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Nov 25, 2002 - 10:48 pm
Hi. I'm 21 years old and was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer called spindle call sarcoma in November of 2001. I went through 5 months of chemo then they had to reconstruct my leg when the tumor was removed. The tumor was in my upper tibia and most of the bone had to come out. It was replaced with a titanium rod along with a total knee replacement. I am now curently going through follow up chemo because the tumor was only 40% destroyed when it was removed so it has a higher chance of coming back. On the positive side i had the surgery in late May of 2002 and I'm already walking again! I am looking for anyone who has been through something similar for some feed back on how they are doing and what too expect. Also some hints on controlling nausea would help because I still can't find anything that works except stuff that knocks me out.
Feb 23, 2004 - 7:05 pm
My brother, 49, has just been diagnosed with spindle cell sarcoma. I can't find much on it. He has done 3 days of Adriamycin, Cytoxan and vincristine. I don't think surgery is an option. Just diagnosed 2 weeks ago....any help or info will be appreciated. Thanks!
Mar 04, 2004 - 7:02 pm
Hi Koosa44
Jul 13, 2010 - 9:31 am
I have gone through two weeks of chemo, 8 hours a day, five days a week, and the tumor appears to be slightly larger, though I have no pain now and almost normal mobility. Before the first round of chemo, I couldn't stand for more than a few minutes or sit for very long, so when I had appointments, I would walk. But after the chemo, it appears that the tumor has grown slightly. The doctors here (Puerto Rico) don't want to give me the authorization to go to the states and without insurance,the treatment would be incredibly expensive. I have read a lot of comments about radiation as treatment and have also heard about the pain. Is it always that painful afterwards? Is it affective? It was good to read about someone who had exactly the same type of tumor I have and who survived.
Jul 26, 2004 - 3:52 pm
I was diagnosed with retroperitoneal liposarcoma in April. Only sympton (only..ha!) was swollen legs, distended belly, I looked like I was 9 months pregnant. The local quackers put me through every test they 'felt' were necessary, all the expensive ones that is, this went on for some 5 yrs.+. Finally, this April, 2004, my daughter took me to the ER, the only reason I'm alive is that the doctor on call, was NOT on staff. He found a 'large mass' in my abdomen...too big for the locals to handle and sent me (I left in a gown to tell you how fast it went) to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. They had a team of great guys in went through all the options/CT's, etc. On April 14, they told me it was a large tumor, which was remove don April 15th. Turned out it was a 20lbs tumor...how do ya miss that? I had my right kidney, right ovary and fallopian tube removed, mind you they were fine, just entangled in tumor, it's the spindle cell variety. So I lost 3 good organs, a long hospital stay, by today's standards (2 weeks). I went home, one week later, the same pain that originally took me to the ER, was back. Turns out the tumore was so large it ruptured 'stuff' and I had 'man-sized' hernias...all in a row. Back to Rochester, more surgery. I was off work for 3 months, went back (too soon I fear) and will have my first CT next month, 65% reoccurance, 50% survival rate...I have good days, and some bad. If I feel well, I naturally over do it, pay for it the next day...Chemo is out because there aren't too many organs left, as I have 1 lung, 1 kidney, etc. When it comes back, it's going to be radiation...they left two titanium clips at the site of origin...oh and hey, they had to severe nerves in groin most affected and entangled, leaving me with a boatload of numb where there should be happy thoughts and feelings. I'm so frustrated, my poor husband is 'liposarcomed-out'...I sometimes feel like it's the only thing I think/talk about. Most often, I'm positive, but then I realize I almost died (was within 2 weeks of dying in fact)...all because the locals couldn't find a 20lbs tumor...how is that possible? On the upside, which there aren't too many of...I did loose 55lbs and counting...hellish expensive diet....
Oct 14, 2009 - 1:01 am
Hi pamela,
I hope all is well with you. I know your post is 5 years old. I hope you beat the same cancer that killed my mom last week. I am still in shock. I don't really have any family so I don't have much support accept from a good friend. Please keep in touch.
God bless Cara
Nov 24, 2009 - 12:34 am
Hi Cara, I read about your mother and i am so sorry.This Cancer is sooo scary and i hope pamela is alive and well.I have a posting on sarcomas w/ subject age 40 liposarcoma if you want to read mine. But today i was told my dr. in janesviile, wi sent my slides to clevland and they came back saying i have spindle cell sarcoma unclassified. Now im so confused cause uw madison,wi. said it was liposarcoma. now i dont know where to get a second opinion and who is good w/ sarcoma cancers?this **** is crazy. it sounds like it can crop up anywhere anytime. I am 40 and scared to death with not much support at home. God bless you and watch over your mom. take care kelly
Dec 20, 2009 - 6:46 pm
Dr. Christopher Fletcher is a pathologist at Brigham and Women's hospital in Boston, and is one of the best in the world at identifying and diagnosing sarcomas. If there is a way for them to send the slides to him, I'm sure that he could tell you what you have, if anyone can. Stay strong.
Dec 31, 2009 - 11:37 pm
I was diagnosed with a high grade Spindle cell Sarcoma in 2008. Dr. Gina D'Amato at Emory Winship Cancer Center in Atlanta treated me. The clinical aspect at Emory is excellent. Give them a call. D'Amato treats only Sarcomas.
