Improving the efficiency of an optical-to-terahertz converter using sapphire fibers by N. V. Zenchenko, D. V. Lavrukhin, I. A. Glinskiy, D. S. Ponomarev

“…Additional Si3N4 and Al2O3 layers are intended for reducing leakage currents in the OTC and reducing the reflection of the laser pump pulse from the air/semiconductor interface (Fresnel losses), respectively, at a gap width of 10 μm. …”
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Color Changes in Artificially Induced Incipient Caries after Photodynamic Therapy with Different Concentrations of Methylene Blue and Toluidine Blue and Irrigation with Water and H... by Sedighe Sadat Hashemikamangar, Mohammadreza Khadivi Moghadam, Mahtab Vahedi, Marzieh Rohaninasab, Nasim Chiniforush

“…A three-way ANOVA was performed to analyze the effects of laser wavelength, concentration of the light-absorbing material, and irrigation solution on ΔE. …”
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Isolated anti-SS-B (La) antibodies: rare occurrence and lack of diagnostic value by Xavier Mariette, Gaetane Nocturne, Pascale Chretien, Claire Goulvestre, Paul Cioni, Eric Ballot, Dounia Khelifi-Touhami

“…Patients with anti-SS-B positivity were identified using ELISA, addressable laser beam immunoassay (ALBIA) and immunodot assays. …”
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Effectiveness of the application of a digitalized repository on the quality of graduate and post-graduate education in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation by Ivet B. Koleva, Ivet B. Koleva, Ivet B. Koleva, Borislav R. Yoshinov, Radoslav R. Yoshinov

“…From the field of basic physiatry we included: books on kinesiological and pathokinesiological analysis, functional evaluation; physiotherapy (active exercises, soft-tissue techniques), ergotherapy (activities), balneotherapy (mineral baths and peloids, underwater gymnastics), manual therapy (tractions, mobilizations, manipulations), preformed physical factors (electric currents, magnetic field, ultrasound, light, laser, etc). In special physiatry we prepared manuals on: neurological and neurosurgical rehabilitation, orthopedic and traumatologic rehabilitation, rheumatologic rehabilitation, cardiac and cardiosurgical rehabilitation, etc. …”
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Clinical characteristics and management outcomes of pediatric patients with Coats disease complicated with retinoschisis (retinal cyst) by Tingyi Liang, Shaochi Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Xiaohan Wang, Xunda Ji, Peiquan Zhao

“…An average of 1.5 additional laser photocoagulation sessions was performed per patient. …”
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Establishment of a metabolite diagnostic model for the risk of diabetic nephropathy in type 2 diabetic population: Based on a cross-sectional study in China by Jing-Yang Su, Yong-Jie Chen, Wei Zhang, Rui Zhang, Tong-Feng Liu, Wei-Ming Luo, Xi-Lin Yang, Zhong-Ze Fang

“…Plasma levels of metabolites, including amino acids and acylcarnitines, were determined using a laser counter measurement system (LC-MS). Subsequently, partial least-squares regression was used to assess the significance of these metabolites. …”
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Characterization of the Droplet Population Generated by Centrifugal Atomization Nozzles of UAV Sprayers by Fábio Henrique Rojo Baio, Job Teixeira de Oliveira, Marcos Eduardo Miranda Alves, Larissa Pereira Ribeiro Teodoro, Fernando França da Cunha, Paulo Eduardo Teodoro

“…Two spray nozzle technologies were tested using a Malvern SprayTech laser particle size meter. The hydraulic nozzle evaluated was model 11001, which generates a wide-use fan spray. …”
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Fluorescent identification of axons, dendrites and soma of neuronal retinal ganglion cells with a genetic marker as a tool for facilitating the study of neurodegeneration by Puttipong Sripinun, Wennan Lu, Sergei Nikonov, Suhani Patel, Sarah Hennessy, Tianyuan Yao, Qi N. Cui, Brent A. Bell, Claire H. Mitchell

“…Fluorescence from axons and soma was detected in vivo with a confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope (cSLO); automatic RGC soma counts enhanced through machine learning approached the numbers found in retinal wholemounts. …”
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RailPC: A large‐scale railway point cloud semantic segmentation dataset by Tengping Jiang, Shiwei Li, Qinyu Zhang, Guangshuai Wang, Zequn Zhang, Fankun Zeng, Peng An, Xin Jin, Shan Liu, Yongjun Wang

“…Notably, RailPC contains twice the number of annotated points compared to the largest available mobile laser scanning (MLS) point cloud dataset and is the first railway‐specific 3D dataset for semantic segmentation. …”
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Modality-Focused L2-Instruction in Swedish Sign Language by Ingela Holmström

“…Studien skildrar en form av andraspråkundervisning som till stor del skiljer sig från annan sådan undervisning och beskriver också hur inlärarna själva upplever denna nya språkinlärningsprocess.a studie undersöks och beskrivs hur undervisningen av sådana modalitetsspecifika särdrag ser ut med utgångspunkt i en årskull förstaårsstudenter som läser svenskt teckenspråk som L2. …”
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Mechanistic insights into 5-aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy for acne vulgaris: targeting lipogenesis via the OLR1-Wnt/β-catenin pathway by Jia Yan, Linglin Zhang, Qingyu Zeng, Yitao Qian, Ke Li, Xiaojing Liu, Yun Wu, Yu Yan, Haiyan Zhang, Szeman Cheung, Jia Liu, Ronald Sroka, Xiuli Wang, Lei Shi

