Relationship between the response to treatment and the prognosis of patients with aggressive lymphomas treated with chemotherapy followed by involved-field radiotherapy: Radiographic assessment

This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in JAPANESE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY 38(1): 43-48, 2008 following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at:http://jjco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/38/1/43.ArticleJAPANESE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY. 38(1): 43-48 (2008)journal articl

Development of a polarization resolved spectroscopic diagnostic for measurements of the vector magnetic field in the Caltech coaxial magnetized plasma jet experiment

In the Caltech coaxial magnetized plasma jet experiment, fundamental studies are carried out relevant to spheromak formation, astrophysical jet formation/propagation, solar coronal physics, and the general behavior of twisted magnetic flux tubes that intercept a boundary. In order to measure the spatial profile of the magnetic field vector for understanding the underlying physics governing the dynamical behavior, a non-perturbing visible emission spectroscopic method is implemented to observe the Zeeman splitting in emission spectra. We have designed and constructed a polarization-resolving optical system that can simultaneously detect the left- and right-circularly polarized emission. The system is applied to singly ionized nitrogen spectral lines. The magnetic field strength is measured with a precision of about ±13 mT. The radial profiles of the azimuthal and axial vector magnetic field components are resolved by using an inversion method