As cirurgias radioguiadas, utilizando sondas com detectores de radiação, têm sido destaque na área médica na última década. Esta técnica consiste na marcação de lesões com uma substância radioativa, que injetada no paciente, concentra-se no tumor e auxilia a sua localização durante o ato cirúrgico. Entre as cirurgias radioguiadas, a identificação e exame do linfonodo sentinela, tem revolucionado a conduta de neoplasias em estádio inicial, quando estas estão sendo disseminadas pela via linfática. As condições impostas por uma cirurgia e a proximidade entre alguns linfonodos, exige das sondas, reduzidos diâmetros e capacidade de identificação individual destes linfonodos marcados com um radiofármaco. O mercado internacional fornece sondas adequadas com cristais cintiladores e com semicondutores de telureto de cádmio, CdTe, mas que algumas vezes carecem de uma pronta assistência técnica no mercado brasileiro devido a todo o conjunto ser importado. Este trabalho desenvolveu sondas com tecnologia nacional, utilizando cristais cintiladores de iodeto de césio dopado com tálio, CsI(Tl) e, em substituição aos cristais semicondutores de CdTe, o cristal de brometo de tálio, TlBr que é um meio semicondutor detector em desenvolvimento mundialmente, com vantagens em relação ao CdTe. Ambos os cristais utilizados foram crescidos no IPEN. Toda a eletrônica necessária, e em especial, o pré-amplificador, que constituía também um fator limitante para desenvolvimento destes tipos de sonda no país, foram desenvolvidos com componentes encontrados no mercado nacional. Medidas sistemáticas de resolução espacial, seletividade espacial, sensibilidade máxima e qualidade da blindagem foram realizadas para as sondas desenvolvidas. Os resultados mostraram que dois modelos de sonda, uma com o cristal de CsI(Tl) e outra com o semicondutor de TlBr atenderam as qualidades sugeridas pela literatura internacional para sondas cirúrgicas radioguiadas. / Radioguided surgery, using probes with radiation detectors, has been prominence in the medical area in the last decade. This technique consists in injecting a radioactive substance to concentrate in tumour and assist the localization during the surgical procedure. The radioguided surgeries allowing the identification of lymph node has revolutioned the behavior of tumour in initial stadium when are being spread by lymphatic way. The conditions imposed to the surgery due the proximity between some lymph nodes, demands of the probes, a small diameters and capacity of individual identification of these lymph nodes radiolabelled by a specific tracer. The international market supplies these probes with CdTe semiconductors and scintillators, but there is some time lack a promptly technical assistance in the Brazilian market. This work developed probes with national technology, using CsI(Tl) scintillators crystals and, in substitution to CdTe crystals semiconductors, the TlBr crystal, that is a new semiconductor detector in a world-wide development, with advantages in relation to the CdTe. Both crystals have been grown in IPEN. All the necessary electronics, specially, the preamplifier, that was also a restrictive factor for development of these types of probe in the country, have been developed with components found in the national market. Systematic measures of spatial resolution, spatial selectivity, maximum sensitivity and quality of the shielding have been carried the probes development. The results have shown that the probes, one with the CsI(Tl) crystal and another with TlBr semiconductor presented the requested performance in the international literature for radiguided probes.

