{"title":"The measurement of lung water content.","authors":"N C Staub","doi":"10.1080/16070658.1983.11689330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689330","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is clear that lung water content or things related to lung water content can be measured. The major question is whether useful information will be obtained to make development worthwhile. In my experimental laboratory we have used, then abandoned, the measurement of lung water content in life by various techniques. We have special needs, of course, for very sensitive methods which will detect minimal injury and very small changes in lung water content. In the clinic, however, this may not be so serious a limitation, although one is always endeavoring to achieve diagnosis of minimal injury and minimal edema. Although static methods for measuring lung water content are available in profusion, none has been proven to be more useful than the chest roentgenogram. Kinetic methods are being developed which have the potential of being sensitive to minimal lung injury, such as leads to edema.</p>","PeriodicalId":76653,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of microwave power","volume":"18 3","pages":"259-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689330","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17422175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A dual vial waveguide exposure facility for examining microwave effects in vitro.","authors":"S T Lu, N J Roberts, S M Michaelson","doi":"10.1080/16070658.1983.11689317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689317","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A waveguide exposure system operated between 2 and 4 GHz was assembled in a laboratory incubator in order to study potential temperature-dependent and temperature-independent actions of microwaves. Two vials containing cell cultures were exposed simultaneously in a single waveguide in order to reduce the space required, and to allow concurrent study of autologous cell cultures in two different functional states (resting and stimulated) during exposure. Dosimetry was performed using three techniques with different underlying assumptions, as well as the technique of differential power measurement. Each of the four techniques yielded different results, although differences between the two vials using any single technique were negligible. A significant 'hot spot' occurred at the center of each vial. The ratio between maximum and minimum absorption rate within a single vial was 33-fold using a vial of 1.2-cm diameter and 1.6-cm height. With agitation and exposure at specific absorption rate (SAR) equal to 21 mW/ml, the thermal gradient was less than 0.1 degrees C between these two points. The averaged SAR can be determined by steady-state heating analysis. The exposure system can be calibrated readily by calculation for the measured powers, but not by differential power measurement.</p>","PeriodicalId":76653,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of microwave power","volume":"18 2","pages":"121-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689317","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17613897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tissue cooling and its effect on brightness temperatures by contact-type microwave applicators.","authors":"M Miyakawa","doi":"10.1080/16070658.1983.11689316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689316","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Contact of an applicator on the skin surface may cool the tissues so that the resulting brightness temperature measured by the applicator is varied. The tissue cooling effect on the brightness temperature was quantitatively evaluated. From the experimental results, it was concluded that an accurate temperature control was needed in order to reduce the errors in the brightness temperature. A new method of temperature control which permits continuous measurement of the thermal responses of a human body was attempted, and advantages and disadvantages of the method are discussed. The research results may be practical and useful for the accurate measurement of brightness temperature.</p>","PeriodicalId":76653,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of microwave power","volume":"18 2","pages":"115-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689316","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17613896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The performance of a new 915-MHz direct contact applicator with reduced leakage.","authors":"G Kantor, D M Witters","doi":"10.1080/16070658.1983.11689318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689318","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The technical feasibility of commercially developing a safe and effective direct contact diathermy applicator operating at the industrial, scientific, medical (ISM) frequency of 915 MHz is demonstrated. The basic design consists of a circular waveguide which is internally loaded with two orthogonal pairs of forward ridges to obtain circular polarization and two rear ridges with a probe to excite the guide. Two prototype designs are considered: the small applicator (15 cm diameter) has one annular choke covered with a 2.5-cm thick microwave absorber, and the large applicator (25 cm diameter) has two additional concentric chokes to limit leakage radiation. The performance of the applicators was evaluated in terms of the requirements of a ORH microwave diathermy test protocol to control stray radiation and deliver a thermally effective absorbed dose rate to simulated muscle tissue of a phantom with a 1-cm or 2-cm fat layer. The net power required to deliver a thermally effective 235-W/kg specific absorption rate (SAR) to such a planar phantom was determined. For this net power, leakage levels considerably less than 5 mW/cm2 (at 5 cm from applicator-phantom boundary) were obtained for the applicators in direct contact with the phantom. If a small spacing (1 cm) between these applicators and planar phantoms is introduced, the net power required to deliver an effective SAR to a phantom and the associated leakage can become excessive. For the small applicator, the required net power for inducing an SAR of 235 W/kg in muscle tissue of a 1-cm fat layer phantom is about 330 W and the leakage is about 120 mW/cm2. For a 2-cm fat layer phantom, these values are somewhat higher. For the large applicator, using a 1-cm fat layer phantom, the values are about 200 W and about 17 mW/cm2. Again, for a 2-cm fat layer phantom, these values are somewhat higher.