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- Caidahl, Kenneth, 1949, et al.
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New concept in echocardiography: harmonic imaging of tissue without use of contrast agent.
- 1998
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In: Lancet (London, England). - : Elsevier BV. - 0140-6736. ; 352:9136, s. 1264-70
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Endocardial border detection is important for echocardiographic assessment of left-ventricular function. Second harmonic imaging of contrast agents enhances this border detection. We discovered that harmonic imaging improves tissue visualisation even before contrast injection. We therefore sought objectively to demonstrate the degree of enhancement of endocardial and myocardial visualisation.An ATL HDI-3000 scanner with software for contrast harmonic imaging was used to record short-axis images of the left ventricle in 27 patients with possible myocardial disease and 22 controls, in the fundamental mode and with harmonic imaging. A computer program measured the relative grey-scale values within six segments of the endocardium and myocardium. An Acuson Sequoia scanner equipped with software for tissue harmonic imaging was used to investigate the reproducibility of ejection-fraction calculations in 22 patients with ischaemic heart disease.Harmonic imaging produced brighter endocardium within each segment. Relative to the mean grey value of the total imaging sector, the values for harmonic and fundamental imaging were 171.5 vs 85.6% (p<0.0001) in end diastole and 194.1 vs 106.7% (p<0.0001) in end systole. Results for the myocardial segments were also significantly better for harmonic imaging. Structure enhancement of similar magnitude was seen among patients and healthy controls. Use of harmonic imaging reduced the proportion of unacceptable images by 14-46% in different views and improved the reproducibility of biplane ejection-fraction measurements.In comparison with fundamental imaging, the relative endocardial and myocardial brightness is enhanced by harmonic imaging.
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- Kurmaev, EZ, et al.
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Electronic structure of VO2 studied by x-ray photoelectron and x-ray emission spectroscopies
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In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER. - : IOP PUBLISHING LTD. - 0953-8984. ; 10:18, s. 4081-4091
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- A VO2 single crystal has been the subject of a combined investigation by high-resolution x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), x-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) with both electron and energy-selective x-ray excitation (V L alpha, V K beta(5) and O K alp
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- Michel, R, et al.
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Cross sections for the production of residual nuclides by low- and medium-energy protons from the target elements C, N, O, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb, Ba and Au
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In: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS. - : ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. ; 129:2, s. 153-193
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- Cross sections for residual nuclide production by p-induced reactions were measured from thresholds up to 2.6 GeV using accelerators at CERN/Geneve, IPN/Orsay, KFA/Julich, LANL/Los Alamos, LNS/Saclay, PSI/Villigen, TSL/Uppsala, LUC/Louvain La Neuve. The t
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- Zatsepin, D.A., et al.
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Valence states of copper ions and electronic structure of LiCu2O2
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In: Phys Rev B. ; 57:8, s. 4377-4381
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- The electronic structure of LiCu2O2 was studied using x-ray emission and photoelectron spectroscopy (valence band and core levels) as well as band-structure calculations in terms of LSDA and LSDA+U approaches. According to the x-ray emission and photoelectron spectra the valence states of the Cu atoms are found to be mixed, i.e. 2+ and 1+.
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