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 - Helsper, Christoph A1 - Dressler, Jörg ED - Gail, Lothar ED - Gommel, Udo ED - Hortig, Hans-Peter T1 - Partikelmesstechnik T2 - Reinraumtechnik N2 - Der Schutz von Produkten vor der Kontamination durch Partikel gilt als eine zentrale Aufgabe der Reinraumtechnik. Da es dabei um Kontaminationseffekte weit unterhalb der visuellen Wahrnehmbarkeit geht, braucht es leistungsfähige Verfahren, um die Messgröße „Partikelkontamination“ über den gesamten Bereich, den Anwender fordern, präzise zu bestimmen. Neben der Partikelhäufigkeit ist dabei die Größe der Partikel, die sowohl das Transportverhalten wie auch die mögliche Wirkung auf das Produkt beeinflusst, von entscheidender Bedeutung. Ferner kann es für die Ermittlung von Kontaminationsquellen von Interesse sein, die Form und die chemische Natur der Partikel zu bestimmen (z. B. textile Fasern, Metallabrieb, flüssige Tröpfchen). Die Partikelhäufigkeit wird üblicherweise als Konzentration, d. h. bezogen auf das analysierte Gasvolumen angegeben. Bei den in reinen Technologien üblichen niedrigen Konzentrationen dient als Häufigkeitsmaß die Partikelanzahlkonzentration, also die Partikelanzahl pro Volumeneinheit des Trägermediums. Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-642-19435-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19435-1_3 VL - 2012 SP - 69 EP - 95 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ET - 3 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Röth, Thilo A1 - Kampker, Achim A1 - Reisgen, Uwe A1 - Hameyer, Kay A1 - De Doncker, R. W. T1 - Entwicklung von elektrofahrzeugspezifischen Systemen T2 - Elektromobilität : Grundlagen einer Zukunftstechnologie N2 - Die Fahrzeugkarosserie bildet als größte funktionale und organisatorische Systemeinheit ein zentrales Kompetenzfeld der OEMs. Für den Fahrzeughersteller stellt der Karosserierohbau eine hohe Kernkompetenz sowohl in der Produktentwicklung als auch in der Produktion dar. Neue, innovative Karosseriebauweisen, bspw. aufgrund eines neuen Fahrzeugkonzeptes oder neuer Anforderungen, bedeuten für den OEM auch gleichzeitig die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Kompetenzfokussierung bzw. Wertschöpfungsverlagerungen. Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-642-31986-0 SP - 235 EP - 336 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mandelartz, Johannes T1 - VDI-Richtlinien – mit Technischen Regeln Wirtschaftlichkeit erhöhen und Standards setzen T2 - Betriebliche Instandhaltung N2 - Der Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V. (VDI) ist ein gemeinnütziger, wirtschaftlich und politisch unabhängiger, technisch-wissenschaftlicher Verein von Ingenieuren und Naturwissenschaftlern. Mit über 137 000 persönlich zugeordneten Mitgliedern ist er eine der größten Ingenieur-Vereinigungen Europas und gilt in Deutschland als führender Sprecher der Technik und der Ingenieure. 1856 gegründet, hat er viele für die Technik wesentliche Entwicklungen in Gang gesetzt, so im Bereich der technischen Überwachung, der technischen Regelsetzung und Normung, der Arbeitsstudien, im gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und im Patentwesen. Seit seiner Gründung sieht es der VDI als seine Aufgabe, "das Zusammenwirken aller geistiger Kräfte der Technik im Bewusstsein ethischer Verantwortung zu fördern" und die Lebensmöglichkeiten aller Menschen durch Entwicklung und sinnvoller Anwendung technischer Mittel zu verbessern. Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-642-00502-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00502-2_26 SP - 311 EP - 317 PB - Springer CY - Berlin [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Cresser, J. D. A1 - Häger, J. A1 - Leuchs, G. A1 - Rateike, Franz-Matthias A1 - Walther, H. T1 - Resonance fluorescence of atoms in strong monochromatic laser fields T2 - Dissipative systems in quantum optics. Ed. by Rodolfo Bonifacio. Topics in current physics. Vol. 27 N2 - The investigation of atomic resonance fluorescence has always been of special interest as a means for the determination of atomic parameters. In addition, information on the interaction mechanism between atoms and radiation can be obtained. In the standard fluorescence experiment the frequency distribution of the incident photons is larger than the natural width of the respective transition; as a consequence the correlation time in the photon-atom interaction is determined by the lifetime of the atoms in the excited state. With the development of lasers and especially of tunable dye lasers in recent years it became possible to study the case where the incident radiation has a spectral distribution which is narrower than the natural width. This corresponds to a correlation time of the incoming light wave which is much longer than the excited-state lifetime. In this chapter a survey