This research program is detailed at development of more efficacious technetium-99m radiopharmaceuticals for use as imaging agents in diagnostic nuclear medicine. We seek to isolate and develop distinct site imaging agents to provide diagnostic information concerning a given pathological condition. Analytical techniques are being developed to enable complete analysis of radiopharmaceutical preparations so that individual complexes can be characterized with respect to imaging efficacy and to enable a radiopharmaceutical to be monitored after injection into a test animal to determine the species that actually accumulates in an organ to provide the image. Administration of the isolated, single most effective imaging complex, rather than a mixture of technetium-containing complexes, wi-11 minimize radiation exposure to the patient and maximize diagnostic information available to the clinician. This report specifically describes the development of capillary electrophoresis (CE) for characterizating diphosphonate skeletal imaging agents. Advances in the development of electrochemical and fiber optic sensors for Tc and Re imaging agents are described. These sensors will ultimately be capable of monitoring a specific chemical state of an imaging agent in vivo after injection into a test animal by implantation in the organ of interest.

This research program is detailed at development of more efficacious technetium-99m radiopharmaceuticals for use as imaging agents in diagnostic nuclear medicine. We seek to isolate and develop distinct site imaging agents to provide diagnostic information concerning a given pathological condition. Analytical techniques are being developed to enable complete analysis of radiopharmaceutical preparations so that individual complexes can be characterized with respect to imaging efficacy and to enable a radiopharmaceutical to be monitored after injection into a test animal to determine the species that actually accumulates in an organ to provide the image. Administration of the isolated, single most effective imaging complex, rather than a mixture of technetium-containing complexes, wi-11 minimize radiation exposure to the patient and maximize diagnostic information available to the clinician. This report specifically describes the development of capillary electrophoresis (CE) for characterizating diphosphonate skeletal imaging agents. Advances in the development of electrochemical and fiber optic sensors for Tc and Re imaging agents are described. These sensors will ultimately be capable of monitoring a specific chemical state of an imaging agent in vivo after injection into a test animal by implantation in the organ of interest.

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The Interactive, Computer-Enhanced, Remote Viewing System (ICERVS) is a system designed to provide a reliable geometric description of a robotic task space in a fashion that enables robotic remediation to be carried out more efficiently and economically than with present systems. The key elements are a faithful way to store empirical data and a friendly user interface that provides an operator with timely access to all that is known about a scene.

The permeability of gases with kinetic diameters of 2.89 {Angstrom} to 3.9 {Angstrom} were measured through microporous silica hollow fiber membranes at 298 K to 473 K at 20 atm feed gas pressure. Permeabilities ranged from 0.01 Barrer to 1000 Barrer and were inversely proportional to the kinetic diameter of the penetrant. Linear Arrhenius plots were obtained from permeability data activation energies ranged from 7.5 to 13.5 kcal/mole. The activation energies for the hollow Tiber membranes were consistent with literature data for diffusion of hydrocarbons in zeolites. High separation factors were obtained for O{sub 2}/N{sub 2} and CO{sub 2}/CH{sub 2} mixtures. The mixture separation factors for O{sub 2}/N{sub 2} decreased from 11.5 at 298 K to 4.6 at 423 K. Over the same temperature range, CO{sub 2}/CH{sub 2} separation factors decreased from 186 to 22.3. Separation factors for O{sub 2}/N{sub 2} mixtures were up to 20% larger than the values obtained from pure gas measurements below 373 K. A similar effect was seen for CO{sub 2}/CH{sub 2} mixtures after the membrane had been heated to at least 398 K and then cooled in inert gas flow. Differences between separation factors and ideal gas values is attributed to a competitive adsorption …

Compilation of monthly reports from departments in the city of San Antonio, Texas providing statistics, project updates, and other information about services and activities.

Consider the free creeping viscous plane flow in a region, bounded by a simple smooth closed curve and driven solely by surface tension. The shape evolution may in principle, and often in practice, be described by a time-dependent mapping z = {Omega}({zeta},t) of the unit circle, conformal on {vert_bar}{zeta}{vert_bar} {le} 1. It is shown that the path lines of fluid elements at the surface are determined by a first-order ordinary differential equation involving {Omega}({zeta},t), together with an initial condition. Typically, this must be integrated numerically. Velocities are not needed. The analogous theory for maps from the half-plane Im {zeta} {ge} 0 is presented. Surface path lines of a collapsing elliptic hole, in two reference frames, are calculated.

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The authors have implemented a particle-in-cell method on a 32 transputer computing network. The tests have shown that the performance of this system reaches 1/8 of the equivalent one for the code optimized for a CRAY Y-MP/2E. The system performance analysis shows that this network remains cost-effective until expanded approximately up to 100 transputers. This transputer equipment has provided an efficient computational tool for investigating a novel physical phenomenon -- a collisionless mechanism for separation of different elements in colliding plasma beams.