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A One-on-One Financial Planning Session with Suze OrmanWith her New York Times bestseller The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, America's leading financial expert Suze Orman transformed the concept of money forever by teaching us to recognize the emotional aspects of our relationship with it. Now, this fully revised edition of Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook translates Suze's own brand of motivation and inspiration into a user-friendly, hands-on workbook that will empower you to work through the nuts and bolts of personal finance, with Suze as your trusted adviser. Updated to keep you abreast of our quickly shifting economy, you'll find: • Insightful exercises, quizzes, and worksheets to help you understand how your parents' relationship with money affects yours, and what money means to you• Up-to-the-minute information on tax codes, IRA rules and regulations, and long-term-care insurance• Useful strategies for coping with the ever-changing landscape of educational costs, social security, and the stock market• An outline of key questions that every financial adviser should ask you upon your initial meeting• An in-depth analysis of all your monthly expenses, providing a realistic picture of just how much money you have to work with and how you may not be respecting your money as much as you shouldRegardless of your age and income, it is never too early or too late to take control of your money. Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook is the perfect companion to The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, the personal finance classic that changed the way millions of Americans viewed money. Full of self-tests, thought-provoking questions, and Suze's easy-to-understand personal finance advice, here is your empowering approach to achieving financial freedom forever, with the best guide possible.
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Enjoy your 39th! :) never say old. Forever young.
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Aww Happy 39th Birthday my friend! Sorry I missed it! I just found my favorite birthday quote by the way: "Don't think of it as another birthday, think of it as the anniversary of the day the world was graced with your presence." :)))))
Happy belated birthday!! Isn't 39 the new 29? :-)
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The hemispheric long wave pattern has remained stable in recent weeks. There are six main troughs. Currently the most significant troughs are near the longitudes of South Africa, the southwest Indian Ocean, the Indian Ocean, eastern Australia, New Zealand, the south Pacific, the southeast Pacific, and South America.
Over southern and eastern Australia the cold front events with potential to bring widespread rain are now expected about 10 July to 14 July, and 14 July to 18 July. Rain events originating in the tropics and moving south are possible about 13 July to 17 July.
Over Western Australia the strongest cold fronts should occur about 10 July to 14 July, and 14 July to 18 July.
Forecast Explanation
This forecast is produced by a multi-model ensemble consisting of dynamical atmospheric models, which are forced by the latest observed atmosphere, ocean, land and ice conditions. The models are designed to simulate features of the real atmosphere, including the daily movement of long and short wave patterns in the Southern Hemisphere.
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In this deterministic framework the skill of the forecast tends to decrease with time, however the forecasts are updated daily to provide the latest estimates of rainfall probability out to 28 days.
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Dr. Wong opened the Hasson and Wong clinic more than 18 years ago and has more practical, hands-on experience than almost any other surgeon in the World. He pioneered the revolutionary Lateral Slit Technique and was recently President of the Asian Association of Hair Restoration Surgeons and regularly speaks at conferences around the globe. Learn more about Dr. Wong.
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While there are many factors that can rule out Hair Transplant Surgery, most applicants are suitable candidates. If you are in generally good health and the quality, density and amount of donor hair available is a sufficient, you could be a qualified candidate. But how much hair do you need? There is a balance between the amount of donor hair available and the amount that is required to achieve your hair restoration goals. We would not recommend surgery if there is not enough donor hair to give you the aesthetic look you desire.
The first step in your investigation is to see whether a hair transplant will achieve the results you want. To get started, you can to set up an in-person consultation or take advantage of our free and fast online consultation. If you're in Vancouver you can use the online form or call us at 604-739-4247 to arrange a meeting in the Clinic. Whether we review your situation in person or online, we'll be looking at the current state of your hair loss, your general health and the quality and amount of donor hair available. We'll also ask about your goals so we can let you know if your expectations are attainable given your circumstances. Our reputation is based on the work we do, and we will only perform surgery when we believe we can meet your goals and achieve an excellent result. Read More
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Hair Restoration Transplant Surgery with Hasson and Wong is almost always achieved in one session on one day. The length of the session varies depending on your own circumstances, the number of grafts required to achieve your goals and the method of extraction you choose. Sessions can last anywhere from 5 hours to 12 hours. The surgery takes place in our surgical clinic in Vancouver which is regulated by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia.
We will meet with you to assess your hair loss and goals either online, via skype, in-clinic or with one of our excellent consultants. You'll find out your hair-loss progression rating, an estimate of the number of grafts required and whether your donor hair availability will support your goals.
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Once the donor grafts start to be processed, your surgeon begins to prepare the recipient sites. He carefully creates incisions using the Lateral Slit Technique. For this part of the procedure, you are seated comfortably. Once the the first set of incisions are made and the technicians begin to precisely place the grafts, you can enjoy TV, movies or the internet. Breaks are also provided throughout your procedure when you require a stretch break, washroom or food. The procedure continues altering between incisions and planting until the donor hair is completely distributed
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At the end of your surgical session, you'll be invited back the next day for a follow-up and hair-washing lesson. Patients are able to walk out of the clinic wearing a loose-fitting baseball cap (provided) and can enjoy the rest of their day.
Your newly planted hair will go through several phases before finally showing the final outcome of your surgery. It can take anywhere from 7 to 12 months to see the full growth of your new hair. Read about the recovery period complete with recovery pictures.
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The best-selling, critically acclaimed brain training franchise arrives on W7 phones! **Pocket Gamer: "If only real-life education could be as fun as this ace brain trainer…" "It's smart, slick and a pleasure to play." This complete brain training program is back with total brain activity coverage, a personalized coach to help all brain profiles and optimized gameplay. Just like your body, your brain needs exercise to stay in shape. Maintaining it simply involves completing small exercises without pain, stress, or boredom. That's where Brain Challenge™ comes in! It's like a real vitamin boost for your brain. More than just a game, Brain Challenge is your personal coach and an entertaining, easy solution for keeping your brain alert. With various fun exercises, train your brain whenever and wherever you want on your W7 phone! THE ONLY COMPREHENSIVE BRAIN TRAINING PARTNER ON W7 PHONES - 43 different mini-games. - Train in 5 categories: Visual, Memory, Logic, Math and Focus. - Develop personal tools to help prevent stress and explore your creativity. INTUITIVE AND ENGAGING GAMEPLAY - Simply touch the correct answer. - Monitor your progress with detailed stat charts. - Transform your phone into a personal coach and turn brain training into a fun gaming session! The ideal partner for your personal growth and well-being!
