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  • noun physics A beam having a small cross section

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micro- +‎ beam

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  • "The microbeam from the laser encourages oestrogen production and mimics natural growth," says Dr Daniel Sister, who offers the treatment at his London salon (£1,500 for six sessions, 020 7221 2248).

    The beauty bible Eva Wiseman 2010

  • Plymouth, his department acquired a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer, a device that passes a microbeam through a substance, then compares its infrared spectrum to a database of known material.

    Excerpt: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman 2007

  • Influence of the microbeam width at constant valley dose.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Raphaël Serduc et al. 2010

  • Finally, the positions of the centermost peak and valley doses in the composite dose distribution for the microbeam array were located and the so called PVDR (Peak-to-Valley Dose Ratio) was evaluated.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Raphaël Serduc et al. 2010

  • Curtis HJ (1967) The use of deuteron microbeam for simulating the biological effects of heavy cosmic-ray particles.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Raphaël Serduc et al. 2010

  • Dilmanian FA, Button TM, Le Duc G, Zhong N, Pena LA, et al. (2002) Response of rat intracranial 9L gliosarcoma to microbeam radiation therapy.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Raphaël Serduc et al. 2010

  • In that way, the resulting dose distribution in the cross-fired volume, when using the interlaced technique, was obtained by adding the dose profile at 1 cm depth for a single microbeam 40 times, with an incremental shift of 50 microns for each added microbeam.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Raphaël Serduc et al. 2010

  • Each microbeam array contained 10 microbeams and therefore 40 microbeams were interlacing in the irradiation target.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Raphaël Serduc et al. 2010

  • In this work, the dose distribution produced by a single, rectangular ( "planar") x-ray microbeam was simulated inside the head phantoms which had a cylindrical shape.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Raphaël Serduc et al. 2010

  • Fig. 7C the dose distribution from one port of a microbeam array is shown compared with the dose distribution in the interlaced region at identical depths.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Raphaël Serduc et al. 2010

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