Yb：YAG晶体的红外闪烁特性

用脉冲电子束激发测量了不同Yb^3+掺杂浓度的Yb：YAG晶体的红外(IR)闪烁发光性能。Yb：YAG晶体的IR闪烁发光具有高的光产额和长的衰减时间，但存在浓度猝灭效应和温度依赖关系。Yb：YAG晶体的IR闪烁性能还与晶体品质有关，相同掺杂浓度的Yb：YAG晶体，品质优异的会获得更高的光产额。这一初步的研究成果表明，部分掺Yb^3+晶体有可能用于医学成像装置。

Increasing top-down suppression from prefrontal cortex facilitates tactile working memory

Navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) combined with diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) and tractography allows investigating functional anatomy of the human brain with high precision. Here we demonstrate that working memory (WM) processing of tactile temporal information is facilitated by delivering a single TMS pulse to the middle frontal gyrus (MFG) during memory maintenance. Facilitation was obtained only with a TMS pulse applied to a location of the MFG with anatomical connectivity to the primary somatosensory cortex (S1). TMS improved tactile WM also when distractive tactile stimuli interfered with memory maintenance. Moreover, TMS to the same MFG site attenuated somatosensory evoked responses (SEPs). The results suggest that the TMS-induced memory improvement is explained by increased top-down suppression of interfering sensory processing in S1 via the MFG-S1 link. These results demonstrate an anatomical and functional network that is involved in maintenance of tactile temporal WM. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

重离子治疗计划系统相关问题研究及实践

对重离子放射治疗的历史及束流配送系统进行简要回顾之后，本论文重点介绍了重离子治疗计划系统及在此方面所做的一些实践工作，最终目的是给正在进行重离子放射治疗临床试验研究的中国科学院近代物理研究所提供一些实践经验，为即将开展的深部肿瘤重离子治疗计划系统的建立奠定基础。本论文在医学影像算法平台MITK(medical imaging toolkit, MITK)的基础上开发了一个集成化的三维医学影像处理程序，提供了一个一致的框架，整合医学图像读取，二维、三维交互操作，医学图像三维面绘制等功能，并且完全支持DICOM3.0标准。在此基础上，利用IDL（interactive data language，IDL）实现了对医学CT图像像素值的提取，在对像素值沿束流贯穿方向上进行水等效处理后，根据CT图像给出的信息完成了初步的剂量计算与治疗计划的设计，并提出了一些治疗计划的验证方案。治疗计划系统是一种融合了多种诸如数学、放射物理学、放射生物学、计算机图形学、数字图像处理等学科的复杂软件系统，是放射治疗专家预先规划治疗方案的一种计算机辅助工具。其内容包括图像重建、靶区及紧要器官的划分、重离子束照射通道及束流能量的选择与确定、处方剂量向重离子辐照场强度的反演、辐射场的优化、重离子束辐射场控制数据的产生、剂量计算结果的二维及三维显示、治疗计划的生物效应评估以及治疗计划的优化等。本论文利用MITK和IDL对上述部分内容提供了一个基本的解决方案，为今后开发更加完善的重离子治疗计划系统搭建了框架

Image reconstruction by an alternating minimisation

This paper focuses on the problem of incomplete data in the applications of the circular cone-beam computed tomography. This problem is frequently encountered in medical imaging sciences and some other industrial imaging systems. For example, it is crucial when the high density region of objects can only be penetrated by X-rays in a limited angular range. As the projection data are only available in an angular range, the above mentioned incomplete data problem can be attributed to the limited angle problem, which is an ill-posed inverse problem. This paper reports a modified total variation minimisation method to reduce the data insufficiency in tomographic imaging. This proposed method is robust and efficient in the task of reconstruction by showing the convergence of the alternating minimisation method. The results demonstrate that this new reconstruction method brings reasonable performance. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

The experimental research of R-phycoerythrin subunits on cancer treatment: A new photosensitizer in PDT

The mouse tumor cell 5180 and human liver carcinoma cell SMC 7721 cells were first treated with R-PE and its subunits (alpha, beta, gamma subunits), then irradiated with Argon laser (496 nm, 28.8 J/cm(2)). Survival rate was measured by MTT method. In order to compare the phototoxicity in normal cells, the mouse marrow cells were treated with photofrin II and beta-subunit, irradiated with 45 J/cm(2) of light; survival rate was also measured by MTT method. The result showed that R-PE subunits had better PDT effect on s180 cells than R-PE and lower phototoxicity in marrow cells than photofrin II Flow cytometric analysis showed that PDT results in a growth inhibition and a G(0)-G(1) cell cycle arrest in SMC 7721 cells. The tumor cells inhibited by PDT in vivo were morphologically observed by TEM, the tumor cell death was daze to the occlusion of tumor blood vessels and inducement of cell programmed death in nuclei. Therefore, with the advantage in special fluorescence activity, loth molecular weight, good light absorbent character and weak phototoxicity, R-PE subunit is art attractive option for improving the selectivity of PDT.