INTRODUCTION: Asian faces generally are wider and flatter than Caucasian’s. So, facial bone contouring procedures, which are malar and mandibular angle reduction surgeries, are particularly popular in Asia. After that, one of the potential consequences is soft tissue drooping in cheek or jowl.1, 2Patient with soft tissue drooping looks old and gloomy. Even though it has been increasing in popul...

SUMMARY Since Illouz's presentation of a technique for lipoplasty at the 1982 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, liposuction has become one of the most commonly performed aesthetic surgery procedures. The evolution of liposuction has seen refinements in technique and improvement of patient safety-related standards of care. Based on long-term experienc...

We present a method for calculating the boundary of objects from Discrete Indicator Functions that store 2material volume fractions with a high degree of accuracy. Although Marching Cubes and its derivatives are effective methods for calculating contours of functions sampled over discrete grids, these methods perform poorly when contouring non-smooth functions such as Discrete Indicator Functio...

CoeItOllriag by modirttd daaal-be.m ESPI bueiI on tiltialil iII~ mialtiollll tams. A new contouring method by mcxlificd dual-beam electronic speckle pattern interferometry is proposed. Instead of tilting test objoct as used in previous single: wavelength techniques by ESPI, we introduce a tilt 10 tbe illuminating beams in order to obtain the conlour fringe patterns. The most attractive feature ...

INTRODUCTION: Deoxycholic acid currently approved only for minimally invasive treatment of submental fat. The effects of deoxycholic acid on fat need not be limited to submental fat and represents an opportunity to treat undesired fat in many other body parts.1 Injection lipolysis has the potential risks of skin loss/necrosis, hyperpigmentation, neovascular response, and contour irregularities....

In this paper we will show that contouring performance can be viewed as a regulation problem in a curvilinear task coordinate frame that is attached to the desired contour. By transforming the machine tool feed drive dynamics to this task coordinate frame, an adaptive robust control (ARC) law is derived to improve the contouring performance under system parameter variation and bounded disturban...