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Accurate, dose-rate-independent, fast-response dosimeters that capture the spatiotemporal characteristics of ultra-high dose rate irradiation (>40Gy/s, UHDR) beams are urgently needed to facilitate FLASH research and support the clinical translation of FLASH radiotherapy. This study evaluated the performance of HYPERSCINT RP-FLASH scintillator in UHDR electron beam dosimetry, with sampling frequency(fs) up to 1 kHz. Four-component calibration and 18MeV conventional dose rate irradiation(CONV, ~0.1Gy/s) were used to calibrate the spectral characteristics of the scintillator and its signal-to-dose conversion. Dosimetric accuracy for CONV and UHDR electron beams was quantified against ion chamber or EBT-XD film measurements. The effects of beam energy, field size, dose per pulse(DPP), pulse repetition frequency(PRF), and accumulated dose on the scintillator's response were investigated. Time-resolved dose measurements were verified using a PMT-fiber optic detector, which measures the relative output of electron pulses by scattered radiation. The scintillator system achieved <0.5% accuracy compared to ion chamber measurements under 0.1-35Gy CONV irradiation at 1Hz and <3% accuracy against EBT-XD film in UHDR conditions up to 40Gy at 1 kHz. There was minimal energy dependence between 6 and 18MeV, field size dependence for 2x1-25x25cm2, DPP dependence for 1-2.3Gy, and PRF dependence for 30-180Hz. The scintillator exhibited -2.6%/kGy signal degradation for 0-2kGy, indicating radiation damage. The time-resolved dose results at 1kHz were verified within 3% accuracy compared to the PMT-fiber optic detector. With proper calibration, the scintillator system can serve as an accurate, dose-rate-independent, fast-response, millisecond-resolved UHDR electron beam dosimeter, with minimal dependence on dose, dose rate, energy, field size, DPP, and PRF within ranges common to UHDR electron beams.

We show the existence and uniqueness of solutions to a generalized Monge-Amp\`{e}re equation on closed almost K\"ahler surfaces, where the equation depends only on the underlying almost K\"ahler structure. As an application, we prove Donaldson's conjecture for tamed almost complex 4-manifolds.

Background: FLASH radiotherapy is a treatment regime that delivers therapeutic dose to tumors at an ultra-high dose rate while maintaining adequate normal tissue sparing. However, a comprehensive understanding of the underlying mechanisms, potential late toxicities, and optimal fractionation schemes is important for successful clinical translation. This has necessitated extensive pre-clinical investigations, leading several research institutions to initiate dedicated FLASH research programs. Purpose: This work describes a workflow for establishing an easily accessible electron FLASH (eFLASH) platform. The platform incorporates simplified pulse control, optimized dose rate delivery, and validated Monte Carlo (MC) dose engine for accurate in vivo dosimetry dedicated to FLASH pre-clinical studies. Methods: Adjustment of the automatic frequency control (AFC) module allowed us to optimize the LINAC pulse form to achieve a uniform dose rate. A MC model for the 6 MeV FLASH beam was commissioned to ensure accurate dose calculation necessary for reproducible in vivo studies. Results: Optimizing the AFC module enabled the generation of a uniform pulse form, ensuring consistent dose per pulse and a uniform dose rate throughout FLASH irradiation. The MC model closely agreed with film measurements. MC dose calculations indicated that 6 MeV FLASH is adequate to achieve a uniform dose distribution for mouse whole brain irradiation but may not be optimal for the spinal cord study. Conclusions: We present a novel workflow for establishing a LINAC-based eFLASH research platform, incorporating techniques for optimized dose rate delivery, a simplified pulse control system, and validated MC engine. This work provides researchers with valuable new approaches to facilitate the development of robust and accessible LINAC-based system for FLASH studies., Comment: 29 pages, 6 figures

We provide a general treatment for the temporal coupled-mode theory with arbitrary numbers of modes and ports, and derive tight bounds for the coupling phases in addition to coupling strengths under time-reversal symmetry. We report trade-offs between the cardinalities of the reciprocal regions of the resonant coupling strengths versus phases. We discover that time-reversal symmetry enforces projected generalized reflections in the background to cancel out completely. In double-port systems, the reciprocal regions of the coupling phases span a quarter of the nonreciprocal regions for any non-hidden mode.

