Partition of Omega-like facility into two configurations of 24 and 36 laser beams to improve implosion performance.

An Omega-like beam configuration is considered where the 60-beam layout can be separated into two independent sub-configurations with 24 and 36 laser beams, each minimizing direct drive illumination non-uniformity. Two different laser focal spot profiles, one associated with each configuration, are proposed to apply the zooming technique in order to increase the laser-target coupling efficiency. This approach is used by 1D hydrodynamics simulations of the implosion of a direct-drive capsule characterized by a relatively large aspect ratio A = 7 and an optimized laser pulse shape delivering a maximum of 30 TW and 30 kJ, with different temporal pulse shapes in each of the two sets of beams.

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Soft Tissue Masses: 2022 Update.

Imaging should be performed in patients with a suspected soft tissue mass that cannot be clinically confirmed as benign. Imaging provides essential information necessary for diagnosis, local staging, and biopsy planning. Although the modalities available for imaging of musculoskeletal masses have undergone progressive technological advancements in recent years, their overall purpose in the setting of a soft tissue mass remains unchanged.

Surgical education and Internet-based simulation: The World Virtual University.

The new means and modalities of communication and information technologies have significantly revolutionized access to surgical education. The introduction of the Internet information highway into mainstream clinical practice as an information sharing medium offers a wide range of opportunities to healthcare professionals. High-speed Internet broadcasting allows the display of high-quality full-screen videos.

Proposal for the study of thermophysical properties of high-energy-density matter using current and future heavy-ion accelerator facilities at GSI Darmstadt.

The subject of high-energy-density (HED) states in matter is of considerable importance to numerous branches of basic as well as applied physics. Intense heavy-ion beams are an excellent tool to create large samples of HED matter in the laboratory with fairly uniform physical conditions. Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, is a unique worldwide laboratory that has a heavy-ion synchrotron, SIS18, that delivers intense beams of energetic heavy ions.