1/16/2015Glitchy and unpolished. Achievements are broken. For example. I have 20% completion and 100% completion, but not 40%, 60%, or 80%. AFAIK, there is no way to ever unlock those achievements now.
8/23/2014Really cool stuff with any charging off! Greet my strong recommendations!!!
7/13/2014Really buggy but the puzzles are fun and there are a lot of them. The charts and leaderboard are a disappointment.
7/9/2014Some of my achievements aren't showing up :(
7/2/2014I have low vision so it takes me longer to review visually what I am seeing on the screen, but when I answer the questions it calls me "slow" for all answers due to my low vision not based on my actual problem solving... So if you are "slow" because it takes you longer for a different reason I would not suggest this game. ... Or ... Play away and don't worry about it calling you slow.
7/1/2014On the part of the game where you select the *****, there is nothing at the top designating which one to select most if the time. It works correctly on rare occasions...
6/21/2014PLEASE fix the glitch that some of the achievements don't pop up. While, they do show in the game, but when you go check your G coins, it doesn't change.
6/13/2014Why don't my achievements show on my gamerscore?? They used to work months ago, but now they don't. 100 points missing... Been trying to resolve this the last two weeks
6/10/2014Great game... But how come it's always nighttime?
6/8/2014Really not that good...


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Bar Harbor Travel Guide
The combination of walkable streets, good food and the great outdoors—for hiking, biking or fishing—make up the prime things to do in Bar Harbor.
If there is any spot that typifies Maine's rugged beauty, it's this Acadia National Park, which is easily of the top things to do in Bar Harbor. On it 120 miles of pine-fringed trails, you're pretty much guaranteed some good moose-spotting. Don't miss the 1,530-foot Cadillac Mountain, the highest peak on the Eastern Seaboard; it's the place to see the sunrise of a lifetime. (And don't worry: you can drive to the top if you like.) Take a trip to visit the Abbe Museum. The 17,000-square-foot space is the only museum in Maine that's affiliated with the Smithsonian. You'll see exhibits about how archeologists worked to uncover the past of this area's indigenous tribes, as well as an impressive collection of Native American artifacts that have been found on Mount Desert Island. If you're thinking about what to do in Bar Harbor with the kids, the museum often does children's activities, too. Stroll (and rubber-neck) along the Shore Path. This wide trail by the water offers a nice vantage point of both the water—and the prettiest inns and private homes in town.
The hiking route, in Maine's Acadia National Park, offers two short but technical trails: the 1.6-mile Precipice and the one-mile Beehive, both of which involve steep climbs with the chance to view endangered peregrine falcons.


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I finally made it for my wedding shower and every single person that tried it absolutely loved it! I made a triple batch for 28 people and there was barely 2 cups left. I had several requests for the recipe and thought it was easy to make for a crowd. I did the same thing as last time (using extra sharp cheddar and Bass beer) and it was another great success! I am seriously making it tonight again because we have lots of leftover cheese and beer and of course, all the requests!
I followed the recipe exactly except for cooking the veggies longer and blending it at the end and it was delicious! We made it just for two of us so there was a lot leftover (and it reheated very nicely, that might depend on the kind of cheese?) but the leftovers didn't last for more than 24 hours. My boyfriend raved about it and we absolutely loved it! I'm already planning on making it for a wedding shower I'm having in a few weeks, it's that good!
As I was tasting during the cooking process, it was turning out pretty darn good before I added beer. (I used one of my favorite microbrews, Mirror Pond Ale from Deschutes Brewery.) And the vegetables definitely needed more than 5 minutes of cooking time.
Don't make too much to eat in the first sitting -- this is one soup that doesn't take well to reheating.
Even better with a malty brown ale, like Newcastle. For fun, make croutons out of big chewy pretzels to top it with.
Very good, just increase the vegetable cooking time by 5 minutes.
I made this recipe exactly as stated but it got far from rave reviews. My husband thought it was "good" but I thought it was only "okay" at best. My problem with the soup was the overwhelming flavor of the dry mustard - it was simply too harsh for me. If I make this again I'll definitely drastically reduce the mustard or omit it altogether.
If you use a really good cheese (we used a $16/lb. Vermont cheddar), it will complement the bitterness of the beer (we used Bass as suggested). So, it may be a little pricey, but good ingredients result in good tasting food.
This soup benefits by being pureed to a velvety texture before serving.
I used Wisconsin Sharp Cheddar and Rolling Rock beer. I also used my immersion blender to make more creamy. I topped soup with homemade croutons.


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Gallery: Oasegroen Greens Up Dull Interiors With Living, Breathing Moss...
Dutch designers Oasegroen specialize in transforming dull interiors with living, breathing moss walls. With cradle-to-cradle design and sustainability at the heart of everything they do, the young team provides lichen moss walls that are comprised of algae and mold, which can survive in environments that might destroy other plant species. Hit the jump to see examples of their work, including a giant portrait of supermodel Kate Moss surrounded by - you guessed it - moss!
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Fresh Vegetable Beef Soup
|For beef broth
|Beef shank cross cuts
|1 1⁄2 Pound
|1 1⁄2 Tablespoon
|1 , peeled and cut in quarters
|1 Clove (5 gm), peeled (Small Ones)
|Bay leaf
|1 Small
|Thyme leaves
|3⁄4 Teaspoon
|Parsley sprigs
|Beef bouillon cubes
|1 1⁄2 Teaspoon
|2 Quart
|For soup vegetables
|Sliced celery
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Peeled sliced carrots
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Chopped cabbage
|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
|Fresh green beans
|1 Cup (16 tbs), cut into 1 inch pieces
|2 Large, pared and cut in 1-inch cubes
|Whole kernel corn
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs) (Fresh / Frozen)
|2 , peeled and chopped
1. For broth, put meat and butter into a 4-quart glass casserole. Cover with an all-glass lid. Cook in microwave oven 6 minutes at HIGH, or until meat starts to brown; stir once. Add remaining ingredients for broth. Cook covered 8 to 10 minutes at HIGH, or until mixture boils.
2. Stir broth. Cook covered in microwave oven 60 minutes at SIMMER, or until meat is fork-tender; stir occasionally. Remove from oven.
3. Put celery, carrot, cabbage, green beans, potato and corn into a 2-quart glass casserole. Add 1 cup broth. Cover with an all-glass lid or plastic wrap. Cook in microwave oven 8 to 10 minutes at HIGH, or until tender; stir twice.
