Pith Number

pith:YXNQ4M7Z

pith:2023:YXNQ4M7ZIBTT47ZK2XG6CUWAXI

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Optical Fiber-Based Needle Shape Sensing in Real Tissue: Single Core vs. Multicore Approaches

Alexandra Cheng, Dimitri A. Lezcano, Iulian I. Iordachita, Jin Seob Kim, Yernar Zhetpissov

arxiv:2309.04407 v1 · 2023-09-08 · physics.med-ph · cs.RO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YXNQ4M7ZIBTT47ZK2XG6CUWAXI}

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First computed	2026-07-05T06:48:59.299922Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5db0e33f940673e7f2ad5cde152c0ba01f630b13dfd37d186b2a492094763e1

Aliases

arxiv: 2309.04407 · arxiv_version: 2309.04407v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.04407 · pith_short_12: YXNQ4M7ZIBTT · pith_short_16: YXNQ4M7ZIBTT47ZK · pith_short_8: YXNQ4M7Z

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YXNQ4M7ZIBTT47ZK2XG6CUWAXI \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: c5db0e33f940673e7f2ad5cde152c0ba01f630b13dfd37d186b2a492094763e1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "282c2de5f341ea4d8bee77532498ef39e647b06806e000416db65652697792e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.RO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.med-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-09-08T16:12:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea814262e1a0d5a2f51d50ec6ae8aaf59dffd28a5f746f96476026838447bbc5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2309.04407",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}