This paper describes a system that assists in the planning and the performing of a surgical action, namely the corrective osteotomy of the thigh bone (femur). The cor-rective osteotomy of the thigh bone is used for changing the posture of the hip joint. During surgery, a small cross-sectional slice is cut out of the thigh bone by the use of a sawing device. Our system supports the planning phas...

Warpage is known to be one of the primary molding issues during assembly of QFN package. It affects the package sawing process, and cause reliability issues. The main cause of warpage of area array packages is the coefficient thermal expansion (CTE) mismatch between the moulding compound and other components inside the package. The objective of this study is to investigate the warpage induced o...

A best evidence topic in cardiac surgery was written according to a structured protocol. The question addressed was whether deflating the lungs or sawing from the xiphisternum, reduces the incidence of accidental pleurotomy when performing a sternotomy. Altogether 170 papers were identified using the below mentioned search, of which 4 papers presented the best evidence to answer the clinical qu...