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Evaluation of fluences and surface characteristics in laser polishing SKD 11 tool steel
摘要： In this paper, a continuous-wave laser beam from a multimode fiber laser was applied to study the polishing effect. Three kinds of surface morphologies were acquired by fast-speed (FS) & lower-speed (LS) wire electrical discharge machining (EDM), milling processing methods on SKD11 tool steel. Then influence of laser fluence on the polished surface characteristics was analyzed. The results showed that surface roughness parameters (Ra, Rz, Rt, and Sa) can be significantly affected by this effect. With laser fluence increasing, the polished surface underwent a comprehensive topographical evolution from superficial surface melting to surface over-melting. The improvements by FS-EDM, LS-EDM, and milling in roughness were 86.83%, 90.70% and 86.07%, respectively. The corresponding laser fluences were 14.26 J/mm2, 12.73 J/mm2 and 13.55 J/mm2, indicating that LS-EDM tool steel surface has the best polishing effect. The comparative statistical results of the bearing area curve, bidirectional reflectance distribution function, and power spectral density from the LS-EDM surfaces showed the best polishing results. In addition, all the pre-prepared surfaces could be polished to Ra < 0.5 μm using high polishing velocities. These findings also signified that laser beam with top-hat distribution has a great potential for high-efficiency polishing of tool steel surfaces.
关键词： Power spectral density,Surface morphology,Bearing area curve,Fluence,Laser polishing,Tool steel
更新于2025-11-28 14:24:20
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Spectral correction for handheld optoacoustic imaging by means of near-infrared optical tomography in reflection mode
摘要： In vivo imaging of tissue/vasculature oxygen saturation levels is of prime interest in many clinical applications. To this end, the feasibility of combining two distinct and complementary imaging modalities was investigated: optoacoustics (OA) and near-infrared tomography (NIROT), both operating noninvasively in reflection mode. Experiments were conducted on two optically heterogeneous phantoms mimicking tissue before and after the occurrence of a perturbation. OA imaging was used to resolve submillimetric vessel-like optical absorbers at depths up to 25 mm, but with a spectral distortion in the OA signals. NIROT measurements were utilized to image perturbations in the background and to estimate the light fluence inside the phantoms at the wavelength pair (760 nm, 830 nm). This enabled the spectral correction of the vessel-like absorbers' OA signals: the error in the ratio of the absorption coefficient at 830 nm to that at 760 nm was reduced from 60%-150% to 10%-20%. The results suggest that oxygen saturation (SO2) levels in arteries can be determined with <10% error and furthermore, that relative changes in vessels' SO2 can be monitored with even better accuracy. The outcome relies on a proper identification of the OA signals emanating from the studied vessels.
关键词： fluence compensation,near-infrared optical tomography,blood oxygen saturation,quantitative optoacoustic imaging,optoacoustic signal quantification,multimodal imaging,spectral correction
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Vascular and structural alterations of the choroid evaluated by optical coherence tomography angiography and optical coherence tomography after half-fluence photodynamic therapy in chronic central serous chorioretinopathy
摘要： Purpose To concurrently evaluate the effect of half-fluence photodynamic therapy (hf PDT) on choriocapillaris (CC) perfusion and choroidal structure in chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC). Methods This prospective study included 48 eyes of 41 patients with chronic CSC. Enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography and optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images were analyzed. Choroidal area (CA), luminal area (LA), and stromal area (SA) were computed using Image J software. Results One month after hf-PDT, total CA decreased to 1.312 mm2 from 1.490 mm2 (p < 0.001), LA decreased to 0.981 mm2 from 1.097 mm2 (p < 0.001), and SA decreased to 0.331 mm2 from 0.393 mm2 (p < 0.001). In OCTA, the CC flow in the eyes with CSC (17.75 mm2) was statistically significantly lower than the fellow eyes (18.93 mm2) at the baseline visit (p < 0.001). After hf-PDT, the flow in the choriocapillaris statistically significantly increased to 18.81 mm2 at the first month (p = 0.02). Conclusions OCTA proves that after hf-PDT a significant increase in CC perfusion occurred at first month. The decrease of the luminal areas in enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography is mainly due to a decrease in large-caliber vessels, which indicates that hf-PDT has an effect on larger choroidal vessels and spares CC flow.
