Abstract: A processing container including a plasma generation space in which a processing gas is plasma-excited and a substrate processing space communicating with the plasma generation space; a plasma generator including a coil arranged to surround the plasma generation space and provided to be wound around an outer periphery of the processing container, and a high-frequency power source that supplies high-frequency power to the coil; a gas supply section that supplies the processing gas to the plasma generation space; a temperature sensor provided outside the processing container and configured to detect a temperature of the processing container; and a controller configured to perform control to cause the temperature of the processing container detected by the temperature sensor to fall within a range of a target temperature defined by a preset upper limit value and a preset lower limit value, prior to execution of a process recipe for processing a substrate.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate heating part, a power supply part and a control device. The control device measures a temperature of the substrate while controlling the substrate heating part such that the temperature of the substrate reaches a first control temperature higher than the target temperature using power supplied by the power supply part. The device measures the temperature of the substrate for a second control temperature lower than the target temperature, and selects the power ratio value providing the best temperature uniformity in the plane of the substrate and a temperature average value for the selected power ratio value from a result of the measurement. The device calculates a control temperature and the power ratio value for the target temperature based on the selected temperature average value and the power ratio value for each of the first and second control temperature.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of perfluoroalkyl-containing metal complexes that have a critical micelle formation concentration <10?3 mol/l, a hydrodynamic micelle diameter (2 Rh)>1 nm and a proton relaxivity in plasma (R1)>10 l/mmol·s as contrast media in MR imaging for visualization of intravascular thrombi.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of perfluoroalkyl-containing metal complexes that have a critical micelle formation concentration <10−3 mol/l, a hydrodynamic micelle diameter (2 Rh)>1 nm and a proton relaxivity in plasma (R)>10 l/mmol s as contrast media in MR imaging for visualization of intravascular thrombi.

Abstract: A method of magnetic resonance imaging of cerebral blood flow uses a pulse sequence of a rapid gradient-echo method, wherein the pulse is an RF pulse having a slice gradient, a read gradient and a phase-encode gradient. The RF pulse is provided with a flip angle of between 45 and 60 degrees, and an additional gradient is added to each of the slice gradient, read gradient and phase-encode gradient, thereby diffusing and refusing proton spin in the cerebral blood flow. Very slight changes in the blood flow in the brain can be imaged and diabetes can be diagnosed by detecting the increase in the blood flow in a specific brain region after systemic administration of insulin.