Feb 11, 2010 - 10:39 pm
I have high grade metastatic undifferentiated spindle cell sarcoma. I had a lesion next to my lower left lobe of my lung (both the lesion and lung were removed in 2008). Also I had a small section of liver removed with a metastatic lesion of spindle cell sarcoma in December of 2008. In June of 2009 a new lesion appeared next to my upper left lobe of my lung and in two places in my bones. From July to November I had 6 cycles of Adriamycin and Ifosfamide chemotherapy ending in November. My December PET and CT Scans showed no metabolic activity and the lesions had shrunk somewhat in size. My next scans are near the end of this month, February. In January I started on the Ariad Succeed Clinical Trial. Where / what was the extent of your spindle cell sarcoma and what type of treatment have you and are you undergoing at Emory?
Feb 21, 2010 - 12:46 pm
Hi Dcohen,
Mar 20, 2010 - 12:36 am
Hi Ajay1357 and Dcohen,
I am wondering if you are able to let me know about the chemo. My Dad has just been told that no hope to operate on his lungs as it is in both. He had his arm amputated in Feb and there were 2 nodules on the lungs in the short time since the last MRI the CAT scan shows there are now 11 and so he has been told that chemo is the only option. If you could both let me know how you are going it would be so helpful, as we are in limbo at the moment and obviously devastated.
Kind regards
May 04, 2010 - 4:27 pm
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May 24, 2010 - 2:51 pm
just read your post from february. sounds exactly like my situation--adriamycin and Ifosfamide chemo. now looking at having a small section removed in my liver they are calling "dead" and possibly removing a tiny lesion in my lung. My PET/CT scans have shown no new metobolic activity and everything is shrinking. Trying to convince CyberKnife doc to do the couple of spots on my bones. I'm at Georgetown, btw.
can you tell me what is happening with you now? are you still in the Clinical Trial?
May 04, 2010 - 4:29 pm
Mar 23, 2010 - 5:09 pm
Hi Kwatkins,
I am reading your story and it is eerily similar to my husbands. He was diagnosed with what they thought was a low grade well differentiated liposarcoma now they are saying spindle cell, and a large resection of the 18 cm tumor in his thigh. We are going to memorial in NYC. How are you? What treatments, etc? Please contact me. I hope you are doing well.
Apr 07, 2010 - 6:20 pm
Mimi Rae
I read your story. I was diagnosed with Spindle Cell Sarcoma in Oct 07. Had a tumor in my right upper thigh. I was diagnosed by Dr Frank Frassica at John Hopkins and later treated at Portsmouth Naval (I am Navy). I had pre op radiation and post op inpatient chemotherapy both at Portsmouth. The radiation caused the tumor to be 90% dead when removed in Jan of 08. My doctor said there might be a reoccurance in my lung or kidneys, and it did reoccur in 09 in my right lung. I had a lower lobectomy in my right lung and have been fine ever since. Vigilance is the key, educating yourself is the key. Good luck to your husband and yourself.
May 04, 2010 - 4:55 pm
I've read everyone's story here, and it looks like I'm in the same boat. I'm lucky in that my cancer is low grade. After being hoarse for 2 years, I went to the ENT and was diagnosed with an "unusual" polyp. When he removed it, they tested it and diagnosed it as a rare myxoid spindle cell sarcoma. It was tangled in my vocal chords.
The first surgery ended up being more of a biopsy since they didn't know what they were dealing with. I have another surgery scheduled this month that will remove a vocal chord and severely alter my voice. Then 6-7 weeks of radiation after that.
I'm going to Duke Medical Center and have the utmost respect and confidence in my doctors there. Dr. Larrier, Dr. Scher, Dr. Pepek, and the rest of the gang.
If you've been diagnosed with sarcoma, I would suggest you seek a sarcoma expert. Your local doctors do not understand how to deal with this type of cancer.
Good luck to everyone here. Hopefully I'll be around long enough to post again after my surgery. :)
Jun 14, 2010 - 7:08 pm
Best wishes and good luck to everyone here.
My mom was diagnosed with Spindle cell Sarcoma in the upper part of her left lung on Dec 2009 and had a surgery to remove the whloe left part on feb 2010. 3 months after her surgery she had her first CT scan and the result shows that there are new lesions appeared on her right lung and pancreas. The doc suggested for the chemo treament but he is not sure if it works. I am so worry about this agreesive treament and the side effect for my mom's body. She is 50 years old and I dont know whether her body can affort that.
I am here asking for any useful information and suggestions. I will be very greatful if anyone could give me any suggestions or helps.
Thank you again.
Oct 13, 2010 - 9:07 am
My 17 yr old son was diagnosed with high grade, stage 4 spindle cell sarcoma (synovial maybe?) 5 days ago at Denver Children's Hospital. He has a 8mm x 5 mm x 5mm tumor in right chest that has spread to both lungs internally and lung walls also. They have still not positively identified it as synovial and need one more day (slow). I requested 2nd opinion and they are sending to Dr Christopher Fletcher in Boston (noted above). My sister (MD) also wanted to send to Mayo, but they said no need. Advice? I am starting to doubt Denver as the pathologist said in 25 yrs never seen this type and other unknowns that make me uncomfortable. Are they any good at Sarcoma (I've been told HAVE TO HAVE Sarcoma expert treating). I will move with my son anywhere to the best Sarcoma treatment expert if needed to improve his chances. Who and where are they PLEASE! Is Denver good enough? Do they know Sarcoma and Spindle Cell? He's my only son and he is so wonderful! I can't lose him and will do anything to improve his chances (Denver says 30-40%, true? Better or worse?) Obviously, we are so scared. Please advise to all. Thank you!