</p>","PeriodicalId":76653,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of microwave power","volume":"18 2","pages":"133-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689318","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17613898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technical note: on changes in evaporative heat loss that result from exposure to nonionizing electromagnetic radiation.","authors":"E R Adair, D E Spiers, J A Stolwijk, C B Wenger","doi":"10.1080/16070658.1983.11689325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689325","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76653,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of microwave power","volume":"18 2","pages":"209-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689325","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17613415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temperature gradients in the microwave-irradiated egg: implications for avian teratogenesis.","authors":"R L Clarke, D R Justesen","doi":"10.1080/16070658.1983.11689322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689322","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Five experiments were performed on a total of 60 non-fertile eggs of Gallus gallus to determine the spatial character, persistence, and physical basis of thermal gradients after a 300-s exposure to the intense, multipath, 2.45-GHz yield of a multimode cavity (dose rates: approximately 80 to 120 mW/g). After irradiation of an intact egg that was first equilibrated to the ambient temperature, a 3-mm diameter Plexiglas rod, which was fitted with junctions of four microwire thermocouples at 10-mm intervals, was inserted to place the distal junction in the approximate center of the yolk, the most proximal junction in peripheral thin white. Temperatures measured immediately after irradiation revealed a highly reliable linear gradient of mean temperatures from central yolk to peripheral white (P less than 0.001). The gradient was also highly persistent: Mean temperatures of central yolk exceeded those of outer thin white by more than 4 degrees C 5 minutes after irradiation, and by more than 2 degrees C 60 minutes afterward. In contrast, when an egg's contents were mixed before irradiation, the gradient was effectively eliminated. A previous report of athermally induced (field-specific) teratogenesis in chick embryos is placed under an interpretive cloud by the present findings: Terata emerged from eggs that were structurally intact during microwave irradiation, but estimates of maxima of embryonic temperatures were based on thermal measurements of non-fertile eggs the contents of which had been mixed by a thermal probe before irradiation.</p>","PeriodicalId":76653,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of microwave power","volume":"18 2","pages":"169-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689322","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17613413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Checcucci, G Benelli, M Duminuco, M L Gaetani, P Paoletti, S Vannini, M Morfini
{"title":"Reliability of microwave heating for hemoderivative thawing.","authors":"A Checcucci, G Benelli, M Duminuco, M L Gaetani, P Paoletti, S Vannini, M Morfini","doi":"10.1080/16070658.1983.11689321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689321","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The spoiling of coagulation factors, proteic patterns and specific activity has been comparatively determined in fresh frozen plasma, cryoprecipitates and hemodiagnostic sera, thawed in a 37 degrees C water bath and in a microwave oven. Effects of conventional and microwave heating are not significantly different, while results of the latter technique are rapid and aseptic. Previously, heating performances of a commercial microwave oven have been investigated for deionized water, saline solutions, and bovine serum. Furthermore, plastic containers of hemoderivatives have been tested to assure that no toxic products are released during microwave heating.</p>","PeriodicalId":76653,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of microwave power","volume":"18 2","pages":"163-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689321","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17613412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bandwidth limitations of TEM cells due to resonances.","authors":"D A Hill","doi":"10.1080/16070658.1983.11689323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689323","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The first eight to ten TEmnp resonances have been identified in one large (6.1 X 7.3 X 13.0 m) and one small (1.0 X 0.6 X 2.0 m) TEM cell. The resonant frequencies fit a new equivalent coaxial box model with the effective length of the box depending on the mode. Weakly propagating TEmn modes were also detected at frequencies above their respective first-resonance frequencies. A biological body or metal box at the center of the test zone interacts strongly with the TE10p and TE11p resonances, but not with the TE01p resonances. These interactions cause bandwidth limitations in the use of TEM cells for bioeffects dosimetry studies, EMC testing, and probe calibration work.</p>","PeriodicalId":76653,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of microwave power","volume":"18 2","pages":"181-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689323","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17613414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theoretical Analysis of Arcing Structure in Microwave Owens","authors":"T. Ishii","doi":"10.1080/16070658.1983.11689340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689340","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractConditions of microwave arcing are studied when a metallic structure is introduced into a microwave oven. The analysis covers arcing in the waveguide and microwave oven. Design equations for prevention of microwave arcing in the oven are introduced.","PeriodicalId":76653,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of microwave power","volume":"42 1","pages":"337-344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79692337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electromagnetic Techniques in the Development of Coal-Derived Energy Sources – A Review","authors":"C. Balanis","doi":"10.1080/16070658.1983.11689309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16070658.1983.11689309","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis paper reviews work performed in applying advanced electromagnetics techniques in the development of coal-derived energy sources and associated conversion processes. Attention is focused in the investigations related to the electrical properties of coal at radio frequencies, and in the modeling and design of electromagnetic systems (both reflection and transmission type) for the remote detection, monitoring, and mapping of coal conversion processes. Specific applications include underground coal gasification (UCG) processes and fluidized-bed combustors (FBC). Recommendations are made of applications where electromagnetic methods should play a prominent role in the future.","PeriodicalId":76653,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of microwave power","volume":"141 1","pages":"45-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77515385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}