Abstract: An HF generator has first and second solid-state switches. Each of the solid-state switches has first and second output connectors and is designed to switch a high-frequency electrical current between the first and second output connectors. Furthermore, the HF generator has a coaxial cable with first and second conductors. The first conductor successively has a first section and a second section in the longitudinal direction of the coaxial cable which are separated from one another by a first break point. The first output connector of the first solid-state switch is conductively connected to the second conductor, and the second output connector of the first solid-state switch is conductively connected to the first section. In addition, the first output connector of the second solid-state switch is conductively connected to the first section, and the second output connector of the second solid-state switch is conductively connected to the second section.

Abstract: A DC high voltage source may include: (a) a capacitor stack having a first electrode which can be brought to a first potential, a second electrode concentric with the first electrode and which can be brought to a second potential different from the first potential, and a plurality of intermediate electrodes concentric with respect to each other and concentrically between the first and second electrodes and which can be brought to a sequence of increasing potential levels between the first and second potentials, and (b) a switching device to which the electrodes of the capacitor stack are connected and which is configured such that, during operation of the switching device, the electrodes of the capacitor stack can be brought to the increasing potential levels, wherein the distance of the electrodes of the capacitor stack decreases toward the central electrode. An accelerator comprising such a DC high voltage source is also provided.

Abstract: An RF apparatus may include: an RF resonance device having an electrically conductive outer wall, the outer wall comprising a gap extending over its circumference, and an input coupling device having an RF generator, arranged on the outer side of the outer wall of the RF resonance device in the region of the gap, for coupling RF radiation of a particular frequency through the gap into the interior of the RF resonance device, and shielding which externally shields the generator and electrically bridges the gap on the outer side of the outer wall, wherein the shielding is formed as a resonator having a high impedance at the generator frequency

Abstract: In a method and control system for producing two-dimensional diagnostic MR images using a magnetic resonance imaging scanner, a first three-dimensional MR image data set of a predetermined region within a body is produced using the magnetic resonance imaging scanner with an initial resolution. A second three-dimensional MR image data set of the predetermined region with a second resolution is then produced using the magnetic resonance imaging scanner, the second resolution being higher than the first resolution. Using the first three-dimensional MR image data set, layers are determined for the diagnostic two-dimensional MR images to be produced. The two-dimensional MR images are then computed from the second MR image data set for these layers automatically.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods and systems (e.g., computer systems and computer program products) for characterizing cellular constituents, particularly genes and gene products. In particular, the invention provides methods for assigning or determining the biological function of uncharacterized genes and gene products by using “response profiles,” i.e., measurements of pluralities of cellular constituents in cells having a modified gene or gene product, as phenotypic markers for the gene or gene product. Methods are provided for clustering such response profiles so that similar or correlated response profiles are organized into the same cluster. The invention also provides databases or “compendiums” of response profiles to which the response profile of an uncharacterized gene or gene product can compared.

Abstract: In a magnetic resonance method and system to automatically differentiate whether a pixel of an MR image acquired with magnetic resonance system originated from fat-dominated tissue or water-dominated tissue, only one spin echo-based magnetic resonance signal per pixel is acquired at a point in time at which the phase of a magnetic resonance signal of aqueous tissue has a phase opposite to the phase of a magnetic resonance signal of fat tissue. The phase angle of the pixel is then calculated, a base phase at the pixel depending on the magnetic resonance system is determined, and a corrected phase angle of the pixel is determined from the phase angle and the base phase. Whether the pixel originated from fat-dominated tissue or water-dominated tissue is then determined using the corrected phase angle of the pixel.