of experiments on the resonance fluorescence of atoms in monochromatic laser fields will be given. Y1 - 1982 SN - 978-3-642-81719-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81717-5_3 SP - 21 EP - 59 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Weber, Hans-Joachim T1 - Applied physics of compressible and incompressible fluids T2 - Critical care nephrology / [Hrsg.:] Claudio Ronco and Rinaldo Bellomo Y1 - 1998 SN - 978-94-010-6306-7 SP - 63 EP - 84 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dikta, Gerhard T1 - Fundamentals of applied probability and basic statistics T2 - Critical care nephrology / [Hrsg.:] Claudio Ronco and Rinaldo Bellomo Y1 - 1998 SN - 978-94-010-6306-7 SP - 51 EP - 61 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Meliß, Michael A1 - Späte, Frank T1 - Berechnung von Sonnenstand und -strahlung T2 - Regenerative Energiequellen : Praktikum / ed. Michael Meliß Y1 - 1997 SN - 3-540-63218-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60864-3_2 SP - 5 EP - 22 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Meliß, Michael A1 - Späte, Frank T1 - Auslegung von solarthermischen Anlagen T2 - Regenerative Energiequellen : Praktikum / ed. Michael Meliß Y1 - 1997 SN - 3-540-63218-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60864-3_3 SP - 23 EP - 47 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mertens, Josef ED - Sobieczky, H. T1 - Required aerodynamic technologies T2 - New design concepts for high speed air transport. - (Courses and lectures / International Centre for Mechanical Sciences ; 366) N2 - In the preceeding chapters on “Son of Concorde, a Technology Challenge” and “Aerodynamic Multipoint Design Challenge” it was explained, that a well balanced contribution of new technologies in all major disciplines is required for realisation of a new Supersonic Commercial Transport (SCT). One of these technologies - usually one of the most important for aircraft-is aerodynamics. Here, the required “pure” aerodynamic technologies are specified in more detail, according to our present knowledge. Increasing insight into the problems may change the balance of importance of the individual technologies and may require some more contributions. We must never confine our knowledge to the knowledge base of an expert at a given time, but must stay open for new insights. KW - Mach Number KW - Wind Tunnel KW - Supersonic Flow KW - Pitching Moment KW - Wave Drag Y1 - 1997 SN - 3-2118-2815-X U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2658-5_5 SP - 69 EP - 96 PB - Springer CY - Wien [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mertens, Josef ED - Sobieczky, H. T1 - Certification of supersonic civil transports T2 - New design concepts for high speed air transport. - (Courses and lectures / International Centre for Mechanical Sciences ; 366) N2 - Since certification of Concorde new certification standards were introduced including many new regulations to improve flight safety. Most of these standards are to prevent severe accidents in the future which happened in the past (here: after Concorde’s certification). A new SCT has to fulfill these standards, although Concorde had none of these accidents. But accidents - although they sometimes occurred only for a specific aircraft type - have to be avoided for any (new) aircraft. Because of existing aircraft without typical accident types having demonstrated their reliability, they are allowed to go on based on their old certification; although sometimes new rules prevent accident types which are not connected to specific aircraft types - like e.g. evacuation rules. Anyway, Concorde is allowed to fly based on its old certification, and hopefully in the future will fly as safely as in the past. But a new SCT has to fulfill updated rules like any other aircraft, and it has to be “just another aircraft” [75]. KW - Noise Exposure KW - Evacuation Rule KW - Severe Accident KW - Certification Rule KW - Thermal Fatigue Testing Y1 - 1997 SN - 3-2118-2815-X U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2658-5_6 SP - 97 EP - 103 PB - Springer CY - Wien [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mertens, Josef ED - Sobieczky, H. T1 - Supersonic laminar flow T2 - New design concepts for high speed air transport. - (Courses and lectures / International Centre for Mechanical Sciences ; 366) N2 - Supersonic transports are very drag sensitive. Technology to reduce drag by application of laminar flow, therefore, will be important; it is a prerequisite to achieve very long range capability. In earlier studies it was assumed that SCTs would only become possible by application of laminar flow [376]. But today, we request an SCT to be viable without application of laminar flow in order to maintain its competitiveness when laminar flow becomes available for subsonic and supersonic transports. By