摘要:
The present invention is directed, in certain embodiments, to improved, small scale systems and methods able to selectively treat parts of a single cell, including, in certain embodiments, portions of a main body portion of a single cell, and able, in certain embodiments, to establish long-term gradients of active substances within subcellular regions of a single cell. The present invention provides, in some embodiments, techniques for selectively contacting a portion of the surface of a biological cell with a fluid or fluid component carrying a particular potential for a biophysical or biochemical interaction with the cell, and simultaneously contacting a different portion of the surface of the cell with another fluid or fluid component having a different potential for the biophysical or biochemical interaction with the cell.
摘要:
A 32-bit instruction 50 is composed of a 4-bit format field 51, a 4-bit operation field 52, and two 12-bit operation fields 59 and 60. The 4-bit operation field 52 can only include (1) an operation code “cc” that indicates a branch operation which uses a stored value of the implicitly indicated constant register 36 as the branch address, or (2) a constant “const”. The content of the 4-bit operation field 52 is specified by a format code provided in the format field 51.
摘要:
A branch instruction includes a set of branch prediction information 13b and a set of branch history information 13c. The set of branch prediction information 13b is made up of 1 bit which predicts whether a branch will be performed during the next execution of the instruction. The set of branch history information 13c is made up of 2 bits showing a frequency, with which the branch has been taken, is "very high", "high", "low" or "very low". An instruction fetching unit 12 prefetches an instruction from a cache memory 11a in accordance with the set of branch prediction information 13b. After an instruction executing unit 15 completes an execution of the branch instruction, a branch history information generating unit 16 generates a new set of branch history information and a branch prediction information generating unit 17 generates a new set of branch prediction information, in accordance with the execution result and the preceding branch history information 13c. A branch instruction updating unit 18 overwrites the generated set of branch history information and the generated set of branch prediction information on the corresponding branch instruction stored in the main memory 11a.
摘要:
A multi-degree-of-freedom manipulator includes a flexible tube having a plurality of flex portions provided therealong, a plurality of actuators made of shape memory alloy and respectively provided near the flex portions to correspond to the flex portions, for flexing the flex portions, two common energy transmission paths, extending along the flexible tube, for transmitting an energy to the actuators, and selective energy supply members, provided between the common energy transmission paths and the actuators in series, for controlling the energy supplied from the common energy transmission path to the actuators, thereby respectively independently driving the actuators to bend the flexible tube. The manipulator is made by forming electronic circuits in a plurality of regions on a semiconductor substrate, forming wiring regions to connect the electronic circuits with flexible wiring portions, and removing a region of the semiconductor substrate other than a region thereof on which the electronic circuits are formed, thereby forming an actuator controlled chip array, used in the manipulator.
摘要:
A diagnostic system using a nuclear magnetic resonance phenomenon comprises an external magnetic field generator, provided externally, for generating a magnetic field in a living body, a thin diameter member capable of being inserted into a body cavity and having flexibility, a high frequency coil, provided at a top end of the thin diameter member, for transmitting and receiving a high frequency, a nuclear magnetic resonance signal measuring device for receiving a nuclear magnetic resonance signal from the living body, and a transformer, provided between the high frequency coil and the nuclear magnetic resonance signal measuring device, for electrically isolating and separating the high frequency coil from the nuclear magnetic resonance signal measuring device in a manner such that the nuclear magnetic resonance signal is transmittable between the high frequency coil and the nuclear magnetic resonance signal measuring device.
摘要:
In the method and dissolving therapeutic apparatus for dissolving a coagulation within a living body, a medicinal liquid for dissolving the coagulation within the living body is injected into the living body, the injected medicinal liquid is left within the living body for a predetermined time and the fluid within the living body containing the coagulation dissolved by the medicinal liquid and the medicinal liquid is substantially all discharged out of the living body. A series of steps including at least respective injecting, leaving and discharging steps is repeated. Preferably, vibrating waves are radiated toward the coagulation during the leaving step.
摘要:
An ultrasonic treatment system for conducting treatment by converging ultrasonic waves which are generated outside of a body to a part to be treated in the body comprising an ultrasonic wave generator for generating the ultrasonic waves to be converged to the part to be treated; and an insertion tube connected to the ultrasonic wave generator for guiding an instrument, such as a syringe, employed to introduce and/or return a treatment material to the body.
摘要:
This endoscope apparatus adapted to meter NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) is provided with an endoscope having a channel and an NMR metering probe insertable through the channel. The endoscope has an elongate insertable part having an observing window and illuminating window in the tip part, an observing system for observing an object to be imaged by receiving a light from the object entering through the observing window, an illuminating light output system emitting an illuminating light through the illuminating window and a hollow channel formed within the insertable part and opening in the tip part. Preferably, at least the tip side of the insertable part if formed of a non-ferromagnetic characteristic material. The NMR metering probe has a signal transmitting member insertable through the channel of the endoscope, connected at one end to the NMR metering apparatus and able to transmit high frequency signals and a loop-like antenna part connected to the other end of the signal transmitting member and projected out of the opening of the channel.
摘要:
A herbicidal composition which comprises a phenoxyphenoxy unsaturated derivative having the formula: ##STR1## wherein X represents a halogen atom or CF.sub.3 ; Y represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom; and Z represents --COOR, --COR", --COOH, --CH.sub.2 OH, or --CH.sub.2 OR"'.
摘要:
An apparatus for detecting an in-focused condition of optical systems by using two values of indices of performance each derived from the number of differences between illumination signals obtained per picture element, comprising first and second image sensors arranged in front of and in the rear of a focal plane of the optical system, first and second analog data processing circuits, and a comparing means.