Oct 14, 2010 - 12:46 am
Dr. Fletcher also diagnosed my sarcoma. Good move. Mayo in Minn. does have a good sarcoma center as does MD Anderson in Houston.
I am being treated at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
Don't settle for anything less than expert.
Oct 15, 2010 - 4:35 pm
I can tell you the folks at Duke are experts with Sarcoma. They have a Sarcoma center.
But any well respected cancer center that specializes in Sarcoma will do - Mayo Clinic, Duke, UNC, Wake Forest, etc.
My surgery went well and I have a lot more of my voice back than they thought I'd have. Radiation was fairly easy (I ate at Outback Steakhouse my last week) hahaha.
Good look to you!
Jan 30, 2011 - 10:58 pm
I had another post here. I don't know much about other cancer treatment centers but, I recommend MD Anderson in Houston. My surgeon was Dr. Patrick Lin and I can not say enough about him and his staff. The Sarcoma Dept. and MD Anderson, as a whole, are just amazing. I never met an MD Anderson employee that was anything but pleasant and a joy to be around. It was a very uplifting experience.
Apr 08, 2011 - 3:44 pm
It is my first time on this website and my 17 year old son was also just diagnosed with primary synovial sarcoma of his right lung. We are all devastated by this news but they feel they have gotten all of the lesion out and it was less than 1cm. We have taken him to Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC to see Doctor Wexlor, and I have also taken him to Doctor Maki at Mt. Sinai in NYC who came from Sloan. These doctors have also been in touch with St. Judes regading my son (Doctor Sheri Spunt).
As a mother, I feel the pain and desperation in your post (I am desperate myself and find it hard to get through each day not knowing what the future holds for my son). I truly hope your son is OK and wish your family peace and strength to get through this.
Jan 24, 2014 - 7:54 am
Hi my name is David. my 10 yr old son has a large undifferentiated spindle cell sarcoma it is between the ribs and lung it has collapsed nearly all of his lung. It is high grade 3/3 I'm in Australia at a children's hospital called westmead in sydney they have a large cancer dept. My boy had 3 ct scans 12th Dec 2nd Jan and 15th Jan and has had 2 pet scans. He has had 2 rounds of chemo which has stopped the growth which is some good news but the docs now don't think it will shrink. What is really important that I wanted to tell you is that from the 12th to the 2nd it grew alot approx 15% so I think it's important you act fast. Initially they told us that surgery would be terrible and we need to shrink it with chemo for 6 rounds but (today) now they are planning on fast tracking the surgery I think they saw something on the PET scan they did yesterday I'm still awaiting the report. Good luck x if you find any thing that you think I should look at please help. Especially any way to shrink it...
Jan 30, 2011 - 10:32 pm
I know Houston is a long way from Wisconsin but, they are unbelievable. I had my tumor removed at a local hospital (Orange,TX). The doctor thought it was a fatty tumor and said the odds of it being malignant were about 1 in 2 billion. In the recovery room, he said it looked odd and was sending it off for biopsy. Six days later he called to tell me it was malignant and he was referring me to MD Anderson. It was classified as a spindle cell sarcoma. My oncologist cleared the margins around where the tumor was on 7/13/2010. I did not receive chemotherapy or radiation treatments. My leg is returning to normal, still a little numbness. I know how very fortunate I am but, I think MD Anderson is THE place to go. I pray you get the help you need and enjoy a long and healthy life!
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The present invention relates sonar and radar, and, more particularly, to methods of rapid and accurate mapping of the characteristics of nearby scatterers for array sonar and radar.
It is a problem in known array sonar systems to rapidly obtain an accurate map of the location, strength and movement of primary scatterers in the media immediately surrounding a sonar array. This is important where there are multiple sources of interest, e.g. determining ocean surface and volume backscatter characteristics, estimation of fish population, robotic vehicle sensors, target identification, and torpedo terminal homing. In the latter cases, the multiple sources are from a single target and may be used to establish vital charateristics of the target: class, position, orientation and motion. Critical requirements in many of these situations are the ability to perform rapid computations and the ability to survey near regions in all directions prior to ones further away.
Several features of conventional sonars limit the accuracy or ability of these systems to solve this problem. These features include the general practice for the simplest to the most sophisticated sonar receivers of partitioning the receiver into a spatial and a temporal part. This practice is based on Middleton D. and Groginsky. H. L., "Detection of Random Acoustic Signals by Receivers with Distributed Elements: Optimum Receiver Structures for Normal Signal and Noise Fields", Journal Acoustic Society of America 38, 727 (1965) and Straddling C. S. and Baggeroer A. B. "Joint Active and Passive Sonar Signal Processing using Arrays", Naval Research and Development Center TP 121, December 1968. The first part of the sonar receiver processor depends only on array properties and involves spatial processing or beamforming. Samples of the received signal are multiplied by a weight and delayed before combining in order to provide different sensitivities to different angular directions. Usually this sensitivity is maximized for a given direction. The second part of the processor depends on statistical properties of the signal and external and internal noise, e.g. matched filtering. These approaches encounter difficulties when applied to the specific problem of close, fast moving multiple scatterers.
