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Using Castables of Improved Properties for Iron and Steel Production
Abstract: The use of unshaped refractory mixtures designed to prepare monolithic lining represents a progressive trend that often replaces traditional brick linings. Their advantage lies in the fact that a par...
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Production routes of 107,109Cd radioisotopes via charged particle induced nuclear reactions
Activation cross sections of application related 107Cd and 109Cd via proton, deuteron, alpha particle induced reactions on palladium, 3He and alpha particle induced nuclear reactions on silver and deuteron induce...
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Optimization and Design of a New Torpedo Lining
One of the basic requirements of current industrial processes is to extend the service life of metallurgical aggregates taking into consideration the maximum economic effectiveness. Torpedoes are essential com...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Observation of Transient Thin Film Structures During the Femto-Second Laser Ablation Process by Using the Soft X-Ray Laser Probe
We modified a soft X-ray laser (SXRL) interferometer synchronized with a Ti:sapphire laser to observe a single-shot image of the nanoscale structure dynamics of materials induced by an optical laser pulse. The...
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Hydrodynamics driven by ultrashort laser pulse: simulations and the optical pump—X-ray probe experiment
Spatial structures of ablative mass flow produced by femtosecond laser pulses are studied. In experiments with a gold film, the Ti:sapp laser pulse having a focal size of 100 microns on a target was used, whi...
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Graphene-containing plasma: a medium for the coherent extreme ultraviolet light generation
We demonstrate the high-order harmonic generation of femtosecond pulses in the laser ablation plume containing the graphene nanoparticles. The harmonics up to the 33rd order were observed. The presence of grap...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development of Soft X-Ray Microscopy Using Fresnel Zone Plate for Observation of Laser-Induce Surface Dynamics
X-ray reflective microscope in EUV region has been tried with a Fresnel zone plate (FZP). FZP with an outermost zone width of 0.28 μm and thickness of 250 nm is used as an objective lens. The focal length of F...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Observation of the Laser-Induced Surface Dynamics Using the Single-Shot Soft X-Ray Laser Probe
We constructed optical laser pump and soft x-ray laser probe system and succeed to obtain the temporal evolution of the soft x-ray images on the laser irradiated Pt surface during the femtosecond laser ablatio...
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Activation cross-sections of longer lived products of proton induced nuclear reactions on cobalt up to 70 MeV
As a part of our series of studies on charged particle induced reactions on various target materials, proton induced excitation functions on natural cobalt have been determined by using the stacked-foil techni...
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Low- and high-order nonlinear optical characterization of C60-containing media
Third- and higher-order nonlinear optical processes in fullerenes were studies to define the influence of low-order nonlinearities on the high-order harmonic generation in these media. We measured the nonlinea...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Highly Directive High Harmonic Generation from Solid Target Plasma for Biomedical and Medicine Applications
Current activities on our research of high harmonic generation (HHG) using intense femtosecond laser pulse with solid target plasma are presented. HHG from solid target plasmas shows some interesting phenomena...
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Chapter
Carbon Ion Radiotherapy in Hypo-Fractionation Regimen and Single Dose for Stage I Non-small-Cell Lung Cancer
It has been more than one decade since we started carbon ion radiation therapy (CIRT) for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in November 1994. From 1994 to 1999, we conducted a phase I/II clinical trial for st...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
High Harmonic Generation by using Laser-Ablation Two- Compounds Target Scheme
We have generated high harmonics by using the two-component laserablation plumes, which were irradiated by a femtosecond laser pulse. The harmonic spectra from double target schemes comprised those obtained fr...
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Risk factors for mortality among patients with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteremia in Tokyo, Japan, 1996–2009
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an important nosocomial pathogen, especially among immunocompromised patients. The objective of this study was to clarify the clinical characteristics, prognosis, and prognostic fa...
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Coastal flooding due to synoptic scale, meso-scale and remote forcings
Coastal flooding occurs due to storm surges generated by tropical and extra-tropical cyclones on the globe. The meteorological forcing fields for the generation of storm surges are the tangential surface wind ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Revaluation for problem of clinical particle therapy in cell biological effects of proton, carbon-ion and X-ray at Hyogo Ion Beam Medical Center
Hyogo Ion Beam Medical Center (HIBMC) is the world’s only facility to provide both proton and carbon-ion radiotherapy. Based on the characteristic, HIBMC conduct and investigate many comparative studies betwee...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Current Status of the HIBMC, Providing Particle Beam Radiation Therapy for More Than 2,600 Patients, and the Prospects of Laser-Driven Proton Radiotherapy
The Hyogo Ion Beam Medical Center was established in May 2001, a leading project of the ‘Hyogo Cancer Strategy’. As its major characteristic, both proton and carbon ion beams can be generated. The accelerator ...
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Polymer Microstructures: Modification and Characterization by Fluid Sorption
Polymer micro-organization can be modified by a combination of three constraints, thermal, hydrostatic, and fluid sorption. In selecting the fluid’s nature, chemically active or inert, and its physical state, ...
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Nickel-63 production in copper samples exposed to the Hiroshima atomic bomb: estimation based on an excitation function obtained by neutron irradiation experiments
The upper and lower limits of the excitation function of the 63Cu(n,p)63Ni reaction were experimentally determined, and the number of 63Ni nuclei produced in copper samples exposed to atomic bomb neutrons in Hiro...
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Investigation of excitation functions of deuteron induced nuclear reactions on lead
Activation data of lead are of great importance due to the widespread applications of this element in various technological fields and to the well known adverse effects to biological systems. Use of high sensi...