4. Remove meat from broth and cut meat into pieces. Add to broth along with cooked vegetables, salt and tomatoes; stir. Cook covered in microwave oven 10 minutes at SIMMER; stir once.


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So you've decided to visit Australia. Oz. The Land Down Under.
Well, that is a terrible decision.
Despite what you may think, I'm not saying this because Aussies believe "I've got to go see a man about a dog" is a legitimate way to express "I've got to go now," or because they are incapable of saying full words, shortening "afternoon" to "arvo" and "sorry" to "soz."
While these are admittedly compelling reasons to stay away, I come instead to warn you about Australian animals, which are all trying to kill you.
Here are six that are trying particularly hard.


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If things go right, less could turn out to be more this season for Broncos wide receiver Brandon Lloyd.
Lloyd, who led the NFL with 1,448 receiving yards last season, finished 2010 with a career-best 77 receptions.
But to get those 77, a breakdown of game video showed the Broncos had to target Lloyd more than twice that many times — 157 in all.
As he waits to see how defenses choose to defend him this season, Lloyd is hopeful an enhanced Denver running game will enable the team's passing attack to be more efficient.
"We're going to run the ball and make it work," Lloyd said. "Adding that dimension to our offense might change things up, but I don't have any expectations.
"Having that threat of a run, a lot of our plays we made last year were against a corner and a safety (on Lloyd). Being able to get one-on-one would definitely enhance what we do, where we don't have to take so many shots to get the desired result."
As his best season unfolded, Lloyd saw increasingly more double coverage. Last year, the Raiders — the Broncos' season-opening opponent tonight — held him to one and four catches in the two meetings.
"I have no idea how people will line up," Lloyd said. "It's one of those things where you go through the first few weeks of the season, just kind of feel it out. Because there's going to be a new dynamic to our offense, we're going to be able to run the ball."
Von Miller was tinkering, owner's manual in hand, with a new digital camera last week.
Denver's rookie outside linebacker from Texas A&M said he hopes to chronicle his first year in the NFL in photos and assemble them in some kind of documentary format on a website, possibly the NFL's, at some point this season.
Miller, an avid user of social media, especially Twitter, said he did a similar project in his last season at Texas A&M.
"I enjoy it and want to have some things to remember everything," Miller said.
"Very poised."
First-year Raiders coach Hue Jackson, who has been an offensive coordinator for the Redskins, Falcons and Raiders, was asked last week about Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton.
"I think he's a very poised quarterback," Jackson said. "He's a good player. He knows how to distribute the ball to the different players on that team. And he's been a guy that's been very accurate with the ball."
Orton, asked how he graded his performance in his 13 starts last season, said: "Obviously not good enough when you have a (4-12) season like we did as a team. I did some good things and I did some not so good things. I've got to be better and whatever it takes to get more wins, that's what I've got to do."
Jeff Legwold, The Denver Post


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Posted Sep 19, 2013 by Ralph Lopez
The FBI is instructing local police departments and "communities against terrorism" to consider anyone who harbors "conspiracy theories" about 9/11 to be a potential terrorist, in a circular released to local police departments.
The memo thus adds 9/11-official-story skeptics to a growing list of targets described by federal law enforcement to be security threats, such as those who express "libertarian philosophies," "Second Amendment-oriented views," interest in "self-sufficiency," "fears of Big Brother or big government," and "Declarations of Constitutional rights and civil liberties."
A newly released national poll shows that 48 percent of Americans either have some doubts about the official account of 9/11, or do not believe it at all.
The FBI circular entitled "Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities Related to Sleepers" says that people who should be 'considered suspicious' of possible involvement in "terrorist activity" include those who hold the "attitude" described as " Conspiracy theories about Westerners." The circular continues: "e.g. (sic) the CIA arranged for 9/11 to legitimize the invasion of foreign lands."
"Sleepers" refers to "sleeper cells," in FBI jargon, which are terrorists awaiting orders to be activated into terrorist activity.
In 1998 it was declassified by the Pentagon that the Joint Chiefs of… Continue reading
by Susanne Posel
President Obama has usurped all available forms of communication for use and discretion of the US government. Under an Executive Order (June 6, 2012) entitled Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions, Obama has enabled the executive branch to control communications "under all circumstances to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies, and improve national resilience." (For full text of the Executive Order, seen Annex below).
Radio and wired communications systems "of all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and the public must inform the development of national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications policies, programs, and capabilities."
Cellular phone corporations like Sprint owned Boost Mobile have released messages to their customers concerning the US government's allocation of their phone communications at the whim of the President. In a text message to customers, Boost Mobile said that: ". . . you can receive national and local emergency alerts directly on your phone."
Back in 2011, Hillary Clinton admitted that the US government, via the mainstream media, is losing their "information war" with the American public. As alternative media becomes more prevalent, the propaganda must be taken up a notch in order to keep the masses onboard with the agendas of the US government.
Danny Schechter, filmmaker and investigative journalist, explains that MSM cannot compete with the alternative media. Schechter says that "America feels on the defensive because it can no longer" monopolize the thoughts of citizens domestically and abroad. Since the US government thinks "its point of view is the only point of view" these new news outlets are "extremely damaging" to the US continual purveyance of propaganda.
The Presidential Alert was announced in August of 2011, wherein the Commissioners for the FCC required that television, radio stations and cable systems (including satellites) will redirect broadcasting if the President wants to "alert Americans of impending danger". Continue reading
A newly uncovered Army document details U.S. internment camps on American soil .
Ryan Cummings, Contributor Activist Post
The topic of civilian internment camps in the United States has been largely dismissed as a paranoid "conspiracy theory" by the mainstream media. Recent legislation and newly uncovered government documents, however, reveal the sad truth: The United States is quickly descending into a full-blown authoritarian police state.
NDAA 2012: Patriot Act Part Two
On December 31, 2011, while the majority of Americans were busy watching balls drop and drinking themselves into oblivion, President Obama quietly signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. This unprecedented legislation effectively codified the executive branch's authority to indefinitely detain American citizens without trial, stripping them of their Constitutional right to due process and habeas corpus.
Under this legislation, if you are simply "suspected" of providing support to a group the government classifies as a terrorist organization–or an affiliate or associated force of said organization–you can be rounded up and detained until the end of the "War on Terror"–a war, according to policy makers, that has no end.
