The relationship between bone mineral density and bone strength has been investigated as a ubiquitous property of bone. This study utilized 22 isolated vertebral body preparations which had their volumetric bone mineral density quantified and their compressive mechanics measured. Cadaveric baboon ninth thoracic vertebral body samples were investigated which ranged in age from 1 to 30 years and ...

In this paper we describe methods to efficiently visualize multiple intersecting volumetric objects. We introduce the concept of V-Objects. V-Objects represent abstract properties of an object connected to a volumetric data source. We present a method to perform direct volume rendering of a scene comprised of an arbitrary number of possibly intersecting V-Objects. The idea of our approach is to...

For the visualization of three-dimensional data, whether scalar or vector, direct volume rendering has emerged as a leading, and often preferred, method. While surface rendering method can be applied to visualize volumetric data, they require the extraction of some structure, such as isosurfaces or streamlines, which may bias the resulting visualization. In rendering volumetric data directly, w...

This paper presents a powerful tool designed to extract characteristic lines, called 3D thin nets, from 3D volumetric images. 3D thin nets are the lines where the 3D grey level function is locally extremum in a given plane. Recently, we have shown that it is possible to characterize 2D thin nets as the crest lines of the image surface. This paper generalizes this approach to 3D data having thre...

This study evaluated the effect of an industrial scale continuous flow microwave volumetric heating system in comparison to conventional commercial scale pasteurisation for the processing of tomato juice in terms of physicochemical properties, microbial characteristics and antioxidant capacity. The effect against oxidative stress in Caco-2 cells, after in vitro digestion was also investigated. ...

Volumetric spline parameterization and computational efficiency are two main challenges in isogeometric analysis (IGA). To tackle this problem, we propose a framework of computation reuse in IGA on a set of three-dimensional models with similar semantic features. Given a template domain, B-spline based consistent volumetric parameterization is first constructed for a set of models with similar ...

Metamaterial-based optical cloaks have thus far used volumetric distribution of the material properties to gradually bend light and thereby obscure the cloaked region. Hence, they are bulky and hard to scale up and, more critically, typical carpet cloaks introduce unnecessary phase shifts in the reflected light, making the cloaks detectable. Here, we demonstrate experimentally an ultrathin invi...

The hybrid molten/solid In2O3 - 30-48 wt.% Bi2O3 oxide materials were studied with respect to their transport properties. The conductivities, oxygen ion transport numbers and oxygen permeation fluxes have been measured by using the four-probe DC, volumetric measurements of the faradaic efficiency and gas flow techniques, respectively. We show that the...

We present an algorithm for comparing 3D shapes by considering their pockets in the complementary space. The pockets of a closed compact surface can be represented by a 3D volumetric function. Multi-resolution dual contour trees are constructed from the pocket functions to efficiently match them in an affine-invariant way. DCTs are simplified data structures computed from contour trees (CT) of ...

Deformation is a topic of interest in many disciplines. In particular in medical research, deformations of surfaces and even entire volumetric structures are of interest. Clear visualization of such deformations can lead to important insight into growth processes and progression of disease. We present new techniques for direct focus+context visualization of deformation fields representing trans...