As cirurgias radioguiadas, utilizando sondas com detectores de radiação, têm sido destaque na área médica na última década. Esta técnica consiste na marcação de lesões com uma substância radioativa, que injetada no paciente, concentra-se no tumor e auxilia a sua localização durante o ato cirúrgico. Entre as cirurgias radioguiadas, a identificação e exame do linfonodo sentinela, tem revolucionado a conduta de neoplasias em estádio inicial, quando estas estão sendo disseminadas pela via linfática. As condições impostas por uma cirurgia e a proximidade entre alguns linfonodos, exige das sondas, reduzidos diâmetros e capacidade de identificação individual destes linfonodos marcados com um radiofármaco. O mercado internacional fornece sondas adequadas com cristais cintiladores e com semicondutores de telureto de cádmio, CdTe, mas que algumas vezes carecem de uma pronta assistência técnica no mercado brasileiro devido a todo o conjunto ser importado. Este trabalho desenvolveu sondas com tecnologia nacional, utilizando cristais cintiladores de iodeto de césio dopado com tálio, CsI(Tl) e, em substituição aos cristais semicondutores de CdTe, o cristal de brometo de tálio, TlBr que é um meio semicondutor detector em desenvolvimento mundialmente, com vantagens em relação ao CdTe. Ambos os cristais utilizados foram crescidos no IPEN. Toda a eletrônica necessária, e em especial, o pré-amplificador, que constituía também um fator limitante para desenvolvimento destes tipos de sonda no país, foram desenvolvidos com componentes encontrados no mercado nacional. Medidas sistemáticas de resolução espacial, seletividade espacial, sensibilidade máxima e qualidade da blindagem foram realizadas para as sondas desenvolvidas. Os resultados mostraram que dois modelos de sonda, uma com o cristal de CsI(Tl) e outra com o semicondutor de TlBr atenderam as qualidades sugeridas pela literatura internacional para sondas cirúrgicas radioguiadas. / Radioguided surgery, using probes with radiation detectors, has been prominence in the medical area in the last decade. This technique consists in injecting a radioactive substance to concentrate in tumour and assist the localization during the surgical procedure. The radioguided surgeries allowing the identification of lymph node has revolutioned the behavior of tumour in initial stadium when are being spread by lymphatic way. The conditions imposed to the surgery due the proximity between some lymph nodes, demands of the probes, a small diameters and capacity of individual identification of these lymph nodes radiolabelled by a specific tracer. The international market supplies these probes with CdTe semiconductors and scintillators, but there is some time lack a promptly technical assistance in the Brazilian market. This work developed probes with national technology, using CsI(Tl) scintillators crystals and, in substitution to CdTe crystals semiconductors, the TlBr crystal, that is a new semiconductor detector in a world-wide development, with advantages in relation to the CdTe. Both crystals have been grown in IPEN. All the necessary electronics, specially, the preamplifier, that was also a restrictive factor for development of these types of probe in the country, have been developed with components found in the national market. Systematic measures of spatial resolution, spatial selectivity, maximum sensitivity and quality of the shielding have been carried the probes development. The results have shown that the probes, one with the CsI(Tl) crystal and another with TlBr semiconductor presented the requested performance in the international literature for radiguided probes.

The Auroral Spatial Structures Probe (ASSP) mission is a sounding rocket mission studying solar energy input to space weather. ASSP requires the high velocity ejection (up to 50 m/s) of 6 secondary payloads, spin stabilized perpendicular to the ejection velocity. The proposed scientific instrumentation depends on a high degree of spin stability, requiring a maximum coning angle of less than 5º. It also requires that the spin axis be aligned within 25º of the local magnetic field lines. The maximum velocities of current ejection methods are typically less than 10m/s, and often produce coning angles in excess of 20º. Because of this they do not meet the ASSP mission requirements. To meet these requirements a new ejection method is being developed by NASA Wallops Flight Facility. Success of the technique in meeting coning angle and B-field alignment requirements is evaluated herein by modeling secondary payload dynamic behavior using a 6-DOF dynamic simulation employing state space integration written in MATLAB. Simulation results showed that secondary payload mass balancing is the most important factor in meeting stability requirements. Secondary mass payload properties will be measured using an inverted torsion pendulum. If moment of inertia measurement errors can be reduced to 0.5%, it is possible to achieve mean coning and B-field alignment angles of 2.16º and 2.71º, respectively.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin, 1971. / Bound typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 1975. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-106).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:34:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-09-11Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:44:44Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 garcia_a_dr_guara.pdf: 2102089 bytes, checksum: 0317ee56928eede236168b36cbbd28b5 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Agência Espacial Brasileira (AEB) / As ações do responsável pela segurança de vôo, em lançamentos de foguetes, são fundamentais para minimizar riscos relacionados à vida, ao meio ambiente e a bens materiais. Nesse contexto está incluída a atividade de cálculo da posição do lançador, para compensação da influência do vento na trajetória de foguetes nãocontrolados. Atualmente, a execução dessa tarefa e a realimentação das informações referentes ao posicionamento do lançador não são realizadas de forma automática. Esse é um dos motivos pelos quais é necessário realizar o ajuste final do lançador, aproximadamente cinco a sete minutos antes do lançamento. No intervalo de tempo até o lançamento, o vento pode mudar de velocidade e direção, promovendo situação com potencial suficiente para causar desvio na trajetória do foguete, com conseqüente aumento da dispersão do seu ponto de impacto. O objetivo desse trabalho é propor uma arquitetura de sistema para automatizar o ajuste da posição em azimute e elevação de lançadores de foguetes de sondagem não-controlados. Os ensaios realizados com o protótipo de lançador mostraram que a proposta deste trabalho é capaz de realizar automaticamente o posicionamento de lançadores durante campanhas de lançamento, para compensar a influência do vento na trajetória do foguete, com o objetivo de diminuir a dispersão de impacto de foguetes não-controlados. / The actions taken by the person responsible for flight safety in rocket launch are fundamental to minimize risks related to life, environment and material assets. This context includes the calculation of the launcher’s position to compensate for wind influence on the unguided rocket trajectory. Currently, the accomplishment of such task and the feedback of data regarding launcher’s positioning are not performed automatically. This is one of the reasons why it is necessary to make the final adjustment of the launcher approximately five to seven minutes before such launch. Within the time interval until the launch, wind speed and direction may change and give rise to a situation with enough potential to cause a deviation in the rocket’s trajectory with the consequential increase in the dispersion of its point of impact. The purpose of this work is to propose a system architecture able to automate the adjustment of the position in azimuth and the elevation of unguided sounding rocket launchers. The tests made on the prototype launcher showed that the proposal of this work can automatically make the positioning of the launchers during launch campaigns to compensate for wind influence on the rocket’s trajectory in order to reduce dispersion of impact of unguided rockets.