Several problems arise directly from this use of receiver beamforming. (1) A major source of performance degradation with beams is caused by the existence of side lobes or directions having sensitivity peaks other than the desired main lobe peak. A source in a side lobe direction, a direction substantially different from that of the main lobe, cannot be distinguished in direction from a weaker source in the main lobe direction. Reduction of side lobe sensitivity magnitude may be accomplished at the expense of an undesirable degradation in angular resolution of the main lobe. Widlely spread scatterers may not be accurately located due to sidelobes. Adaptive beamforming, including recent developments in high resolution eigen beamforming (see Schmidt R., "Multiple Emitter Location and Signal Parameter Estimation", Proc. RADC Spectral Estimation Workshop, Rome N.Y. 1979, p243-258 and Wax M and Kailath T, "Extending the Thresholds of the Eigenstructure Methods", Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, (1985) enable the determination of accurate direction for discrete far scatterers and would not be expected to perform well with close, fast moving sources or scatterers. (See items (3) and (4) below.)
(2) The desire for wide or omnidirectional coverage, with narrow beams for directional information, means that the beam must be rotated by mechanical or electronic means through a wide angle. The rotation must be sufficiently slow so that energy from the furthest distance to be scanned has time to return to the array before the beam is moved to the next angular direction. An approaching object has time to approach from a given direction while the beam is scanning other directions. The cost of simultaneously forming a large number of beams for substantial angular coverage is normally too great for practical consideration. Close, fast moving multiple scatterers, as might arise in torpedo terminal homing, do not permit time for scanning. Simultaneous forming of multiple beams would generally require more equipment than would be economic or physically reasonable.
(3) Conventional beamforming assumes that the sources are at a sufficient distance that the waves striking the array have plane wave fronts. This determines the phase delays to be incorporated at each receiving element so that signals from the elements will add for waves coming from a specific direction. Near sources will not generate plane wave fronts at the array. Near may be many kilometers for surveillance arrays spreading over tens of kilometers.
(4) Partitioning a sonar receiver into spatial and temporal parts is optimal only for stationary processes. Scatterers with speeds having high transverse components at short range will not meet this criteria and will present difficulties for a scheme that scans by pie slices.
(5) A source of scatterers falling between two adjacent beams is not distinguishable from two sources, one for each beam direction.
(6) Environmental conditions are not normally accounted for during beamforming.
(7) The entire computation is performed at the time of beamforming. Prior computation is not normally used to reduce real time computational load or to permit more complex computations. In addition spectral methods such as Fast Fourier transforms cannot be used when the array elements are not evenly spaced.
The receiver beamformers described above are followed by a temporal processor that for an active sonar involves correlations with matched filters having a range of time delays for range estimation and a range of Doppler frequencies for transverse speed estimation; see Van Trees H. L. "Detection, Estimation and Modulation Theory, Pt III, Radar-Sonar Signal Processing and Gaussian Signals in Noise", Wiley and Sons, 1971. Variations in Doppler frequency across the array for near sources cannot be taken into account because beamforming was previously performed. Similarly variations in range across the array represent error for near sources. Also detection performance is degraded for near sources because of the variation of signal across the array not accurately accounted for by beamforming.
The present invention provides for processing received sonar or radar array data in space and time simultaneously in order to obtain the best estimate in a least square sense for the immediately surrounding scatterers and their characteristics. This contrasts with the separation into spatial and temporal parts characteristic of present day sonars. Information regarding the array and environmental propagation are used to precompute a matrix in a lengthy computation. This computation includes conditioning of the matrix so that accurate rapid results will be obtained when this matrix is used for real time sonar computation. The real time computation involves matrix-vector multiplication and takes advantage of the development of new high speed computer architectures for matrix-vector computation, e.g. systolic, and decreasing cost of memory. The region in which scatterers are to be located and characterized is divided by radial annuli instead of by angular pies as in conventional sonar. Storage is reduced in most cases by storing only part of the matrix relevant to a specific annulus and modifying this matrix for use with different annuli.
This simultaneous processing and annular division solves the problems discussed previously which are characteristic of general sonar practice. Direct estimation of the scatterer environment is used which makes no assumptions regarding noise and signal statistics other than dominance of primary scattering. As a result, the response is uniform across angle thus avoiding multiple beam related side lobe degradation and resolution issues, scanning is omnidirectional for first identification of close scatterers in all directions, scatterers may be close to the array relative to array size as plane wave fronts are not assumed, scatterers may be moving at speeds with transverse components large enough to present difficulties for mutlibeam sonars, the use of extensive prior computation permits a more sophisticated sonar than that used in general practice to operate in real time, non uniform spacing of array elements is easily incorporated into the precomputation with no additional cost in real time performance, and environmental propagation characteristics may be included in the prior computation without degrading real time speed.
FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram for a first preferred embodiment sonar system;
FIG. 2 shows a typical display produced by the first preferred embodiment system;
FIG. 3 illustrates the manner of subdividing the region illuminated by a sonar transmit beam for the purpose of processing.
FIG. 4 shows the matrix-vector systolic processor for computing scatterer strengths as a function of location.
FIG. 1 illustrates the components of a first preferred embodiment sonar system for an active sonar in a typical application. The system, generally denoted 30, includes hydrophone array 32, transmit/receive switch 34, transmitter electronics 36, analog to digital converters 38, matrix-vector systolic array processor 40, interface 42, and console and display 44.
The operator console 44 keyboard or a specially designed control panel acts as the input to the system. The operator selects the desired region of ocean he wishes to see and the parameter which he desires to see displayed as a contour plot. For example, he may select a range of 100 to 1000 feet, a range resolution of 20 feet and a Doppler velocity of 10 feet per second and magnitude of scattering strength as the contour or color display parameter. Alternatively, he could select Doppler velocity as the contour parameter and display only scattering strengths above a certain threshold. A control microprocessor reads in the desired display parameters input by the operator at the console 44 keyboard. The unit determines the frequency (e.g. 30 kHz to 120 kHz) and pulse length (e.g. 0.3 msec) to be used based on these inputs and compatibility and equipment preferences. For example, a long maximum range requires a long pulse for energy which then precludes the highest resolution which is only obtainable with the short pulse.
