Introduction: Reconstruction of intraoral soft tissue defects is important in restoring function and esthetic. In large defects, there will be demand for regional pedicle flaps or free flaps. Hard palate separates nasal and oral cavities. Due to the small surface area between flap and remaining palate after surgical resections, optimal blood supply of the flaps for hard palate reconstructions ...

introduction: reconstruction of intraoral soft tissue defects is important in restoring function and esthetic. in large defects, there will be demand for regional pedicle flaps or free flaps. hard palate separates nasal and oral cavities. due to the small surface area between flap and remaining palate after surgical resections, optimal blood supply of the flaps for hard palate reconstructions a...

PURPOSE To correlate the presence of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) antibodies and rheumatoid factor (RF) with ocular symptoms typical of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS The records of 451 patients who had been examined by an ophthalmologist and tested for anti-CCP antibodies over a 3-year period at the Mayo Clinic were reviewed. Records of 255 patients with titers of anti-CC...

John Mark P. Martirez, Erie H. Morales, Wissam A. Saidi, Dawn A. Bonnell, and Andrew M. Rappe The Makineni Theoretical Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, USA Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6202, USA Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering...

We describe the problem of surface reconstruction from the point clouds which is applied in many scientific and engineering applications. Our aim is to obtain a visualization of data from 3D scanning and document the real objects digitally. Digital documentation brings the possibility to manipulate with surfaces in mathematical and modelling computer software. It can help with reconstruction an...

We present an efficient algorithm that computes a manifold triangular mesh from a set of unorganized sample points in 3 . The algorithm builds on the observation made by several researchers that the Gabriel graph of the sample points provides a good surface description. However, this surface description is only one-dimensional. We associate the edges of the Gabriel graph with index 1 critical p...

Applying surface fitting models to reconstruct 3-D objects with free-form features is widely employed from toy industry to medical surgery. However, reconstruction of free-form surfaces from range-image data always prone to intensive manual operations, and some technical skills are always needed. Recently, research focus on the studies of improving surface reconstruction results to achieve bett...

The problem of three-dimensional surface reconstruction from a set of unorganized set of points sampled from the surface of an object is important in many applications, such as computer vision, computer-aided design and solid modeling. In recent years several algorithms have been presented for surface reconstruction with provable guarantee on the closeness of the approximation. This thesis pres...