Over the course of this endless and prefabricated war, the government's definition of "terrorist" has slowly shifted post 9/11 from Al Qaeda, a group of dubious power initially funded and supported by the CIA and the Pakistani ISI , to such "domestic terrorists" as Occupy Wall Street protestors , pro-life advocates and Ron Paul supporters . When the FBI set-up a band of dimwitted… Continue reading
FBI says paying for your morning coffee with cash a potential terrorist activity, urges coffee shop owners to report cash-paying customers to authorities
by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
Purchasing a cup of coffee using cash instead of a credit or debit card, using Google Maps to view photos of sporting event stadiums and large cities, and installing software to protect your internet privacy on your mobile phone — these and many other mundane activities are now considered to be potential terrorist activities by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). And the agency is now distributing a new series of flyers as part of its new "Communities Against Terrorism" (CAT) program that urges shop owners and others to report such "suspicious" activity to authorities.
"The Communities Against Terrorism program is funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance through the SLATT Program to provide law enforcement agencies with a tool to engage members of the local community in the fight against terrorism," writes SLATT.org, the program of the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance that is promoting the program, on its website. "To assist law enforcement in the outreach effort, templates of flyers containing potential indicators have been created for distribution to specific industries" (https://www.slatt.org/CAT).
The SLATT program offers both on-site and online training (indoctrination) for coffee shop owners, financial institution employees, tattoo shop artists, and many others into how to spot potential terrorist activities. Included among the many propaganda flyers the FBI is distributing as… Continue reading
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) When I read a story yesterday about an 89-year-old woman being water-boarded by nursing home staff over an argument about ice cream, I knew something terrible was amiss across the American landscape. Spontaneous acts of tyranny have been cropping up lately like cancer tumors: a food tyrant in Nevada raids a farm picnic and orders everyone to destroy their food ( http://www.naturalnews.com/034125_f… ); student protesters in California get pepper-sprayed by thuggish cops who clearly enjoy causing pain and suffering ( http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/_ne… ); and now nursing home staffers torture their own resident using techniques borrowed from Guantánamo Bay ( http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2011/11… ). I watched all this with a sense of sadness and disgrace for the human race. And then a realization hit me like a sledgehammer…
And On a Related Theme…
Chancellor Katehi's impressive learning skills
By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
The UC-Davis Chancellor responsible for the pepper-spraying of her students, Linda Katehi, today went on Good Morning America and explained why she should not resign or otherwise be held accountable: "we really need to start the healing process and move forward." On a radio program in the afternoon, she expanded on this view by saying: "We need to move on." So apparently — yet again — the only way everyone can begin to "heal" and "move forward" is if everyone agrees that those in power with the greatest responsibility be fully shielded from any consequences and that… Continue reading
One lawyer's relentless quest for information reveals fresh hints of a coverup.
By James Ridgeway
July 21, 2011
In 2007, Mother Jones was the first national media outlet to tell the full story of Jesse Trentadue and his quest for the truth, which began four months after the attack on Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, killed 168 people. It was then that Trentadue, a Salt Lake City lawyer, learned that his brother, a construction worker and one-time bank robber, had died in a federal prison in Oklahoma City. [Photo: Timothy McVeigh is escorted from the courthouse in Perry, Oklahoma. Bob Owen/Zuma]
Prison officials said the prisoner had hanged himself. But Kenney Trentadue, who had never revealed any suicidal inclination, was shipped home for burial with bruises all over his body and lacerations on his face and throat–suggesting something more sinister. Even Oklahoma City's chief medical examiner would later say, publicly, that it was "very likely he was murdered." But the most compelling evidence in the case was altered or turned up missing. Jesse Trentadue was never able to prove what had actually happened to his brother–though he did win a $1.1 million civil suit for "emotional distress" to his family, based on the way the government had handled the aftermath of Kenney's death.
Trentadue had all but given up, when, in the spring of 2003, he got a call from a small-town newspaper reporter in Oklahoma named… Continue reading
March 24th, 2011
By Eric W. Dolan
An Indiana prosecutor and Republican activist has resigned after emails show he suggested Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker stage a fake attack on himself to discredit unions protesting his budget repair bill.
The Republican governor signed a bill on March 11 that eliminates most union rights for public employees.
In an email from February 19, Indiana deputy prosecutor Carlos F. Lam told Walker the situation presented "a good opportunity for what's called a 'false flag' operation."
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism discovered the email among tens of thousands released to the public last week following a lawsuit by the Isthmus and the Associated Press.
"If you could employ an associate who pretends to be sympathetic to the unions' cause to physically attack you (or even use a firearm against you), you could discredit the unions," Lam said in his email.
"Currently, the media is painting the union protest as a democratic uprising and failing to mention the role of the DNC and umbrella union organizations in the protest," he continued. "Employing a false flag operation would assist in undercutting any support that the media may be creating in favor of the unions."
Lam resigned from his position after the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism published an article about his email.
On February 22, an alternative paper in Buffalo, New York managed to trick Walker into taking a call from their editor posing as tea party tycoon David Koch.
When the editor posing as Koch suggested planting some troublemakers in the protests, Walker responded that "we thought about that," but said it was not necessary "because sooner or later the media stops finding 'em interesting."
"My only fear would be is if there was a ruckus caused is that that would scare the public into thinking maybe the governor has gotta settle to avoid all these problems," he said.…Continue reading
TSA and America's Zero Risk Culture
November 16, 2010
By Richard Forno
The lede on the DRUDGEREPORT most of Monday showed a Catholic nun being patted down at an airport security checkpoint, with the caption starkly declaring that
He's right.
Ten years after 9/11, Americans who fly are facing a Faustian choice between subjecting themselves to a virtual (and potentially medically damaging) strip search conducted in questionable machines run by federal employees or a psychologically damaging pat-down of their bodies. Osama bin Ladin must be giggling himself silly this week.
But what should we expect in a society that requires adults to wear bicycle helmets while pedaling in the park, provides disclaimers of liability on TV advertisements, or prints warnings on fast-food coffee cups? The name of the game is zero risk. Not risk mitigation, or accepting responsibility for one's actions, but risk aversion. It's a failure to acknowledge that we can't protect against everything bad that can happen to us, so we must protect against everything we think might — might — be harmful at some point.
It's living in fear.