Four by four hydrophone array 32, sensitive to acoustic pressure, acts as the transducer for converting acoustic pressure to electronic voltage in receive mode and vice versa in the transmit mode. A transmit-receive switch 34 enables the hydrophone array to both transmit and receive. The signals supplied to each transducer are appropriately phase shifted with respect to each other so as to form a transmit beam to illuminate the desired region of the medium surrounding the array with a pulse having a narrow band of frequencies as determined by operator inputs. The transmit-receive switch switches to receive as soon as transmission of the transmit pules is completed. The signal from each hydrophone is passed through an analog to digital converter 38. The analog to digital converter box 38 in FIG. 1 is assumed to include appropriate conventional signal processing prior to conversion, such as antialias filters, time varying gain, and signal conditioners. Processing is carried out in systolic matrix-vector processor 40 as described in following sections.
A TV or graphics display 44 displays the scattering strength for the region of ocean specified by the operator with the parameter selected as a contour or color plot, see FIG. 2 for a tyical display. The operator selects the angular cross section of the region to be displayed on the screen or asks for some rotating sequence. If the operator specifies inconsistent parameters, for example, a higher resolution at longer ranges than reasonable, the highest possible resolution will be used. The display will be correctly annotated and also used to display messages regarding operator inconsistencies or equipment malfunctions.
The complete region illuminated by the transmit beam is subdivided into slightly overlapping annular segments. Parts of two annuli are illustrated in FIG. 3 and referenced as A and B. Matching the received signal for a specific time interval with sources in an annulus corresponding to this time interval is reasonable if primary scattering (including local interscatterer mutliple reflections) dominate and the region covered by the transmit beam is fully covered by the subdivided region. Overlap also accounts for the length of the transmitted pulse. The subdivision into annuli permits much faster computation than computing strengths of scatterers for all ranges simultaneously. For example, the number of multiply and add operations required for multiplying an M by M matrix by an M length vector is M**2. Performing N matrix-vector computations with matrices of size M/N by M/N is N times faster. The partitioning is by annuli rather than by angular slices as in conventional sonar.
A given annular segment is now further subdivided into volume elements by means of a grid as shown in FIG. 3; a typical element is illustrated by shading. The grid is selected so that the midpoints of the elements are closer to each other than the distance associated with the highest resolution of the full array. This may be determined approximately from the inverse of the overall width of the array for each direction or more exactly by using appropriate equations; see Urick R. J., "Fundamentals of Underwater Sound for Engineers" McGraw-Hill, 1983. A single scatterer located at the center of a volume element is assumed to be representative of that element. Assuming a Gaussian scatterer, i.e. the region has many appropriately equal scatterers, the scatterer at the pth element can be represented by a complex magnitude, Apl, for the lth Doppler frequency. At the frequencies of interest, the complex received signal at the kth time instant and ith array element due to the pth scatterer, having the lth Doppler relative to the center of the array, may be written as a function of the propagation characteristics between them, e.g. the attenuation, time delay and relative direction of the Doppler,
Zip(Tk,Wl)=Re{QipAplF(Tk-Sip) exp [jWiplTk]} (1)
where F(t)=f(t)exp[jg] is the complex envelope of the transmitted pulse, Sip is the propagation delay between the ith receiver and pth scatterer, Wipl is the lth array center Doppler frequency adjusted to the ith array element and pth scatterer, Qip is the attenuation from the ith array element to the pth scatterer including the attentuation resulting from the transmit beam pattern, Re indicates real part, lower case letters are generally indices, upper case letters are variables, and j is the imaginary unit.
The attenuation, time delay and angles for Doppler computation may be obtained from ray tracing or other means.
The effect due to uncoupled primary scatterers at the ith receiver is then the sum of the effect of each of the P scatterers in the annulus considered,
Zi(Tk,Wl)=Zil(Tk,Wl)+. . . +Zip(Tk,Wl)+. . . +ZiP(Tk,Wl) (2)
If we form a vector of measurements Z(Tk,Wl) for the I receivers, we can write this as ##EQU1## where Al is the P component vector of complex magnitudes Apl and C is an I by P matrix of all other terms for the kth time sample and lth Doppler and defined by equation (3).
The K received time signals can be concatenated to form a vector Z of length IK for the lth Doppler frequency, ##EQU2## where Cl has IK rows and P columns and applies to the lth Doppler and is defined by equation (4). Of course, Cl is essentially the C(Tk,Wl) stacked up with C(T1,Wl) on top and C(TK,Wl) at the bottom.
