An experimental and analytical study of the effect of cold compression on the thermophysical properties of a granular medium by Kacim Hadjadj, Lakhdar Hachani, Ahmed Mechraoui, Mohamed El-Amine Slimani, Mounir Sakmeche

“…This method is called the hot rod method. It was initially developed to evaluate the damage to a soil subject to superficial heat shock (fires, burns). …”
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Evaluation of Simultaneous Dual-radioisotope SPECT Imaging Using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose and 99mTc-tetrofosmin by Yasuyuki Takahashi, Mizuki Mochiki, Keiko Koyama, Toshihiko Ino, Hiroyuki Yamaji, Atsuko Kawakami

“…Based on the findings,the detectability of 12 mm hot rods was relatively poor. In the continuousacquisition mode, the count difference was corrected, and detectability of thehot rods was improved. …”
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Yttrium-90 TOF-PET-Based EUD Predicts Response Post Liver Radioembolizations Using Recommended Manufacturer FDG Reconstruction Parameters by Michel Hesse, Philipe d’Abadie, Renaud Lhommel, Francois Jamar, Stephan Walrand

“…PurposeExplaining why 90Y TOF-PET based equivalent uniform dose (EUD) using recommended manufacturer FDG reconstruction parameters has been shown to predict response.MethodsThe hot rods insert of a Jaszczak deluxe phantom was partially filled with a 2.65 GBq 90Y - 300ml DTPA water solution resulting in a 100 Gy mean absorbed dose in the 6 sectors. …”
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Performance evaluation of fifth-generation ultra-high-resolution SPECT system with two stationary detectors and multi-pinhole imaging by Jan V. Hoffmann, Jan P. Janssen, Takayuki Kanno, Takayuki Shibutani, Masahisa Onoguchi, Constantin Lapa, Jan-Peter Grunz, Andreas K. Buck, Takahiro Higuchi

“…Methods The new U-SPECT5-E with two stationary detectors was used for acquiring data with 99mTc-filled point source, hot-rod and uniformity phantoms to analyse sensitivity, spatial resolution, uniformity and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR). …”
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Optimization of Spatial Resolution and Image Reconstruction Parameters for the Small-Animal Metis™ PET/CT System by Jie Zhao, Qiong Liu, Chaofan Li, Yunfeng Song, Ying Zhang, Jyh-Cheng Chen

“…Methods: We used a homemade Derenzo phantom to evaluate the image quality using visual assessment, the signal-to-noise ratio, the contrast, the coefficient of variation, and the contrast-to-noise ratio of the 0.8 mm hot rods of eight slices in the center of the phantom PET images. …”
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Simulation of a Quality Control Jaszczak Phantom with SIMIND Monte Carlo and Adding the Phantom as an Accessory to the Program by Jalil Pirayesh Islamian, Mohammad Taghi Bahreyni Toossi, Mehdi Momennezhad, Shahrokh Naseri, Michael Ljungberg

“…The calculated contrasts of simulated rods were 0.661, 0.527, 0.487, 0.400, 0.23, and 0.2 for cold rods and also 0.92, 0.91, 0.88, 0.81, 0.76, and 0.56 for hot rods. Reconstructed spatial tomographic resolution of both experiment and simulated SPECTs of the phantom obtained about 9.5 mm. …”
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Development of triga mark ii research reactor core monitoring system using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system by Mohd Ali, Nur Syazwani

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Development of triga mark ii research reactor core monitoring system using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system by Mohd. Ali, Nur Syazwani

“…The validation of the power peaking factor (PPF) at the hot rods determined by the TRIGLAV code also demonstrates a good ANFIS model with 0.45 as the optimal influenced radius value in subtractive clustering input-partitioning types in Model 8. …”
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