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Type: New Feature
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Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 0.92.0
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Release Note:Tool to check cluster. See $ ./bin/hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.tool.Canary -help for how to use.
This JIRA is to implement a standalone program that can be used to do "canary monitoring" of a running HBase cluster. This program would gather a list of the regions in the cluster, then iterate over them doing lightweight operations (eg short scans) to provide metrics about latency as well as alert on availability issues.
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Todd, where/how would the metrics be published? JMX perhaps?
Please see my comment on HBASE-4147: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4147?focusedCommentId=13104623&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13104623
What sort of benefit do you see with doing lightweight operations versus something like RPC sampling?
RPC sampling on the server side won't tell you if, for example, one of the servers in the cluster has a faulty NIC and thus is dropping packets and has very high latency. The latency "inside" the server will be fast, but for any clients, it will be slow.
Availability-wise, we sometimes have clusters which only sporadically see access (eg from an MR job that runs every hour). In that case, it's nice to have a canary monitor to determine if one of the region servers is having issues before the job runs and times out. We often find out about these kind of issues from a job failing, instead of proactively from monitoring, since all of the servers are "up", just one region in some kind of broken state.
I'm working on a simple canary that tries to fetch a row from each column family at each region. I'll post it on successful test.
I've attached a simple draft canary tool, that foreach table (or for the specified tables) tries to fetch a row from each region server, collects and print failures and times.
should this tool be a service that collect/expose stats for each region/column family or just a tool to get an idea on the cluster state?
In case this should be just a tool, any idea on the output format, the metrics that we want collect and output?
@Matteo: Ideally this could be used for trending. So output that is suitable for Ganglia or OpenTSDB (whatever that means in both cases) would be cool.
Even just a cluster state tool is great.
Java code looks great. Maybe instead of using a scanner in sniffRegion, you could use a Get?
I would like to get this into 0.94.
This needs some of usage description so that folks can find out what you are supposed to pass on the command line.
I wrote a note to suggest this NOT be added to 0.94 because its only basic and its apart from hbase so we shouldn't have to hold up hbase to get it in. Was also going to talk about this tool being too basic – emissions are on stdout only rather than up in jmx, formatted as json or whatever – but then I thought we have to start somewhere. We can add to this basic tool later.
The class needs a license and a class comment.
Should be called Canary rather than HBaseCanary.
Put it into a package. Would suggest we start a tool package so o.a.h.h.tool.
Should implement Tool and be run using ToolRunner. Tool adds a little useful util.
Needs usage as per lars.
Could be added to bin/hbase as 'canary' – could start/stop it like we start/stop region. If you do this, then things like log name and location will be set up for you as it is for rest server and thrift server etc.
Should output be via LOG rather than stdout? Then we can hook its output up variously.
Skip formatting in the output...the ' - Region ..' i.e. remove the ' - ' prefix.
I think make the few small changes above and we'd have a good start. Thanks lads. Good stuff
You are more iron-handy than me, stack. Your points are well taken, unscheduling.
Hmm... this thing comes up reports and goes down immediately so some of my suggestions above may be OTT. So, I don't think we need the following to get the script in (we can add it later):
"Could be added to bin/hbase as 'canary' – could start/stop it like we start/stop region. If you do this, then things like log name and location will be set up for you as it is for rest server and thrift server etc."
I've attached a new version of the canary following the stack comments.
Now the canary is a tool, and has a command line with a couple of options.
In this implementations the canary runs "forever" and has a pluggable sink interface to collect and output failures and read latencies.
At the moment the only sink implemented is the FileSink that allows to use a file or stdout as output device. But we can add support for the hadoop metrics later.
-1 overall. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment
against trunk revision .
+1 @author. The patch does not contain any @author tags.
-1 tests included. The patch doesn't appear to include any new or modified tests.
Please justify why no new tests are needed for this patch.
Also please list what manual steps were performed to verify this patch.
-1 patch. The patch command could not apply the patch.
Console output: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HBASE-Build/1367//console
This message is automatically generated.
Please format your contrib as a patch (git or svn add then do a git diff --no-prefix or svn diff). Thanks.
This line is not necessary any more:
* Copyright 2012 The Apache Software Foundation
Please fix this doc: ' * HBase Canary Tool, that that can be used to do' (too many 'that's)
On the Sink interface, its not going to be used by anyone else if its private? That might be fine for first checkin. Later when other Sinks we can open it up?
