Local scattering anisotropy of the skin as a possible factor of fluorescence borders distortion of neoplasms by N. P. Kiryushchenkova, I. A. Novikov

“…Four zones of interest were identified, all different in optical properties. The wavelength of the light source was selected as to simulate the PpIX fluorescence. …”
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Mutual interaction between motor cortex activation and pain in fibromyalgia: EEG-fNIRS study. by Eleonora Gentile, Antonio Brunetti, Katia Ricci, Marianna Delussi, Vitoantonio Bevilacqua, Marina de Tommaso

“…Functional near-infrared spectroscopy is a portable and optical method to detect cortical metabolic changes. …”
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The narrow-band organic photodetectors based on organic photo-filtering layers using a transfer printing technology by Pengchao Zhou, Jialu Gu, Lei Fan, Jipeng Ma, Kuang Sheng, Hong Lian, Kunping Guo, Wei Shi, Bin Wei

“…The responsivity and specific detectivity of OPDs prepared based on our method can be flexibly adjusted by the combination of different photo-filtering and active layers, and the universality of our method is also proved.…”
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Determination of the Concentration of Tm³⁺ and Ho³⁺ Ions in the Glass and Crystalline Phases in Oxyfluoride Glass Ceramics by Absorption Spectra Analysis by A. S. Yasukevich, V. E. Kisel, E. E. Trusova, G. E. Rachkovskaya, G. B. Zakharevich, K. B. Podbolotov, V. S. Gurin

“…It was established by X-ray phase analysis method that under certain heat treatment conditions crystalline β-PbF2 phase is formed in those glasses. …”
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A Novel Approach for Pulse Signals Extraction and Heart Rate Estimation With Hilbert Space Orthogonalization Using Event-Based Camera by Hayato Nakamura, Gengtao Lin, Yasue Mitsukura

“…The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated by comparing the extracted parameters with ground truth photoplethysmography (PPG) signals under three different lighting conditions. In the setup combining a green LED and a green optical filter, the method achieves a mean absolute error (MAE) of 1.13 BPM, a root mean square error (RMSE) of 1.69 BPM, and a peak detection accuracy of 92.72%. …”
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Classification of SD-OCT Volumes Using Local Binary Patterns: Experimental Validation for DME Detection by Guillaume Lemaître, Mojdeh Rastgoo, Joan Massich, Carol Y. Cheung, Tien Y. Wong, Ecosse Lamoureux, Dan Milea, Fabrice Mériaudeau, Désiré Sidibé

“…Here, a classification framework with five distinctive steps is proposed and we present an extensive study of each step. Our method considers combination of various preprocessing steps in conjunction with Local Binary Patterns (LBP) features and different mapping strategies. …”
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Probation results of the original swirling drying apparatus for paste products by V. Marchevskii, Y. Grobovenko

“…The experimental, static and dynamic methods for determining the gas phase pressure differences, the kinetics of the grinding, drying and drying of fine-dispersed products and the optical method for investigating photo samples of the finished product TiO2 are used in the work. …”
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Synthesis and application of biomimetic material inspired by diatomite by Kailin Li, Xiaoying Liu, Yuxin Zhang

“…It demonstrates that diatomite biomimetic materials with different functional properties can be synthesized by diverse chemical means and preparation methods for different application. …”
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Plasma Cleaning Technology: Mechanisms, Influencing Factors, and Applications by Jianan Sun, Yanmei Yu, Jianming Tang, Yan Zeng, Jiaxuan Chen

“…The characteristics of plasma cleaning technologies with different excitation methods, such as direct current discharge, low-frequency discharge, radio frequency discharge, and microwave plasma cleaning, are analyzed. …”
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Effect of nano-clay addition and heat-treatment on tensile and stress-controlled low-cycle fatigue behaviors of aluminum-silicon alloy by Mohammad Azadi, Adel Basiri, Ali Dadashi, G. Winter, B. Seisenbacher, F. Grün

