conclusions some of the noninvasive body contouring devices in animal and human studies such as cryolipolysis, rf, lllt and hifu showed statistical significant effects on body contouring, removing unwanted fat and cellulite in some body areas. however, the clinical effects are mild to moderate, for example 2 - 4 cm circumference reduction as a sign of subcutaneous fat reduction during total tre...

PURPOSE To compare global and regional myocardial infarction (MI) measurements on clinical gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) images using human manual contouring and a computer algorithm previously validated by histopathology, and to study the degree to which visual assessment and human contouring of infarct extent agreed with the computer algorithm. MATERIALS AND METHODS Infarct si...

BACKGROUND Obesity has become far more prevalent over the last few decades. In parallel, bariatric surgery has been increasingly utilized as a method of treatment. This appears to be having an impact on the rate of body contouring surgery for hanging redundant skin after the massive weight loss that usually results from bariatric surgery. Little literature is available addressing how frequently...

This paper presents an integrated direct/indirect adaptive robust contouring controller (DIARC) for an industrial biaxial high-speed gantry that achieves not only excellent contouring performance but also accurate parameter estimations for secondary purposes such as machine health monitoring and prognosis. Contouring control problem is first formulated in a task coordinate frame. A physical mod...

The dynamical contouring error is a critical element for the accuracy of machine tools. The contouring error is defined as the difference between the processing actual path and commanded path, which is implemented by following the command curves from feeding driving system in machine tools. The contouring error is resulted from various factors, such as the external loads, friction, inertia mome...

A method for extracting intersection-free iso-surfaces from volumetric data with an octree structure is presented. Unlike contouring techniques designed for uniform grids (such as Marching Cubes), adaptive contouring methods (such as Dual Contouring) can and do often generate intersecting polygons. Our main contribution is a polygon generation algorithm that produces triangles enclosed in nonov...

BACKGROUND Metallic reconstruction plates used for fracture stabilization typically require intraoperative contouring for patient-specific anatomical fit. Despite this, characterization of plate mechanical properties after contouring has previously been limited. The objective of this study was to assess whether contouring affects fatigue resistance for three types of Stryker seven-hole stainles...

BACKGROUND MRI sequences with short scanning times may improve accessibility of image guided adaptive brachytherapy (IGABT) of cervix cancer. We assessed the value of 3D MRI for contouring by comparing it to 2D multi-planar MRI. PATIENTS AND METHODS In 14 patients, 2D and 3D pelvic MRI were obtained at IGABT. High risk clinical target volume (HR CTV) was delineated by 2 experienced radiation ...

Recently, feedforward controllers like zero phase error tracking controllers (ZPETC’s) and cross-coupled controllers (CCC’s) have been developed to effectively reduce tracking error and contouring error, respectively. This paper proposes an integrated controller which combines ZPETC and CCC to achieve both tracking and contouring accuracy. Furthermore, studies indicate that ZPETC and CCC can be...

As one of the powder bed fusion additive manufacturing technologies, electron beam melting (EBM) is gaining more and more attention due to its near-net-shape production capacity with low residual stress and good mechanical properties. These characteristics also allow EBM built parts to be used as produced without post-processing. However, the as-built rough surface introduces a detrimental infl...