Abstract: According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X-ray source, a plurality of lead plates, attention position specifying circuitry, stop control circuitry. The X-ray source generates X-rays. The plurality of lead plates includes an aperture which narrows an irradiation range of X-rays with which an object is irradiated by the X-ray source. The attention position specifying circuitry specifies an attention position based on a line of sight of an observer. The stop control circuitry performs movement control of the plurality of lead plates based on the specified attention position.

Abstract: A medical image diagnosis apparatus emits radiation to a breast as a subject, detects radiation that has passed through the subject, and generates three-dimensional image data including a plurality of tomographic images of the subject. The medical image diagnosis apparatus includes an image generator, a setting unit, an image detector, and a display controller. The image generator projects the three-dimensional image data in a predetermined direction to generate a two-dimensional image. The setting unit sets a region of interest in the two-dimensional image. Based on the region of interest and a corresponding region that corresponds to the region of interest in each of the tomographic images, the image detector detects a tomographic image including the corresponding region that is similar in pixel value to the region of interest from the three-dimensional image data. The display controller displays the tomographic image detected by the image detector on a display unit.

Abstract: A composite body of the present invention includes a substrate and a forming portion which is composed of a composite phase containing a perovskite oxide and a metal oxide different from the perovskite oxide and which is formed on the substrate. This composite body may be a composite body manufactured by a manufacturing method including a forming step of firing in an oxidizing atmosphere, a laminated body in which an inorganic raw material powder containing a compound powder and a metal powder is disposed on a substrate so as to form a forming portion composed of a composite phase containing a perovskite oxide and a metal oxide different from the perovskite oxide on the substrate.

Abstract: A heat-resistant member 10 according to the present invention includes a member to be protected 12 and a metal oxide ceramic protective layer 14 which is disposed on part of or all surfaces of the member to be protected 12 and which has a porosity of 0 percent by volume or more and 5 percent by volume or less. This heat-resistant member 10 is produced through the step of forming a protective layer by firing a member to be protected 12 provided with a metal raw material in the air in a temperature range lower than the melting point of an oxide of the metal raw material to form a metal oxide ceramic protective layer 14 having a porosity of 0 percent by volume or more and 5 percent by volume or less on part of or all surfaces of the member to be protected 12.

Abstract: Provided is a protective layer transfer sheet which includes a protective layer, whereby it becomes possible to form an image on the protective layer set on a print without causing the abnormal transfer of a dye layer, the breakage of the dye layer and the like, and it also becomes possible to achieve a satisfactory level of plasticizer resistance of the print. The protective layer transfer sheet including a substrate and a protective layer peelably formed on the substrate, wherein the protective layer includes one or both of a cellulose ester having a number average molecular weight of not less than 15000 and not more than 30000 and a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer having a number average molecular weight of not less than 15000 and not more than 30000, and a cellulose ester having a number average molecular weight of not more than 7000.

Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb structure which has an excellent collecting performance of a particulate matter and in which a pressure loss during flowing of a fluid through the honeycomb structure is low. The honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb base material having porous partition walls with which a plurality of cells are formed to become through channels of a fluid, a value of a ratio of an average open frontal area diameter of pores which are open in the surfaces of the partition walls to an average pore diameter of the pores formed in the partition walls is from 0.05 to 0.45, the partition walls have a single layer structure, and preferably, an open frontal area diameter of each of the pores which are open in the surfaces of the partition walls is from 0.5 to 10 ?m.

Abstract: In a multilayer body according to the present invention, two or more materials having different dielectric constants are stacked, at least one of the two or more materials having different dielectric constants is composed of particles having a core-shell structure, and the multilayer body is free of glass. In this multilayer body, for example, a first material having a first dielectric constant of 1000 or more and a second material having a second dielectric constant that is lower than the first dielectric constant may be stacked. The first material may be a BaTiO3 material, and the second material may be one or more selected from the group consisting of BaO—TiO—ZnO materials, BaO—TiO2—Bi2O3—Nd2O3 materials, and BaO—Al2O3—SiO2—ZnO materials. The multilayer body may be manufactured by using an aerosol deposition method for spraying a substrate with a raw powder in an atmosphere having a pressure lower than atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: A medical work support system according to an embodiment includes an interface apparatus, a reception unit, and a control unit. The interface apparatus accepts operation by the user, outputs a signal corresponding to the accepted operation, and is detachably attached to wearing clothing configured to be worn by the user. The reception unit receives a signal output from the interface apparatus. The control unit executes predetermined processing based on a reception signal received by the reception unit.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a sintered ceramic body mixes barium silicate with aluminum oxide, a glass material, and an additive oxide to prepare a material mixture, molds the material mixture and fires the molded object. The barium silicate is monoclinic and has an average particle diameter in a range of 0.3 ?m to 1 ?m and a specific surface area in a range of 5 m2/g to 20 m2/g. The aluminum oxide has an average particle diameter in a range of 0.4 ?m to 10 ?m, a specific surface area in a range of 0.8 m2/g to 8 m2/g. A volume ratio of the aluminum oxide to the barium silicate is in a range of 10% by volume to 25% by volume.

Abstract: A mammographic apparatus that includes X-ray detectors configured to detect X-rays entering the X-ray detectors, and attached to a holding-arm placed on a floor. The mammographic apparatus further includes circuitry configured to move the X-ray detectors between a scanning position and a waiting position. The X-ray detectors in the scanning position face an X-ray tube that generates X-rays across a breast-table, and the X-ray detectors in the waiting position are closer to the holding-arm than are the X-ray detectors in the scanning position.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, an X-ray filter, signal input unit, and an X-ray filter support unit. The X-ray tube generates X-rays. The X-ray detector detects the X-rays transmitted through a subject. The X-ray filter is arranged between the X-ray tube and the object and having an opening. The X-ray filter support unit supports the X-ray filter so as to make the X-ray filter movable in an imaging axis direction of the X-rays.

