3D refraction correction and extraction of clinical parameters from spectral domain optical coherence tomography of the cornea.

Capable of three-dimensional imaging of the cornea with micrometer-scale resolution, spectral domain-optical coherence tomography (SDOCT) offers potential advantages over Placido ring and Scheimpflug photography based systems for accurate extraction of quantitative keratometric parameters. In this work, an SDOCT scanning protocol and motion correction algorithm were implemented to minimize the effects of patient motion during data acquisition. Procedures are described for correction of image data artifacts resulting from 3D refraction of SDOCT light in the cornea and from non-idealities of the scanning system geometry performed as a pre-requisite for accurate parameter extraction. Zernike polynomial 3D reconstruction and a recursive half searching algorithm (RHSA) were implemented to extract clinical keratometric parameters including anterior and posterior radii of curvature, central cornea optical power, central corneal thickness, and thickness maps of the cornea. Accuracy and repeatability of the extracted parameters obtained using a commercial 859nm SDOCT retinal imaging system with a corneal adapter were assessed using a rigid gas permeable (RGP) contact lens as a phantom target. Extraction of these parameters was performed in vivo in 3 patients and compared to commercial Placido topography and Scheimpflug photography systems. The repeatability of SDOCT central corneal power measured in vivo was 0.18 Diopters, and the difference observed between the systems averaged 0.1 Diopters between SDOCT and Scheimpflug photography, and 0.6 Diopters between SDOCT and Placido topography.

Analysis of ocean power extraction capabilites of a rotary wave energy conversion system

Gemstone Team WAVES (Water and Versatile Energy Systems)

Extraction of polydispersity information from photon correlation data

Photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS) is a light-scattering technique for particle size diagnosis. It has been used mainly in the investigation of hydrosol particles since it is based on the measurement of the correlation function of the light scattered from the Brownian motion of suspended particles. Recently this technique also proved useful for studying soot particles in flames and similar aerosol systems. In the case of a polydispersed system the problem of recovering the particle size distribution can be reduced to the problem of inverting the Laplace transform. In this paper we review several methods introduced by the authors for the solution of this problem. We present some numerical results and we discuss the resolution limits characterizing the reconstruction of the size distributions. © 1989.

Extraction of polydispersity information in photon correlation spectroscopy

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Inorganic sulphate extraction from SO2-impacted Andosols

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Métodos de determinación de parámetros que estiman la disponibilidad de agua-aire en sustratos para plantas y su relación con la respuesta vegetal

Las propiedades físicas e hidráulicas de los sustratos para plantas son las más importantes en relación con la disponibilidad de agua-aire para las raíces. En la Argentina el estudio de sustratos es incipiente y la definición de un protocolo nacional específico es de fundamental importancia para el desarrollo del sector. Como forma de contribución, se propuso como uno de los objetivos, comparar evaluativamente 10 métodos de referencia internacional, para distintos parámetros, sobre perlita (P), 2 turbas (T) y tierra mejorada. Los valores obtenidos resultaron función del método y del sustrato estudiado y no se pudo establecer una equivalencia, en la mayoría de los casos. El método EN13041 resultó el recomendado para una caracterización física completa en el rango 0-100 hPa, mientras que el método utilizando el 'porómetro' diseñado por la NCSU (North Carolina State University) se recomienda para las propiedades físicas en valores próximos a 0-10 hPa. En una segunda parte fueron comparadas las curvas de retención de agua (CR), según 4 métodos de laboratorio en 2 sustratos (80 por ciento P+20 por ciento T; 20 por ciento P+80 por ciento T) con valores in situ en un cultivo de Primula polyantha bajo cubierta. Se midieron potencial agua en hoja y conductancia estomática como forma de evaluar los resultados de los 4 métodos y la modelización de conductividad hidráulica no saturada, en base a los cuales, se diseñaron 4 tratamientos de riego para cada sustrato. No se encontraron diferencias significativas en la respuesta hídrica de las plantas, por lo que se puede decir que los 4 métodos son apropiados de igual forma para el manejo del riego. Cuando se las sometió a tratamiento de sequía se observó una tolerancia diferencial en los individuos, presentando las plantas tolerantes mayor contenido hídrico que las sensibles. Las CR in situ presentaron mayor contenido hídrico que las CR de laboratorio, asociados con la compactación del sustrato y evidenciando el efecto de las raíces. La CR según EN13041 en 20 P+80 T, fue la más cercana a las mediciones in situ, útil para una interpretación agronómica

Efecto de la temperatura, matriz vegetal y tiempo sobre la reducción del ácido fosfomolíbdico

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A coarse grid extraction of sound signals for computational aeroacoustics

Sound waves are propagating pressure fluctuations, which are typically several orders of magnitude smaller than the pressure variations in the flow field that account for flow acceleration. On the other hand, these fluctuations travel at the speed of sound in the medium, not as a transported fluid quantity. Due to the above two properties, the Reynolds averaged Navier–Stokes equations do not resolve the acoustic fluctuations. This paper discusses a defect correction method for this type of multi-scale problems in aeroacoustics. Numerical examples in one dimensional and two dimensional are used to illustrate the concept. Copyright (C) 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Numerical investigation of a source extraction technique based on an acoustic correction method

An aerodynamic sound source extraction from a general flow field is applied to a number of model problems and to a problem of engineering interest. The extraction technique is based on a variable decomposition, which results to an acoustic correction method, of each of the flow variables into a dominant flow component and a perturbation component. The dominant flow component is obtained with a general-purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code which uses a cell-centred finite volume method to solve the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations. The perturbations are calculated from a set of acoustic perturbation equations with source terms extracted from unsteady CFD solutions at each time step via the use of a staggered dispersion-relation-preserving (DRP) finite-difference scheme. Numerical experiments include (1) propagation of a 1-D acoustic pulse without mean flow, (2) propagation of a 2-D acoustic pulse with/without mean flow, (3) reflection of an acoustic pulse from a flat plate with mean flow, and (4) flow-induced noise generated by the an unsteady laminar flow past a 2-D cavity. The computational results demonstrate the accuracy for model problems and illustrate the feasibility for more complex aeroacoustic problems of the source extraction technique.