Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging system that includes an array of antennas that includes a substrate, a plurality of antennas arranged on a first face of the substrate, and a plurality of guard rings. The guard rings are arranged only on the second face of the substrate, opposite the first face. A projection of each of the antennas on the second face of the substrate being circumscribed within a specific guard ring. The guard rings are spaced apart from one another.

Abstract: Anatomical proximal humerus osteosynthesis bone plate devices, as well as kits and systems containing same, are disclosed. The bone plate devices are configured and adapted for attachment to a proximal humerus. The kits include at least two bone plate devices that differ from one another in at least one structural and/or size characteristic. Also disclosed are methods of use thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for spectrally unmixing spectral data originating from a set of spectral sources and including a series of one or more optical spectra. The method can include modeling the spectral data using an endmember matrix and an abundance matrix, the endmember matrix including a set of endmember spectra respectively corresponding to the set of spectral sources, and the abundance matrix indicates an abundance of each endmember spectrum in each spectrum. The method can also include providing external prior spectral information comprising prior endmember information and prior abundance information conveying at least partial prior knowledge about the endmember matrix and the abundance matrix, respectively, and performing a spectral unmixing operation on the spectral data to determine a solution for the endmember and abundance matrices, using the external prior spectral information as input.

Abstract: A composite load-bearing member is disclosed. The member includes a core with opposed upper and lower side and opposed lateral sides extending between the upper and lower side and opposed ends extending between the upper and lower sides and between the lateral sides and with a longitudinal axis extending through the ends. The core is substantially solid. The member further includes a shell that is bonded to the core on at least the upper, lower and lateral sides and that includes first reinforcing fibres and second reinforcing fibres in a first resin matrix. The first reinforcing fibres are parallel to the longitudinal axis and the second reinforcing fibres are oblique to the longitudinal axis. Also disclosed is a method of forming the composite load-bearing member.

Abstract: Disclosed is an additive and an aqueous liquor for washing or cleaning comprising at least one lipase enzyme concentrate in a specified range plus at least one protease enzyme concentrate, also containing total proteins in a specified range, further containing at least one amine oxide as a first surfactant and optionally containing further selected surfactants. Further disclosed is a process for producing these products, some including the use of a highly suitable apparatus that may also be equipped for supplying the additive to an on-site washing and/or cleaning operation. Further disclosed is the use of the products in the context of performing a washing or cleaning step.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the preparation and supply of an enzyme-containing detergent formulation, the method comprising the steps of: a transferring from a plurality of feed sources (3a to 3f) the ingredients required for forming a batch of the detergent formulation into a mixing vessel (25), b mixing the ingredients to form the batch, c discharging the batch from the mixing vessel, d by pumping supplying at least a part of the batch to at least one treatment device (42), wherein at least one feed source is comprising an enzyme-containing concentrate, wherein the preparation is performed on-site with the treatment device, and wherein the amounts supplied of the batch and of the enzyme concentrate as part of the batch are determined by weight. Also disclosed is an apparatus (41) for on-site with the treatment devices (42) preparing and supplying the detergent formulation.

Abstract: A medial plate for treating fractures along a clavicle, comprising a plate body including a longitudinal component extending from a first end to a second end and an extension extending from the second end, the second end configured to be mounted over a medial head, a first set of variable angle holes extending through a portion of the longitudinal component including the second end of the longitudinal component and the extension, each of the first set of variable angle holes extending through the plate body along a central axis so that a bone screw is insertable therethrough at a user-selected angle relative to the central axis, and a plurality of combination holes extending through the longitudinal component, each of the plurality of combination holes includes a first portion configured to receive a bone screw at a user-selected angle and a second portion configured to receive a compression screw.

Abstract: According to some aspects, a detector includes a sensing volume of Cerenkov generating material that is configured to sense charged particles with different angles and energies in response to irradiation and to emit a spectral and angular distribution of Cerenkov optical light indicative of an angular and energy distribution of incoming charged particles sensed by the volume of Cerenkov generating material.

Abstract: A medial plate for treating fractures along a clavicle, comprising a plate body including a longitudinal component extending from a first end to a second end and an extension extending from the second end, the second end configured to be mounted over a medial head, a first set of variable angle holes extending through a portion of the longitudinal component including the second end of the longitudinal component and the extension, each of the first set of variable angle holes extending through the plate body along a central axis so that a bone screw is insertable therethrough at a user-selected angle relative to the central axis, and a plurality of combination holes extending through the longitudinal component, each of the plurality of combination holes includes a first portion configured to receive a bone screw at a user-selected angle and a second portion configured to receive a compression screw.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance (MR) compatible transducer for magnetic resonance elastography applications has a cantilevered drive element a free end of which is arranged in use to move reciprocally, and a flexible non-conductive connection rod slidably disposed within a flexible non-conductive sleeve. The connection rod is affixed at a proximal end to the cantilevered drive element via a proximal flexible connection piece that in use accommodates the slight rotational movement of the cantilevered drive element as it reciprocates about its secured end, whilst translating the rotational reciprocation of the cantilevered drive element into a pure translational reciprocation of the connection rod within the sleeve. The distal end of the connection rod is affixed against a protrusion connected to another cantilevered driven element, upon which is mounted a piston element that in use contacts the subject.

