Authors present an 80-year-old male attending with obstructive food bolus. Lateral soft tissue neck x-ray demonstrated a suspected calcified foreign body at the level of the larynx. Subsequent senior radiological input reported the findings as incidental calcification of carotid arteries. ENT surgeons should demonstrate increased awareness for potentially calcified soft tissues on interpreting ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of obesity among sixth- and seventh-grade students in a school-based setting, and to identify lifestyle parameters associated with obesity. METHODS Sixth- and seventh-grade students (n = 385, 186 boys and 199 girls) from 3 schools participated in a school-based screening study, and 319 completed a short questionnaire. Height and weight were measured, and...

This study evaluated the arm, trunk, and leg for fat mass, lean soft tissue mass, and bone mineral content (BMC) assessed via dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in a group of age-matched (approximately 29 yr) men (n = 57) and women (n = 63) and determined their relationship to insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and leptin. After analysis of covariance adjustment to control for differences in bo...

With integrated whole-body PET/MRI, a novel metabolic-anatomic imaging technique recently has been introduced into clinical practice. This review addresses PET/MRI of bone tumors, soft-tissue sarcoma, melanoma, and lymphoma. If PET/MRI literature is not yet available for some types of tumors, potential indications are based on available PET/CT and MRI data. PET/MRI seems to be of benefit in T-s...

introduction bolus is a soft and resilient material which is used for increasing skin dose or to even out the irregular patient contour. the main property of various materials used presently as bolus is the water-equivalent electron density. ethyl methacrylate is used as a soft-liner in dentistry and its physical and chemical properties are proved to be nontoxic for human body. the goal of this...

Skeletal muscle is remarkably free of neoplasms despite its great body mass. Metastatic tumors to skeletal muscle are distinctly uncommon. Primary myogenous tumors (defined as those whose cytoplasm contains myofibrils) are infrequent, compared to primary lesions of supporting stroma and vascular origin. Almost all non-myogenic tumors of striated muscle occur also in other areas of the body and ...

We propose a novel methodology for person re-identification (Re-ID) based on the biometric description of the upper-torso region of the human body. The proposed methodology leverages soft biometrics via Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Shape Context (SC) features obtained from the upper-torso silhouette of the human body. First, mappings from the upper-torso Shape Context to soft biometrics ...

The behaviors of the animals or embodied agents are characterized by the dynamic coupling between the brain, the body, and the environment. This implies that control, which is conventionally thought to be handled by the brain or a controller, can partially be outsourced to the physical body and the interaction with the environment. This idea has been demonstrated in a number of recently constru...

Soft biometrics continues to attract research interest. Traditional body and face soft biometrics have been the main research focus and have been proven, by many researchers, to be usable for identification and retrieval. Also, soft biometrics have been shown to provide several advantages over classic biometrics, such as invariance to illumination and contrast. Other than body and face, little ...

In this study, a method for fabricating actuators made of various silicone materials is proposed to improve the flexural performance soft-body actuators. Specifically, redundant deformation part soft actuator was replaced with material higher hardness limit actuator. Materials lower were used produce main actuator, so that body could perform greater bending under same air pressure and create fo...