The Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry (IGP) is participating in the Cartosat-1 evaluation program, a common initiative of ISRO (India) and ISPRS. Within this program various test sites with reference data have been established and Cartosat-1 images have been acquired over these sites. Here, we will report about our investigations at the Rome and Mausanne test sites. First, we report on ra...

With the advent of Roentgen methods for surveying the bony pelvis have come many new concepts of the architecture of the female pelvis and its relation to the problems of labor. During the last half dozen years the quest for this newer knowledge has received an extraordinary impetus, obviously due to the excellent results in applying these new truths to practical obstetrics. Methods for measuri...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the postmortem changes of the heart wall on postmortem (PM) computed tomography (CT) in comparison with those on ante mortem CT (AMCT), and in comparison with the pathological findings, obtained in the same patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied 57 consecutive patients who had undergone AMCT, PMCT, and pathological autopsy in our tertiary care hospital between April ...

Aims: The purpose of this study was to investigate the protective effects of sericin protein (SP) on alcohol-induced hepatic injury in mice and the possible mechanisms. Methods: SP (0.375, 0.75 and 1.50 g/kg body weight) was dissolved in distilled water and given to mice by gavage 1 hour before the alcohol (56% wt/vol, 14.2 ml/kg b.w.) treatment for 30 days, then blood, urine and liver were col...