We demonstrate on-chip, single-mode, waveguiding of light in air for a variety of 2D-3D photonic band gap (PBG) heterostructures. These include square spiral, woodpile, slanted pore, and inverse opal three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystals intercalated with a 2D (planar) photonic crystal microchip. Design rules are established to yield maximal single-mode waveguiding bandwidths of up to roughl...

A three-dimensional (3D) intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) pretreatment verification procedure has been developed based on the measurement of two-dimensional (2D) primary fluence profiles using an amorphous silicon flat-panel electronic portal imaging device (EPID). As described in our previous work, fluence profiles are extracted from EPID images by deconvolution with kernels that repres...

This study aimed to compare two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) methods for evaluating implant alignment in navigated UKA. Nineteen UKAs in 18 subjects (7 men) were performed using an image-free navigation system. Coronal and sagittal implant alignments were assessed using radiographs (2D evaluation) and 3D image-matching software. The accuracy of 2D evaluation was compared with tha...

Thirteen patients already scheduled for surgery for repair of prosthetic paravalvular regurgitation underwent intraoperative real time two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography (2D TEE) and live/real time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography (3D TEE). In all patients, 3D TEE was able to provide more information regarding the location and size of the paravalvular defect as c...

T he ability to imagine a 3-dimensional (3D) image of the heart was one of the earliest recognized benefits of 2-dimensional (2D) echocardiography at its inception 40 years ago. The ability to build such an image in real time has been a remarkable feat of image processing in the past decade. Intuitively, 3D imaging is the future of echocardiography, and the superiority of this method compared w...

Stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopes, like all super-resolution methods, are sensitive to aberrations. Of particular importance are aberrations that affect the quality of the depletion focus, which requires a point of near-zero intensity surrounded by strong illumination. We present analysis, modeling, and experimental measurements that show the effects of coma aberrations on deplet...

BACKGROUND AND AIM To assess the effectiveness of the potential advantages with 3-dimensional-based treatment planning versus 2-dimensional pelvic bone-based treatment planning in patients with rectal cancer, controlled for clinical stage. METHODS AND MATERIALS Areas at risk from computed tomography in 30 patients were delineated: mesorectum, presacral, internal iliac, obturator and external ...

The Self Organizing Maps (SOM) is regarded as an excellent computational tool that can be used in data mining and data exploration processes. The SOM usually create a set of prototype vectors representing the data set and carries out a topology preserving projection from high-dimensional input space onto a low-dimensional grid such as two-dimensional (2D) regular grid or 2D map. The 2D-SOM tech...

BACKGROUND Watching three-dimensional television (3D TV) may strain the eyes. However, other potential harmful effects of 3D TV watching have been rarely investigated. The current study examined the impact of 3D TV watching on neurophysiological responses and cognitive functioning as compared with two-dimensional TV (2D TV) watching. METHODS A total of 72 individuals were randomly assigned to...