关键词： Chronic central serous chorioretinopathy,Optical coherence tomography angiography,Half-fluence photodynamic therapy,Choriocapillaris perfusion
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Concurrent Monte Carlo transport and fluence optimization with fluence adjusting scalable transport Monte Carlo
摘要： Purpose: The future of radiation therapy will require advanced inverse planning solutions to support single-arc, multiple-arc, and '4π' delivery modes, which present unique challenges in finding an optimal treatment plan over a vast search space, while still preserving dosimetric accuracy. The successful clinical implementation of such methods would benefit from Monte Carlo (MC) based dose calculation methods, which can offer improvements in dosimetric accuracy when compared to deterministic methods. The standard method for MC based treatment planning optimization leverages the accuracy of the MC dose calculation and efficiency of well-developed optimization methods, by precalculating the fluence to dose relationship within a patient with MC methods and subsequently optimizing the fluence weights. However, the sequential nature of this implementation is computationally time consuming and memory intensive. Methods to reduce the overhead of the MC precalculation have been explored in the past, demonstrating promising reductions of computational time overhead, but with limited impact on the memory overhead due to the sequential nature of the dose calculation and fluence optimization. The authors propose an entirely new form of 'concurrent' Monte Carlo treat plan optimization: a platform which optimizes the fluence during the dose calculation, reduces wasted computation time being spent on beamlets that weakly contribute to the final dose distribution, and requires only a low memory footprint to function. In this initial investigation, the authors explore the key theoretical and practical considerations of optimizing fluence in such a manner. Methods: The authors present a novel derivation and implementation of a gradient descent algorithm that allows for optimization during MC particle transport, based on highly stochastic information generated through particle transport of very few histories. A gradient rescaling and renormalization algorithm, and the concept of momentum from stochastic gradient descent were used to address obstacles unique to performing gradient descent fluence optimization during MC particle transport. The authors have applied their method to two simple geometrical phantoms, and one clinical patient geometry to examine the capability of this platform to generate conformal plans as well as assess its computational scaling and efficiency, respectively. Results: The authors obtain a reduction of at least 50% in total histories transported in their investigation compared to a theoretical unweighted beamlet calculation and subsequent fluence optimization method, and observe a roughly fixed optimization time overhead consisting of ～10% of the total computation time in all cases. Finally, the authors demonstrate a negligible increase in memory overhead of ～7–8 MB to allow for optimization of a clinical patient geometry surrounded by 36 beams using their platform. Conclusions: This study demonstrates a fluence optimization approach, which could significantly improve the development of next generation radiation therapy solutions while incurring minimal additional computational overhead.
关键词： Monte Carlo,optimization concurrent Monte Carlo optimization,fluence optimization,concurrent optimization
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Accuracy validation of incident photon fluence on detective quantum efficiency in mammography
摘要： X-ray image evaluation is commonly performed by determining the detective quantum efficiency (DQE). DQE is calculated with a presampled modulation transfer function (MTF), incident photon fluence, and digital noise power spectrum (NPS). Accurate evaluation of MTF, incident photon fluence, and NPS is important for precise DQE determination. In this study, we focused on the accuracy of the incident photon fluence in mammography. The incident photon fluence is calculated using the squared signal-to-noise ratio (SNRin^2) value as specified in the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 62220-1-2 report. However, the reported SNRin^2 values were determined using a computer program, and the reported values may differ from those calculated from an X-ray spectrum that is measured with actual mammography equipment. Therefore, we evaluated the error range of reported SNRin^2 values in mammography to assess the accuracy of the incident photon fluence. First, X-ray spectra from various mammography systems were measured with a CdTe spectrometer. Six mammographic X-ray units were used in this study. Second, the SNRin^2 values were calculated from the measured X-ray spectra. The calculated values were compared to the reported values. The results show that the percentage differences between the calculated and reported SNRin^2 values were within -4.1% of each other. The results obtained in this study indicate that the SNRin^2 values provided in the IEC report are a robust and convenient tool for calculating the incident photon fluence for DQE evaluation in mammography.
