Ultrasound guidance is rapidly becoming the gold standard for regional anaesthesia. There is an ever growing weight of evidence, matched with improving technology, to show that the use of ultrasound has significant benefits over conventional techniques, such as nerve stimulation and loss of resistance. The improved safety and efficacy that ultrasound brings to regional anaesthesia will help pro...

Osteoarthritis (OA) merupakan penyakit degeneratif yang berkembang lambat dan tersebar luas prevalensinya meningkat seiring bertambahnya usia pasien. Tujuan dari studi ini untuk mengendalikan nyeri dirasakan pasien serta meningkatkan kemampuan fungsional pada kegiatan sehari-hari dilakukan Penelitian termasuk case study di salah satu rumah sakit ada kota Surakarta seorang Ny. S, Berusia 63 tahu...

Operators of wastewater treatment plants first of all are responsible for the required good quality of the effluent before it is discharged to the environment. Today attention is being shifted more and more to optimize the operation of treatment plants not only to reduce energy consumption or other costs in an economic sense but with regard to ecological aspects like reduction of greenhouse gas...

The moderate-to-severe pain many patients experience after orthopedic surgery is often treated with opioids, which are associated with undesirable adverse effects such as nausea, vomiting, sedation, and respiratory depression. Potent site-specific analgesia with far fewer adverse effects may be provided with a continuous peripheral nerve block. Unfortunately, perineural infusion has its own set...

BACKGROUND Ultrasound induces mechanical vibration and heat, causing differentiation and proliferation in osteoblasts. All known in vitro evaluations of ultrasound are, however, performed with longitudinal ultrasound waves. We addressed a question: Do other forms of ultrasound waves, such as guided waves (longitudinal and guided flexural) transduced at a remote location, enhance differentiation...

The MEMPHIS polarimetric SAR is able to operate simultaneously at X-, Kaand W-band. After a detailed technical description, several examples are given to demonstrate its capabilities in the side-looking mode, in forward squinted Doppler beam sharpenung (DBS) mode and with across-track interferometry. Of great importance is the polarimetric calibration which is described in some detail.

Wind measurements using classical profiling lidars suffer from systematic measurement errors in complex terrain. Moreover, their ability to measure turbulence quantities is unsatisfactory for wind-energy applications. This paper presents results from a measurement campaign during which multiple WindScanners were focused on one point next to a reference mast in complex terrain. This multi-lidar ...

569 L.R. Gavrilov, E.M. Tsirulnikov ULTRASOUND STIMULATION OF HUMAN NEURAL STRUCTURES: PAST AND FUTURE 1 N.N. Andreev Acoustics Institute Russia, 117036 Moscow, Shvernik Str., 4 Phone: (499) 723-6321; Fax: (499) 126-8411; E-mail: [email protected] 2 I.M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry RAS, Russia, 194223, Sankt-Petersburg, M. Torez ave, 44 Phone: (812) 552-3256; F...

The development of transgenic reporter mice and advances in in vivo optical imaging have created unique opportunities to assess and analyze biological responses to thermal therapy directly in living tissues. Reporter mice incorporating the regulatory regions from the genes encoding the 70 kDa heat-shock proteins (Hsp70) and firefly luciferase (luc) as reporter genes can be used to non-invasivel...

Brain stimulation techniques are important in both basic and clinical studies. Majority of well-known brain stimulating techniques have low spatial resolution or entail invasive processes. Low intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU) seems to be a proper candidate for dealing with such deficiencies. This review recapitulates studies which explored the effects of LIFU on brain structures and its func...