In modern society many people are afflicted with muscle pain in the neck and shoulders mainly caused by incorrect posture. The number of patients having neck pain is increasing as usage of digital devices becomes more frequent. If patients could be notified how inappropriate their postures are in real time, the number of patients could be lower. Unfortunately, there is no digitized standard way...

This is a 1.2- to 5.3-year survival and clinicoradiologic study of patients with the Birmingham Mid-Head Resection (BMHR) device (Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics, Warwick, United Kingdom). Sixty consecutive hips implanted with this device between 2003 and 2007 were reviewed with hip outcome questionnaires, clinical examination, and radiographs at a minimum follow-up of 1 year. There were no revisio...

An inexpensive device was created for computed tomographic (CT)-guided stereotactic biopsy of the canine brain. The accuracy of the device was tested using 16, formalin-perfused, canine head specimens. For each dog, a 6-inch biopsy needle was guided into pituitary gland and caudate nucleus targets. Needle tracks were measured using the CT computer and infused with tissue staining solution. Hit ...

The core of a successful sense of presence is a visually, aurally, and haptically compelling experience. In this paper, we introduce the integration of vision and haptics for the purposes of remote collaboration. A remote station acquires a 3D-model of an object of interest which is transmitted to a local station. A user in the local station manipulates a virtual and the remote object as if he/...

An inexpensive, commercially available travel pillow filled with a suspension of attapulgite provided good suppression of inhomogeneous chemical-selective fat saturation in imaging of the head and neck. This device is assembled from readily available materials at a low cost and compares favorably with a commercially available perfluorochemical-filled device.

A precision stereotaxic procedure for mouse brain research is described accompanied by a new design in mouse stereotaxic head holder and a new device used to guarantee accurate alignment of the skull in the stereotaxic device. This method and instrumentation when applied in forthcoming research will contribute to the development of investigations of structure/function relationship in mouse brain.

This paper presents the integration of a three degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) kinesthetic haptic device with a head-mounted display (HMD), using a virtual piano keyboard as a motivating application. The inertial sensors in the HMD allow the user to view the full set of keys without zooming out simply by turning his or her head to look up and down the keyboard. The haptic device further increases imm...