Currently, there are three techniques used for delivery of whole-body hyperthermia. The simplest of these is direct contact between skin and some surrounding fluid. The surrounding fluid can be either water, wax, air, or other fluid medium; heat is transferred from the surrounding fluid to the body surface. Ves sels in the skin surface transfer heat to the perfusing blood, which uniformly distr...

This paper is a practice and experience paper on the use of a low cost optical whole body motion capture system in combination with an ultrasound head tracker and a wide field of view head mounted display (HMD) that enables the user to visually replace his real body with that of a virtual humanoid or alien body. We describe the integration of the low cost Optitrack motion capture system with HA...

Reviews on whole body human cold adaptation generally do not distinguish between population studies and dedicated acclimation studies, leading to confusing results. Population studies show that indigenous black Africans have reduced shivering thermogenesis in the cold and poor cold induced vasodilation in fingers and toes compared to Caucasians and Inuit. About 40,000 y after humans left Africa...

Cold therapy is commonly used as a procedure to relieve pain symptoms, particularly in inflammatory diseases, injuries and overuse symptoms. A peculiar form of cold therapy (or stimulation) was proposed 30 years ago for the treatment of rheumatic diseases. The therapy, called whole-body cryotherapy (WBC), consists of exposure to very cold air that is maintained at -110 degrees C to -140 degrees...

Whole-body diffusion-weighted imaging (WB-DWI) can be used to assess malignancy throughout the body for tumour staging and is being applied for the assessment of treatment response. One of the current unmet needs in oncology is the assessment of metastatic bone disease and diffuse bone marrow involvement, for which WB-DWI appears highly promising. For WB-DWI to be deployed successfully, meticul...

introduction: using pan or selective computed tomography (ct) scan in management of multiple trauma patient is a matter of debate. therefore, the present study was designed aiming to compare the findings of pan and selective ct scans in management of multiple trauma patients. method: this is a prospective cross-sectional study, on patients presented to the emergency department (ed) of shohadaye...