关键词： Incident photon fluence,CdTe spectrometer,Mammographic X-ray spectroscopy,Detective quantum efficiency
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Design and optimization of open-channel water ultraviolet disinfection reactor
摘要： Design and optimization have developed gradually from a methodology for academic attraction into a technology that has made a significant impact on the industrial growth. A careful and well-optimized design of open-channel water ultraviolet (UV) disinfection reactor ensures the achievement of minimum UV dose required, as well as allowing the minimum operational costs. Such UV reactors are mostly utilized in water treatment plants throughout the world to provide the system for disinfecting the drinking water. Yet, at present, lack of rigorous quantitative understanding of behavior in such reactor geometries is shown to limit the versatile and efficient optimization of UV reactor. A new UV reactor design concept is essential that should be able to consider the three significant parameters, namely: uniform UV light propagation within the open-channel UV reactor, providing optimum lamp positioning within the volume of the UV reactor and should allow optimum flow rate of the water. It is approved that computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation can be used as a quick and cheap means for design and optimization of water disinfection UV reactor. A novel design and optimization approach which combines CFD modeling, design of experiment (DOE), response surface method (RSM) and goal-driven optimization (GDO) was presented for open-channel water UV disinfection reactor. This methodology includes a heuristic approach from scratch to the final optimal solution. The optimal design variables which have the optimum value of the object functions were identified through proposed methodology. The results showed that the CFD method can be employed for estimation of the optimum design, even though the shape of the open-channel UV reactor is complex. The CFD results reveal that the UV dose distribution and flow of water were largely dependent on the lamp positioning. This paper demonstrates that UV reactor optimization in conceptual design is possible using a commercial CFD package. As a conclusion, the proposed design and optimization technique based on DOE, RSM and GDO could be a suitable technique prior to a final design of open-channel water UV disinfection reactor.
关键词： Water disinfection,Open-channel,Reactor design,Fluence rate,CFD,Optimization
更新于2025-09-19 17:15:36
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Microhole Formation Behavior of Polypropylene Film Using CO<sub>2 </sub>Laser Irradiation
摘要： Biaxially oriented polypropylene films produced by simultaneous equi-biaxial stretching to the draw ratio of 4 (cid:186) 4 were perforated by the carbon dioxide laser under various laser fluences up to 426.3 J/cm2. After applying various laser fluences, the irradiated area was observed using a laser scanning confocal microscope. With the increase of fluence, the surface deformation with the formation of a crater surrounded by a doughnut-like rim was firstly observed at the laser fluence of 49.7 J/cm2, followed by the starting of the formation of a microhole surrounded by the rim at 113.7 J/cm2. The diameter of the microhole and the size of the rim increased rapidly with the increase of laser fluence. Mechanisms for the formation of a crater, the opening of a microhole, and the formation of surrounding rim were considered to be related to the surface tension and the shrinkage caused by molecular orientation relaxation. On the other hand, volume loss from the laser irradiated area was negligibly small at the moment of microhole opening, and started to increase rapidly when the fluence reached around 150 J/cm2. The microhole formation behavior was also observed by a high-speed camera. The velocity of microhole opening increased rapidly at first, presumably during the laser irradiation, and then slowed down after the cessation of laser irradiation. Theoretically estimated temperature distribution along the film thickness was compared with the laser perforation behavior. Starting of the deformation of film matched well with the starting of melting of the film surface. Film temperature was lower than the thermal decomposition temperature at the moment of the opening of a microhole, whereas at the moment of the starting of volume loss, film temperature was lower than the decomposition temperature estimated based on the heating rate of laser irradiated area, indicating that the decomposition and vaporization continues for a while after the cessation of laser irradiation.
