TY  - JOUR
A1  - Werner, Frederik
A1  - Wagner, Torsten
A1  - Miyamoto, Ko-ichiro
A1  - Yoshinobu, Tatsuo
A1  - Schöning, Michael Josef
T1  - High speed and high resolution chemical imaging based on a new type of OLED-LAPS set-up
JF  - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
N2  - Light-addressable potentiometric sensors (LAPS) are field-effect-based sensors. A modulated light source is used to define the particular measurement spot to perform spatially resolved measurements of chemical species and to generate chemical images. In this work, an organic-LED (OLED) display has been chosen as a light source. This allows high measurement resolution and miniaturisation of the system. A new developed driving method for the OLED display optimised for LAPS-based measurements is demonstrated. The new method enables to define modulation frequencies between 1 kHz and 16 kHz and hence, reduces the measurement time of a chemical image by a factor of 40 compared to the traditional addressing of an OLED display.
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2011.12.102
SN  - 0925-4005
N1  - Part of special issue "Selected Papers presented at Eurosensors XXV"
VL  - 175
SP  - 118
EP  - 122
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yazdanbakhsh, Pedram
A1  - Solbach, Klaus
A1  - Bitz, Andreas
T1  - Variable power combiner for RF mode shimming in 7-T MR imaging
JF  - IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering
N2  - This contribution discusses the utilization of RF power in an MRI system with RF mode shimming which enables the superposition of circularly polarized modes of a transmit RF coil array driven by a Butler matrix. Since the required power for the individual modes can vary widely, mode-shimming can result in a significant underutilization of the total available RF power. A variable power combiner (VPC) is proposed to improve the power utilization: it can be realized as a reconfiguration of the MRI transmit system by the inclusion of one additional matrix network which receives the power from all transmit amplifiers at its input ports and provides any desired (combined) power distribution at its output ports by controlling the phase and amplitude of the amplifiers’ input signals. The power distribution at the output ports of the VPC is then fed into the “mode” ports of the coil array Butler matrix in order to superimpose the spatial modes at the highest achievable power utilization. The VPC configuration is compared to the standard configuration of the transmit chain of our MRI system with 8 transmit channels and 16 coils. In realistic scenarios, improved power utilization was achieved from 17% to 60% and from 14% to 55% for an elliptical phantom and a region of interest in the abdomen, respectively, and an increase of the power utilization of 1 dB for a region of interest in the upper leg. In general, it is found that the VPC allows significant improvement in power utilization when the shimming solution demands only a few modes to be energized, while the technique can yield loss in power utilization in cases with many modes required at high power level.
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2012.2205926
SN  - 1558-2531
VL  - 59
IS  - 9
SP  - 2549
EP  - 2557
PB  - IEEE
CY  - New York
ER  -