CBCT-guided small animal irradiators encounter challenges in localizing soft-tissue targets due to low imaging contrast. Bioluminescence tomography (BLT) offers a promising solution, but they have largely remained in laboratorial development, limiting accessibility for researchers. In this work, we develop a universal, commercial-graded BLT-guided system (MuriGlo) designed to seamlessly integrate with commercial irradiators and empower researchers for translational studies. We demonstrate its capabilities in supporting in vitro and in vivo studies. The MuriGlo comprises detachable mouse bed, thermostatic control, mirrors, filters, and CCD, enabling multi-projection and multi-spectral imaging. We evaluate that the thermostatic control effectively sustains animal temperature at 37{\deg}C throughout imaging, and quantify that the system can detect as few as 61 GL261-AkaLuc cells in vitro. To illustrate how the MuriGlo can be utilized for in vivo image-guided research, we present 3 strategies, BLT-guided 5-arc, 2-field box, and BLI-guided single-beam, ranging from complicated high-conformal to simplest high-throughput plans. The high conformal BLT-guided 5-arc plan fully covers the gross tumor volume (GTV) at prescribed dose with minimal normal tissue exposure (3.9%), while the simplified, high-throughput BLT-guided 2-field box achieves 100% GTV coverage but results in higher normal tissue exposure (13.1%). Moreover, we demonstrate that the localization accuracy of MuriGlo for both widely-used SARRP and SmART irradiators is within1 mm, and the tumor coverage reaches over 97% with 0.75mm margin. The universal BLT-guided system offers seamless integration with commercial irradiators, achieving comparable localization accuracy, expected to supporting high-precision radiation research.

We show a monotonic relationship between performances of various computer vision tasks versus degrees of coherence of illumination. We simulate partially coherent illumination using computational methods, propagate the lightwave to form images, and subsequently employ a deep neural network to perform object recognition and depth sensing tasks. In each controlled experiment, we discover that, increased coherent length leads to improved image entropy, as well as enhanced object recognition and depth sensing performance.

Large-scale Pre-Training Vision-Language Model such as CLIP has demonstrated outstanding performance in zero-shot classification, e.g. achieving 76.3% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet without seeing any example, which leads to potential benefits to many tasks that have no labeled data. However, while applying CLIP to a downstream target domain, the presence of visual and text domain gaps and cross-modality misalignment can greatly impact the model performance. To address such challenges, we propose ReCLIP, the first source-free domain adaptation method for vision-language models, which does not require any source data or target labeled data. ReCLIP first learns a projection space to mitigate the misaligned visual-text embeddings and learns pseudo labels, and then deploys cross-modality self-training with the pseudo labels, to update visual and text encoders, refine labels and reduce domain gaps and misalignments iteratively. With extensive experiments, we demonstrate ReCLIP reduces the average error rate of CLIP from 30.17% to 25.06% on 22 image classification benchmarks. Code available at https://github.com/michiganleon/ReCLIP_WACV., Comment: Accepted as Oral Paper by 2024 IEEE CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

In this paper, by using weakly \widetilde{\mathcal{D}}^+_J (resp. \mathcal{D}^+_J )-closed technique firstly introduced by Tan, Wang, Zhou and Zhu, we will give a characterization of tamed and weakened tamed four-manifolds, and an almost Kaehler version of Nakai-Moishezon criterion for almost complex four-manifolds., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1712.02948

