BACKGROUND Although botulinum toxin A is frequently used to augment serial casting in the treatment of soft-tissue contractures in children with cerebral palsy, its effectiveness for this purpose has not been evaluated. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether botulinum toxin A injection increases the efficacy of serial casting. METHODS A prospective, randomized trial was und...

The solidification of metals continues to be a phenomenon of great interest to physicists, metallurgists, casting engineers and software developers. It is a non-linear transient phenomenon, posing a challenge in terms of modelling and analysis. During the solidification of a casting in a mould, the heat-transfer between the casting and the mould plays a vital role. This paper attempts to study ...

We develop a novel interactive segmentation and 3-D visualization system for cone-beam computedtomography (CBCT) data in a personal computer environment. Its design includes both a new user interface to ease the interactive manual segmentation of the volume rendered and artifact-suppressing algorithms to improve the quality of CBCT images. Four pipelines of noise removal were carried out by app...

A stumbling point for many learning to fly fish is being able to fly cast well enough to ‘present’ a fly to a feeding fish. Even among more skilled fly fishers, learning to fly cast better is often a bottleneck towards advancement in the sport. Fly casting instruction today relies on the visual inspection of the fly casting stroke and the resulting ‘loop’ of fly line. These qualitative visual c...

Dental casting is a very common procedure for making high-quality replicas of paleo-anthropological remains. Replicas are frequently used, instead of original remains, to study both fossil and extant Primate teeth in morphological and metrical analyses. Several commercial products can be used in molds. This study analyzed SEM image resolution and enamel surface feature definition of tooth molds...

Copyright: © 2015 Turagam N, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. open occlusal relationship and decreased occlusal vertical dimension [15-17]. Other dental anomalies associated with AI inclu...

This paper describes a method to generate Delaunay tetrahedral meshes directly from regular volume data by vertex insertion driven by an error criterion. By adapting the mesh to the input data, the method produces meshes suitable for fast and precise volume ray-casting. A partitioning method that splits the mesh into homogeneous sub-meshes is also presented. Such mesh segmentation strategy turn...

There is a growing need for custom visualization applications to deal with the rising amounts of volume data to be analyzed in fields like medicine, seismology, and meteorology. Visual programming techniques have been used in visualization and other fields to analyze and visualize data in an intuitive manner. However, this additional step of abstraction often results in a performance penalty du...

1 Dr. Hemal Agrawal, 2 Dr. Neha Agrawal, 3 Dr. Rupal Shah ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... ABSTRACT: Study Background: Nowadays number of base metal alloys is commercially available and many more developed on an experiment...