关键词： microhole formation,molecular orientation relaxation,Polypropylene,laser fluence,CO2 laser,surface tension
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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Solvents Effect on the Morphology and Stability of Cu/CuO Nanoparticles Synthesized at High Fluence Laser Ablation
摘要： Cu/CuO NPs were synthesized by ablating Cu target using nanosecond Nd:YAG pulsed laser operating at 1064 nm with 8 ns pulse duration in three different solvents viz: ethylene glycol (EG), deionized water (DI) and ethanol (Eth). The effects of these three solvents at high laser fluence of 40 J/cm2 was investigated to study the stability and morphology of nanoparticles using microscopic and spectroscopic techniques. The morphology of these nanoparticles are dependent on the physical properties of solvents (like viscosity, conductivity, polarity and enthalpy) used in laser ablation. EG and DI shows tadpole and necklace like structure whereas in Eth hollow structures were observed. The crystallinity of nanoparticles were confirmed by HRTEM, SAED and XRD analysis. In all the three solvents the characteristic absorption and emission peaks of Cu and CuO nanoparticles were observed and have been elaborately discussed in this paper. In addition, the detailed growth kinematics of nanoparticles involved in the process of laser ablation technique have been highlighted.
关键词： high fluence,Cu–CuO,laser ablation,morphology
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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Effect of Temperature on the Characteristics of 4H-SiC UV Photodetectors
摘要： The influence exerted by the carrier concentration in the range (1–50) × 1014 cm–3 in n-4H-SiC chemical-vapor deposited (CVD) epitaxial layers on the spectral characteristics of UV photodetectors with Cr Schottky barriers in the range of 200–400 nm is revealed and explained in terms of the photoconductivity theory. Schottky barriers with a Cr film thickness of 20 nm and diameter of 8 mm are formed by thermal evaporation in vacuum through masks. A noticeable effect of the carrier concentration in the CVD epitaxial layers on the spectral characteristics of photodetectors upon heating to 200°C is also observed and accounted for by a difference between the generation-recombination processes. The irradiation of photodetectors with 15-MeV protons at a fluence of 4 × 1012 cm–2 and a temperature of 200°C leads to an increase in the quantum efficiency as compared to samples irradiated in similar modes at 25°C. This is indicative of an increase in the radiation hardness and service life of 4H-SiC devices at elevated temperatures.
关键词： irradiation,quantum efficiency,protons,silicon carbide,fluence
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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UV-LED fluence determination by numerical method for microbial inactivation studies
摘要： The Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diode (UV-LED) is a new UV source suitable for small to mid-size water disinfection units. The design of a UV-LED reactor entails the integration of hydrodynamics, radiation, and kinetics data. The kinetics of microbial inactivation are necessary for UV-LED reactor design and the determination of kinetic rate constants depends on the accuracy of fluence rate measurement. However, there is not an easy way to measure the fluence rate inside a solution. In this study, a computational method is proposed to calculate irradiance and fluence rate based on the LED’s relative radiation profile and its radiant power, which are two standard pieces of information available in an LED’s datasheet. UV-LED was modeled as a polychromatic point source with a specific radiation profile and the fluence rate was calculated by solving the Radiative Transfer Equation by considering the refraction, reflection, and absorption of the medium. The irradiance and fluence rate predictions on the surface of the water were evaluated successfully by radiometry and actinometry measurements, respectively. The fluence rate imposed by 265-nm UV-LED and 275-nm UV-LED in Petri dishes with internal diameters of 5 cm and 9 cm were measured using biodosimetry with E. coli and MS2, when the UV-LED germicidal factor was obtained by considering the LED emission spectrum and the microorganism action spectra. Biodosimetry experiments using E. coli and MS2 at exposure times over 200 seconds indicated a close agreement between the simulation and experimental data. Such results are indicating the kinetic rate constants of a microorganism can be estimated without performing kinetic study using the action spectrum of microorganisms. Further, the results showed the proposed method can be applied for fluence rate determination for any LED’s radiation profile, LED position, and the experimental apparatus’s regardless of the availability of the action spectrum of microorganisms.
关键词： kinetic rate constant,polychromatic,fluence determination,UV-LED,irradiation model
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52