TSA has established itself as the lead federal agency charged with perpetuating this risk-averse culture at airports around the country. The proof is evident over the past ten years: Because of the Shoebomber, we have to remove our shoes. Thanks to the Christmas Crotchbomber, we are subjected to invasive scanning or government-mandated molestation. Because there's a potential for explosives in liquid or gel… Continue reading
from Shoestring's blog at 911blogger.com
Check out this excellent recent documentary, which has just been posted on the Internet, about Nato's secret armies that were set up across Western Europe after the Second World War. While these "stay-behind" armies were supposedly intended to help put together a resistance if the Soviet Union invaded their countries, they went on to commit terrorist attacks against their own populations, so as to influence domestic politics.
The documentary describes how, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Western intelligence agencies collaborated with right-wing extremist groups to commit false flag terrorist attacks, which would often be falsely blamed on left-wing groups. It features interviews with, among others, Daniele Ganser, author of NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe.
(Source of documentary: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/09/18653266.php)
For more information about Nato's secret armies and Operation Gladio, you can read some excellent articles written by Daniele Ganser that he has included on his website, http://www.danieleganser.ch/Fachzeitschriften.html
A particularly good article is the one called "Fear as a Weapon: The effects of psychological warfare on domestic and international politics."
(AFP) — May 21, 2010
LONDON — Inquests into the deaths of 56 people in London's July 2005 suicide bombings will probe alleged failings by police and MI5 intelligence before the attacks, the coroner conducting the hearings said Friday.
Judge Heather Hallett also ruled that inquests into four suicide bombers will be held separately from those of the 52 victims, a relief to families who had protested plans to hold the inquests together.
The suicide bombers set off near-simultaneous explosions on three London Underground trains and a double-decker bus on the morning of July 7, 2005, in what has become known as 7/7, nearly four years after the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
Hallett, giving details of arrangements for the inquests due to start in October, said they would probe what police and MI5 officers knew ahead of the shock attacks.
"The scope of the inquest into the 52 deaths will include the alleged intelligence failings and the immediate aftermath of the bombings," she said.
"To my mind it is not too remote to investigate what was known in the year or two before the alleged bombings. Plots of this kind are not developed overnight," she added.
Janine Mitchell, whose husband Paul survived the King's Cross explosion, welcomed the decision to probe MI5's role.
"We have been very concerned that there were serious failings and it seems that this is the case… We are relieved that someone independent of Government is going to examine what happened.
"We put… Continue reading
By Scott Shane
April 6, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly participating in them, intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Tuesday.
Mr. Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and spent years in the United States as an imam, is in hiding in Yemen. He has been the focus of intense scrutiny since he was linked to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., in November, and then to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Dec. 25.
American counterterrorism officials say Mr. Awlaki is an operative of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the affiliate of the terror network in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. They say they believe that he has become a recruiter for the terrorist network, feeding prospects into plots aimed at the United States and at Americans abroad, the officials said.
It is extremely rare, if not unprecedented, for an American to be approved for targeted killing, officials said. A former senior legal official in the administration of George W. Bush said he did not know of any American who was approved for targeted killing under the former president.
But the director of national intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, told a House hearing in… Continue reading
Daniel Tencer
April 5, 2010
The death of a whistleblower who said the UK government had "sexed up" a dossier on Saddam Hussein's military capabilities in order to sell the Iraq war has been one of the most intriguing and confusing elements of the war's history.
Now the UK's Conservative Party is signaling that it plans to reopen the inquiry into the death of Dr. David Kelly if it wins the next election. The move could potentially harm the ruling Labour Party, which championed the Iraq war effort and is now trailing in the polls for this spring's election.
On Sunday, Dominic Grieve, the Conservative Party's "shadow" justice minister, said members of the public "have not been reassured" that Kelly's death was a suicide, and if his government wins the election, he would want to reopen the case, reports the UK's Daily Mail.
Kelly, a weapons expert with Britain's Ministry of Defence, was found dead in a forest near his home in Oxfordshire in 2003, shortly after he gave an interview to the BBC in which he said that the British government was lying about its claim that Saddam Hussein could launch biological and chemical weapons within 45 minutes of giving the order.
Kelly's death sparked suspicions that he may have been killed for undermining the government of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair as the British leader stood with US President George W. Bush in pushing for an invasion of Iraq.
A former British ambassador quoted Kelly as having… Continue reading
by Philip Giraldi
April 1, 2010 edition of American Conservative
Even in World War II, the United States did not attempt to assassinate U.S. citizens who went over to the enemy, but that has now changed with President Obama's overseas contingency operations. On Feb. 3, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the House Intelligence Committee that the United States government has developed procedures for killing American citizens abroad who are "involved" with groups threatening to carry out terrorist acts directed against other Americans. Three U.S. citizens have already been approved by the White House for summary execution as soon as actionable intelligence is developed to enable a pilotless drone's hellfire missiles to do the killing. One is Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi; the second is American al-Qaeda member Adam Perlman, who goes under the name Adam Yahiye Gadahn; and the third is believed to be a Somali from Minnesota who has joined the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabab in the Horn of Africa. Anwar al-Aulaqi, linked in the media to the Christmas underwear bombing and with Major Malik Nadal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, has denied any involvement in either incident. Perlman, a propagandist for al-Qaeda, is in Waziristan. Killing these men would involve using military drones to attack targets in three countries with which the United States is not at war.
The Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution guarantee a citizen due process and a public trial, as well as the right to confront his accuser. The Obama administration… Continue reading
A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.
Henry Samuel in Paris
11 March 2010
French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment: An American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD
In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted.
For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War.
The mystery of Le Pain Maudit (Cursed Bread) still haunts the inhabitants of Pont-Saint-Esprit, in the Gard, southeast France.
On August 16, 1951, the inhabitants were suddenly racked with frightful hallucinations of terrifying beasts and fire.
One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being eaten by snakes. An 11-year-old tried to strangle his grandmother. Another man shouted: "I am a plane", before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs. He then got up and carried on for 50 yards. Another saw his heart escaping through his feet and begged a doctor to… Continue reading
Originally published by Alex Lantier on February 3, 2010 at wsws.org
A January 27 hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security established that US intelligence agencies stopped the State Department from revoking the US visa of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The Nigerian student, whom US officials suspected of being affiliated with the Yemeni terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, attempted to set off a bomb on Northwest Flight 253 into Detroit on Christmas Day. Revocation of Abdulmutallab's visa would have prevented him from boarding the airplane.
The hearing was reported in a brief article posted January 27 on the web site of the Detroit News, headlined, "Terror Suspect Kept Visa to Avoid Tipping Off Larger Investigation."
