| Acronym | Meaning |
| HAEC | Human Aortic Endothelial Cell |
| PERV | Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus |
| SST | Sea Surface Temperature |
| SLIME | Spin-locked Inversion Mid-echo |
| DIOS | Diisooctyl Sebacate |
| MP2 | Moeller-Plesset Second-order Perturbation Theory |
| ELA | Excimer Laser Annealing |
| LVSEM | Low Vacuum Scanning Electron Microscopy |
| LPA | Low Profile Additive [in Plastic Composites] |
| PAPS | Phase-alternated Pulse Sequence |