BACKGROUND Recent efforts to improve the results of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction have focused on placing the femoral tunnel anatomically. Medial portal femoral tunnel techniques facilitate drilling of femoral tunnels that are more anatomic than those made with transtibial techniques. Few studies have compared the clinical outcomes of these two femoral tunnel techniques. We hy...

BACKGROUND Spinopelvic reconstruction after sacrectomy for a sacropelvic tumor can result in various complications and requires a highly complicated surgical technique. We report 2 cases of pelvic reconstruction surgery using diverse U-shaped rods (USRs) after partial sacrectomy. CASE DESCRIPTION A partial sacrectomy was performed for 2 different cases: one case was a metastatic sacral tumor ...

Tomographic techniques play a crucial role in imaging methods such as transmission electron microscopy (TEM) due to their unique capabilities to reconstruct three-dimensional object information. However, the accuracy of the two standard tomographic reconstruction techniques, the weighted back-projection (W-BP) and the simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique (SIRT) is reduced under commo...

While high resolution, regularly gridded observations are generally preferred in remote sensing, actual observations are often not evenly sampled and have lower-than-desired resolution. Hence, there is an interest in resolution enhancement and image reconstruction. This paper discusses a general theory and techniques for image reconstruction and creating enhanced resolution images from irregula...

Generating free-viewpoint video in outdoor sports environments is currently an unsolved problem due to difficulties in obtaining accurate background segmentation and camera calibration. This paper introduces a technique for the reconstruction of a scene in the presence of these errors. We tackle the issues of reconstruction completeness, and accuracy of surface shape and appearance. We introduc...

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction has undergone numerous advances over the past two decades. In the early 1970s, Jones21 popularized open arthrotomy reconstruction using the central one third of the patellar ligament. The 1980s witnessed arthroscopic-assisted techniques that obviated the use of an arthrotomy.3,19,37 Endoscopic ACL reconstruction using a single anterior incision is...

In this paper we propose an algebraic full multigrid algorithm for efficient and robust numerical solution of arbitrary linear systems of equations arising in image reconstruction from projections in computerized tomography. Numerical experiments and comparisons with the classical Kaczmarz algebraic reconstruction technique are presented.

Image reconstruction is an important task in X-ray computed tomography. In this paper we discuss the results of morphological analysis of test objects in high-noise conditions and compare image reconstruction using two widely employed methods in computed tomography, namely Filtered Back Projection and Algebraic Reconstruction Technique. In our test tomography experiments, we used a laboratory X...