Abstract: A medical examination and/or treatment device for performing image acquisitions and/or radiation- or instrument-based treatments in an examination or treatment region is provided, The device may include an image acquisition means and/or a treatment means and a patient table, wherein a detection means for determining the position of a patient located on the patient table is provided, the detection means including a radiation emitter which irradiates the patient in at least one region and emits terahertz radiation, at least one radiation receiver detecting reflected terahertz radiation, and a processing means processing the receiver signals supplied by the radiation receiver, wherein the processing means can generate an image showing the surface of the irradiated patient region on the basis of the receiver signals and the position of the patient region relative to the examination or treatment region can be determined on the basis of said image.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing first and second radioactive isotopes using an accelerated particle beam that is directed to a first material and the first radioactive isotope is produced by a first nuclear reaction based on the interaction of the particle beam with the first material, said particle beam is also slowed down and subsequently directed to a second material, and the second radioactive isotope is produced by a second nuclear reaction based on the interaction of the particle beam with the second material. The effective cross-section for the induction of the first nuclear reaction at a first peak for a first particle energy is higher than an effective cross-section for the induction of the second nuclear reaction at a second peak for a second particle energy. A corresponding device includes an acceleration unit, a first exposure target having the first material and a second exposure target having the second material.

Abstract: A DC high voltage source may include: (a) a capacitor stack having a first electrode which can be brought to a first potential, a second electrode concentric with the first electrode and which can be brought to a second potential different from the first potential, and a plurality of intermediate electrodes concentric with respect to each other and concentrically between the first and second electrodes and which can be brought to a sequence of increasing potential levels between the first and second potentials, and (b) a switching device to which the electrodes of the capacitor stack are connected and which is configured such that, during operation of the switching device, the electrodes of the capacitor stack can be brought to the increasing potential levels, wherein the distance of the electrodes of the capacitor stack decreases toward the central electrode. An accelerator comprising such a DC high voltage source is also provided.

Abstract: A method for producing 99mTc may include: providing a solution comprising 100Mo-molybdate-ions; providing a proton beam having an energy suitable for inducing a 100Mo (p, 2n) 99mTc-nuclear reaction when exposing 100Mo-molybdate-ions; exposing the solution to the proton beams and inducing a 100Mo (p, 2n) 99mTc-nuclear reaction; and applying an extraction method for extracting the 99mTc from the solution. Further, a device for producing 99mTc may include: a solution with 100Mo-molybdate-ions; an accelerator for providing a proton beam with energy which is suitable for inducing a 100Mo (p, 2n) 99mTc-nuclear reaction when exposing 100Mo-molybdate-ions, for exposing the solution and for inducing a 100Mo (p, 2n) 99mTc-nuclear reaction; and an extraction step for extracting 99mTc from the solution.

Abstract: A method for producing a reaction product containing 99mTC may include providing 100Mo-metal targets to be irradiated, irradiating the 100Mo-metal target with a proton stream having an energy for the induction of a 100Mo(p, 2n)99mTC core reaction, heating the 100Mo-metal target to over 300° C., recovering incurred 99mTc in a sublimation-extraction process with the aid of oxygen gas which is conducted over the 100 Mo-metal target forming 99mTc-Technetium oxide. Further, a device for producing the reaction product containing 99mTc may include a 100Mo metal target, an acceleration unit for providing a proton stream, which can be directed to the 100Mo-Metal target, such that a 100Mo(p, 2n)99mTC core reaction is induced upon irradiation of the 100Mo-metal target by the proton stream, a gas supply line for conducting oxygen gas onto the irradiated 100Mo-metal target to form 99mTC-Technetium oxide, and a gas discharge line to discharge the sublimated 99mTC-Technetium oxide.

Abstract: An electrically driven aircraft may include a tank for NH3 in order to provide NH3, an energy source, which generates electric energy using and converting NH3, an electrically driven propulsion system that ensures the propulsion of the aircraft, and an energy distribution system that supplies the generated electric energy to the propulsion system.

Abstract: In a magnetic resonance method and apparatus for determining a magnetization transfer constant a first MR signal sequence is acquired from an object being examined using a spin echo based imaging sequence, a second MR signal sequence is acquired from the object being examined using a spin echo based imaging sequence having basically identical imaging parameters to the first MR signal sequence, with the exception that the energy level of the RF pulses for exciting the magnetization in the first MR signal sequence and the energy level of the RF pulses for exciting the magnetization in the second MR signal sequence are different. The magnetization transfer constant is determined based on the signal differences between the first and second MR signal sequences.

