Abstract: The present invention provides a method for accurately measuring a blood component despite uneven distribution of blood introduced into a capillary. The measurement method according to the present invention is characterized in that a plurality of electrode systems for measuring the hematocrit are provided in a capillary of a biosensor to measure the hematocrit at different positions in the capillary. By measuring the hematocrit at the plurality of positions in the capillary as described above, the hematocrit can be measured mom accurately despite uneven distribution of blood introduced into the capillary.

Abstract: Provided is a laminate that has excellent low-temperature impact resistance and bursting pressure strength at high temperatures despite having a thick modified polyolefin layer. The laminate has two or more layers including an (a) layer and a (b) layer, the (a) layer includes an aliphatic polyamide composition (A), and the (b) layer includes a modified polyolefin (B). The modified polyolefin (B) includes a unit derived from a monomer based on an ?-olefin having 2-10 carbon atoms, and a unit derived from an unsaturated compound having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of: unsaturated compounds having at least one group selected from the group consisting of a carboxyl group, a hydroxyl group, an epoxy group, an amino group, an amide group, an imide group, a nitrile group, a thiol group, and an isocyanate group; and derivatives of unsaturated compounds having a carboxyl group. The Shore hardness (D scale) of the modified polyolefin (B) as measured according to ASTM D2240 is 30-61.

Abstract: To enable an appropriate and quick detection of a change in an internal structure of a patient, a computer program causes a computer to detect a change in an internal structure of a patient. The process includes calculating a second water equivalent thickness obtained from a second three-dimensional image being a three-dimensional image of a patient, which is newly obtained; a process of calculating a change of a first water equivalent thickness from the second water equivalent thickness, the first water equivalent thickness being obtained from a first three-dimensional image being a three-dimensional image of the patient in treatment planning; and a process of calculating a dose volume histogram change for calculating a change in a dose volume histogram from the treatment plan, based on the calculated water equivalent thickness change and correlation information indicating a correlation between a water equivalent thickness change value and dose distribution information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for accurately measuring a blood component despite uneven distribution of blood introduced into a capillary. The measurement method according to the present invention is characterized in that a plurality of electrode systems for measuring the hematocrit are provided in a capillary of a biosensor to measure the hematocrit at different positions in the capillary. By measuring the hematocrit at the plurality of positions in the capillary as described above, the hematocrit can be measured more accurately despite uneven distribution of blood introduced into the capillary.

Abstract: Through the present invention, three-dimensional coordinates of a tracking object moving in an irradiation object can be calculated from fluoroscopic X-ray images captured and acquired from various angles in a single fluoroscopic X-ray device mounted to a radiation therapy apparatus. The three-dimensional coordinates of the tracking object are calculated on a straight tracking object presence line connecting an X-ray generating device for fluoroscopy and the position in an X-ray plane detector of the tracking object on the fluoroscopic X-ray image acquired by the X-ray generating device for fluoroscopy and the X-ray plane detector, and using line segment information included in a movement region of the tracking object set in advance.

Abstract: The present invention is a hot melt adhesive sheet including an adhesive layer including a hot melt adhesive, in which the hot melt adhesive includes either a styrene-ethylene-ethylene-propylene-styrene block copolymer or a styrene-ethylene-propylene-styrene block copolymer, and a hydrogenated alicyclic hydrocarbon petroleum resin, and the hot melt adhesive sheet has a glass transition temperature falling within a range of ?10° C. or more and 10° C. or less.

Abstract: Provided are a moving body tracking apparatus that contributes to shortening treatment time and a radiation therapy system including the moving body tracking apparatus, a program, and a moving body tracking method. The moving body tracking apparatus includes a fluoroscopic apparatus that acquires fluoroscopic images including the target 2 from at least two directions, and the moving body tracking control apparatus 30A that obtains a position of the target 2 from the fluoroscopic images acquired by the fluoroscopic apparatus. The moving body tracking control apparatus 30A creates a simulated fluoroscopic image from the CT image including the target 2, creates a two-dimensional region including the target 2 from the simulated fluoroscopic image as a template, matches each of at least two fluoroscopic images with the template, and obtains a three-dimensional position of the target 2 from a plurality of matching results.

Abstract: Provided in the present invention is a hot melt adhesive sheet formed of one layer or a plurality of layers, the hot melt adhesive sheet including at least one adhesive layer that adheres to an adherend, the adhesive layer being formed of a polymer composition including a styrene-based rubber and a tackifier, and the tackifier including two tackifiers selected from a group consisting of a rosin-based resin, an alicyclic resin, and a terpene-based resin.

Abstract: Proposed are an image reading device and method of a simple configuration which can be easily operated intuitively by the operator, and which enables the accurate reading of a 2D code. With the image reading device which optically reads an image and the image reading method to be executed by the image reading device of the present invention, a first aerial image, which indicates a position over which the image is to be placed, is aerially formed at a focal position of the camera, the image placed in conformity with the first aerial image is read with a camera, and the first aerial image is aerially formed at a focal position of the camera.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for accurately measuring a blood component despite uneven distribution of blood introduced into a capillary. The measurement method according to the present invention is characterized in that a plurality of electrode systems for measuring the hematocrit are provided in a capillary of a biosensor to measure the hematocrit at different positions in the capillary. By measuring the hematocrit at the plurality of positions in the capillary as described above, the hematocrit can be measured mom accurately despite uneven distribution of blood introduced into the capillary.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for accurately measuring a blood component despite uneven distribution of blood introduced into a capillary. The measurement method according to the present invention is characterized in that a plurality of electrode systems for measuring the hematocrit are provided in a capillary of a biosensor to measure the hematocrit at different positions in the capillary. By measuring the hematocrit at the plurality of positions in the capillary as described above, the hematocrit can be measured more accurately despite uneven distribution of blood introduced into the capillary.

