Fiducial

Studies from Harvard University, Medical Department further understanding of magnetic resonance imaging.
Biotech Week; 12/9/2009; 707 words; ...for total gland (TG), central gland (CG), and peripheral zone (PZ), the mutual information (MI) metric, and the fiducial registration error (FRE) between corresponding anatomical landmarks for both the nonrigid and a rigid registration method...

Research on astrophysics described by S. Linden and colleagues.
Physics Week; 12/8/2009; 624 words; ...scenario where SN magnitude evolution is allowed for, and neglect the possibility of such an evolution in the fit. We find the fiducial models for which the wrong model assumption of nonevolving SN magnitude is not detectable, and for which biases on the fitted...

Research from University of British Columbia in medical imaging provides new insights.(Report)
Health & Medicine Week; 12/7/2009; 892 words; ...probability density function of registration error at each fiducial point," wrote M.H. Moghari and colleagues, University...study in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (Distribution of Fiducial Registration Error in Rigid-Body Point-Based Registration...

Patent No. 7,625,679 Issued on Dec. 1, Assigned to Applied Materials for Particle-beam-generated Pattern Aligning Method (California Inventors)
US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/2/2009; 516 words; ...existing pattern. Use of a position fiducial which can be accurately measured by both...Registration of the pre-existing pattern to the fiducial and registration of the particle beam axis to the fiducial periodically during production of the...

New findings from A.B. Klimov and co-researchers in the area of physics described.
Physics Week; 12/1/2009; 505 words; ...investigators in Guadalajara, Mexico report. "These displacements allow also for the construction of finite coherent states, once a fiducial state is fixed. We take this reference as one eigenstate of the discrete Fourier transform and study the factorization properties...