Relationship between illness perception and post-traumatic stress disorder among adults with burn: The mediation role of cognitive emotion regulation.

Unlabelled: This current study explored the relationship between illness perception (IP) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the mediation role of cognitive emotion regulation (CER) among patients with burns.

Methods: This study is multicenter and cross-sectional. Patients with a history of burn injury at three tertiary hospitals in mainland China were selected through purposeful sampling.

Advancing Proton FLASH Radiation Therapy: Innovations, Techniques, and Clinical Potentials.

Proton FLASH radiation therapy (RT) is an emerging technique that offers highly conformal doses similar to conventional intensity modulated proton therapy but with the added potential benefit of protecting organs at risk through the FLASH-sparing effect. This review examines recent advancements in proton FLASH-RT, including transmission beams (TB), single-energy Bragg peak, single-energy spread-out Bragg peak, hybrid FLASH, and multiple-energy spread-out Bragg peak. These proton FLASH technologies are discussed in detail, highlighting their advantages, limitations, and dosimetric comparisons with intensity modulated proton therapy and other FLASH techniques.

Sex Differences in Spatiotemporal Consistency and Effective Connectivity of the Precuneus in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been reported to exhibit altered local functional consistency. However, previous studies mainly focused on male samples and explored the temporal consistency in the ASD brain ignoring the spatial consistency. In this study, FOur-dimensional Consistency of local neural Activities (FOCA) analysis was used to investigate the sex differences of local spatiotemporal consistency of spontaneous brain activity in ASD.

Design of subsurface defect detection system based on two channels.

With the continuous improvement of quality requirements for optical components, the detection of subsurface defects in optical components has become a key technology. However, there is a problem with existing detection techniques, which is that they cannot simultaneously and independently detect subsurface defects at the micrometer and nanometer levels. This article analyzes the scattering field model of subsurface scratches and conducts simulation experiments on the relationship between scattering light intensity and system aperture.

Analysis of hydrogen peroxide production in pure water: Ultrahigh versus conventional dose-rate irradiation and mechanistic insights.

Background: Ultrahigh dose-rate radiation (UHDR) produces less hydrogen peroxide (HO) in pure water, as suggested by some experimental studies, and is used as an argument for the validity of the theory that FLASH spares the normal tissue due to less reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. In contrast, most Monte Carlo simulation studies suggest the opposite.

Purpose: We aim to unveil the effect of UHDR on HO production in pure water and its underlying mechanism, to serve as a benchmark for Monte Carlo simulation.

A correction method for radial distortion and nonlinear response of infrared cameras.

The key feature of non-contact temperature measurement provided by infrared (IR) cameras underpins their versatility. However, the accuracy of temperature measurements with IR cameras depends on imaging quality due to their non-contact nature, such as the lens, body temperature, and measurement environment. This paper addresses the correction of radial distortion and nonlinear response issues in IR cameras.

Photothermal vortex interferometer with azimuthal complex spectra analysis for the measurement of laser-induced nanoscale thermal lens dynamics.

A photothermal vortex interferometer (PTVI) is proposed to fill the gap of full-field measurement of the laser-induced nanoscale thermal lens dynamics of optical elements. The PTVI produces a multi-ring petal-like interferogram by the coaxial coherent superposition of the high-order conjugated Laguerre-Gaussian beams. The non-uniform optical path change (OPC) profile resulting from the thermal lens causes the petals of the interferogram at the different radii to shift by the different azimuths.

A theoretical study of H O as the surrogate of dose in minibeam radiotherapy, with a diffusion model considering radical removal process.

Background: Minibeam radiation therapy (MBRT) is an innovative dose delivery method with the potential to spare normal tissue while achieving similar tumor control as conventional radiotherapy. However, it is difficult to use a single dose parameter, such as mean dose, to compare different patterns of MBRT due to the spatially fractionated radiation. Also, the mechanism leading to the biological effects is still unknown.

Picometer-scale optical vortex interferometer using azimuthal complex spectrum analysis.

An interferogram demodulation method based on azimuthal complex spectrum analysis is proposed for achieving picometer-scale accuracy with an optical vortex interferometer (OVI). The OVI uses conjugated p-radial-order Laguerre-Gaussian beams to produce a high-order petal-like interferogram. A camera with a multi-ring pattern written on its sensor is used to convert the interferogram into multiple azimuthal intensity profiles.

Development of a confocal line-scan laser scattering probe for dark-field surface defects detection of transmissive optics.