I think filesink is the wrong sink to do as first implementation. Your first Sink should be StdOutSink using Logging system. Notice how anything that is started with bin/hbase-daemon.sh gets log files set up for it (master, regionserver, but also rest, thrift, etc.). Doing this, your emissions will be in a well-known place in files that are named with a format that matches other loggings made by hbase, etc.
This method is oddly named:
public void publish(HRegionInfo region, HColumnDescriptor column, long msTime) {
It seems like its for logging messages like this: "%s read from region %s column family %s in %dms\n",
... should method name be logReadTime? Or publishReadTiming?
Whats the BasicParser do? It matches what Tool does? We don't want GnuParser?
I like this comment:
// user has specified an interval for canary breaths
Thats cute.
Put on one line:
if (conf == null) conf = HBaseConfiguration.create();
I think I should be able to run this once OR run it as a daemon. Pass an arg if its to run as daemon process?
Can this code use any of the utility that is in hbck?
I like the Tool improvements.
Thanks Matteo.
use LOG as default Sink, renamed methods as suggested and removed the BasicParser.
What is your idea, about integrating hbck? some sort of automatic recovery in some codition?
-1 overall. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment
against trunk revision .
+1 @author. The patch does not contain any @author tags.
-1 tests included. The patch doesn't appear to include any new or modified tests.
Please justify why no new tests are needed for this patch.
Also please list what manual steps were performed to verify this patch.
+1 javadoc. The javadoc tool did not generate any warning messages.
+1 javac. The applied patch does not increase the total number of javac compiler warnings.
-1 findbugs. The patch appears to introduce 4 new Findbugs (version 1.3.9) warnings.
+1 release audit. The applied patch does not increase the total number of release audit warnings.
+1 core tests. The patch passed unit tests in .
Test results: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HBASE-Build/1430//testReport/
Findbugs warnings: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HBASE-Build/1430//artifact/trunk/patchprocess/newPatchFindbugsWarnings.html
Console output: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HBASE-Build/1430//console
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Committed to trunk. Thanks for the patch Matteo. I tried it out. Does the basics. Nice. Thanks.
Integrated in HBase-0.94 #142 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/HBase-0.94/142/)
HBASE-4393 Implement a canary monitoring program (Revision 1329575)
Result = SUCCESS
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- /hbase/branches/0.94/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tools
- /hbase/branches/0.94/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tools/Canary.java
Integrated in HBase-TRUNK #2805 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/HBase-TRUNK/2805/)
HBASE-4393 Implement a canary monitoring program (Revision 1329574)
Result = FAILURE
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Files :
- /hbase/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tools
- /hbase/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tools/Canary.java
This checkin might be related to:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.rat:apache-rat-plugin:0.8:check (default) on project hbase: Too many unapproved licenses: 1 -> [Help 1]
No. This patch has a license. The failure was because of the OOME. RAT complaint is this:
Unapproved licenses: hs_err_pid23951.log ...
@Ted FYI, if you go under artifacts produced by the build into the target dir, you can see the rat.txt now. Thats where I got the above from. Thinking on it, I also went to change the build order so site goes first so we'll fail fast if a rat problem but it seems build is already this way – must run unit tests up front anyways.
The Canary.java file has a wrong package definition.
Lives in org.apache.hadoop.hbase.tools but says package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.tool;
New issue?
Let me take care of it Lars. I should have seen that. Thanks for pointing it out. Fixed over in
Integrated in HBase-0.94-security #20 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/HBase-0.94-security/20/)
HBASE-4393 Implement a canary monitoring program (Revision 1329575)
Result = SUCCESS
stack :
Files :
- /hbase/branches/0.94/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tools
- /hbase/branches/0.94/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tools/Canary.java
Thanks Stack... I do like this in 0.94 (- the wrong package of course )
Integrated in HBase-TRUNK-security #183 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/HBase-TRUNK-security/183/)
HBASE-4393 Implement a canary monitoring program (Revision 1329574)
Result = FAILURE
stack :
Files :
- /hbase/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tools
- /hbase/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tools/Canary.java
Just wanted to put in a few operational comments. We have a version of this Canary script hooked up to our current HBase cluster for monitoring. It works well to determine if your cluster is responding to RPC's in a health amount of time. But it does not work well to determine latency for requests overall as the getStartKey becomes cached. Since a request for the same key over, and over again is basically cache warming it returns in <1ms every time after a few iterations.
