Auxetic Incisions with Alternating Slit Shapes: A Promising Technique for Enhancing Synthetic Skin Grafts Expansion

A Power Efficient Gain Enhancing Technique for Current Mirror

This work introduces a new and simple method for adjusting the gain of current mirror. The major advantage of the proposed architecture is that, unlike the conventional variable gain current mirror, it does not need the change of the biasing current to adjust current gain. Therefore, the power dissipation remains constant in all of the gain settings. In addition, the proposed variable gain curr...

Cryopreservation of Skin Tissues for Skin Grafts

Preservation of living tissue and organs are very important to ensure successful transplantation. The storage of living tissue, from the time of removal of the donor tissue until transplantation, is one of the most important factors for successful tissue transplantation. The purpose of living tissue storage is to maintain the viability of the mammalian cells, and various methods have been devel...

Microfenestrated split thickness skin grafts: an underused technique?

A-expansion for multiple "hedgehog" shapes

Overlapping colors and cluttered or weak edges are common segmentation problems requiring additional regularization. For example, star-convexity is popular for interactive single object segmentation due to simplicity and amenability to exact graph cut optimization. This paper proposes an approach to multiobject segmentation where objects could be restricted to separate “hedgehog” shapes. We sho...

Useful Tips for Skin Grafts

Skin grafting is a common operative procedure that is widely used in plastic, reconstructive, and aesthetic surgery. Beyond mere graft survival, however, the goals of surgery include good matching of texture and color and minimizing donor morbidity. These factors and optimal donor sites require careful consideration in each patient. We have found that the recommen‐ dations offered below can hel...