Abstract: A level measurement instrument including: a transmitter configured to transmit an electromagnetic transmission signal, the electromagnetic transmission signal being a microwave signal or a radio wave signal a receiver configured to receive a plurality of electromagnetic return signals; an elongate electromagnetic radiation guide coupled to the transmitter to guide the electromagnetic transmission signal, wherein the elongate electromagnetic radiation guide is provided with a plurality of windows spaced along the elongate electromagnetic radiation guide, the windows being at least partially transmissive to the electromagnetic transmission signal such that in use, when the elongate electromagnetic radiation guide is introduced into a fluid column, the electromagnetic transmission signal interacts with fluid adjacent each window and generates electromagnetic return signals, the return signal from each window being dependent on a parameter of the fluid adjacent each window such that different fluids in the fluid

Abstract: In the field of obesity related disease, identification of patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) would be useful to counsel them more intensively on diet and lifestyle changes and propose new pharmacological treatments. As a consequence, the inventors worked on a method for post-processing images of a region of interest of the liver for reconstructing a map of the internal magnetic susceptibility by using a Bayesian regularization approach to inverse the internal magnetic field. Such method can be implemented on computer and provides better results than other known methods for obesity related disease. This method may be applied for predicting that a subject is at risk of suffering from such disease, diagnosing a disease, identifying a therapeutic or a biomarker and screening compounds useful as a medicine.

Abstract: A medial plate for treating fractures along a clavicle, comprising a plate body including a longitudinal component extending from a first end to a second end and an extension extending from the second end, the second end configured to be mounted over a medial head, a first set of variable angle holes extending through a portion of the longitudinal component including the second end of the longitudinal component and the extension, each of the first set of variable angle holes extending through the plate body along a central axis so that a bone screw is insertable therethrough at a user-selected angle relative to the central axis, and a plurality of combination holes extending through the longitudinal component, each of the plurality of combination holes includes a first portion configured to receive a bone screw at a user-selected angle and a second portion configured to receive a compression screw.

Abstract: A medial plate for treating fractures along a clavicle, comprising a plate body including a longitudinal component extending from a first end to a second end and an extension extending from the second end, the second end configured to be mounted over a medial head, a first set of variable angle holes extending through a portion of the longitudinal component including the second end of the longitudinal component and the extension, each of the first set of variable angle holes extending through the plate body along a central axis so that a bone screw is insertable therethrough at a user-selected angle relative to the central axis, and a plurality of combination holes extending through the longitudinal component, each of the plurality of combination holes includes a first portion configured to receive a bone screw at a user-selected angle and a second portion configured to receive a compression screw.

Abstract: In the field of obesity related disease, identification of patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) would be useful to counsel them more intensively on diet and lifestyle changes and propose new pharmacological treatments. As a consequence, the inventors worked on a method for post-processing images of a region of interest of the liver for reconstructing a map of the internal magnetic susceptibility by using a Bayesian regularization approach to inverse the internal magnetic field. Such method can be implemented on computer and provides better results than other known methods for obesity related disease. This method may be applied for predicting that a subject is at risk of suffering from such disease, diagnosing a disease, identifying a therapeutic or a biomarker and screening compounds useful as a medicine.

Abstract: A medial plate for treating fractures along a clavicle, comprising a plate body including a longitudinal component extending from a first end to a second end and an extension extending from the second end, the second end configured to be mounted over a medial head, a first set of variable angle holes extending through a portion of the longitudinal component including the second end of the longitudinal component and the extension, each of the first set of variable angle holes extending through the plate body along a central axis so that a bone screw is insertable therethrough at a user-selected angle relative to the central axis, and a plurality of combination holes extending through the longitudinal component, each of the plurality of combination holes includes a first portion configured to receive a bone screw at a user-selected angle and a second portion configured to receive a compression screw.

Abstract: It is proposed a method for post-processing images of an region of interest in a subject, the images being acquired with a magnetic resonance imaging technique, the method for post-processing comprising at least the step of: —unwrapping the phase of each image, —extracting a complex signal over echo time for at least one pixel of the unwrapped images, and —calculating fat characterization parameters by using a fitting technique applied on a model, the model being a function which associates to a plurality of parameters each extracted complex signal, the plurality of parameters comprising at least two fat characterization parameters, the magnitude error and the phase error generated by the use of the bipolar readout gradients, the fitting technique being a non-linear least-square fitting technique using pseudo-random initial conditions.

Abstract: A method for post-processing images of a region of interest in a subject, the images being acquired with a magnetic resonance imaging technique, the method for post-processing comprising at least the step of: unwrapping the phase of each image, extracting a real signal over echo time for at least one pixel of the unwrapped images, and calculating fat characterization parameters by using a fitting technique applied on a model, the model being a function which associates to a plurality of parameters each extracted real signal, the plurality of parameters comprising at least two fat characterization parameters and at least one parameter obtained by a measurement, the fitting technique being a non-linear least-square fitting technique using pseudo-random initial conditions.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic resonance (MR) compatible transducer for magnetic resonance elastography applications having a cantilevered drive element (54) a free end of which is arranged in use to move reciprocally, and a flexible non-conductive connection rod (62) slidably disposed within a flexible non-conductive sleeve (60). The connection rod is affixed at a proximal end to the cantilevered drive element via a proximal flexible connection piece (64) that in use accommodates the slight rotational movement of the cantilevered drive element as it reciprocates about its secured end, whilst translating the rotational reciprocation of the cantilevered drive element into a pure translational reciprocation of the connection rod within the sleeve. The distal end of the connection rod is affixed against a protrusion connected to another cantilevered driven element (56), upon which is mounted a piston element (58) that in use contacts the subject.

Abstract: A method for post-processing images of a region of interest in a subject, the images being acquired with a magnetic resonance imaging technique, the method for post-processing comprising at least the step of: unwrapping the phase of each image, extracting a real signal over echo time for at least one pixel of the unwrapped images, and calculating fat characterization parameters by using a fitting technique applied on a model, the model being a function which associates to a plurality of parameters each extracted real signal, the plurality of parameters comprising at least two fat characterization parameters and at least one parameter obtained by a measurement, the fitting technique being a non-linear least-square fitting technique using pseudo-random initial conditions.