We played around with the idea of using a random request within the RegionServer to get non-cache latency responses. In this scenario we basically are testing our disk latency. IMHO the intention of the Canary is not to test my disk response but the overall response / health of the HBase RegionServer. We took an approach to use the fsLatency histogram metrics (99, 999th percent) in a separate check in addition to the Canary for overall health status.
There are 4 differences compared with #
1. this tool will take any one region from each region server to monitor, not every region in whole HBase cluster
2. this tool was implemented with multi-threaded feature, so it will not be blocked if any region server being hung
3. this tool is taking one or more region server FQDN as options, then will monitor the given region servers
3.1 monitor all region servers if no option given
4. this tool can also take one or more regular expression patterns for region server FQDN for user easily use
I use this tool on our internal HBase operation, so I think that other people may have the identical requirements
takeshi.miao Would you be interested in contributing your canary tool? Is it based on the old one? Please consider opening a new issue, this one is closed.
Sorry, Andrew Purtell, I put this comment on the wrong ticket, move it to
HBASE-7525, and thanks for your reminding


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This page will track declaring the latest mozilla-beta build as the final in this cycle and starting the build off of the mozilla-release repository.
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- Can we push anything through an add-on hotfix prior to release targeting Yahoo Toolbar users?
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Fiscal conservatives are outraged today by reports that the Department of Justice squandered half a million dollars on conference snacks , but some nutritionists are
Fiscal conservatives are outraged today by reports that the Department of Justice squandered half a million dollars on conference snacks, but some nutritionists are wondering why sodas, Cracker Jack, muffins, and Swedish meatballs were served at high-level meetings.
Brain function isn't enhanced by sugary snacks, says Jennifer Adler of Seattle's Passionate Nutrition. While carbohydrates can deliver a momentary burst of energy, the rebound effect leaves eaters feeling groggy and spent.
"There's a connection between productivity and what we eat," Adler says. "What we eat has a huge impact on how well we think and stay alert."
Carbohydrates commonly appear on conference break tables because-the Department of Justice's $10 brownies notwithstanding--they're cheap and meet an innate human craving. When other animals are settling in for 2 p.m. naps, white-collar workers are expected to gear up for another PowerPoint presentation. Sweets and carbs deliver a fast blood-sugar spike that reads like a wake-up call.
"Then the system really slows down," Adler says of the inevitable blood-sugar crash that follows. "Our hearts, our livers, and our kidneys take first priority, so our brains don't get the nutrition they need."
Adler would recommend a very different menu for conferences devoted to drug enforcement and violence against women. Since "protein helps keep our bodies steady," she proposes a spread of smoked salmon, Greek yogurt, nuts, seeds, and black-bean dip.
Acknowledging that smoked salmon can be costly, she also offers alternatives that seem bound to please even the most tightfisted conference planner: Hard-boiled eggs and sardines.
"People often turn up their noses at sardines, but you can get them in cans with olive oil and lemon," she says.
Adler, who helps clients tackle focus-related conditions such as attention deficit disorder through dietary changes, would also save money by cutting out soda pop.
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I was asked to make version of this with the triforce so here you go! The luna is based on the one in Luna: Raising the Moon which was made by =Daviez20.
You can download my svg file here.
You can download my svg file here.
Is very epic awesome 'cause she has the triforce on her back and adding to the effect of gamer Luna XD
Oh so that yellow symbol means triforce, now I know what is that
Yeah, it is the symbol of the Goddesses Din, Farore, and Nayru from the Legend of Zelda games. Luna has some resemblance of the bird from the Hylian royal family's crest.
This is incredible. Nice job.
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Bone Piranha Plants[1] are a variety of undead Piranha Plant debuting in New Super Mario Bros. 2. They are skeletal versions of normal Piranha Plants with some changes, such as a grayish cranium, holes rather than spots, greenish-gray lips, vertebrae instead of a plant stalk, and dark, gray leaves that appear dead.