Abstract: A machining condition selecting device includes a machining condition contribution data management unit configured to manage machining condition contribution data in which each of a plurality of machining conditions is associated with a 3-dimensional surface roughness parameter and degrees of contribution to each item of a required condition related to productivity of a target product; a matter of priority acquisition unit configured to acquire a combination of the 3-dimensional surface roughness parameter and at least one item of the required condition as a matter of priority; and a machining condition selection data management unit configured to manage, for each of the plurality of machining conditions, machining condition selection data in which a combination pattern of the matters of priority is associated with a sum of the degrees of contribution to each item in the combination pattern.

Abstract: Provided are a moving body tracking apparatus that contributes to shortening treatment time and a radiation therapy system including the moving body tracking apparatus, a program, and a moving body tracking method. The moving body tracking apparatus includes a fluoroscopic apparatus that acquires fluoroscopic images including the target 2 from at least two directions, and the moving body tracking control apparatus 30A that obtains a position of the target 2 from the fluoroscopic images acquired by the fluoroscopic apparatus. The moving body tracking control apparatus 30A creates a simulated fluoroscopic image from the CT image including the target 2, creates a two-dimensional region including the target 2 from the simulated fluoroscopic image as a template, matches each of at least two fluoroscopic images with the template, and obtains a three-dimensional position of the target 2 from a plurality of matching results.

Abstract: The cutting fluid supply device of a machine tool includes a storage tank of a cutting fluid, a cutting fluid discharge port which discharges the cutting fluid, at least one pump which feeds the cutting fluid to the cutting fluid discharge port, a first filter, a second filter which has filter performance different from the first filter, a path switching unit which switches the paths of the cutting fluid and a control unit, and the control unit controls the pump and the path switching unit so as to switch, as the paths, to a first path along which the cutting fluid is fed without being passed through the filters, a second path along which the cutting fluid is passed through the first filter and is fed and a third path along which the cutting fluid is passed through the second filter and is fed.

Abstract: Proposed are an image reading device and method of a simple configuration which can be easily operated intuitively by the operator, and which enables the accurate reading of a 2D code. With the image reading device which optically reads an image and the image reading method to be executed by the image reading device of the present invention, a first aerial image, which indicates a position over which the image is to be placed, is aerially formed at a focal position of the camera, the image placed in conformity with the first aerial image is read with a camera, and the first aerial image is aerially formed at a focal position of the camera.

Abstract: A machine tool provided with a tool spindle and a work table for supporting a workpiece for plastic forming on a workpiece with a tool attached to the tool spindle. The partially curved tool is has a moving mechanism to move the tool spindle relative to the workpiece, a spindle rotating motor to turn the tool spindle relative to the workpiece, a movement control unit to control the moving mechanism to move the tool along the workpiece while pressing a curved portion on the surface to be machined, and a turn control unit to control the spindle rotating motor to orient a normal line of the curved portion toward the surface of the workpiece at a reference position taken as a reference.

Abstract: A diagnostic device includes: a spindle rotational frequency acquisition unit configured to acquire a spindle rotational frequency of a spindle; a pitch acquisition unit configured to acquire a pitch of streaks generated on a surface of a workpiece; a feed rate acquisition unit configured to acquire a feed rate of a tool when mirror surface machining is performed on the surface of the workpiece; a streak frequency calculator configured to calculate a streak frequency that is a cause of the streaks, from the pitch of the streaks and the feed rate of the tool; a causal frequency calculator configured to calculate a causal frequency which causes vibrations of the streak frequency; and a notifying unit configured to indicate whether or not there is a peripheral device that generates vibrations at the causal frequency, around a machine tool.

Abstract: Through the present invention, three-dimensional coordinates of a tracking object moving in an irradiation object can be calculated from fluoroscopic X-ray images captured and acquired from various angles in a single fluoroscopic X-ray device mounted to a radiation therapy apparatus. The three-dimensional coordinates of the tracking object are calculated on a straight tracking object presence line connecting an X-ray generating device for fluoroscopy and the position in an X-ray plane detector of the tracking object on the fluoroscopic X-ray image acquired by the X-ray generating device for fluoroscopy and the X-ray plane detector, and using line segment information included in a movement region of the tracking object set in advance (S104).

Abstract: A machine tool provided with a tool spindle and a work table for supporting a workpiece for plastic forming on a workpiece with a tool attached to the tool spindle. The partially curved tool is has a moving mechanism to move the tool spindle relative to the workpiece, a spindle rotating motor to turn the tool spindle relative to the workpiece, a movement control unit to control the moving mechanism to move the tool along the workpiece while pressing a curved portion on the surface to be machined, and a turn control unit to control the spindle rotating motor to orient a normal line of the curved portion toward the surface of the workpiece at a reference position taken as a reference.

Abstract: A diagnostic device includes: a spindle rotational frequency acquisition unit configured to acquire a spindle rotational frequency of a spindle; a pitch acquisition unit configured to acquire a pitch of streaks generated on a surface of a workpiece; a feed rate acquisition unit configured to acquire a feed rate of a tool when mirror surface machining is performed on the surface of the workpiece; a streak frequency calculator configured to calculate a streak frequency that is a cause of the streaks, from the pitch of the streaks and the feed rate of the tool; a causal frequency calculator configured to calculate a causal frequency which causes vibrations of the streak frequency; and a notifying unit configured to indicate whether or not there is a peripheral device that generates vibrations at the causal frequency, around a machine tool.