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- Almgren, Karin, et al.
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Role of fibre-fibre and fibre-matrix adhesion in stress transfer in composites made from resin-impregnated paper sheets.
- 2009
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In: International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives. - : Elsevier BV. - 0143-7496 .- 1879-0127. ; 29:5, s. 551-557
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Paper-reinforced plastics are gaining increased interest as packaging materials, where mechanical properties are of great importance. Strength and stress transfer in paper sheets are controlled by fibre-fibre bonds. In paper-reinforced plastics, where the sheet is impregnated with a polymer resin, other stress-transfer mechanisms may be more important. The influence of fibre-fibre bonds on the strength of paper-reinforced plastics was therefore investigated. Paper sheets with different degrees of fibre-fibre bonding were manufactured and used as reinforcement in a polymeric matrix. Image analysis tools were used to verify that the difference in the degree of fibre-fibre bonding had been preserved in the composite materials. Strength and stiffness of the composites were experimentally determined and showed no correlation to the degree of fibre-fibre bonding, in contrast to the behaviour of unimpregnated paper sheets. The degree of fibre-fibre bonding is therefore believed to have little importance in this type of material, where stress is mainly transferred through the fibre-matrix interface.
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- Gavrilovic, Milan, 1981-, et al.
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Dimensionality Reduction for Colour Based Pixel Classification
- 2009
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In: Proceedings SSBA 2009. - Halmstad : Halmstad University. - 9789163339240 ; , s. 65-68
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- In digital images, providing classification based on colour, hue or spectral angle is a problem usually solved by combining a variety of pre-processing steps, as well as object wise classifiers. We have developed a method for transforming colour or multispectral image data to a 1D colour histogram with respect to the digital characteristics of intensity measurements. Classification is then reduced to 1D histogram segmentation which is a simpler problem. The proposed method, based on ideas of spectral decomposition, was previously applied in dual-colour fluorescence microscopy for quantification and detection of colocalization insensitive to cross-talk. In this paper the principle is expanded to unsupervised colour based pixel classification algorithms in hue-saturation-lightness or luminance-chrominance colour spaces.
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- Gavrilovic, Milan, 1981-, et al.
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Spectral Angle Histogram : a Novel Image Analysis Tool for Quantification of Colocalization and Cross-talk
- 2009
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In: 9th International ELMI Meeting on Advanced Light Microscopy. - Glasgow, UK. ; , s. 66-67
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In fluorescence microscopy, when analyzing spectral components, it is common to record two (or more) greyscale images. Each greyscale image, referred to as a channel, corresponds to intensities in different wavelength intervals. If each pixel of a two-channel image is plotted in a space spanned by the two intensity channels a conventional scatter-plot is obtained. Single-coloured pixels are distributed along the axes, while colocalized pixels are distributed closer to the diagonal of the scatter-plot, and cross-talk (as well as noise) is observed as deviations of the single-coloured vectors from the axes. Detection of colocalized pixels is often based on a division of this 2D space into different regions by intensity thresholding. We have developed a method for reducing the scatter-plot to a 1D spectral angle histogram through a series of steps that compensate for the quantization noise which is always present in digital image data.Using the spectral angle histogram, we can quantify colocalization in a fully automated and robust manner. As compared to previous methods for quantification of colocalization, this approach is insensitive to cross-talk. In fact, it can also be employed to quantify and compensate for cross-talk, using either linear unmixing or fuzzy classification by spectral angle, ensuring complete suppression of cross-talk with minimal loss of information. Recently we started investigating how the method can deal with autofluorescence. Initial tests on real image data show that the method may be useful for improved background suppression and amplification of the true signals.The article “Quantification of colocalization and cross-talk based on spectral angles”, describing the method, is about to be published in the Journal of Microscopy. Authors have also filed a patent application “Pixel classification in image analysis” in 2008.
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- Johansson, Olof, et al.
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Detection of hydrogen peroxide using photofragmentation laser-induced fluorescence.
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In: Applied Spectroscopy. - : SAGE Publications. - 1943-3530 .- 0003-7028. ; 62:1, s. 66-72
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- Photofragmentation laser-induced fluorescence (PF-LIF) is for the first time demonstrated to be a practical diagnostic tool for detection of hydrogen peroxide. Point measurements as well as two-dimensional (2D) measurements in free-flows, with nitrogen as bath gas, are reported. The present application of the PF-LIF technique involves one laser, emitting radiation of 266 nm wavelength, to dissociate hydrogen peroxide molecules into OH radicals, and another laser, emitting at 282.25 nm, to electronically excite OH, whose laser-induced fluorescence is detected. The measurement procedure is explained in detail and a suitable time separation between photolysis and excitation pulse is proposed to be on the order of a few hundred nanoseconds. With a separation time in that regime, recorded OH excitation scans were found to be thermal and the signal was close to maximum. The PF-LIF signal strength was shown to follow the same trend as the vapor pressure corresponding to the hydrogen peroxide liquid concentration. Thus, the PF-LIF signal appeared to increase linearly with hydrogen peroxide vapor-phase concentration. For 2D single shot measurements, a conservatively estimated value of the detection limit is 30 ppm. Experiments verified that for averaged point measurements the detection limit was well below 30 ppm.
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- Johansson, Olof, et al.
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Hydroxyl radical consumption following photolysis of vapor-phase hydrogen peroxide at 266 nm: Implications for photofragmentation laser-induced fluorescence measurements of hydrogen peroxide
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In: Applied Physics B. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0946-2171 .- 1432-0649. ; 97:2, s. 515-522
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- The decay of OH concentration following photolysis of room-temperature vapor-phase hydrogen peroxide is studied as a function of photolysis fluence at 266 nm in an open air environment. The rate of decay is found to increase with increasing photolysis fluence, i.e., with increasing number of photodissociated H2O2(g) molecules. Single-exponential functions approximate the OH concentration decay rather well, even for higher photolysis levels, and the decay time is shown to be inversely proportional to the H2O2(g) concentration. For fluences of about 450 mJ/cm(2) the difference between a single-exponential decay and measured data is becoming evident after approximately 150 mu s. Calculations based on a chemical kinetics model agree well with experimental data also for times > 150 mu s. By combining the model with measurements, the actual photolysis levels used in experiments are estimated. The best fit between measured data and the model suggests that about 1.1% of the H2O2(g) molecules are dissociated with a photolysis fluence of similar to 450 mJ/cm(2), in reasonable agreement with a Beer-Lambert based estimation. Excitation scans did not unfold any differences between OH spectra recorded at different photolysis fluences.
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