TY  - CHAP
A1  - Digel, Ilya
A1  - Mansurov, Zulkhair
A1  - Biisenbaev, Makhmut
A1  - Savitskaya, Irina
A1  - Kistaubaeva, Aida
A1  - Akimbekov, Nuraly S.
A1  - Zhubanova, Azhar
ED  - Hu, Ning
T1  - Heterogeneous Composites on the Basis of Microbial Cells and Nanostructured Carbonized Sorbents
T2  - Composites and Their Applications
N2  - The fact that microorganisms prefer to grow on liquid/solid phase surfaces rather than in the surrounding aqueous phase was noticed long time ago [1]. Virtually any surface – animal, mineral, or vegetable – is a subject for microbial colonization and subsequent biofilm formation. It would be adequate to name just a few notorious examples on microbial colonization of contact lenses, ship hulls, petroleum pipelines, rocks in streams and all kinds of biomedical implants. The propensity of microorganisms to become surface-bound is so profound and ubiquitous that it vindicates the advantages for attached forms over their free-ranging counterparts [2]. Indeed, from ecological and evolutionary standpoints, for many microorganisms the surface-bound state means dwelling in nutritionally favorable, non-hostile environments [3]. Therefore, in most of natural and artificial ecosystems surface-associated microorganisms vastly outnumber organisms in suspension and often organize into complex communities with features that differ dramatically from those of free cells [4].
Y1  - 2012
SN  - 978-953-51-0706-4
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5772/47796
SP  - 249
EP  - 272
PB  - Intech
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Müller-Veggian, Mattea
A1  - Kops, Elena Rota
A1  - Quin, Peng
A1  - Herzog, Hans
T1  - MRI Based Attenuation Correction for Brain PET Images
T2  - Advances in medical engineering / [3rd RPT - Remagener Physiktage together with the Second Scientific Workshop of Medical Robotics, Navigation and Visualization ... Remagen ... 7.-9. März 2007]. Thorsten M. Buzug (ed.) Part 1.
N2  - This work describes a procedure to yield attenuation maps from MR images which are used for the absorption correction (AC) of brain PET data. Such an approach could be mandatory for future combined PET and MRI scanners, which probably do not include a transmission facility. T1-weighted MR images were segmented into brain tissue, bone, soft tissue, and sinus; attenuation coefficients corresponding to elemental composition and density as well as to 511 keV photon energy were respectively assigned. Attenuation maps containing up to four compartments were created and forward projected into sinograms with attenuation factors which then were used for AC during reconstruction of FDG-PET data. The commonly used AC based on a radioactive (68Ge) transmission scan served as reference. The reconstructed radioactivity values obtained with the MRI-based AC were about 20% lower than those obtained with PET-based AC if the skull was not taken into account. Considering the skull the difference was still about 10%. Our investigations demonstrate the feasibility of a MRI-based AC, but revealed also the necessity of a satisfying delineation of bone thickness which tends to be underestimated in our first approach of T1-weighted MR image segmentation.
Y1  - 2007
SN  - 978-3-540-68763-4
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68764-1_15
N1  - Springer proceedings in physics ; 114
SP  - 93
EP  - 97
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Staat, Manfred
A1  - Heitzer, M.
T1  - Basis reduction technique for limit and shakedown problems
T2  - Numerical Methods for Limit and Shakedown Analysis. Deterministic and Probabilistic Approach. NIC Series Vol. 15 / Ed. by Staat, M.; Heitzer, M.
Y1  - 2003
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0001-2018112115
SN  - 3-00-010001-6
SP  - 1
EP  - 55
PB  - John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC)
CY  - Jülich
ER  -