The revelation that US intelligence agencies made a deliberate decision to allow Abdulmutallab to board the commercial flight, without any special airport screening, has been buried in the media. As of this writing, nearly a week after the hearing, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have published no articles on the subject. Nor have the broadcast or cable media reported on it.
This is despite–or perhaps more accurately, because of–the fact that this information exposes the official government story of the near-disaster to be a lie. President Obama, who has joined with top US intelligence, FBI and Homeland Security officials to insist that Abdulmutallab was inadvertently allowed to board the plane carrying explosives because of a failure to "connect the dots," has… Continue reading
By Glenn Greenwald
January 27, 2010
(updated below – Update II)
The Washington Post's Dana Priest today reports that "U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people." That's no surprise, of course, as Yemen is now another predominantly Muslim country (along with Somalia and Pakistan) in which our military is secretly involved to some unknown degree in combat operations without any declaration of war, without any public debate, and arguably (though not clearly) without any Congressional authorization. The exact role played by the U.S. in the late-December missile attacks in Yemen, which killed numerous civilians, is still unknown.
But buried in Priest's article is her revelation that American citizens are now being placed on a secret "hit list" of people whom the President has personally authorized to be killed:
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush gave the CIA, and later the military, authority to kill U.S. citizens abroad if strong evidence existed that an American was involved in organizing or carrying out terrorist actions against the United States or U.S. interests, military and intelligence officials said. . . .
The Obama administration has adopted the same stance. If a U.S. citizen joins al-Qaeda, "it doesn't really change anything from the standpoint of whether we can target them," a senior administration official said. "They are then part of the enemy."
Both the CIA and the JSOC maintain lists… Continue reading
By Daniel Tencer
In a 2008 academic paper, President Barack Obama's appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated "cognitive infiltration" of groups that advocate "conspiracy theories" like the ones surrounding 9/11.
Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor, co-wrote an academic article entitled "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures," in which he argued that the government should stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via "chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine" those groups.
As head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Sunstein is in charge of "overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs," according to the White House Web site.
Sunstein's article, published in the Journal of Political Philosphy in 2008 and recently uncovered by blogger Marc Estrin, states that "our primary claim is that conspiracy theories typically stem not from irrationality or mental illness of any kind but from a 'crippled epistemology,' in the form of a sharply limited number of (relevant) informational sources."
By "crippled epistemology" Sunstein means that people who believe in conspiracy theories have a limited number of sources of information that they trust. Therefore, Sunstein argued in the article, it would not work to simply refute the conspiracy theories in public — the very sources that conspiracy theorists believe would have to be infiltrated.
Sunstein, whose article focuses largely on the 9/11 conspiracy theories, suggests that the government "enlist nongovernmental officials in the effort to rebut the… Continue reading
Published at the DailyCensored.com; originally at wsws.org
New Year in America: A portrait of social misery
By Tom Eley
5 January 2010
The new decade finds the US working class suffering a level of social misery not seen since the Great Depression. Unemployment, poverty, hunger, utility cutoffs, homelessness, foreclosures and bankruptcies have become common experiences for millions.
But unlike in the Great Depression, when limited reforms were put in place in response to the crisis, the Obama administration, Congress, and state and local governments are taking no serious measures to provide relief. On the contrary, the two parties of big business are exacerbating the crisis through budget cuts at the state and local level and the federal government is preparing new austerity measures.
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In a method for spectroscopic examination of a biological tissue the tissue is irradiated with light having an intensity l0 (λ) with the wavelength λ being varied, a transmission or reflection spectrum l(λ) is obtained by measuring the intensity of the radiation transmitted or reflected by the tissue dependent on the wavelength λ, and an approximate description of the measured transmission or reflection spectrum l(λ) or of the spectrum l(λ)/l0 (λ) normalized to the incident radiation intensity, or of the quantity log {l(λ)/l0 (λ)} with an analytical function is made. The analytical function has a Beer-Lambert dependency on a first parameter which describes the absorption properties of the tissue and has a second parameter which is the average path length L(λ) of the photons in the tissue, representing a slice thickness. The first parameter is dependent on concentrations ci of a number i of selected tissue components which are employed as fit parameters, as well as being dependent on specific absorption coefficients αi (λ) according to the relationship ##EQU1## The identified concentrations c1 are then compared to reference values.
1. Method for the spectroscopic examination of a biological tissue comprising the steps of:
(a) irradiating a tissue region with non-ionizing radiation having an intensity l0 (λ) and a wavelength λ while varying said wavelength;
(b) registering a spectrum l(λ) from an element selected from the group consisting of a transmission spectrum and a reflection spectrum by an element selected from the group consisting of measuring the intensity of the radiation transmitted by the tissue and radiation reflected by the tissue dependent on the wavelength λ;
(c) employing an analytical function to approximately describe a quantity from an element selected from the group consisting of said spectrum l(λ), said spectrum l(λ)/l0 (λ) normed to the incident radiation intensity, and log {l(λ)/l0 (λ)}, said analytical function having a Beer-Lambert dependency on a first parameter describing the absorption properties of the tissue and a second parameter representing a slice thickness, the first parameter being dependent on identified concentrations ci of a plurality i of selected tissue components employed as fit parameters as well as on specific absorption coefficients αi (λ) according to the relationship ##EQU6## with an average path length L(λ) of the photons in the tissue comprising the second parameter; and
(d) comparing the identified concentration ci to reference values.
2. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that the analytical function is established by the equation
l(λ)=l0 (λ)�x1 �exp{-μs (λ)�L(λ)�x2 }
whereby x1, x2 reference wavelength-independent correction factors.
3. Method according to claim 1 wherein the average path length L(λ) of the photons in the tissue is dependent on a thickness d of the transilluminated tissue, a reduced scatter coefficient μs '(λ) and on the absorption coefficient μa of the tissue according to the relationship ##EQU7##
4. Method according to claim 1 wherein the tissue is approximated as a uniform mixture of water, fat, hemoglobin and oxyhemoglobin, whereby volume parts of water and fat supplement to 100%.
5. Method according to claim 1 comprising modulating the intensity of the incident radiation at a modulation frequency and registering an amplitude of an output signal of a detector system exhibiting the modulation frequency dependent on the wavelength.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is directed to a method for spectroscopic examination of biological tissue.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The diagnosis of mammary carcinoma is currently mainly based on the imaging method of X-ray mammography. Portions of the public and of the medical community, however, are increasingly critical of this examination method since damage to the transirradiated tissue cannot be precluded with certainty. Additionally utilized, further, is the extremely complicated nuclear magnetic resonance tomography as well as, to a slight extent, ultrasound measuring methods and infrared thermography.
