High-efficiency fast X-ray imaging detector development at SSRF.

Indirect X-ray imaging detectors consisting of scintillator screens, long-working-distance microscope lenses and scientific high-speed complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) cameras are usually used to realize fast X-ray imaging with white-beam synchrotron radiation. However, the detector efficiency is limited by the coupling efficiency of the long-working-distance microscope lenses, which is only about 5%. A long-working-distance microscope lenses system with a large numerical aperture (NA) is designed to increase the coupling efficiency.

Low-power laser therapy for carpal tunnel syndrome: effective optical power.

Low-power laser therapy has been used for the non-surgical treatment of mild to moderate carpal tunnel syndrome, although its efficacy has been a long-standing controversy. The laser parameters in low-power laser therapy are closely related to the laser effect on human tissue. To evaluate the efficacy of low-power laser therapy, laser parameters should be accurately measured and controlled, which has been ignored in previous clinical trials.

Three-dimensional ghost imaging lidar via sparsity constraint.

Three-dimensional (3D) remote imaging attracts increasing attentions in capturing a target's characteristics. Although great progress for 3D remote imaging has been made with methods such as scanning imaging lidar and pulsed floodlight-illumination imaging lidar, either the detection range or application mode are limited by present methods. Ghost imaging via sparsity constraint (GISC), enables the reconstruction of a two-dimensional N-pixel image from much fewer than N measurements.

catena-Poly[cobalt(II)-bis-(μ-2-amino-ethane-sulfonato)-κN,O:O';κO:N,O'].

The hydro-thermally prepared title compound, [Co(C(2)H(6)NO(3)S)(2)](n), is isotypic with its Ni(II) analogue. The Co(II) cation is in a distorted octa-hedral environment, coordinated by four sulfonate O atoms and two N atoms from the taurine ligands. In comparison with the Ni(II) analogue, the Co-N and Co-O bonds are longer than the Ni-N and Ni-O bonds, whereas all other bond lengths and angles as well as the hydrogen-bonding motifs are very similar in the two structures.

Bis[2-(2-pyridylmethyl-eneamino)benzene-sulfonato-κN,N',O]manganese(II) dihydrate.

The title complex, [Mn(C(12)H(9)N(2)O(3)S)(2)]·2H(2)O, is isotypic with the previously reported Zn(II) and Cd(II) species. The complex was prepared by the reaction of the potassium salt of 2-(2-pyridylmethyl-eneamino)benzene-sulfonic acid with MnCl(2)·6H(2)O in methanol. The complex displays twofold symmetry, with the ligands coordinated in a tridentate meridional-like arrangement through pyridyl N, imine N, and sulfonate O atoms.