摘要:
A muffler of a muffler made of a titanium alloy wherein advantages of lightness and corrosion-resistance that the titanium alloy originally has are used, and heat-resistance and oxidization-resistance are heightened without damaging costs or workability so that the span of life and flexibility for design are improved. A muffler made of a titanium alloy, wherein the titanium alloy comprises 0.5-2.3% by mass of Al and optionally one or more other alloying elements. The metal texture may comprise more than 90% by volume of the &agr; phase and 20% or less of the &bgr; phase. This muffler is superior in heat-resistance, oxidization-resistance, weldability and so on.
摘要:
This invention provides a receiving coil that allows a high-quality image of high depth sensitivity to be obtained during vertical magnetic field MRI without limiting selection of a cross section to be imaged and of a phase-encoding axis. A subject's field of view is broadened without deterioration of the coil characteristics. Two orthogonal solenoid coils (3-1 and 4-1) and sub-coils (5-1, 6-1, and 7-1) whose sensitivity distributions each become an odd function in an x-direction, a y-direction, and a z-direction, respectively, with respect to the origin of the sensitivity distribution of each of the solenoid coils are used as multiple sub-coils to construct the receiving coil. This receiving coil is suitable for a high-speed imaging method in which an image is acquired using reduced phase encoding and the image is reconstructed using image folding. In addition, the subject's field of view can be broadened by arranging conductors of the coil appropriately.
摘要:
The present invention provides a vertical magnetic field MRI apparatus which is capable of speeding up imaging for taking an image of any cross section of a wide area such as a total body, while suppressing increase of the number of channels and maintaining high sensitivity in a deep portion of a subject. A receiver coil unit 500 incorporates a bed coil unit 600 whose longitudinal direction agrees with a body axis direction of the test object 103, and an upper coil unit 700 which is detachably mounted on the bed coil unit 600. The bed coil unit 600 is provided with a carrying surface 601 for placing the test object 103 thereon and multiple lower sub-coils arranged in a lower part of the carrying surface 601, and the upper coil unit 700 is provided with multiple upper sub-coils which are connected to the lower sub-coils. The upper sub-coils are separated into two parts; one arranged in a flexible inner support 20-1 covering the installation surface 601 and another arranged in a flexible outer support 20-2 covering the external side of the inner support 20-1. The upper sub-coils and the lower sub-coils are connected by mounting the upper coil unit 700 on the bed coil unit 600, thereby forming the multiple types of sub-coils.
摘要:
The present invention provides with a method for enabling a highly accurate simulation by calculating dynamical response of electrons in the electric field without using a “fitting parameter”. According to the present invention, the method for simulating a field distribution of a nano substance in an electric field comprises the step of a Fourier transform process by virtually applying a model on which a three-dimensional periodic boundary condition is imposed to the a field distribution of a nano substance in an electric field.Further, the method for simulating a field distribution of a nano substance in an electric field comprises the steps of arranging a virtual charge distribution on a space mesh, and evaluating a field distribution of a nano substance by calculating a potential distribution by way of Fourier-transforming a charge distribution into a reciprocal lattice space.
摘要:
According to the present invention, there are provided a novel graphite-like three-dimensional structure which has a partial structure bent-up with such a steeper curvature than that observed for a carbonaceous material having a conventional nanosize three-dimensional structure such as fullerene and nanotube, has such a feature as light weight and high mechanical strength, as well as a process for manufacturing the same. In the present invention, under a high temperature and a low pressure, a plurality of nanosize graphite layer fragments are forced to coming into collision at a high speed in a relative orientation where the layer planes are not set in parallel to form a carbonaceous three-dimensional structure where at least a plurality of graphite-layer-like layer planes having a hexagonal network structure made up of carbon are arranged such that they mutually cross or are in contact with each other and at the sites for the contact between the plurality of layer planes, connections via carbon-carbon covalent bonds are aligned in the shape of a cross-line.
摘要:
A method for imaging the coronary artery of a living body using nuclear magnetic resonance, wherein a patient is located in a static magneic field and the heart cycle of the patient is detected with the heart dilation period of the patient being determined in accordance with the detected heart cycle. Then, the coronary artery of the patient is portrayed on the nuclear magnetic resonance signal generated by applying high-frequency energy to the patient during the determined heart dilation period.
摘要:
A nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus for deriving a signal from a moving part of an object to be imaged, includes a gradient magnetic field generator for applying a gradient magnetic field to the object; and a radio frequency magnetic field generator for applying a radio frequency magnetic field to the object to present a nuclear magnetic resonance phenomenon. Pulses of a 180 degree pulse method are generated to remove an adverse effect of ununiformity of a static magnetic field; two gradient magnetic fields having the same amplitude and grading oppositely to each other are applied at a certain time interval therebetween to the moving part of the object in the direction of motion of the moving object; a radio frequency magnetic field is generated by applying a pulse in the pulses of the 180 degree pulse method succeeding a 180 degree pulse at the time corresponding to the center of an echo signal generated by the 180 degree pulse, the radio frequency magnetic field making a nuclear spin vector at the stationary part of the object in parallel to the static magnetic field; a resonance signal is detected which is produced from the object upon application of the radio frequency magnetic field; the above process is performed to further obtain another resonance signal, reversing the polarities of the gradient magnetic fields; and a difference between the two resonance signals is derived as a signal from the moving part of the object.
摘要:
A recording device includes: a recording and reproducing unit that records or reproduces data stored on a recording medium; and a control unit that interrupts recording during recording performed by the recording and reproducing unit, acquires an evaluation value of a recording quality of a recorded portion, changes recording speed based on the evaluation value, and resuming the recording.
摘要:
A vertical magnetic field type MRI apparatus is capable of high-speed-imaging a large cross section such as a whole human body while suppressing an increase in the number of channels and maintaining sensitivity to a deep portion of a subject to be high. A receiving coil is composed of a plurality of sub coils. A first sub coil (3-1) of the receiving coil is arranged in a first plane (1001) including an axis substantially parallel to the direction of a static magnetic field and forms a first current loop around the surface of the subject. A second sub coil (5-1) of the receiving coil is constituted by a pair of conductor loops (5-2, 5-3) that sandwich the subject in the vicinities of the surface of the subject and are arranged substantially symmetrically each other. The conductor loops have respective cross points (5-4, 5-5). The conductor loops are arranged with the first sub coil to ensure that the cross points are located in the first plane in which the current loop of the first sub coil is provided. An electromagnetic coupling between the first and second sub coils is not generated. The second sub coil exhibits a sensitivity distribution symmetrical to the direction of the static magnetic field. The first and second sub coils are arranged as a basic configuration and combined with each other to ensure that an electromagnetic coupling with another sub coil that exhibits a sensitivity distribution symmetrical to x and y directions is suppressed.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of selectively extracting metallic armchair carbon nanotubes alone from the mixture of carbon nanotubes of mixed chiralities, wherein vacant lattice defects are removed from armchair carbon nanotubes alone using the fact that the vacant lattice defects of zigzag carbon nanotubes are hard to diffuse in the axial direction of nanotubes compared with those of armchair carbon nanotubes. Since vacant lattice defects remaining on zigzag carbon nanotubes are active, the tube structures are easily destroyed and decomposed by oxidation etc. Thus it is possible to extract armchair carbon nanotubes alone from the mixture of carbon nanotubes of mixed chiralities.