Although cone-beam CT (CBCT) has been used to guide irradiation for pre-clinical radiotherapy(RT) research, it is limited to localize soft tissue target especially in a low imaging contrast environment. Knowledge of target shape is a fundamental need for RT. Without such information to guide radiation, normal tissue can be irradiated unnecessarily, leading to experimental uncertainties. Recognition of this need led us to develop quantitative bioluminescence tomography (QBLT), which provides strong imaging contrast to localize optical targets. We demonstrated its capability of guiding conformal RT using an orthotopic bioluminescent glioblastoma (GBM) model. With multi-projection and multi-spectral bioluminescence imaging and a novel spectral derivative method, our QBLT system is able to reconstruct GBM with localization accuracy <1mm. An optimal threshold was determined to delineate QBLT reconstructed gross target volume (GTV_{QBLT}), which provides the best overlap between the GTV_{QBLT} and CBCT contrast labeled GBM (GTV), used as the ground truth for the GBM volume. To account for the uncertainty of QBLT in target localization and volume delineation, we also innovated a margin design; a 0.5mm margin was determined and added to GTV_{QBLT} to form a planning target volume (PTV_{QBLT}), which largely improved tumor coverage from 75% (0mm margin) to 98% and the corresponding variation (n=10) of the tumor coverage was significantly reduced. Moreover, with prescribed dose 5Gy covering 95% of PTV_{QBLT}, QBLT-guided 7-field conformal RT can irradiate 99.4 \pm 1.0% of GTV vs. 65.5 \pm 18.5% with conventional single field irradiation (n=10). Our QBLT-guided system provides a unique opportunity for researchers to guide irradiation for soft tissue targets and increase rigorous and reproducibility of scientific discovery.

Visual object recognition under situations in which the direct line-of-sight is blocked, such as when it is occluded around the corner, is of practical importance in a wide range of applications. With coherent illumination, the light scattered from diffusive walls forms speckle patterns that contain information of the hidden object. It is possible to realize non-line-of-sight (NLOS) recognition with these speckle patterns. We introduce a novel approach based on speckle pattern recognition with deep neural network, which is simpler and more robust than other NLOS recognition methods. Simulations and experiments are performed to verify the feasibility and performance of this approach., Comment: Accepted to CVPR 2019

Here the fluctuation properties of acoustic localization in bubbly water is explored. We show that the strong localization can occur in such a system for a certain frequency range and sufficient filling fractions of air-bubbles. Two fluctuating quantities are considered, that is, the fluctuation of transmission and the fluctuation of the phase of acoustic wave fields. When localization occurs, these fluctuations tend to vanish, a feature able to uniquely identify the phenomenon of wave localization., Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures

In this paper, we discuss the transport phenomena of electromagnetic waves in a two-dimensional random system which is composed of arrays of electrical dipoles, following the model presented earlier by Erdogan, et al. (J. Opt. Soc. Am. B {\bf 10}, 391 (1993)). A set of self-consistent equations is presented, accounting for the multiple scattering in the system, and is then solved numerically. A strong localization regime is discovered in the frequency domain. The transport properties within, near the edge of and nearly outside the localization regime are investigated for different parameters such as filling factor and system size. The results show that within the localization regime, waves are trapped near the transmitting source. Meanwhile, the diffusive waves follow an intuitive but expected picture. That is, they increase with travelling path as more and more random scattering incurs, followed by a saturation, then start to decay exponentially when the travelling path is large enough, signifying the localization effect. For the cases that the frequencies are near the boundary of or outside the localization regime, the results of diffusive waves are compared with the diffusion approximation, showing less encouraging agreement as in other systems (Asatryan, et al., Phys. Rev. E {\bf 67}, 036605 (2003).), Comment: 8 pages 9 figures

We study the propagation and scattering of electromagnetic waves by random arrays of dipolar cylinders in a uniform medium. A set of self-consistent equations, incorporating all orders of multiple scattering of the electromagnetic waves, is derived from first principles and then solved numerically for electromagnetic fields. For certain ranges of frequencies, spatially localized electromagnetic waves appear in such a simple but realistic disordered system. Dependence of localization on the frequency, radiation damping, and filling factor is shown. The spatial behavior of the total, coherent and diffusive waves is explored in detailed, and found to be comply with a physical intuitive picture. A phase diagram characterizing localization is presented, in agreement with previous investigations on other systems., Comment: 8 page and 10 figures