Abstract: An X-ray image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a specifying unit and a decision unit. The specifying unit processes a first X-ray image based on an output signal from an X-ray detector influenced by the action of an electromagnetic field, and specifies noise characteristics unique to noise components which are contained in the first X-ray image and originate from the action of the electromagnetic field on the X-ray detector. The decision unit decides filter characteristics for reducing the noise components which are contained in the first X-ray image and originate from the action of the electromagnetic field on the X-ray detector based on the specified noise characteristics.

Abstract: An X-ray image processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a transformed image generation unit, a scattered ray image generation unit, and a scattered ray reduced image generation unit. The storage unit stores a medical image. The transformed image generation unit generates a transformed image by transforming pixel values, of a plurality of pixel values constituting the medical image, which are higher than a reference value obtained based on a representative value of the plurality of pixel values into pixel values lower than the reference value. The scattered ray image generation unit generates a scattered ray image based on the transformed image and a scattering function. The scattered ray reduced image generation unit generates a scattered ray reduced image with reduced scattered rays by using the medical image and the scattered ray image.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silicon carbide porous material having a high thermal shock resistance. The silicon carbide porous material of the present invention includes silicon carbide particles, metal silicon and an oxide phase, and the silicon carbide particles are bonded to one another via at least one of the metal silicon and the oxide phase. Furthermore, the oxide phase includes a parent phase, and a dispersion phase dispersed in the parent phase and having a higher thermal expansion coefficient than the parent phase. Here, a lower limit value of a content ratio of the dispersion phase in the oxide phase is preferably 1 mass %, and upper limit value of the content ratio of the dispersion phase in the oxide phase is 40 mass %. Furthermore, it is preferable that the parent phase is cordierite and that the dispersion phase is mullite.

Abstract: There is disclosed a porous material containing aggregates; and a composite binding material which binds the aggregates to one another in a state where pores are formed and in which mullite particles that are reinforcing particles are dispersed in cordierite that is a binding material, and a content of metal silicon is smaller than 15 mass %. Preferably, to a total mass of the aggregates, the composite binding material and the metal silicon, a lower limit value of a content of the composite binding material is 12 mass %, and an upper limit value of the content of the composite binding material is 50 mass %. Preferably, to the total mass, a lower limit value of a content of the mullite particles is 0.5 mass %, and an upper limit value of the content of the mullite particles is 15 mass %. A porous material having a high thermal shock resistance is provided.

Abstract: There are disclosed a porous material having a high thermal shock resistance and a honeycomb structure. The porous material contains main aggregates and auxiliary aggregates as aggregates, the main aggregates are silicon carbide particles, the auxiliary aggregates are at least either of mullite particles or alumina particles, the aggregates are bound to one another via a binding phase, so as to form pores, and the binding phase is at least one of an amorphous phase and a cordierite phase, and a porosity is from 40 to 90%. Furthermore, the honeycomb structure is constituted of such a porous material, and includes partition walls defining and forming a plurality of cells extending from one end face to the other end face.

Abstract: A medical image display apparatus according to an embodiment includes an input unit, a display unit, and an image data processing unit. The input unit inputs designation of a region of interest on a first medical image obtained by imaging an object. The display unit displays, adjacently to the region of interest together with the first medical image, an enlarged medical image obtained by enlarging an image in the region of interest. The image data processing unit decides a position at which the enlarged medical image is displayed, based on a position of the region of interest on the first medical image and a position of the first medical image.

Abstract: The present invention provides a Ti3SiC2 based material that exhibits excellent arc resistance, an electrode, a spark plug, and methods of manufacturing the same. A Ti3SiC2 based material according to the present invention includes Ti3SiC2 as a main phase, the Ti3SiC2 based material having a TiC content of 0.5 mass % or less and an open porosity of 0.5% or less. It may be preferable that 0 to 30 mol % of Si in the main phase Ti3SiC2 be substituted with Al. A spark plug according to the present invention includes an electrode formed using the Ti3SiC2 based material.

Abstract: There is disclosed a porous material which has an improved thermal shock resistance. The porous material contains aggregates and a composite binder. The composite binder includes glass as a binder and mullite particles as reinforcing particles, and the mullite particles are dispersed in the glass. The aggregates are connected to each other by the composite binder in a state where pores are formed in the porous material. Preferably, a lower limit of a percentage of a content of the composite binder to a total mass of the aggregates and composite binder is 12 mass %, and an upper limit of the percentage of the content of the composite binder to the total mass of the aggregates and composite binder is 50 mass %. Preferably, the glass contains MgO, Al2O3 and SiO2 and further contains at least one selected from a group consisting of Na2O, K2O and CaO.

Abstract: To provide a honeycomb structure capable of using as a catalyst carrier, which functions as a heater, and where a bonding layer is hard to break and an electrical resistance value is hard to rise; including a honeycomb segment bonded body where honeycomb segments are bonded by bonding layer, and a pair of electrode members disposed on a side surface of the bonded body, the electrode members is formed into a band shape, and in a cross section perpendicular to the cell extending direction, one electrode member is disposed on an opposite side across the center of the bonded body to another electrode member, and in at least a part of the bonding layer, inorganic fibers made of ?-SiC and a metal silicide are included in a porous body where silicon carbide are bound with silicon in a state where pores are held among the particles.