Coronary CT Angiography Using Low Iodine Delivery Rate and Tube Voltage Determined by Body Mass Index:Superiority in Clinical Practice

To explore the feasibility and superiority of iodine delivery rate(IDR)and tube voltage determined by patients'body mass index(BMI)in coronary CT angiography(CCTA),a total of 1567 patients undertaking CCTA during Feb.and Dec.2016 were enrolled and divided into two groups.In the control group,the IDR and tube voltage were fixed,while in the experimental group,the IDR and tube voltage were determined by patients,BMI.The volume of iodinated contrast media(ICM),extravasation rate,extravasation volume,extravasation recovery interval,incidence rate of adverse reactions,effective dose(ED)and image quality of the two groups were compared.The experiments demonstrated that the ICM volume,extravasation rate,extravasation volume,extravasation recovery interval,incidence of adverse reactions and ED were lower or shorter in the experimental group than in the control group,and the differences were statistically significant(all P<0.05).However,there were no significant differences in the mean CT value,image noise,signal to noise ratio and contrast to noise ratio between the two groups(all P<0.05),which were consistent with the diagnosticians*subjective evaluation outcomes.Our findings suggested that in CCTA,it is feasible to determine the IDR and tube voltage based on patients'BMI;low tube voltage and IDR are superior to the fixed tube voltage and IDR and are worthy of clinical promotion.

Perpendicular magnetization and exchange bias in epitaxial NiO/[Ni/Pt]_(2)multilayers

The realization of perpendicular magnetization and perpendicular exchange bias(PEB)in magnetic multilayers is important for the spintronic applications.NiO(t)/[Ni(4 nm)/Pt(1 nm)]_(2)multilayers with varying the NiO layer thickness t have been epitaxially deposited on SrTiO;(001)substrates.Perpendicular magnetization can be achieved when t<25 nm.Perpendicular magnetization originates from strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy(PMA),mainly resulting from interfacial strain induced by the lattice mismatch between the Ni and Pt layers.The PMA energy constant decreases monotonically with increasing t,due to the weakening of Ni(001)orientation and a little degradation of the Ni–Pt interface.Furthermore,significant PEB can be observed though NiO layer has spin compensated(001)crystalline plane.The PEB field increases monotonically with increasing t,which is considered to result from the thickness dependent anisotropy of the NiO layer.

Optical polarization characteristics for AlGaN-based light-emitting diodes with AlGaN multilayer structure as well layer

The optical properties of AlGaN-based quantum well(QW)structure with two coupled thin well layers are investigated by the six-by-six K-P method.Compared with the conventional structure,the new structure,especially the one with lower Al-content in the barrier layer,can enhance the TE-/TM-polarized total spontaneous emission rate due to the strong quantum confinement and wide recombination region.For the conventional QW structure,the reduction of well thickness can lead the degree of polarization(DOP)to decrease and the internal quantum efficiency(IQE)to increase.By using the coupled thin well layers,the DOP for the structure with high Al-content in the barrier layer can be improved,while the DOP will further decrease with low Al-content in the barrier layer.It can be attributed to the band adjustment induced by the combination of barrier height and well layer coupling.The IQE can also be further enhanced to 14.8%-20.5%for various Al-content of barrier layer at J=100 A/cm^(2).In addition,the efficiency droop effect can be expected to be suppressed compared with the conventional structure.

A new coumarin glucoside ester from seeds oil leavings of Xanthoceras sorbifolia

Objective: To study the coumarin from the seeds oil leavings of Xanthoceras sorbifolia.Methods: The chemical constituents were isolated and purified by combination of silica gel, macroporous resin, Sephadex LH-20, and ODS column chromatography. Their structures were elucidated by spectral and chemical methods. The cytotoxicity of the new compound against 10 selected human cancer cell lines was assayed.Results: Five comarins were isolated and identified as fraxetin-7-O-β-D-[6'-(3"–hydroxyl–3"-methylglutaryl)] glucopyranoside(1), fraxoside(2), fraxetin(3), scopoline(4), and esculetin(5), respectively.Conclusion: Compound 1 is a new compound. Unfortunately, this compound exhibited no cytotoxicity with tested cell lines.

Remote preparation for single-photon state in two degrees of freedom with hyper-entangled states

Remote state preparation(RSP)provides a useful way of transferring quantum information between two distant nodes based on the previously shared entanglement.In this paper,we study RSP of an arbitrary single-photon state in two degrees of freedom(DoFs).Using hyper-entanglement as a shared resource,our first goal is to remotely prepare the single-photon state in polarization and frequency DoFs and the second one is to reconstruct the single-photon state in polarization and time-bin DoFs.In the RSP process,the sender will rotate the quantum state in each DoF of the photon according to the knowledge of the state to be communicated.By performing a projective measurement on the polarization of the sender’s photon,the original single-photon state in two DoFs can be remotely reconstructed at the receiver’s quantum systems.This work demonstrates a novel capability for longdistance quantum communication.