OBJECTIVE To quantitatively characterize transverse dural sinuses (TS) on magnetic resonance venography (MRV) in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), compared to healthy controls, using a computer assisted detection (CAD) method. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed MRV studies of 38 IIH patients and 30 controls, matched by age and gender. Data analysis was p...

OBJECTIVE To introduce new 3-D imaging techniques to characterize shape and volume changes of the oropharyngeal space after bilateral sagittal split osteotomy (BSSO) advancement. MATERIALS AND METHODS Longitudinal cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans were obtained for 20 patients undergoing BSSO advancement at three time points (T1 = presurgery, T2 = splint removal, and T3 = 1 year afte...

Particle shape and size are two of the most important characteristics of nanoparticulate catalysts that determined their activity and selectivity. In many studies, the shapes of nanoparticles are characterized using transmission electron micrographs obtained at a single nanoparticle orientation and thus, the shape determination is based on viewing a single cross-sectional profile of the nanopar...

The cross-sectional area of a blood vessel determines its resistance, and thus is a regulator of local blood flow. However, the cross-sections of penetrating vessels in the cortex can be non-circular, and dilation and constriction can change the shape of the vessels. We show that observed vessel shape changes can introduce large errors in flux calculations when using a single diameter measureme...

An optical technique has been developed for mapping the size and shape of the thoracoabdominal wall and the change in its shape with breathing. A fixed pattern composed of stripes of light is projected on to both sides of the trunk. These stripes become distorted when viewed from in front and behind, forming contours over the trunk surface. The contours are photographed and then encoded digital...

This study was designed to investigate the relationship between midlife women’s physical activity motives and their participation in physical activity. Cross-sectional qualitative and quantitative data were collected from 59 midlife women, most of whom were well-educated European-Americans (mean age = 45.6 years). Body-shape physical activity motives (i.e., motives related to toning, shaping, a...

Let $(M^{2n},g)$ be a real hypersurface with recurrent shapeoperator and tangent to the structure vector field $xi$ of the Sasakian space form$widetilde{M}(c)$. We show that if the shape operator $A$ of $M$ isrecurrent then it is parallel. Moreover, we show that $M$is locally a product of two constant $phi-$sectional curvaturespaces.

in this paper, moment-curvature behavior and ductility of prestressed concrete members based on nonlinear analysis is investigated. influence of various design parameters on ductility of flexural members is determined according to appropriate materials models for stress-strain curves of concrete, prestressing steel and conventional reinforcements. parameters studied include reinforcing index (ω...

Bats exhibit remarkable diversity in dietary habits, with species specializing on insects, fruit, nectar, vertebrates and blood. Studies of larger mammals have shown that structural differences in dentary cross-sectional properties exist among species with different diets. Unfortunately, few of these studies have considered the role of phylogeny in shaping these apparent form-function associati...

This paper provides a review of shape analysis methods. Shape analysis methods play an important role in systems for object recognition, matching, registration, and analysis. Research in shape analysis has been motivated, in part, by studies of human visual form perception systems. Several theories of visual form perception are brie y mentioned. Shape analysis methods are classi ed into several...