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Over the past 60 years, ground-based remote sensing measurements of the Earth's mesospheric temperature have been performed using the nighttime hydroxyl (OH) emission, which originates at an altitude of â¼87 km. Several types of instruments have been employed to date: spectrometers, Fabry-Perot or Michelson interferometers, scanning-radiometers, and more recently temperature mappers. Most of them measure the mesospheric temperature in a few sample directions and/or with a limited temporal resolution, restricting their research capabilities to the investigation of larger-scale perturbations such as inertial waves, tides, or planetary waves. The Advanced Mesospheric Temperature Mapper (AMTM) is a novel infrared digital imaging system that measures selected emission lines in the mesospheric OH (3,1) band (at â¼1.5 µm) to create intensity and temperature maps of the mesosphere around 87 km. The data are obtained with an unprecedented spatial (â¼0.5 km) and temporal (typically 30â³) resolution over a large 120° field of view, allowing detailed measurements of wave propagation and dissipation at the â¼87 km level, even in the presence of strong aurora or under full moon conditions. This paper describes the AMTM characteristics, compares measured temperatures with values obtained by a collocated Na lidar instrument, and presents several examples of temperature maps and nightly keogram representations to illustrate the excellent capabilities of this new instrument.
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A 3-year-old female Basset Hound was examined because of fever and lameness of 2 months' duration. Physical examination revealed a small cranial abdominal mass, which had an ultrasonographic appearance of a large abdominal lymph node. Cytologic examination of an ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspirate of the mass revealed a few macrophages that contained numerous linear unstained structures consistent with mycobacteria. Intracellular acid-fast bacilli were identified in an aspirate that was stained with modified Ziehl-Neelsen. Exploratory laparotomy revealed wide-spread abdominal lymphadenopathy. Histologic examination of hepatic and lymph node biopsy specimens revealed chronic granulomatous hepatitis and lymphadenitis. Acid-fast organisms isolated after bacteriologic culturing of a mesenteric lymph node specimen were identified as Mycobacterium smegmatis. Because the prognosis was poor, the dog was euthanatized.
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Dog Diseases/microbiology , Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous/veterinary , Nontuberculous Mycobacteria/isolation & purification , Animals , Biopsy, Needle/veterinary , Diagnosis, Differential , Dog Diseases/diagnosis , Dogs , Female , Lymph Nodes/microbiology , Lymph Nodes/pathology , Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous/diagnosis , Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous/microbiologyABSTRACT
The application of multiplex spectrometry to cryogenically cooled LWIR extrinsic photodetectors is limited by system noise. This noise limitation results in a detector NEP that is directly proportional to bandwidth. Therefore, multiplex schemes that require increased bandwidth are not productive of real advantage. However, doubly encoded systems that are based on 2n - 1 or n + N - 1 measurements have the potential to provide a real throughput gain proportional to the number of elements used on the throughput matrix.