Abstract: An RF cavity includes a chamber, a conductive wall that encloses the chamber and has an inner side and an outer side, a switch arrangement comprising a plurality of solid-state switches arranged along a circumference of the wall around the chamber, wherein the solid-state switches are connected to the conductive wall such that RF currents are induced in the conductive wall when the switch arrangement is activated, as a result of which RF power is coupled into the chamber of the RF cavity, and a shielding device located on the outer side of the conductive wall, along a circumference of the RF cavity, the shielding device configured to increase the impedance of a propagation path of RF currents along the outer side of the wall such that the RF currents coupled into the wall are suppressed on the outer side of the wall.

Abstract: A particle accelerator may include at least one accelerator cell and a power supply device. The power supply device may provide electrical energy to the accelerator cell via a feed line. With electrical energy received via the feed line, the accelerator cell may generate an electric field for accelerating an electrically charged elementary particle. The power supply device may have a DC current source and a switch arrangement. The power supply device may be designed such that electrical energy provided by the DC circuit source is capacitively buffered, and upon corresponding actuation of the switch arrangement, is provided to the acceleration cell. The switch arrangement may be disposed near the acceleration cell such that the switch arrangement is exposed to ionizing radiation generated by the particle accelerator at least during operation. The DC circuit source may be connected to the switch arrangement via a first cable.

Abstract: In a magnetic resonance tomography method and apparatus for separation of fat and water images according to the two-point Dixon method dependent on the T*2 decay, the following steps are implemented: (S1) acquire three fat-water images, respectively corresponding to the echo times TE1, TE2, TE3 after the RF excitation pulse, wherein first and third fat-water images exhibit the same phase, (S2) calculate a T*2 map from the two equiphase images, (S3) correct the T*2 influence in one of the two equiphase fat-water images and in the counter-phase fat-water image, and (S4) reconstruct a pure T*2-corrected fat image and a pure T*2-corrected water image according to the two-point Dixon method on the basis of the T*2-corrected equiphase and counter-phase fat-water images in Step (S3).

Abstract: In a method to generate an anatomical image of an examination area with a magnetic resonance apparatus as well as computer program and magnetic resonance apparatus for implementation of the method, at least one image data set of the examination area and a parameter value map are loaded. The at least one loaded image data set and the loaded parameter value map are processed into an anatomical image. The processing includes a weighting of elements of the at least one image data set with a weighting factor. The weighting factor depends on a parameter value of the parameter value map corresponding to the respective element of the image data set. The generated weighted anatomical image is displayed and/or stored.

Abstract: A medical examination and/or treatment device has an apparatus for detecting the movement of at least one part of the body of an examination subject that changes its space coordinates periodically or aperiodically, wherein the apparatus includes at least one transmitter (8) transmitting the FMCW signal and at least one receiver (11) for receiving the FMCW signal reflected by the moving part of the body and is embodied for determining (3) the movement-induced changes in the space coordinates of the part of the body from the frequency shift of an FMCW signal reflected by the part of the body.

Abstract: A medical examination and/or treatment apparatus having an apparatus for position acquisition assigned to a control facility has at least one transmitter that is disposed on a movable part that can be controlled by way of the control facility and transmits a signal and at least one receiver disposed on the movable part for receiving a signal reflected by an external object, the apparatus for position acquisition being configured to determine the distance of the external object from the at least one movable part from the transmitted and received signal, wherein the signal is an FMCW signal of a predefined frequency or frequency range.

Abstract: A lipless fishing lure includes an inner, flexible fabric core, and a plurality of substantially rigid structural members. The plurality of substantially rigid structural members are adhered to the fabric core on opposite sides of the core. The rigid structural members are generally evenly spaced from one another in the longitudinal direction. The rigid structural members and the fabric core generally define the shape of a fish. The rigid structural members include a fish head. The fish head includes a front end with a relatively blunt transverse cross-sectional configuration.