reducing fuel burned, laminar flow drag reduction reduces size and weight of the aircraft, or increases range capability -whereas otherwise size and weight would grow towards infinity. Transition mechanisms from laminar to turbulent state of the boundary layer flow (ALT, CFI, TSI) function as for transonic transports, but at more severe conditions: higher sweep angles, cooled surfaces; higher mode instabilities (HMI) must at least be taken into account, although they may not become important below Mach 3. Hitherto there is a worldwide lack of ground test facilities to investigate TSI at the expected cruise Mach numbers between 1.6 and 2.4; in Stuttgart, Germany one such facility -a Ludwieg tube- is still in the validation phase. A quiet Ludwieg tunnel could be a favourable choice for Europe. But it will require a new approach in designing aircraft which includes improved theoretical predictions, usage of classical wind tunnels for turbulent flow and flight tests for validation. KW - Wind Tunnel KW - Flight Test KW - Supersonic Wind Tunnel KW - Parabolized Stability Equation Y1 - 1997 SN - 3-2118-2815-X U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2658-5_18 SP - 275 EP - 290 PB - Springer CY - Wien [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mertens, Josef ED - Sobieczky, H. T1 - Son of Concorde, a technology challenge T2 - New design concepts for high speed air transport. - (Courses and lectures / International Centre for Mechanical Sciences ; 366) N2 - Concorde (Figure 9) is the only supersonic airliner which has been introduced into regular passenger service. It is still in service at British Airways and Air France without any flight accidents, and probably will stay in service for at least for ten more years. KW - Technology Challenge KW - Multidisciplinary Design Optimization KW - Specific Fuel Consumption KW - Engine Efficiency KW - Sonic Boom Y1 - 1997 SN - 3-2118-2815-X U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2658-5_3 SP - 31 EP - 51 PB - Springer CY - Wien [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mertens, Josef ED - Sobieczky, H. T1 - Aerodynamic multi point design challenge T2 - New design concepts for high speed air transport.- (Courses and lectures / International Centre for Mechanical Sciences ; 366) N2 - In the chapter “Son of Concorde, a Technology Challenge” one of the new challenges for a Supersonic Commercial Transport (SCT) is multi-point design for the four main design points: - supersonic cruise - transonic cruise - take-off and landing - transonic acceleration. KW - Drag Reduction KW - Pitching Moment KW - Leading Edge Vortex KW - Wave Drag KW - Variable Geometry Y1 - 1997 SN - 3-2118-2815-X U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2658-5_4 SP - 53 EP - 67 PB - Springer CY - Wien [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dilthey, Ulrich A1 - Brandenburg, Annette A1 - Schleser, Markus T1 - Mikrokleben T2 - Montage hybrider Mikrosysteme : Handhabungs- und Fügetechniken für die Klein- und Mittelserienfertigung Y1 - 2005 SN - 978-3-540-23706-8 SP - 161 EP - 172 PB - Springer CY - Berlin [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kallweit, Stephan A1 - Gottschalk, Michael A1 - Walenta, Robert T1 - ROS based safety concept for collaborative robots in industrial applications T2 - Advances in robot design and intelligent control : proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD). (Advances in intelligent systems and computing ; 371) N2 - The production and assembly of customized products increases the demand for flexible automation systems. One approach is to remove the safety fences that separate human and industrial robot to combine their skills. This collaboration possesses a certain risk for the human co-worker, leading to numerous safety concepts to protect him. The human needs to be monitored and tracked by a safety system using different sensors. The proposed system consists of a RGBD camera for surveillance of the common working area, an array of optical distance sensors to compensate shadowing effects of the RGBD camera and a laser range finder to detect the co-worker when approaching the work cell. The software for collision detection, path planning, robot control and predicting the behaviour of the co-worker is based on the Robot Operating System (ROS). A first prototype of the work cell shows that with advanced algorithms from the field of mobile robotics a very flexible safety concept can be realized: the robot not simply stops its movement when detecting a collision, but plans and executes an alternative path around the obstacle. KW - Collaborative robot KW - Human-Robot interaction KW - Safety concept KW - Workspace monitoring KW - Path planning Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-319-21289-0 (Print) ; 978-3-319-21290-6 (E-Book) U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21290-6_3 