As Al and Cl are complex we may write them as sums of real and imaginary parts
Al=Al'+jAl" Cl=Cl'+jCl" (5)
Hence ##EQU3## The minimum mean square estimate can be derived as ##EQU4## Where Dl is a 2P by IK matrix defined by equation (8) and * indicates transpose (all the matrices and vectors are real) and ˜ indicates inverse. However, Ml will probably be ill conditioned because the original space was oversampled. For example, the scattering strengths of two close scatterers, having indistinguishable effect on the data within the level of noise present, cannot be separately estimated. The ill conditioning resulting from such situations will prevent the determination of a correct solution with equation (8) unless it is taken into account in formulating Dl. Ill conditioning is handled during the precomputation by using singular value decomposition (see Lawson C. L and Hanson R. J. "Solving Least Squares Problems", Prentice-Hall, 1974) of the matrix Ml to form,
Ml=UlLlVl* (9)
where the unitary matrices Ul and Vl are the eigenvector matrices for MlMl* and Ml*Ml, respectively. Consequently, equation (6) may be written as ##EQU5## Ll is a diagonal IK by 2P matrix having the singular values of Ml as the values on the diagonal. Assuming that only B singular values exceed a selected percentage of the maximum, the others are replaced with zeroes. As a result the matrix Dl in equation (8) may be replaced by a conditioned matrix,
Dlc=VltLlt˜Ult* (11)
where Ult is a truncated version of Ul and has dimension IK by B, Vlt is a truncated version of Vl and has dimension 2P by B and Llt˜ is a diagonal matrix having reciprocals of the dominant singular values on the diagonal and has dimension B by B.
The matrix Dlc is a properly conditioned version of matrix Dl and has the same dimension, 2P by IK. It is only necessary to multiply the data by the matrix Dlc in real time operation of the sonar in order to determine the scatterer strengths for each of the scatterers in the annulus selected having a Doppler of Wl. ##EQU6## The matrix-vector multiplication can be performed in 2P times I times K "multiply and add" operations. The major part of the computation, deriving Dlc is performed in advance and stored.
If strengths over a range of Doppler frequencies are required the computation is repeated for l=1 to L. A number of matrices must be stored or computed from a typical one by adjusting for the change in Doppler frequency.
In addition to computing the optimum least square scatterer strength for the lth Doppler we compute the mean square error El between the actual measurements Z and those estimated by solution of equation (12), ZlAl
El=[Z-MlAl]*[Z-MlAl] (13)
This involves a further matrix-vector computation of MlAl and an inner product computation. If this error is above a certain value it is assumed that negligible scatterers exist at this Doppler frequency and the results of the scattering strength computation are not displayed. The confidence number obtained in the form of this error is normally displayed for the operator to determine the significance of the scattering strength results presented.
Each segment in FIG. 3 for a different radius annulus would require a separate different matrix Dlc. We assume for this implementation that the environment and distances involved to the scatterers is such that the acoustic energy propagates in a straight path. Also each annulus is assumed to be subdivided in a similar manner differing only by expanding the geometry. In this case, the matrices for the different annuli are related in simple manner. Consequently only one matrix need be stored and the others for different annuli may be computed from it. This reduces the storage required substantially. Specific properties of environmental propagation may be included from ray tracing at the cost of additional storage.
An alternative procedure, frequently followed in signal processing, is to generate an analytic function for which the real part is the actual data and the imaginary part is computed by quadrature filtering or obtained during sampling. A parallel formulation of the equations to that presented may be used to derive a matrix-vector real time computation as in the case described here.
FIG. 4 shows a systolic implementation for the matrix-vector multiplication of equation (12), the major part of the real time computation. A systolic implementation is economic to manufacture because only nearest neighbor connections are used. The input samples from the hydrophones are fed sequentially into a serial stream of processing multiply and add elements; see Kung H. T., "High Performance Microprocessor to be used in Groups of Hundreds", IEEE EASCON, Sep., 1983. The illustration shows how a two by three matrix D may be multiplied by a three vector Z. Each processor stores a diagonal of the matrix D as shown. The result of the multiplication is accumulated from right to left. At the third processor M3 the multiplication z1�d11 is performed and the result passed to processor M2. At processor M2 z2 has just arrived from the left and this is multiplied by the stored value d12 and the result added to the accumulated result from the right. At the same time the multiplication of z1 and d21 occurs in processor M4 and so on. Consequently, up to (P+IK-1) processors could be used effectively in parallel. The matrix coefficients are used in sequence and may therefore be rapidly addressed via stacks in each processor. These coefficients remain in the processors and are modified by scaling for different range computations as suggested previously. The only input and output are the measured data flowing into the processor from the left and the output estimates of scattering strength exiting from the left.
The magnitude of the scattering strength is computed before passing the output to the display. Note that this can be accomplished with negligible memory if the matrix rows are rearranged so that odd indexed values are the real parts and even number indices the imaginary parts, rather than having all real parts first and then all imaginary parts next. The magnitude values are displayed across the screen in the manner prescribed by the geometry configuration for the case selected.
The same matrix-vector processor may be used to compute the error, equation (13), indicating the validity of the scatterer computation as described previously. In this case the error is passed to the display unit for display.