“….% nano-clay particles were prepared by the stir casting method and then subjected to the heat-treatment. The optical microscopy analysis demonstrates that heat-treatment changed the size, morphology, and distribution of silicon phases through the microstructure of the aluminum matrix. …”
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Inverse design of 3D nanophotonic devices with structural integrity using auxiliary thermal solvers by Kuster Oliver, Augenstein Yannick, Hernández Roberto Narváez, Rockstuhl Carsten, Sturges Thomas Jebb

“…This work introduces a multi-objective optimization method to address these challenges in 3D nanophotonic designs. …”
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On-axis structured beams generation via moiré and Mie resonant metallo-dielectric moiré gratings by Anil Ringne, Subrata Karmakar, Ananth Krishnan

“…The on-axis structured beam generation at the zeroth order of the grating using the proposed method may have several applications, including sensing and optical trapping.…”
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Optimization Algorithms for Cable Fault Localization and Assessment in Smart Power Systems by Wenxuan Wang, Yali Shi, Minghui Liu

“…Frequency domain reflection (FDR) has good detection and localization ability for defects or faults with weak impedance changes, and has been widely used in the field of cable fault diagnosis, however, in recent years, field experience has shown that this method cannot solve the problem of judging the fault type and severity yet. …”
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Hydrothermal Synthesis of CuO Nanoparticles: Tailoring Morphology and Particle Size Variations for Enhanced Properties by Tijen Ennil Bektaş, Uğur Cengiz, Gürkan Akarken

“…In this study, five different CuO nanoparticles were synthesized by simple and cost-effective hydrothermal method with various reaction temperatures and times in a teflon lined stainless steel autoclave. …”
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Formation of a gate dielectric of nanometer thickness by rapid thermal treatment by N. S. Kovalchuk, A. A. Omelchenko, V. A. Pilipenko, V. A. Solodukha, D. V. Shestovski

“…To obtain thin SiO2 films by the RTP method, N-type:Ph 4.5 Оhm/□ (100) silicon wafers were used as initial samples. …”
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Design and Analysis of a Novel Phase-Shifted Bragg Grating for Bloch Surface Waves by Qiqin Wei, Jing Xiao, Shirong Chen, Quan Wang, Peng Sun, Miao Cai, Daoguo Yang

“…The multilayer stack is periodic, with the unit cell composed of two layers with different materials and thicknesses. The light confinement capability and transmission properties of the proposed structure are investigated in the wavelength range of 1450–1650 nm by using the finite-element method and finite-difference time-domain method. …”
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Multi-Channel Vibration Measurements Based on a Self-Mixing Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Array by Wei Xia, Jingyu Yu, Sunan Shao, Zhengyu Qian, Hui Hao, Ming Wang, Dongmei Guo

“…A denoising filtering method based on the variational mode decomposition with Hausdorff distance was proposed to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. …”
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Nucleation and growth of zinc-templated mesoporous selenium nanoparticles and potential non-thermal effects during their microwave-assisted synthesis by Magdalena Borowska, Krzysztof Jankowski, Maciej Trzaskowski, Wojciech Wojtasiak, Przemysław Korpas, Sebastian Kozłowski, Daniel Gryglewski

“…This MW-assisted synthesis is compared to 2.45 GHz MW heating method and conventional hydrothermal method at around 100 °C to produce the nanoparticles of different morphology and particle size distributions. …”
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Mask-Guided Spatial–Spectral MLP Network for High-Resolution Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction by Xian-Hua Han, Jian Wang, Yen-Wei Chen

“…To enhance the information flow between MLP blocks, we introduce a multi-level fusion module and apply reconstruction heads to different MLP features for deeper supervision. Additionally, we combine the projection loss from compressive measurements with reconstruction loss to create a dual-domain loss, ensuring consistent optical detection during HS reconstruction. …”
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Signal-domain speed-of-sound correction for ring-array-based photoacoustic tomography by Daohuai Jiang, Hengrong Lan, Shangqing Tong, Xianzeng Zhang, Fei Gao

“…Previously reported dual-speed-of-sound (dual-SoS) imaging methods effectively address these distortions by accounting for the SoS differences between tissues and the coupling medium. …”
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