Dark-field detection has long been used to identify micron/submicron-sized surface defects benefiting from the broadening effect of the actual defect size caused by light scattering. However, the back-side scattering of a transmissive optical slab is inevitably confused with the front-side scattering phenomenon, resulting in deterioration of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the scattering signal and false alarms for real defect detection. To this end, a confocal line-scan laser scattering probe equipped with optical sectioning ability is proposed to separate the back-side scattering from the front-side scattering.

Spectral preprocessing to improve accuracy of quantitative detection of elemental Cr in austenitic stainless steel by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy.

The production and consumption of austenitic stainless steel account for about 70% of stainless steel worldwide. The content of chromium (Cr) must be accurately detected and controlled to form a stable austenite structure and obtain strong properties in production. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) can be used to detect the Cr content of austenitic stainless steel in a complex production process.

Automatic defect inspection of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display panels using robust one-dimensional Fourier reconstruction with non-uniform illumination correction.

Automatic inspection of micro-defects of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels is a critical task in LCD manufacturing. To meet the practical demand of online inspection of a one-dimensional (1D) line image captured by the line scan visual system, we propose a robust 1D Fourier reconstruction method with the capability of automatic determination of the period Δx of the periodic pattern of a spatial domain line image and the neighboring length r of the frequency peaks of the corresponding frequency domain line image. Moreover, to alleviate the difficulty in the discrimination between the defects and the non-uniform illumination background, we present an effective way to correct the non-uniform background using robust locally weighted smoothing combined with polynomial curve fitting.

Sensitivity enhancement in photothermal interferometry by balanced detection of the complex response to moving excitation.

The sensitivity of photothermal detection relies on both the magnitude of the response of a sample to excitation and the way the response is sensed. We propose a highly sensitive photothermal interferometry by addressing the above two issues. One is the use of moving excitation to enable a different manner in sample heating and cooling, which results in a strong thermoelastic response of the sample.

Dual-wavelength Mach-Zehnder interferometry-assisted photothermal spectroscopy for characterization of surface contaminants.

Photothermal spectroscopy (PTS) working in the mid-infrared region is an effective technique for in-situ characterization of the chemical composition of surface contaminants. The sensitivity relies on the way that the laser-induced response of the sample is detected. We present a highly-sensitive PTS assisted with a dual-wavelength Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), MZI-PST in short.

Time-resolved laser scanning photothermal microscopy for characterization of thermal properties of semi-insulating GaAs.

The strong coupling effect of thermal and plasma waves disturbs the accurate characterization of thermal properties of semiconductors under super bandgap energy photon excitation. We propose a time-resolved laser scanning photothermal microscopy to decouple the thermo-electronic effect for accurate determination of the thermal diffusivity of a semi-insulating GaAs sample. The distinct advantage of the decoupling principle relies on that the scanning excitation of a laser beam on the sample surface introduces different transient and steady-state characteristics into the thermal and electronic parts of the photothermal response, where the transients between the thermal and electronic parts have a large time-scale separation, and the steady states show an enhanced thermal effect over the electronic effect.

Multi-channel averaging detection for fast imaging of weakly absorbing defects in surface thermal lensing.

Surface thermal lensing (STL) is a high sensitive pump-probe technique for photothermal characterization of weakly absorbing defects in optical materials. Commonly, the frequency modulation is applied in the pump beam, and the STL signal that appears as small modulation on top of an intense background is then detected on the probe beam by lock-in amplification. However, the lock-in detection by filtering the signal in the frequency domain results in low efficiency in the STL, preventing investigations of the large area surfaces.

Effects of water on fingernail electron paramagnetic resonance dosimetry.

Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) is a promising biodosimetric method, and fingernails are sensitive biomaterials to ionizing radiation. Therefore, kinetic energy released per unit mass (kerma) can be estimated by measuring the level of free radicals within fingernails, using EPR. However, to date this dosimetry has been deficient and insufficiently accurate.

TWO FACTORS INFLUENCING DOSE RECONSTRUCTION IN LOW DOSE RANGE: THE VARIABILITY OF BKG INTENSITY ON ONE INDIVIDUAL AND WATER CONTENT.

A fast and accurate retrospective dosimetry method for the triage is very important in radiation accidents. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) fingernail dosimetry is a promising way to estimate radiation dose. This article presents two factors influencing dose reconstruction in low dose range: the variability of background signal (BKG) intensity on one individual and water content.

Implanting iodine-125 seeds into rat dorsal root ganglion for neuropathic pain: neuronal microdamage without impacting hind limb motion.

The use of iodine-125 ((125)I) in cancer treatment has been shown to relieve patients' pain. Considering dorsal root ganglia are critical for neural transmission between the peripheral and central nervous systems, we assumed that (125)I could be implanted into rat dorsal root ganglia to provide relief for neuropathic pain. (125)I seeds with different radioactivity (0, 14.