Light-tomographic methods are being clinically tested wherein to tissue to be examined is illuminated with visible or, respectively, IR light and the reflected or transmitted radiation is detected (see, for example, G. Muller et al. (Eds.), Medical Optical Tomography. Functional Imaging and Monitoring, The international Institute for Optical Enineering sic!, Bellingham, Wash., 1993, SPIE Vol. IS11; B. Chance, R. R. Alfano, A. Katzir (Eds.) Photon Migration and Imaging in Random Media and Tissues, The International Institute for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, Wash. 1993, SPIE Vol. 1988; G A Navarro, A. E. Profio; Med. Phys. Vol. 15(1988); S. 181-187. Since the measured intensities are dependent on the optical properties of the respectively transirradiated region, one hopes to be able to distinguish tissue types and identify and localize physiological or, respectively, pathological modifications in the tissue. Possible applications of light-tomography extend from the detection of mammary carcinoma via the recognition of Alzheimer's disease up to the registration of the oxygenation of the brain and the extremities.
An object of the invention is to create an optical method with which physiological and pathological modifications in a biological tissue, particularly in the human body, can be detected in vivo. The method should not produce any damage to the tissue and should be comparatively simple to implement without great apparatus outlay.
The above object is achieved in a method for spectroscopic examination of a biological tissue wherein the tissue is irradiated with light having an intensity l0 (λ) with the wavelength λ being varied, a transmission or reflection spectrum l(λ) is obtained by measuring the intensity of the radiation transmitted or reflected by the tissue dependent on the wavelength λ, and an approximate description of the measured transmission or reflection spectrum l(λ) or of the spectrum l(λ)/l0 (λ) normalized to the incident radiation intensity, or of the quantity log {l(λ)/l0 (λ)} with an analytical function is made. The analytical function has a Beer-Lambert dependency on a first parameter which describes the absorption properties of the tissue and has a second parameter which is the average path length L(λ) of the photons in the tissue, representing a slice thickness. The first parameter is dependent on concentrations ci of a number i of selected tissue components which are employed as fit parameters, as well as being dependent on specific absorption coefficients αi (λ) according to the relationship ##EQU2## The identified concentrations c1 are then compared to reference values.
The method is preferably employed in the area of medical diagnostics. Due to its enhanced sensitivity or, respectively, selectivity compared to what is referred to as diaphanography (see, for example, /3/), regions with pathological tissue modifications can be distinguished better from surrounding, healthy tissue and carcinoma in the female breast can be more exactly localized.
FIGS. 1 and 2 show the absorption coefficients of hemoglobin (Hb), oxyhemoglobin (Hb O), water and fat (vegetable oil) dependent on wavelength.
FIG. 3 shows the reduced scatter coefficient of breast tissue (in vivo) dependent on the wavelength.
FIG. 4 is a schematic illustration of an apparatus for registering a transmission spectrum according to the method of the invention.
FIGS. 5 through 8 illustrate measured in vivo transmission spectra of a female breast obtained in accordance with the principles of the present invention.
The invention strives to describe the transmission spectra of the female breast measured in vivo by an analytical function l(λ), whereby the following, highly simplified model assumptions form the basis:
1) the breast tissue is composed of a uniform mixture of the absorbers water, fat, Hb and HbO;
2) the sum of the volume parts of water and fat amounts to 100%;
3) the volume parts of Hb and HbO are left out of consideration (2.3 mMol per liter of blood).
In an exclusively absorbent medium, the attenuation of a light ray exhibiting the initial intensity l0 is described by the Beer-Lambert law
l=l0 �exp {-μa �d} (1)
whereby d references the thickness of the transirradiated slice and μa references the absorption coefficient of the medium. When the medium is composed of a plurality of absorbers, then the absorption coefficient μa is calculated from the sum of the products of the absorber concentrations ci and the specific absorption coefficients αi as ##EQU3##
In the case of a tissue composed of the above-recited components, μa is thus established by
μa =Cwater �αwater +Cfat �αfat +CHb �αHb +CHbO �αHbO (3)
Equation (1), however, is not valid for highly scattering media since the path lengths covered by the individual photons in the medium are not known here. Patterson et al. Appl. Optics, Vol. 28 (1988), pp 2331-2336, however, have solved the diffusion equation for a plane-parallel geometry and calculated the average path length L(λ) of the photons in a scattering medium as ##EQU4## whereby μs ' references the wavelength-dependent, reduced scatter coefficient of the medium. When the thickness d in the Beer-Lambert law is then replaced by the wavelength-dependent average path length L(λ) of the photons and wavelength-independent correction factors x1, x2 are introduced, then the transmitted intensity l(λ) can be written as
l(λ)=l0 (λ)�x1 �exp{-μs (λ)�L(λ)�x2 } (5)
The correction factor x1 takes the measurement geometry and the multiply scattered, unabsorbed, undetected photons into consideration. Measurements errors of the slice thickness d and imprecisions of the reduced scatter coefficient μs ' are intended to be compensated by the factor x2 . Given knowledge of the absorption coefficients αi, the analytical function according to Equation (5) can be matched to measured in vivo spectra by variation of the concentration ci of the four tissue components and of the two correction factors x1, x2.
For the in vivo measurement of the transmission spectrum of thick biological tissue (d≧3 cm), the principal absorbers blood, water and fat define the diagnostic window. It begins in the short-wave range at about λ=600 nm (blood) and ends in the long-wave range at about λ=1.4 mm (water). Due to the detector system (Si photodiode) employed, however, only measurements in the wavelength range between λ≧650 nm and λ≦1.1 μm were carried out.
FIG. 1 shows the specific absorption coefficients of the blood pigments hemoglobin Hb and oxyhemoglobin HbO in the wavelength range between λ=650 nm and λ=1000 nm. One can clearly see the absorption maximum of Hb at λ=760 nm. The absorption coefficients of Hb and HbO are the same size at the isobestic point (λ=805 nm).
The absorption coefficients respectively calculated from the measured transmission characteristic of water and fat (vegetable oil) are shown in FIG. 2. The O--H resonance of the water molecule has a highly absorbent effect at λ=975 nm. Weaker harmonics of this resonance are observed at λ=840 nm and λ=755 nm. Compared thereto, fat or, respectively, the vegetable oil serving as substitute absorbs especially strongly in the region of the C--H resonance (λ=930 nm). The absorption is considerably weaker in the region of λ=760 and λ≈830 nm, where FIG. 2 exhibits only very flat structures.
