About the Effectivity of the Priming Water Channel in the Pool-and-Weir-Fishway

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Magnetic resonance imaging of a microvascular-interstitium model on a microfluidic device.

We report a microvascular-interstitium model on microfluidic devices to study leakage of drugs from blood vessels under in vivo-like flow conditions. We employed magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate the compatibility of the model for experimental animals and humans. We observed transport of two types of different molecular-weight contrast agents into the model interstitium. The ratio of the transport rates of agents agreed with the ratio calculated from diffusion coefficients of the agents. We expect that the model will be useful for the estimation and evaluation of leakage of many kinds of agents in vivo

Ultrafast ellipsometric interferometry for direct detection of coherent phonon strain pulse profiles

We describe an ultrafast optical technique to quantitatively detect picosecond ultrasonic displacements of solid surfaces, thus giving access to the longitudinal strain pulse shape. Transient optical reflectance changes recorded at oblique optical incidence with a common-path interferometric configuration based on ultrafast ellipsometry monitor gigahertz coherent phonon pulses. We demonstrate for a tungsten film the quantitative extraction of the strain pulse shape free of distortions arising from the photoelastic effect, and analyze the results with the two-temperature model to obtain the value g approximate to 3 x 10(17) Wm(-3) K-1 for the electron-phonon coupling constant. Analysis of the data also reveals a thermo-optic contribution. (C) 2013 Optical Society of Americ