General Electric Company

Kirby Gannett Vosburgh

Harvey E Cline

John Erik Hershey

Thomas R Anthony

Charles L Dumoulin

Jerome Johnson Tiemann

Christopher Judson Hardy

John Anderson Fergus Ross

Dale M Brown

Stephen Francis Bush

Robert David Darrow

Peter B Roemer

William E Lorensen

Egidijus Edward Uzgiris

William D Barber

John F Schenck

Brock Estel Osborn

Kristina Helena Valborg Hedengren

Lorinda R Opsahl

Samuel M Blumenfeld

Richard L St Peters

The invention provides a computer implemented tool for analyzing the brittleness of a system with respect to at least one system performance measure. The tool comprises a statistical analyzer configured to receive at least one operating parameter input, o, and to provide at least one performance function output, f. The performance function output f provides an indication of system performance as a function of system operating parameter input o. A brittleness analyzer is coupled to the performance function output and is configured to provide a brittleness output based upon the performance function output f.

Apparatus and method for analyzing brittleness of a system

A cooking apparatus includes a scanning device for reading a tag disposed upon a cooking item, which tag includes cooking instructions, and a network connection for receiving updated information relative to a respective cooking item. Circuitry is coupled to the scanning device and to the network connection for updated and implementing the cooking instructions.

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Thermal drug treatment of tumor tissue is obtained by attaching a thermally active drug to carrier molecules which have an affinity to tumor tissue. Localized heating is performed on the tumor tissue, thereby activating the drug in the tumor tissue. The end result may be concentrated delivery of a drug to a chosen tissue, or, in the case where the drug creates a toxin when heated, selective tissue destruction of a selected locations heated. The localized heat may be applied by focused ultrasound heating.

Targeted thermal release of drug-polymer conjugates

A magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system for use in a medical procedure employs an open main magnet allowing access to a portion of a patient within an imaging volume, for producing a main magnetic field over the imaging volume; a set of open gradient coils which provide magnetic fields gradients over the imaging volume without restricting access to the imaging volume; a radiofrequency coil set for transmitting RF energy into the imaging volume to nutate nuclear spins within the imaging volume and receive an MR response signal from the nuclear spins; and a pointing device for indicating the position and orientation of a plane in which an image is to be acquired; an image control means for operating power supplies for the gradient coils and the RF coils to acquire an MR signal from the desired imaging plane; and a computation unit for constructing an image of the desired imaging plane. The MR imaging system is intended to operate to provide images to a physician during medical procedures to guide the physician in his procedures.

Magnetic resonance imaging system with pointing device

A method of making an integrated circuit is described. The method includes providing a substrate of single crystal silicon semiconductor material having low minority carrier lifetime, forming an insulating layer of silicon dioxide overlying a major surface of the substrate, forming a plurality of apertures in the insulating layer which expose a plurality of selected portions of the major surface of the substrate, and epitaxially growing a layer of silicon on each of the selected portions of the major surfaces of the substrate.

Method of making integrated circuits utilizing ion implantation and

A reflective backing member has an array of closely spaced corner reflectors adjacent to the input surface of a layer of material that absorbs high energy radiation events and converts them to light photons. The corner reflective surface causes rearward traveling light photons to be reflected along a path substantially parallel to the initial rearward path so that the reflective member provides a high quality reflective surface with less degradation of spatial resolution of an image produced by the light photons than occurs with conventional reflective backing members.

High energy radiation detector having improved reflective backing for

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