The calculation of the dependency of the reduced scatter coefficient on the wavelength is only possible given knowledge of the size and composition of the scatter centers. Since corresponding information for the breast tissue are lacking, our own measurements were carried out at various wavelengths. FIG. 3 shows the results of these measurements. The interpolation lines based on the data and the in vivo or, respectively, in vitro measured values of other authors are also shown. The reduced scatter coefficient is only weakly dependent on the wavelength and lies on the order of magnitude of 1 mm-1.
FIG. 4 shows the schematic structure of an apparatus for the registration of an in vivo transmission spectrum. This is thereby essentially a matter of a commercially available spectroradiometer (Merlin, ORIEL Company) whose components were adapted to the new measurement technology. A 100 W halogen lamp 1 that has a uniform and high spectral irradiance in the measurement range (500 nm≦λ≦1100 nm) serves as white light source. Controlled by the computer 2, the grid monochromator 3 (600 lines/mm; linear reciprocal dispersion 12.8 nm/mm at λ=750 nm) resolves the light emitted by the halogen lamp 1 into its spectral components. The selected component subsequently passes through the edge filter 4 arranged following the monochromator 3, so that the optics 5 couples only the radiation diffracted in the first order into the optical fiber cable 7 connected to the fiber head 6 (diameter: 5 mm). Since the radiant intensity at the fiber head amounts to approximately 1 mW (λ=800 nm, width of the monochromator slit s=1 mm), the power density on the skin--at approximately 5 mW/cm2 --lies far below the allowable limit value. The radiation penetrates into the breast 9 lying on the transparent plate 8, is absorbed and scattered to a greater or lesser extent according to the optical properties of the transilluminated tissue and in turn emerges at the side lying opposite the optical fiber head 6. An approximately 2 m long optical fiber cable 10 acquires the transmitted radiation and conducts it to the Si photodiode.
The beam interrupter 12 (propeller wheel) arranged in the beam path between the halogen lamp 1 and the monochromator 3 has the job of modulating the intensity of the light entering into the monochromator and, thus, the intensity of the radiation illuminating the breast tissue 9 with a frequency of, for example, f=25 to 30 Hz prescribed by the drive unit 13.
As a result, the output signal of the Si photodiode 11 also has a component exhibiting the modulation frequency f whose amplitude is identified in the lock-in amplifier 14 and read into the computer 2. The forked light barrier composed of a light-emitting diode 15 and a photodiode 16 generates the reference signal adjacent at a second input of the lock-in amplifier 14.
The in vivo transmission spectra described briefly below were registered with the apparatus shown in FIG. 4. Approximately 150 s are required for the registration of the respectively 50 measured values per spectrum (step width Δλ=10 nm). During the measurement, the widths of the input and output gap of the monochromator 3 were respectively set to 1 mm. This corresponds to a bandwidth of approximately 13 nm, which assures an adequately high spectral resolution. The quantity
log{l(λ)/l0 (λ)} (6)
referred to below as transmittance was respectively evaluated. It is shown in FIGS. 5 through 8 together with the corresponding simulation curves dependent on the wavelength. A table with the corresponding fit parameters is respectively allocated to the individual spectra. As further parameters, the tables or, respectively, Figures potentially also contain the age of the test subject, particulars about the location of the measurement on the breast and the thickness of the transilluminated tissue.
Despite the differences in the height of the respectively measured transmittance, all in vivo spectra agree in terms of the following features:
1) below λ=600 nm (blood absorption), the transmittance drops by a number of orders of magnitude;
2) a transmission minimum is observed at approximately λ=760 nm overlap of the Hb signal and the weaker fat and water signals);
3) more or less pronounced minimums show up at λ=975 nm (fat) and λ=930 nm (water);
4) the transmittance decreases within the entire wavelength range with increasing blood content of the tissue.
FIGS. 5 and 6 show representative in vivo transmission spectra of the female breast, whereby FIG. 5 is directed to the measurements implemented at younger persons (40 years old and younger) and FIG. 6 is directed to the measurements implemented at older persons (60 years old and older). It is not difficult to see with reference to the fit parameters recited in Table I that younger and older breast tissue differ noticeably from one another with respect to the fat, water and blood content.
TABLE I______________________________________Fit Parameter: younger persons older persons______________________________________Age 39 37 33 85 80 64Water %! 33 65 70 17 11 12Fat %! 67 35 30 83 89 88Hb 1/min! 0.0012 0.0017 0.002 0.0005 0.0002 0.0005HbO 1/mm! 0.0042 0.0042 0.0041 0.003 0.0014 0.0018x1 0.0002 0.0005 0.0007 0.0004 0.0006 0.0005x2 2.1 2.1 2.1 1.9 1.65 1.85______________________________________
FIG. 7 shows the influence of the measurement position on the in vivo transmission spectrum. Only the spectra measured at the positions "A" and "D" are shown. With the parameters recited in Table II, one again succeeds in describing the spectra very well by the function l(λ) recited in Equation (5).
TABLE II______________________________________Fit Parameter:Position ref A B C D______________________________________Water %! 24 24 20 16 12Fat %! 76 76 80 84 88Hb 1/mm! 0.0005 0.0005 0.0005 0.0005 0.0003HbO 1/mm! 0.0023 0.0024 0.0024 0.0025 0.0025X1 0.0006 0.0006 0.0006 0.0006 0.0006X2 1.4 1.53 1.6 1.6 1.6______________________________________
As FIG. 8 shows, the transmission spectrum (black squares) measured at an unhealthy breast (invasive duct carcinoma) differs clearly, particularly in the wavelength range between λ=900 nm and λ=1000 nm, from the reference spectrum registered at the corresponding location of the healthy breast (unfilled squares). This can be essentially attributed to the modified water and fat content in the region of the carcinoma compared to the healthy breast. Moreover, the transmittance measured at the unhealthy breast is clearly lower than in the reference spectrum at all wavelengths.
The invention, of course, is not limited to the described exemplary embodiments. Thus, it is possible without difficulty to also register reflection spectra and to again describe these by Equation (5). The quantity L(λ) is then established by ##EQU5## r: source-detector spacing (see Farell et al., Med. Phys. 19(4)(1992), pp. 879-889).
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