A simplification for the previously described active sonar permits much more rapid computation by neglecting consideration of Doppler. In this case, all matrices for the different Dopplers, Ml, l=1 to L are added and only one computation is required to determine scattering strength in real time. Singular value decomposition is again used to compute the matrix Dc for use in the real time processor. The result is an equation similar to equation (12), ##EQU7##
In the case of a passive sonar, a similar procedure to that for the active sonar is followed. The region illuminated by the array is subdivided into regions, (FIG. 3). A representative source is taken at the center of each region. In this case the source is assumed to emit a signal representable by a stationary random process with a power spectrum Y(w) and a sample function y(t). We use the time function of the source in order to utilize the array properties. The kth time sample of the received signal at the ith array element resulting from the pth source is
Zip(Tk)=QipYp(Tk-Sip) (15)
where Qip is attenuation between the pth source and ith array element Sip the propagation delay between the pth source and the ith element and Yp is the sample function at the pth source. The Fourier Transform of the k=1 to K set of time samples at the ith receiver is ##EQU8## The ith receiver signal for aII sources is
Zi(w)=Zi1(w)+Zi2(w)+ . . . +ZiP(w) (17)
Forming a vector for all array elements
Z(w)=C(w)Y(w) (18)
where C(w) contains the terms other than source terms in the above equations. The minimum mean square estimate of the Fourier Transform of the time function at the sources is (defining D)
Y(w)=(C*C).sup.˜ C*Z(w)=DZ(w) (19)
In a similar manner to that used for the active sonar, we precompute D(w) using a singular value decomposition to take care of the singularities; see Lawson C. L and Hanson R. J. "Solving Least Squares Problems", Prentice-Hall, (1974). Hence, in real time we need to take an FFT of the data and multiply by the matrix D to obtain the estimates of the transforms of the sample function at each source. An estimate of the power spectrum of each source is now obtained by squaring the magnitude of this frequency function and averaging over several sets of data observations as in the direct method of spectral estimation; see Oppenheim A. V. and Schafer R. W. "Digital Signal Processing", Prentice-Hall 1975.
Another example of reducing computation by partitioning occurs when we perform detection of a single target in a background of noise using a large array. Only one source or reflector is considered inside the region at a time and all other sources or reflectors are considered to be adequately modeled as plane wave generators. In this case the matrices are reduced in dimension to include only the outermost segments and the selected segment. The matrix is much smaller but there is now a matrix for each new segment selected.
A fast solution technique is to store all the inverse matrices. The parameters associated with each specific segment are computed in turn by multiplication of the measurements with the specific inverse matrix. The results may be combined to generate a map as if all segment parameters had been computed simultaneously. The outermost segments, for which parameters are computed at each computation, are averaged to generate the composite plot.
A second method requires significantly less storage but is slower. The inverse part of the matrix concerned with the outermost (plane wave) sources is stored. The matrix inverse is updated, as part of the real time computation, to include the effects of the specific segment of interest. The results are combined as before for the purpose of post processing and display.
A residual value or error indicating a goodness of fit is obtained corresponding to each internal segment in a similar manner as described previously. The residual is the root mean square of the difference between the actual measurements and those estimated using the solutions for the segment sources or reflectors as described previously. In this case, the residual may be provided as a spatial map in both active and passive cases. The smallness of the residual value indicates the likelihood of a target at that position. A high residual everywhere may indicate the presence of more than one target in the interior region. In this case it may be desirable to partition differently, for example compute all segments in a specific range of times.
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A stickler for punctuality, Mallett found the delay highly irritating. Nervous and restless, he decided to head for the toilet and en route bumped into Anthony Mackaiser, the SARU press officer.
"Nick," Mackaiser asked, "do you know how to spell the words Haileybury and Hertfordshire?" Without thinking, Mallett responded: "I should know that, I was born there."
"I know," grinned Mackaiser, "I am typing the press release for your appointment as Boks coach. Congratulations."
That was in 1997. On Thursday Mallett presents himself for interview in front of the five-man Rugby Football Union panel at a secret location, possibly in London, and this time his appointment is anything but a foregone conclusion. In fact, Mallett is firmly on the back foot, despite being the favourite three months ago to succeed Martin Johnson as England coach.
Since then, however, Stuart Lancaster has won over the England squad and fans in his role as interim coach and emerged as the new favourite, something which Mallett acknowledged over the weekend following England's defeat of Ireland. True to type, however, Mallett, 55, to going to contest the issue nonetheless.
A proven coach of high-quality players, Mallett inspired South Africa on a record-equalling run of 17 consecutive wins and the 1998 Tri-Nations Championship after the trauma of their Lions series defeat in 1997 and delivered two French Championships with a Stade Français, traditionally the great underachievers of French club rugby, in 2003 and 2004. During his four years with Italy, and there is only so much you can do with such limited playing resources, Mallett masterminded their first ever wins over the Pumas and France and was much liked by the players.
Mallett is a massively strong and driven personality, as was evident during the Boks' record run and in the uncompromising nature of his departure in 2000 when he accused SARU of selling tickets for Tri-Nations at an inflated price. The union retaliated by putting Mallett on a charge of bringing the game into disrepute at which point Mallett, who had sensed the end was nigh since the end of the 1999 World Cup, promptly resigned. Being the coach of South Africa rarely ends well for anybody.
"If he has something to say, Nick is the sort of person who will always say it to your face he doesn't mess about," confirms Italy prop Martin Castrogiovanni. "Sometimes what he says can be hard to take and it might p--- you off a bit, but I prefer that honesty. He won't be afraid to stand in front of you and say you are not worth a place in his team."
Former Springbok Brendan Venter, not a man to baulk at calling a spade a spade, has no worries that Mallett would end up clashing with officialdom if appointed England coach.
"I don't think there would be any risk in appointing anyone like Nick Mallett," says Venter, now the technical director at Saracens. "I worked with him before. He is not a difficult person to work with. He has got very set ideas in what he wants to achieve but he is not a difficult or unreasonable person in any way. He is brilliant. There is nothing negative you can say. He would be a benefit to any team to have a guy like him."
Mallett has been self-confident, sometimes strident, but popular figure from an early age and that side of his character started to take full expression when a student at Oxford University when he not only went head to head with Ian Botham and dispatched him for three sixes in an over and then reportedly matched the Somerset man in the bar afterwards.
