Colorectal mucoceles usually arise in the appendix, and colonic disease is very rare. We report the first case of a mucocele of the colonic liver flexure that was treated successfully with endoscopy. A 36-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of abdominal distension persisting for 3 days. Colonoscopic examination revealed a round polyp in the hepatic flexure, and we performed hot sn...

An effort made towards the performance improvement for an XY micromanipulator featuring parallel architecture and flexure hinges has been presented in this paper. Through the implementation of four steps evolution of the original structure, a new manipulator with decoupled motion is finally obtained, which owns an enlarged workspace and eliminated stiffening and buckling phenomena. The merits o...

INSTRUCTIONS Precision nano-positioning techniques have become very important for biomedical science, optics and microscopy. PZT and flexure compliant mechanisms are widely used in these various fields and applications within these fields. Compliant mechanisms are flexible structures, which can generate the desired motions by undergoing elastic deformation instead of through rigid linkage/joint...

Needle-based procedures, such as biopsy, thermal ablation, brachytherapy, and drug delivery, provide a minimally invasive means for diagnosis or treatment. The success of the procedure relies on the needle reaching the physician’s desired target (typically identified on a medical image) accurately. However, due to tissue deformation and the accuracy limits of human hand–eye coordination, the ne...

 In this paper, we aresupposed to introduce the definitions of n-fold commutative, andimplicative hyper K-ideals. These definitions are thegeneralizations of the definitions of commutative, andimplicative hyper K-ideals, respectively, which have been definedin [12]. Then we obtain some related results. In particular wedetermine the relationships between n-fold implicative hyperK-ideal and n-fol...

Recent interest in high-speed scanning probe microscopy for high-throughput applications including video-rate atomic force microscopy and probe-based nanofabrication has sparked attention on the development of high-bandwidth flexure-guided nanopositioning systems (nanopositioners). Such nanopositioners are designed to move samples with sub-nanometer resolution with positioning bandwidth in the ...

Once these features are analytically and experimentally verified, they can lead to significant advantages in terms of range of motion, accuracy of motion and simplicity in motion control. Most parallel kinematics flexures have a limited range of motion since larger motions induce non-linearity and parasitic coupling, which in turn limits accuracy. Despite being parallel mechanisms, the proposed...

Thermoplastic braided composite tubular beams were manufactured using commingled hybrid yarn with braid angles 30°, 45° and 60° tested in static three-point flexure. Two principal deformation modes observed during the flexural loading: global flexure localised crush. The extent of each mode occurring three angle variants was measured a linear deflectometer as well 3D digital image correlation. ...