the direction of an axis AX and a heat-generating resistor 115, which has a heat-generating portion 116, two lead portions 117, 117 and two lead lead-out portions 118a and 118b. The ceramic heater 110 satisfies an expression S1?0.34 Sa, where Sa is the area of a cross section of the ceramic heater 110 taken perpendicular to the direction of the axis AX, and S1 is the total cross-sectional area of the two lead portions 117, 117 as measured in the cross section.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a stereoscopic image display device, which does not generate a non-display region when an observer observes each parallax image despite being a stereoscopic image display device for displaying a multi-visual point image, and has little reduction of the image quality. The stereoscopic image display device of the present invention has an image display means for displaying the synthesized image obtained by synthesizing a plurality of parallax images, an aperture portion, a light-shielding portion, and horizontal directional control means for giving a directivity toward each of the desired directions to the image information light including the information on the parallax image radiated from the image display means, wherein longitudinal enlarging means for enlarging longitudinally only the light beam having passed the aperture of the horizontal directional control means in directions is disposed in front of the horizontal directional control means.

Abstract: A 3D image display apparatus is disclosed which includes a ray modulator which emits a directive ray in a time series manner based on parallax image information, a scanner which deflects the ray from the ray modulator and scans a predetermined plane two-dimensionally with the deflected ray a light emitting point distributor which is arranged on a light emission side of the scanner to form a plurality of light emitting points, and a light emitting point multiplexer which is arranged on the light emission side of the light emitting point distributor to form a plurality of secondary light emitting points with rays from individual ones of the light emitting points, to enable stereopsis with a super multi-view region at a high resolution.