The use of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is growing exponentially, in part because of the excellent anatomic and pathologic detail provided by the modality and because of recent technologic advances that have led to faster acquisition times. Radiology residents now are introduced in their 1st year of training to the MR pulse sequences routinely used in clinical imaging, including various spin-echo, gradient-echo, inversion-recovery, echo-planar imaging, and MR angiographic sequences. However, to make optimal use of these techniques, radiologists also need a basic knowledge of the physics of MR imaging, including T1 recovery, T2 and T2* decay, repetition time, echo time, and chemical shift effects. In addition, an understanding of contrast weighting is very helpful to obtain better depiction of specific tissues for the diagnosis of various pathologic processes.

A beverage consisting of water, whole soybeans (including hulls), sugar and flavor has been developed. Preparation includes soaking and then blanching the whole soybeans in 0.5% sodium bicarbonate, grinding with water in a hammermih, heating the slurry to 200"F, homogenizing, neutralizing, dilution, addition of sugar and flavor, pasteurizing and rohomogenizing. Enzyme inactivation by blanching prior to grinding of soaked beans was found to completely prevent formation of painty (oxidized) flavor and result in a bland flavored product. Trypsin inhibitors were also inactivated by blanching. A sufficient degree of tenderization of soybean tissue during the soak and blanch treatments was necessary to obtain good mouth feel and colloidal stability. Homogenizing conditions such as temperature and pressure were also important; when the soybeans had been blanched to a LEE-Kramer Tenderometer reading of 300 lb or below and homogenization was done at 200°F and 3500 psi, the resulting beverage showed zero separation after 2 months refrigerated storage. Dilution to below 1% protein had no effect on colloidal stability. Coulter Counter measurements of the beverage indicated that 81% of the particles fell between 3.4-7.3 microns which is larger than the defined colloidal particle range. Recoveries of protein and total solids based on the raw soybean were 99% and 90%, respeo tively.

A new concept is described for mechanical extraction of oil from soybeans, using dry extrusion as a pretreatment. It was found that coarsely ground whole soybeans at 10 to 14% moisture could be extrusion cooked so that the extrudate emerges from the die in a semi‐fluid state. The dwell time within the extruder was less than 30 seconds, and the temperature was raised to about 135 C. The semi‐fluid extrudate was immediately pressed in a continuous screw press to obtain high quality oil and press cake. Extrusion prior to expelling greatly increased the throughput of the expeller over the rated capacity. An oil recovery of 70% was obtained in single pass expelling using pilot model expellers. Higher recovery rates can be expected with commercial scale expellers. The high temperature‐short time extrusion cooking process eliminates the prolonged heating and holding of raw material in conventional expelling. Under the experimental conditions, press cake with 50% protein, 6% residual oil and 90% inactivation of trypsin inhibitors was obtained. The low fat cake was easily ground in a hammer mill without the usual problems associated with milling of whole beans. The expelled oil was remarkably stable with an AOM stability of 15 hr, which is comparable to refined deodorized oil according to NSPA specifications. The new procedure offers potential for producing natural soybean oil and food grade low fat soy flour by a relatively low cost operation. It may be adopted as an improvement to existing conventional expelling operations in less developed countries or as a commercial or on‐farm operation for producing value added products from soybeans within the U.S.

No abstract