MSCT多期增强扫描在肾脏透明细胞癌中的诊断价值

目的探讨多排螺旋CT(MSCT)多期增强扫描在肾脏透明细胞癌诊断中的规律性,提高对该肿瘤诊断水平。方法回顾性分析2016年1月~2018年6月14例均经手术切除病理证实为肾脏透明细胞癌患者的CT影像资料,所有病例均行MSCT平扫及多期动态增强扫描。结果14例肾脏透明细胞癌形态大多数呈圆形或者类圆形,瘤体最大径范围1.7cm^11.3cm,平均(4.8±1.4)cm,13例CT平扫时肿瘤密度不均匀,呈等低密度,1例呈等密度;12例出现坏死囊变,钙化1例,伴肾盂、肾盏侵犯2例;动态增强扫描可见12例包膜完整,1例均匀性强化,13例不均匀性强化;引入对比剂后皮质期,出现10例病灶强化幅度大于肾皮质,而仅4例低于肾皮质,三期平均CT值分别为110±30Hu,90±15Hu及75±14Hu,其中在实质期出现13例肿瘤强化幅度小于肾实质,仅1例大于肾实质。结论引入对比剂动态增强扫描后,肾脏透明细胞癌在皮质期明显不均匀强化,实质期强化幅度下降显著,呈现出典型的“快进快出”血流动力学强化方式,且肿瘤容易出现坏死、囊变为其特点。     

某贫磁赤铁矿石选矿工艺试验研究

为了使某矿山贫磁赤铁矿资源得到合理的开发利用，针对现开采部位矿石的性质和可选性问题，进行了工艺矿物学和可选性试验研究。试验结果表明：采用弱磁、强磁—阴离子反浮选工艺可得到精矿铁品位68.55%、精矿产率36.41%、金属回收率79.92%、尾矿品位9.86%的较好选别指标，说明矿石的可选性较好，为该矿石的合理开发利用提供了可靠的技术依据。     

A multi-material part design framework in additive manufacturing

Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies provide more freedom to functional part design in various industries. One of the unique capabilities of AM is that multi-material parts can be produced with material compositional and geometric complexity. Multi-material parts have the advantage of achieving multiple performance requirements. In the research, we propose a framework for designing multi-material parts using AM processes. The proposed framework is composed of four interacting modules, including design requirement identification, primary material selection, AM process selection, material composition, and part geometry determination. Rules and guidelines for AM are integrated into the proposed framework with AM processes’ capabilities and constraints compiled in databases. We also introduce databases to assist in decision-making and ensure manufacturability of the designed multi-material part in various product design phases. The proposed framework is applied to a case study involving a conceptual design of a multi-material battery pack cooling plate.     

Flexible Porous Organic Polymer Membranes for Protonic Field-Effect Transistors

Artificial transistors represent an ideal means for meeting the requirements in interfacing with biological systems. It is pivotal to develop new proton-conductive materials for the transduction between biochemical events and electronic signals. Herein, the first demonstration of a porous organic polymer membrane (POPM) as a proton-conductive material for protonic field-effect transistors is presented. The POPM is readily prepared through a thiourea-formation condensation reaction. Under hydrated conditions and at room temperature, the POPM delivers a proton mobility of 5.7 × 10⁻³ cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹; the charge carrier densities are successfully modulated from 4.3 × 10¹⁷ to 14.1 × 10¹⁷ cm⁻³ by the gate voltage. This study provides a type of promising modular proton-conductive materials for bioelectronics application.     

Active object search in an unknown large-scale environment using commonsense knowledge and spatial relations

Intelligent Service Robotics - In this study, the goal is to efficiently and actively search for a target object in a previously unknown large-scale environment. To this end, we develop a...     

A Review on the Separation of Niobium and Tantalum by Solvent Extraction

Niobium and tantalum are found together in natural minerals. Leaching with concentrated acid solution or alkaline roasting followed by water/dilute acid leaching results in a solution containing these two metals. In this work, we reviewed the extraction and separation of Nb(V) and Ta(V) from leach liquors in the absence and presence of hydrofluoric acid by acidic, neutral extractants and amines. Several solvent extraction systems were compared in the light of the requirement of hazardous chemicals, extraction/separation efficiency, and stability/solubility of extractants. Since the cationic species of Nb(V) and Ta(V) are unstable in the aqueous solution, the application of acidic extractants for extraction and separation of these metals is limited. Amines can extract Nb(V) as well as Ta(V) irrespective of the presence of fluoride ion but the separation of these metals from the loaded amines should be carried out in stripping process, resulting in process complexity. Another disadvantage encountered for amine is related to high viscosity in extraction process. Neutral extractants are considered as promising extractants which are effective to separate Ta(V) and Nb(V) from either non-fluoride or to moderate fluoride ion concentration in terms of extraction, separation and stripping efficiency. Compared to the traditional methyl iso-butyl ketone (MIBK) based system, methyl isoamyl ketone (MIAK) is found to be a promising extractant to separate Nb(V) and Ta(V).     

Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Images Based on Microarray Camera

In the field of images and imaging, super-resolution (SR) reconstruction of images is a technique that converts one or more low-resolution (LR) images into a highresolution (HR) image. The classical two types of SR methods are mainly based on applying a single image or multiple images captured by a single camera. Microarray camera has the characteristics of small size, multi views, and the possibility of applying to portable devices. It has become a research hotspot in image processing. In this paper, we propose a SR reconstruction of images based on a microarray camera for sharpening and registration processing of array images. The array images are interpolated to obtain a HR image initially followed by a convolution neural network (CNN) procedure for enhancement. The convolution layers of our convolution neural network are 3×3 or 1×1 layers, of which the 1×1 layers are used to improve the network performance particularly. A bottleneck structure is applied to reduce the parameter numbers of the nonlinear mapping and to improve the nonlinear capability of the whole network. Finally, we use a 3×3 deconvolution layer to significantly reduce the number of parameters compared to the deconvolution layer of FSRCNN-s. The experiments show that the proposed method can not only ameliorate effectively the texture quality of the target image based on the array images information, but also further enhance the quality of the initial high resolution image by the improved CNN.     

Inconel 617 alloy creep life augmentation by graphene transfer coating

Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology - Presently, countries are trying to increase their energy efficiency. Therefore, the operating temperatures of very high temperature reactor (VHTR) and...     

车辆自组织网络中新型NP-CSMA随机多址协议研究分析

智能交通的出现使得车辆自组织网络受到越来越多的关注。车辆自组织网络的动态拓扑结构变化非常剧烈,这对网络的吞吐率、传输速率等性能提出了很高的要求。提出1种具有握手机制协议的自适应多通道双时钟NP-CSMA随机多址接入协议。该协议首先区分2种P-CSMA协议,握手机制成功解决了隐藏的终端问题,双时钟机制减少了平均空闲时间,多通道机制增加通道数量和划分用户优先级的同时提高了系统吞吐率,自适应机制能够使系统在高负载下保持稳定吞吐率。还对该协议的传输速率进行了分析,得出该协议的传输速率相对较高的结论。通过平均周期方法推导吞吐率和传输速率的计算公式,仿真结果与理论推导一致。