Pasteurization of spp. in black fungus () powder by radio frequency heating.

Radio frequency (RF) heating has been studied to inactivate bacteria in some powder foods. In this study, a 6 kW, 27.12 MHz RF system was used to pasteurize in black fungus powder.

3-D Tracking for Augmented Reality Using Combined Region and Dense Cues in Endoscopic Surgery.

An augmented reality (AR) technique has recently gained its popularity in minimally invasive surgery. Tracking is a crucial step to achieve precise AR. Besides optical tracking in traditional medical AR, visual tracking attracts a lot of attention due to its generality.

Accelerating decomposition of light field video for compressive multi-layer display.

Compressive light field display based on multi-layer LCDs is becoming a popular solution for 3D display. Decomposing light field into layer images is the most challenging task. Iterative algorithm is an effective solver for this high-dimensional decomposition problem.

Modulation of the coffee-ring effect in particle/surfactant mixtures: the importance of particle-interface interactions.

We study the effect of surfactants on the deposits formed after the evaporation of colloidal suspension drops, at initial concentrations lower than the critical micellar concentrations, for various particle/surfactant mixtures. We show that the surfactant-mediated interactions between particles and the liquid-gas (LG) and liquid-solid (LS) interfaces, rather than the flow patterns, primarily define the morphology of the dry deposit in a robust and reproducible manner. For like-charged particle/surfactant mixtures, most of the particles form a ring-shaped deposit (according to the so-called "Coffee-Ring Effect"), but some particles can also be deposited inside the ring in a way that is modulated by electrostatic interactions between the particles and the LS interface.

Dictionary-based light field acquisition using sparse camera array.

We propose a dictionary-based dense light field acquisition technique. This technique captures light field successfully from a sparse camera array with no mask or any other optical modifications on cameras. Light rays in wider field are captured by our system to achieve larger disparity and higher angular resolution.

Designs for high performance PAL-based imaging systems.

In this study, we investigate methods to optimize the design of a panoramic annular lens (PAL) system. The design details of a PAL surveillance system, an anamorphic PAL surveillance system, a phone camera with a PAL attachment, and a PAL endoscope system are described. All these designs are optimized using a standard optical software package (Zemax).

Reconfigurable surface plasmon polariton wave adapter designed by transformation optics.

In this paper, we propose a reconfigurable surface plasmon polariton (SPP) wave adapter designed by transformation optics, which can control the propagation of SPP waves on un-even surfaces. The proposed plasmonic device is constructed using homogeneously tunable materials (e.g.

Decrease in CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ Treg cells after pulmonary resection in the treatment of cavity multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

Objectives: Immune regulatory mechanisms may limit the immunopathologic condition of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and suppress cellular immune responses in the host. We investigated the CD4(+)CD25(+)FoxP3(+) circulating regulatory T cells (T(reg)) in patients with cavity multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) before and after surgery.

Methods: We compared the proportion of T(reg) cells in 13 patients with cavity MDR-TB pre- and postoperatively and in 10 healthy control subjects by flow cytometry using three specific markers in peripheral blood lymphocytes: cell-surface CD4 and CD25 expression and intracellular FoxP3 expression.