Real time radiation dosimeters based on vertically aligned multiwall carbon nanotubes and graphene.

Measurements of the absorbed dose and quality assurance programs play an important role in radiotherapy. Ionization chambers (CIs) are considered the most important dosimeters for their high accuracy, practicality and reliability, allowing absolute dose measurements. However, they have a relative large physical size, which limits their spatial resolution, and require a high bias voltage to achieve an acceptable collection of charges, excluding their use for in vivo dosimetry.

Independent component analysis for artefact separation in astrophysical images.

In this paper, we demonstrate that independent component analysis, a novel signal processing technique, is a powerful method for separating artefacts from astrophysical image data. When studying far-out galaxies from a series of consequent telescope images, there are several sources for artefacts that influence all the images, such as camera noise, atmospheric fluctuations and disturbances, cosmic rays, and stars in our own galaxy. In the analysis of astrophysical image data it is very important to implement techniques which are able to detect them with great accuracy, to avoid the possible physical events from being eliminated from the data along with the artefacts.