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Synthesis of Closely‐Contacted Cu2O‐CoWO4 Nanosheet Composites for Cuproptosis Therapy to Tumors With Sonodynamic and Photothermal Assistance by Zhuoran Yang, Zhuo Li, Chunyu Yang, Li Meng, Wei Guo, Liqiang Jing

“…When subjected to the combined effects of ultrasound and laser irradiation, the effective release of copper ions is increased by 1.7 times compared to the untreated group, significantly enhancing the efficiency of cuproptosis. …”
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The Relationship between Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Ocular Circulation in Type-2 Diabetes by Kohei Ichinohasama, Hiroshi Kunikata, Azusa Ito, Masayuki Yasuda, Shojiro Sawada, Keiichi Kondo, Chihiro Satake, Hideki Katagiri, Toru Nakazawa

“…In 129 subjects (129 eyes) with type-2 diabetes patients and mild NPDR or NDR, standard statistical techniques were used to determine associations between clinical findings, including diabetes duration, blood levels of creatinine and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), central macular thickness (CMT; measured with optical coherence tomography), mean blur rate (MBR; measured with laser speckle flowgraphy), and ultrasound-measured carotid IMT. …”
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Multimodality Imaging Probe for Positron Emission Tomography and Fluorescence Imaging Studies by Suresh K. Pandey, Jasmeet Kaur, Balu Easwaramoorthy, Ankur Shah, Robert Coleman, Jogeshwar Mukherjee

“…Molecular weight determined using matrix-associated laser desorption ionization (MALDI) for the BSA sample was 66,485 Da and for biotin-BSA was 67,116 Da, indicating two biotin moieties per BSA molecule; for biotin-BSA-DTPA was 81,584 Da, indicating an average of 30 DTPA moieties per BSA molecule; and for FAM conjugate was 82,383 Da, indicating an average of 1.7 fluorescent moieties per BSA molecule. …”
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Mechanisms of Hearing Loss in a Guinea Pig Model of Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence by Bu-Sheng Tong, Zi-Yu He, Chen-Ru Ding, Juan-Mei Yang, Jing Wang, Zhao Han, Yi-Bo Huang, Na Gao, Xian-Hao Jia, Fang-Lu Chi, Dong-Dong Ren

“…Auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) and laser Doppler velocimetry were used to measure hearing loss and vibration changes before and after fenestration, as well as after restorative patching. …”
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In vivo MRS study of long-term effects of traumatic intracranial injection of a culture medium in mice by O. B. Shevelev, O. P. Cherkasova, I. A. Razumov, E. L. Zavjalov

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Pirfenidone Alleviates Choroidal Neovascular Fibrosis through TGF-β/Smad Signaling Pathway by Chuang Gao, Xin Cao, Lili Huang, Yueqi Bao, Tao Li, Yue Di, Liucheng Wu, Yu Song

“…C57BL/6J male mice (aged from 6 to 8 weeks) received intravitreal injections of phosphate-buffered saline (PBS)/PFD solution on 14 days after laser injury. Mice were anesthetized by intraperitoneal injection of 4% pentobarbital (0.05 mg/g body weight). …”
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Preparation of NiCr/YSZ two-layered burn-resistant coating on γ-TiAl alloys based on plasma surface metallurgy and ion plating methods by Wei D.-B., Li M.-F., Zhou X., Li F.-K., Li S.-Q., Zhang P.-Z.

“…The thermal shock test indicated that the composite structure had superior bonding strength and the defects such as metal droplets on the ceramic coating were the source of cracks. The high-energy laser beam destroyed the surface of γ-TiAl alloy, forming protruding combustion products in ablation zone and splashing residues around ablation zone. …”
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Real-Time Fluorescence Imaging Using Indocyanine Green to Assess Therapeutic Effects of Near-Infrared Photoimmunotherapy in Tumor Model Mice by Adrian Rosenberg, Daiki Fujimura MD, Ryuhei Okada MD, PhD, Aki Furusawa PhD, Fuyuki Inagaki MD, PhD, Hiroaki Wakiyama MD, PhD, Takuya Kato MD, PhD, Peter L. Choyke MD, Hisataka Kobayashi MD, PhD

“…Methods: In the first experiment, athymic nude mouse models bearing unilateral subcutaneous flank tumors were treated with either NIR-PIT or laser therapy only. In the second experiment, mice bearing bilateral flank tumors were treated with NIR-PIT only on the left-sided tumor. …”
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Nanoscale ultrafast dynamics in Bi2Te3 thin film by terahertz scanning near-field nanoscopy by Ziyu Huang, Jing Li, Peiyan Li, Lin Du, Mingcong Dai, Jiahua Cai, Zejun Ren, Tianxiao Nie, Xiaojun Wu

“…Summary: Ultrafast laser interactions with topological insulators (TIs) have garnered tremendous interest for understanding light-matter interactions and developing optoelectronic devices across visible to terahertz (THz) regions owning to their high carrier mobility and sensitivity to electric fields. …”
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