BACKGROUND There are few studies comparing the biomechanical properties of angled blade plate and locking compression plates in supracondylar osteotomy. In the current randomized study, we prospectively compared the clinical and radiological outcomes of supracondylar osteotomy using these two plates. METHODS Forty patients with valgus knee malalignment were randomly assigned to two equal numb...

The biomechanical performance of a locking compression plate system was compared to an intramedullary photodynamic bone stabilization system in a femur and humerus osteotomy model. The photodynamic bone stabilization system utilizes an angioplasty-like balloon that is introduced into the intramedullary canal of a fractured bone, filled with monomer that is then polymerized and hardened by visib...

An effective compression artifacts removal algorithm is proposed based on thin-plate spline interpolation and the theory of projections onto convex sets (POCS). The thin-plate spline model is used to model the luminance in the flat regions of the image. Adaptive projections are used to suppress the compression artifacts in the spatially active image regions. The algorithm includes block mapping...

Analysis of the breast surface deformation during mammographic compression will provide insight into breast tissue elastic properties. Our long term goal is to accurately estimate physical properties of breast tissue for the purpose of realistic deformation simulation. As a first step, we analyzed the acquisition accuracy of the reconstructed breast phantom surface using a noncontact laser scan...

The stiffened rectangular plate was usually adopted in the blast airtight doors. In order to improve the buckling capacity of stiffened rectangular plate under uniform normal compression, the optimization model of stiffened rectangular plate was set up based on APDL and ANSYS commands, and the sequential linear programming method was executed to optimize the thickness of plate and the sizes of ...

The objective of this study was to compare the Locking Compression Plate (LCP) with the more cost-effective straight-dynamic compression plate (DCP) and wave-DCPs by testing in vitro the effects of plate stiffness on different types of diaphyseal femur fractures (A, B, and C, according to AO classification). The bending structural stiffness of each plate was obtained from four-point bending tes...

  Background: There are few studies comparing the biomechanical properties of angled blade plate and locking compression plates in supracondylar osteotomy. In the current randomized study, we prospectively compared the clinical and radiological outcomes of supracondylar osteotomy using these two plates. Methods: Forty patients with valgus knee malalignment were randomly assigned to two equal nu...