During July 1974, two reversed deep seismic sounding (DSS) profiles extending about 75 km were recorded in the Explorer Ridge region of the northeastern Pacific, one parallel and the other perpendicular to the ridge. A two-ship operation was used to record near-vertical incidence to wide-angle reflected waves and refracted waves with penetration from the ocean bottom to the upper mantle. Signals from six individual hydrophones suspended at 45 m depth from a 600 m cable trailed behind the receiving ship were recorded in digital form. The shooting ship detonated charges ranging from 2.3 kg to 280 kg and recorded the direct arrival plus the WWVB time code. Processing of the data recorded at distances beyond 4 km included demultiplexing, stacking, and filtering. Before the data were presented in record section form, traveltime corrections were made for topography and shot distance, and amplitude corrections were made for amplifier gain, charge size, and spherical spreading. The interpretation procedure consisted of two steps. A homogeneous, layered velocity-depth model was initially constructed from first arrival traveltime data. The p-A curve corresponding to this model was then altered until an amplitude fit was obtained using synthetic seismograms. Weichert-Herglotz integration of the resultant p-A curve produced the final velocity-depth model. This traveltime and amplitude interpretation required the introduction of velocity gradients into the model. The profile run across the ridge showed no anomalous behaviour as the ridge was crossed; the profile on the Juan de Fuca plate, paralleling the ridge, exhibited traveltime branch offsets and delays. These have been interpreted as due to faulting with a. vertical component of offset of about 5 km. The reversed upper mantle velocities are 7.8 and 7.3 km/s in directions perpendicular and parallel to the ridge. Anisotropy is proposed to explain these different velocities. Compared with crustal sections from other ridge areas, the data require a thick "layer 3" (up to 7 km) near the ridge crest. The total depth to the base of the oceanic crust varies between 10 and 12 km except in the faulted region. The results of this study favor the hypothesis that Explorer Ridge is presently an inactive spreading center. / Science, Faculty of / Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of / Graduate

The Memphis, Tennessee National Weather Service (NWS) currently has issues with their atmospheric dispersion index (LVORI), and is looking for a new index that better represents smoke dispersion in their County Warning Area (CWA). Forecast soundings at hour 00 and hour 48 from the North American Mesoscale (NAM) model were collected at various locations in the southeastern United States. Using the data collected, a new index equation was developed. A bootstrapping analysis was performed to determine if the mean index number corresponding to low visibility was statistically significantly different and greater than the mean index number corresponding to high visibility for forecast hour 00 and hour 48. Based on the results of this study, the mean index number was greater for low visibility, but was not statistically significantly different for forecast hour 00. For forecast hour 48, the mean index number was greater and statistically significantly different for low visibility.

Thesis (M.Eng.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

The aim of this thesis is to look at the possibility for SSC, Swedish Space Corporation, to build a cost-effective mobile rocket launcher to be used for their most common sounding rockets. Having a mobile rocket launcher will give SSC the possibility to not only expand their own line of launchers but more importantly giving them the opportunity to launch rockets outside their own base. To ease transportation of the launcher it is required to fit in a 40ft container. This requirement is the major limitation during the design phase. To keep the cost down, emphasis will be put on trying to find solutions with commercial products. Concepts were developed during three phases and after presenting the concepts to involved personnel, feedback was given and the concept(s) were developed further. The third and final phase contain the chosen concept and suggestions are given regarding future work to be done before it can be manufactured.