Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for non-invasive local quantification of angiogenesis or destruction of existing blood vessels in living tissue, the use of the said method for local measurements of hemoglobin concentration and blood perfusion at the same location on the subject and an apparatus for carrying out the method according to the invention. The apparatus comprises a xenon flash unit, an optical filter and a Y-shaped optical fiber-bundle, one branch of the fiber-bundle being coupled to the flash unit and the other branch of the fiber-bundle being coupled to a detection unit and the merged part of the fiber-bundle being adapted to couple the apparatus to the tissue to be tested.
Abstract:
A hazardous material detection system that can suppress occurrence of contamination due to ionization. When a sensor detects that a test sample has entered an inspection region of an X-ray inspection device as a belt conveyor moves, a corona discharge power supply in a hazardous material detection device is turned on for a constant time, to introduce a gaseous sample containing a substance stuck to the test sample into the hazardous material detection device via a sucking section and gaseous sample introduction piping, in order to ionize the gaseous sample and analyze it at an analyzer, based on a result of which analysis, a data processor decides whether the gaseous sample contains a hazardous material, to display a decision result on a screen. When the test sample is detected by an exit side sensor, the corona discharge power supply is turned off.
Abstract:
An extreme ultraviolet light source device which makes it possible to increase a working distance and obtain extreme ultraviolet light with a high output. The extreme ultraviolet light source device generates a plasma by irradiating a target (22) with laser light from a driving laser device (25), and generates extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light with a wavelength of several nanometers to several tens of nanometers. The extreme ultraviolet light source device comprises a target supply device which has a charge applying unit (23) that applies a charge to the target (22), and an acceleration unit (24) which accelerates the charged target (22) using an electromagnetic field. The target supply device supplies the target (22) comprised of a rare gas element such as xenon (Xe) or the like, or a metal such as lithium (Li), tin (Sn), tin oxide (SnO2) or the like, as ionized molecules, atoms or masses comprising a plurality of atoms, or as ionized clusters.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device for compensating for fluctuations in the light which is emitted by a light source and propogates along a light path. The device has a first light-sensitive sensor. The sensor detects the intensity of the light at a first location along the light path in a spatially resolved manner and generates electrical image signals. Furthermore, a second light-sensitive sensor is provided, which detects the intensity of the light at a second location along the light path and generates electrical output signals.
Abstract:
A method of controlling unruly persons comprising identifying an area containing unruly persons refusing to respond to rule of law, filling the area with a non-toxic, non-injurious fogging material which interferes with the visual sense of persons in the area so as to prevent the persons from orienting themselves within the area and prevents the persons from seeing other persons within the area and providing for at least one authorized person within the area a thermal imaging camera operable to thermally detect persons within the area and to generate an image representing the persons detected. At least one authorized person within the area a viewing device for viewing the image of the detected persons and causing said at least one authorized person to subdue the unruly persons while viewing the images of the unruly persons and while the unruly persons are prevented from seeing the at least one authorized person.
Abstract:
An electron beam apparatus comprises a TDI sensor (64) and a feed-through device (50). The feed-through device has a socket contact (54) for interconnecting a pin (52) attached to a flanged (51) for separating different environments. The other pin (53) making a pair with the pin (52) and the socket contact (54) together construct a connecting block, and the socket contact (54) has an elastic member (61). The pin (53) is connected with the TDI sensor (64), in which a pixel array has been adaptively configured based on the optical characteristic of an image projecting optical system. That sensor has a number of integration stages that can reduce the field of view of the image projecting optical system. Further, the number of integration stage may be determined such that the data rate of the TDI sensor would not be reduced but the number of pins would not be increased as much as possible. Preferably, the number of line count may be almost equal to the number of integration stages.
Abstract:
Scanning apparatus operable in the microwave, mm-wave and infrared ranges and comprises a hollow polygonal primary drum which is mounted for rotation about a central axis. The primary drum provides a plurality of internally presented sides or facets, which are capable of reflecting the microwave, mm-wave and infrared radiation concerned. A fixed Mangin mirror mounted within the primary drum directs such radiation emanating from a view of view of the apparatus, onto the internally presented sides or facets of the primary drum, such that in each of a succession of line scanning periods, radiation emanating from the field of view is directed onto a reflective side or facet of the primary drum to be reflected therefrom onto a further receiving assembly comprising a rotating faceted reflector, in the form of a secondary drum. The secondary drum is arranged to reflect the radiation striking it from the first drum to focus onto a radiation receiver or sensor. The secondary drum is arranged to be rotated, about an axis parallel with the rotary axis of the primary drum, in synchronism with the latter, in such a way that, over each line scanning period, radiation from substantially all of the respective facet of the primary drum can reach said receiver or sensor via said secondary drum. The invention provides a simply constructed robust and yet relatively inexpensive apparatus for forming images in the radiation concerned.
Abstract:
The arrangement for generating EUV radiation based on electrically triggered gas discharges with high repetition rates and high average outputs. The object of the invention, to find a novel possibility for generating EUV radiation based on a gas discharge pumped plasma which permits the generation of EUV pulse sequences with a pulse repetition frequency of greater than 5 kHz at pulse energies of at least 10 mJ/sr without having to tolerate increased electrode wear, is met according to the invention in that a plurality of source modules of identical construction, each of which generates a radiation-emitting plasma and has bundled EUV radiation, are arranged in a vacuum chamber so as to be uniformly distributed around an optical axis of the source in its entirety in order to provide successive radiation pulses at a point on the optical axis, so that a reflector device which is supported so as to be rotatable around the optical axis deflects the radiation delivered by the source modules in the direction of the optical axis successively with respect to time. A synchronization device triggers the source modules in a circularly successive manner depending upon the actual rotational position of the reflector device and adjusts a preselected pulse repetition frequency by means of the rotating speed.
Abstract:
An agile optical beam profiler using a two-dimensional small tilt digital micromirror device/chip, a translation stage, and single photodetector or pair of photodetectors. A method of profiling an optical beam includes positioning a programmable spatial light modulator in an incident optical beam and sequentially moving the spatial light modulator to at least one position in a first planar direction in a displacement increment less than a pixel width of the spatial light modulator. The method also includes directing respective portions of the optical beam to a photodetector at each position of the spatial light modulator. The method may also include calibrating the photodetectors by directing a portion of the beam to the photodetector, then directing the entire beam, or a remaining portion of the beam, to the photodetector, and normalizing the detected power of the portion with the detected power of the entire beam, or remaining portion, respectively.
Abstract:
A system and an apparatus for detecting explosive in real time is provided for. The apparatus involves a chamber in which items pass through or people walk through for detecting said explosive particles in real time. The explosive particles from either the people or items will be deposited into a cell by an influx of air flow from the chamber flowing to the cell. The cell includes a heating device and an optical scheme. The cell is heated to a predetermined temperature in which the explosive particles are divided into small molecular components that can be detected. The optical scheme detects the smaller molecules. The computer system controls the apparatus and analyzes the data gathered.