He was also involved in a controversial incident during the 1979 University Match which the Dark Blues won 9-3. As was the tradition, John Robbie, the previous Cambridge captain, was running one of the touchlines and made a shocking decision just before half-time when Mallett plunged over for a try from a rolling maul which referee Alan Hosie initially awarded.
Robbie, however, insisted that the maul had gone into touch and Hosie had no option but to disallow the try although TV showed that the ball had been fully two yards infield. An incensed Mallett hurled the ball and abuse at Robbie in front of a hushed crowd. Robbie, on realising his mistake, after the game apologised to Mallett and the pair later became good friends.
Could Mallett work with Lancaster and the likes of Graham Rowntree and perhaps Andy Farrell if Saracens were to release the latter? The question must be asked by the panel and examined in depth because it is real option.
The evidence suggests yes. When appointed the South Africa coach in 1997 he enjoyed pretty much a free hand but he has grown more pragmatic over the years. While winning trophies with Stade he inherited the management and coaching group and while at Italy he made little attempt to introduce his 'own' team and ensured that recently retired Italian legends such as Alessandro Troncon and Carlo Checchinato, who he scarcely knew at the time, held prominent coaching and management roles within the group.
English born to Home Counties parents, reared in Rhodesia and schooled in South Africa, Mallett appears more much Latin in temperament than anything else, given to frequent voluble displays of emotion and passion which possibly explains why he has revelled during long spells both as a player and coach in France and Italy. Very few coaches in the world have experienced and embraced all the major rugby cultures – English, southern hemisphere, continental Europe – in quite the way Mallett has. He brings much to the table, but will England be tempted?


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Publication: Rehabilitación del Hospital Militar para Escuela de Arquitectura en Granada
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"EN BLANCO Journal´s main objective is the dissemination of the most outstanding innovations in the field of architecture made of apparent concrete, white or colored. Founded in 2008, is an initiative of the Architectural Design Department at the ETS de Arquitectura de Valencia through the Cátedra Blanca Valencia.
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Injury is end of the World Cup dream for Tommy O'Donnell
Tommy O'Donnell's World Cup hopes appear to be over with the IRFU expected to confirm the Munster flanker's dislocated hip when they issue a medical bulletin this afternoon.
The Tipperary native went down in innocuous circumstances towards the end of Saturday's win over Wales, but it became apparent that he was in severe discomfort.
If the injury is confirmed as a dislocated hip, that would mean a projected two to three-month recovery time, ruling the 28-year-old out of the tournament which kicks off on September 19.
Joe Schmidt was more upbeat regarding the foot injury suffered by Andrew Trimble who was replaced by Simon Zebo after 35 minutes, despite the fact the Ulster winger missed most of last season with a foot problem.
The Ireland coach said that some of the team who played so well at the Millennium Stadium will be retained in the matchday squad that faces Scotland on Saturday, with a number of replacements likely to be given their opportunity from the start.
"There will be changes," he said. "But I don't think that we will be putting out a new 15.
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The coach has already indicated that not all of his 46-man squad will see action over the course of the next four weeks and he may seek to have a look at some of his more versatile players in other positions.
With Wales promising to bring their big guns for the return fixture at the Aviva in three weeks' time, the likelihood is that Schmidt will follow suit.
When it comes to interpreting performances, Schmidt said he is putting a large value on the displays in these warm-up games but was not discounting past contributions to the cause as he works towards picking a final panel of 31.
"We just have to adapt as we go along when we see performances, and at the same time keeping a context on those performances," he said.
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"By the time we announce the team for Scotland on Thursday, we may have an idea of another four or five potentially," he said.
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An American journalist who was born and raised in Asia and has been visiting Burma since the middle 1990s, Larkin recounts the year she spent traveling across Burma, now Myanmar, using the life and work of British author Orwell (1903-50) as her guide. He lived in the country during the 1920s as an officer of the Imperial Police Force, and based his first novel, Burmese Days, on the experience. There is no index or bibliography. Originally published as Secret Histories: A Journey through Burma Today in the Company of George Orwell in 2004 by John Murray, London. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Emma Larkin pursues the young Eric Blair (the pseudonym would come later) all over Burma in Finding George Orwell in Burma, revisiting the places where he lived and worked to reimagine the experiences that helped shape his political outlook and his writing. Her mournful, meditative, appealingly idiosyncratic book is a hybrid, an exercise in literary detection but also a political travelogue that uses Burma to explain Orwell, and Orwell - especially the Orwell of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four - to explain the miseries of present-day Myanmar (as it is now known).


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Hertha Berlin vs Augsburg 2017 German Bundesliga: Match Preview and Prediction
Fixture: Hertha Berlin vs Augsburg
Competition: German Bundesliga 2016-17
Date: Sunday, 9th April, 13:30 GMT
Stadium: Olympiastadion Berlin.
Hertha Berlin vs Augsburg: Preview
Hertha Berlin vs Augsburg match is going to be held on 9th April at Olympiastadion Berlin. At the moment, performance of Hertha Berlin side is overall average and they have secured 12 wins, 4 draws and 11 defeats along with 6th position in German Bundesliga 2016-17. In other side Augsburg is performing average and they have secured 7 wins, 8 draws and 12 defeats along with 16th position in the German Bundesliga table.
Hertha Berlin vs Augsburg: Prediction
Predicted result will be a home win for Hertha Berlin.
Hertha Berlin vs Augsburg: Betting Tips
Full time Result : Hertha Berlin win at 1.75