New Super Mario Bros. 2[edit]
Besides these graphic changes, its attack patterns appear the same than those of a regular Piranha Plant. However, unlike normal Piranha Plants, and like Dry Bones, they are immune to fireballs. They can be defeated by a Super Leaf tail spin, Star or a Gold Flower, however. They are only found in Towers and Castles. They are extremely common in World 4-.
Mario Party: Island Tour[edit]
Bone Piranha Plants also appear in Mario Party: Island Tour on the Bowser's Peculiar Peak board. If the player lands on a space that moves them forward a number of spaces, the Bone Piranha Plant appears, chews them up, and then throws them forward.
Mario Kart 8[edit]
In Mario Kart 8, Bone Piranha Plants appear as obstacles on Bone-Dry Dunes. Here, they behave just like other Piranha Plants in the Mario Kart series, trying to bite nearby drivers.
Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition[edit]
Bone Piranha Plants are present in Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition, where they own the Wood attribute, but also the Dark attribute. As such, they appear to be very weak to the Fire attribute, yet strong to the Water one. They show a lack in HP and RCV ratings, but this is completed by their dangerous amount of attack points. Poison Mist is the name of their main skill, which switches Water and Fire orbs of enemies to their own attribute orbs - Wood and Dark, respectively. Bone Piranha Plants can be fought in some levels of World 8.
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14 years old and had a BABY!
I have a couple friends who were moms at 14 or 15. They grew up fast but their kids are good kids now and in their teens.
Does the thought of my almost 13 yo being a dad in a year scare the crap out of me? Hell yeah it does but who am I to judge. My job is to teach my kids morals and responsibility and hope they use what I have taught them. The reality is that 14, 13, 12 year olds are having sex. Just teach your kid your expectations.
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It doesn't give people the right the judge some one else life when they don't know the person. I always try to never judge a book by its cover. So many people do that and its not right because we don't know what goes on behind closed doors.
Wtf, lisaharrington? I don't think not being able to hit your children is why children are making mistakes.
1) Children have always made mistakes;
2) Hitting people doesn't teach them anything - hitting children just makes them fear you, especially if it's hard enough for someone to call CPS on you &
3) The reasons children these days grow up so quickly has nothing to do with spanking. They have always grown quickly, but now it's in a different way. Long hours, underpaid parents, the need for two income household without adequate child care, overcrowded public schools, all of these can be factors. But hitting them, or a lack of hitting them, cannot explain deviant behavior.
I feel so sorry for this new mother. She's only been on this planet fourteen years and she's already having to teach another person how to be a person in the world. Ugh! I'm 22 and don't feel ready for the task half the time.
Happy atheist, vegetarian, working mama to my sweet baby boy & living life with my best friend!
Slight hijack
When her little girl was born she was black while my cousin is white. Appearently when she first saw her daughter the first words out of her mouth was 'momma, she's black?' My aunt just looked at her and said well honey that's what happens when you have sex with a black guy. Yeah my aunt's pretty blunt when it comes to stuff but we all got a good laugh out of it, including my cousin.
She is an awesome mom, graduated high school a year early and is going to college. I think her daughter is now 6 or 7.
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|Method of correcting inhomogeneity of the static magnetic field generated by the magnet of a mri machine and device for carrying out such method - The present invention relates to a method of correcting inhomogeneity of the static magnetic field generated by the magnet of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance imaging machine, wherein the magnet is flat and the magnetic field on one side of said magnet is corrected such that a volume is defined, which is bounded by a spherical cap surface, in which volume and along which surface the magnetic field is homogeneous, i.e. has field lines having equal parallel directions and equal intensities.
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|MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS WITH MEANS FOR CORRECTING MAGNETIC FIELD HOMOGENEITY - A Magnetic Resonance apparatus includes a 3D structure having a cavity for receiving a body under examination, a mechanism for generating a static magnetic field in the patient receiving cavity, a mechanism for generating variable magnetic fields in the cavity, an antenna for transmitting electromagnetic nuclear spin excitation pulses, an antenna for receiving the electromagnetic signals generated by nuclear spin relaxation, a plate for locating and fixing magnetic dipoles for fine correction of magnetic field homogeneity, and a compartment for the magnetic correction dipole locating and fixing plate, the compartment being adapted to be opened for direct access to the magnetic correction dipole locating and fixing plate from the outside. The compartment may be opened either by removal of an end plate of the magnetic field generating mechanism, or via a lateral slot for insertion and removal of the magnetic correction dipole locating and fixing plate.
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|Method of generating 2D or 3D maps of MRI T1 and T2 relaxation times - A method of generating 2D or 3D maps of MRI T
|Method and apparatus for ultrasonic detection and imaging of hemodynamic information, particularly venous blood flow information - A method for ultrasonic detection and imaging of hemodynamic information includes the steps of transmitting ultrasonic pulses into a body, which are generated by an array of electro-acoustic transducers arranged in a predetermined order and design; receiving reflected pulses with an array of receiving electro-acoustic transducers, which generate receive signals upon stimulation of the reflected pulses, the succession of pulses transmitted to or received from the body being focused along one or more scan lines; generating a Doppler frequency shift signal resulting from the reflection of pulses transmitted by a blood flow into a vessel intersected by the scan line, in a point and along the scan line, or along a direction of propagation of a pulse; determining the direction of blood flow velocity from the average frequency value of Doppler shift frequencies; and displaying the direction of blood flow velocity by graphical and/or chromatic representation differentiating opposite directions.
|METHOD OF MEASURING THE THICKNESS OF A BIOLOGICAL TISSUE BY ULTRASOUNDS AND DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT SUCH METHOD - A method of measuring the thickness of a biological tissue by ultrasounds and a device carrying out such method. The method is implemented with an ultrasound probe that emits ultrasonic pulses within a body under examination and receives echoes generated from structures of the body under examination. The probe includes an array of two or more electro-acoustic transducers and, in combination, means for processing the reception signals and means for orienting one or more lines of sight, along which the emission of the pulses and/or the reception of the echoes is focused, according to different angles with respect to an axis perpendicular to the emitting surface of the probe. The thickness of the biological tissue is calculated by the time interval between the reception of the first echo and the reception of the second echo, which are relevant to the same ultrasonic pulse emitted along at least a line of sight oriented along an axis perpendicular to the surface of the biological tissue, which is defined by the iteration of measurements with the line of sight oriented at different angles and with comparisons between the measured intensity values, the orientation corresponding to the axis perpendicular to the surface of the biological tissue being the one showing the maximum intensity of the first echo.
|Ultrasound probe - An ultrasound probe for diagnostic images includes a set or array of electroacoustic transducers generating an ultrasonic beam and defining at least one scan plane or a predetermined scan volume, and one or more layers matching acoustic impedance characteristics of the transducers with acoustic impedance characteristics of tissues under examiantion. The layers overlap the transducers, on the face emitting/receiving acoustic pulses. Acoustic properties of the material or materials constituting the one or more layers, the geometric shape of the layers, and/or the structure of the transducers cause the ultrasonic beam to be apodized and the profile of the ultrasonic beam in a plane perpendicular to the scan plane and parallel to the ultrasonic beam to be highly homogeneous. The emitted pulse has a greater intensity uniformity in the part of the ultrasonic beam closer to the scan plane and a predetermined lower intensity in side lobes of the ultrasonic beam.
|PATIENT SUPPORT DEVICE, SUCH AS A PATIENT BED, TABLE OR CHAIR FOR USE WITH MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUSES - A patient support device for use with a Magnetic Resonance Imaging apparatus includes a patient support surface and at least one receptacle for housing and/or removably coupling a coil adapted to receive signals from anatomic regions upon excitation thereof by the Magnetic Resonance Imaging apparatus, the at least one receptacle being arranged in an area of the patient support surface corresponding to a position of an anatomic region to be imaged. The receptacle is adapted for removable fastening of removably connectable bases of the receiver coil, and the base of each coil and its respective housing or coupling receptacle include complementary mechanisms for electrical connection to at least one dedicated electrical line such that the electrical connection is automatically effected when the base of each coil is fitted and/or mechanically fastened in a respective housing or coupling receptacle.
|METHOD FOR MAKING A PERMANENT MAGNET PARTICULARLY FOR MRI SCANNERS AND A PERMANENT MAGNET, PARTICULARLY FOR MRI SCANNERS MADE BY SAID METHOD - Method for making magnets particularly for the use in MRI scanners, which magnets are three-dimensional and have a tubular wall made of magnetized material, with a closed or open annular shaped cross-section, the tubular wall being composed of individual elements made of magnetized material, the magnetization of each element made of magnetized material having a predetermined direction in the transverse section plane and said directions being determined such to generate a uniform static magnetic field in the cavity of the tubular wall. The invention provides the following steps:
|MRI APPARATUS - An MRI apparatus comprising a magnet structure which delimits a cavity for receiving a body under examination or a part thereof, and which includes means for generating a magnetic field in said cavity, as well as means for causing the body under examination or the part thereof to emit nuclear magnetic resonance signals, a region being defined in the cavity, known as imaging volume, and means for receiving the nuclear magnetic resonance signals. The MRI apparatus also comprises an electronic processing unit with which the means for receiving the nuclear magnetic resonance signals are electrically connected; the cavity has an access opening for receiving a body under examination or part thereof.
|MRI Apparatus - An MRI apparatus including a magnetic structure defining a cavity for receiving a body under examination or a part thereof, a mechanism for generating a magnetic field inside the cavity, a mechanism for causing the body under examination or a part thereof to emit nuclear magnetic resonance signals, and a mechanism for receiving the nuclear magnetic resonance signals. The mechanism for generating the magnetic field includes one or more elements made of permanently magnetized material of the so-called superconducting bulk material type and, in combination therewith, a mechanism for keeping the magnetization condition of the superconducting bulk material which includes mechanisms for maintaining the temperature of the permanently magnetized material below the critical temperature thereof and for restoring the magnetization of the superconducting bulk material upon a complete or partial demagnetization.
|MULTI-POLE CONNECTOR DEVICE - A multi-pole connector has a first movable connector member (
|APPARATUS FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF PATIENTS WITH LIMBS, PARTICULARLY LOWER LIMBS, UNDER NATURAL STRESS - An apparatus for magnetic resonance imaging of patients with limbs, particularly lower limbs, under natural stress, which apparatus includes a magnet structure having an open or closed annular shape, and a predetermined axial extension, which structure delimits a cavity for receiving at least a part of the patient body, with at least two or three open sides, the open sides providing access to the cavity. The open or closed annular magnet structure being disposed with the axis of the open or closed annular shape oriented with at least one vertical directional component and devices being provided for vertical translation of the magnet structure or the patient relative to the magnet structure.
|ELECTRONIC ARRAY PROBE FOR ULTRASONIC IMAGING - An electronic array probe for ultrasonic imaging includes an array of transmitting and/or receiving electroacoustic transducers arranged in concentric bands in which the transducers are tangent to one other in both radial and circumferential directions. In order to minimize the number of transducers required without compromising dynamic range, a transducer arrangement geometry is provided so that the number of transducers having the same focusing delay is minimal or null.
|Method And Apparatus For Determining Indications Helping The Diagnosis Of Orthopedical Diseases - Apparatus for determining indications helping the diagnosis of orthopedic diseases comprising a section detecting and acquiring signals from a body under examination or from a part thereof wherein the detecting section is a unit detecting images by nuclear magnetic resonance and it is integrated in a section for processing acquired images as regards image data and/or resonance signals, which processing section defines, from image data and/or resonance signals, values of one or more different numerical parameters indicating the presence or absence of an orthopedic disease and/or a measure of the evolution condition of said orthopedic disease.
|Surface Micromechanical Process For Manufacturing Micromachined Capacitive Ultra-Acoustic Transducers and Relevant Micromachined Capacitive Ultra-Acoustic Transducer - The invention concerns a manufacturing process, and the related micromachined capacitive ultra-acoustic transducer, that uses commercial silicon wafer
|MAGNETIC STRUCTURE FOR MRI MACHINES AND MRI MACHINE PARTICULARLY FOR ORTHOPEDIC OF RHEUMATOLOGIC APPLICATIONS - Magnetic structure for MRI machines, which machine has a U-shaped or annular, that is O-shaped geometry having two opposite poles between which a magnetic field is generated and are borne at a predetermined distance one with respect to the other by a magnetic yoke having an inverted U shape or an annular one, that is an O shape, which poles generating the magnetic field and/or at least a part of which yoke delimit a cavity housing at least a part of the patient body, while inside the volume of said cavity a partial volume is generated wherein values of the magnetic field are such to guarantee the acquisition of MRI images having quality characteristics sufficient to be used like diagnostic images, so called imaging volume.
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