SP - 27 EP - 35 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Goeckel, Tom A1 - Schiffer, Stefan A1 - Wagner, Hermann A1 - Lakemeyer, Gerhard T1 - The Video Conference Tool Robot ViCToR T2 - Intelligent Robotics and Applications : 8th International Conference, ICIRA 2015, Portsmouth, UK, August 24-27, 2015, Proceedings, Part II N2 - We present a robotic tool that autonomously follows a conversation to enable remote presence in video conferencing. When humans participate in a meeting with the help of video conferencing tools, it is crucial that they are able to follow the conversation both with acoustic and visual input. To this end, we design and implement a video conferencing tool robot that uses binaural sound source localization as its main source to autonomously orient towards the currently talking speaker. To increase robustness of the acoustic cue against noise we supplement the sound localization with a source detection stage. Also, we include a simple onset detector to retain fast response times. Since we only use two microphones, we are confronted with ambiguities on whether a source is in front or behind the device. We resolve these ambiguities with the help of face detection and additional moves. We tailor the system to our target scenarios in experiments with a four minute scripted conversation. In these experiments we evaluate the influence of different system settings on the responsiveness and accuracy of the device. Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-3-319-22876-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22876-1_6 N1 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 9245 SP - 61 EP - 73 PB - Springer ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Srivastava, Alok A1 - Knolle, Friedhart A1 - Hoyler, Friedrich A1 - Scherer, Ulrich W. A1 - Schnug, Ewald T1 - Uranium Toxicity in the State of Punjab in North-Western India T2 - Management of Natural Resources in a Changing Environment N2 - Lately there has been an increasing concern about uranium toxicity in some districts of Punjab State located in the North Western part of India after the publication of a report (Blaurock-Busch et al. 2010) which showed that the concentration of uranium in hair and urine of children suffering from physical deformities, neurological and mental disorder from Malwa region (Fig. 1) of Punjab State was manifold higher than the reference ranges. A train which connects the affected region with the nearby city of Bikaner which has a Cancer Hospital has been nicknamed as Cancer Express due to the frenzy generated on account of uranium related toxicity. Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-3-319-12559-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12559-6_21 SP - 271 EP - 275 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Pulini, Paola A1 - Gligorevic, Snjezana T1 - WIMAX performance in the airport environment T2 - Multi-carrier systems & solutions 2009. (Lecture notes in electrical engineering ; 41) N2 - In this paper, the multicarrier physical layers of WiMAX are evaluated in the context of airport data links. The orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (OFDMA) cases are applied to the forward link (FL) and reverse link (RL), respectively. The performance of the so called parking and taxi scenarios is presented for airport communications in C-band. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme brings good performance for both the FL and the RL. For the OFDMA case a structure changing called double-tile is also proposed to improve the system performance. Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-90-481-2529-6 (Print) ; 978-90-481-2530-2 (Online) SP - 301 EP - 310 PB - Springer CY - Berlin [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wolff, Nino A1 - Seefeldt, Patric A1 - Bauer, Wolfgang A1 - Fiebig, Christopher A1 - Gerding, Patrick A1 - Parow-Souchon, Kai A1 - Pongs, Anna A1 - Reiffenrath, Matti A1 - Ziemann, Thomas T1 - Alternative application of solar sail technology T2 - Advances in solar sailing N2 - The development of Gossamer sail structures for solar sails contributes to a large field of future space applications like thin film solar generators, membrane antennas and drag sails. The focus of this paper is the development of a drag sail based on solar sail technology that could contribute to a reduction of space debris in low Earth orbits. The drag sail design and its connections to solar sail development, a first test on a sounding rocket, as well as the ongoing integration of the drag sail into a triple CubeSat is presented. Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-642-34906-5 (Print) ; 978-3-642-34907-2 (E-Book) U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34907-2_23 SP - 351 EP - 365 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER -