PURPOSE To prospectively evaluate whether ultrasonography (US)-guided vascular access can be learned and performed faster with the sonic flashlight than with conventional US and to demonstrate sonic flashlight-guided vascular access in a cadaver. MATERIALS AND METHODS Institutional review board approval and oral and written informed consent were obtained. The sonic flashlight replaces the sta...

background: ovarian immature teratoma is a very rare type of tumor associated with a high relapse rate and mortality. correspondingly, early diagnosis is important for effective treatment. the goal of this study was to retrospectively analyze the ultrasound characteristics of 11 cases of immature teratomas. materials and methods: between january 2002 and december 2010, 11 patients were diagnose...

Many new types of sonic anemometer obtain sonic temperature from an average value of temperature measured along three paths, unlike previous sonic anemometers that generally used one path. New equations are derived to calculate temperature variance from sonic temperature variance and sensible heat flux from buoyancy flux considering the influence of a crosswind. These equations can be applied t...

Local 1-shock curve arcs and local reverse 2-shock curve arcs were constructed, in the geometric context of the wave manifold, in a previous paper. In that geometric context, sonic and sonic’ surfaces are the boundaries of admissible shock curve arcs; in order to introduce the concept of non-local 1-shock curve arcs and non-local reverse 2shock curve arcs it is necessary to understand how a hug...

Sonic hedgehog is involved in vertebrate tissue interactions during development. During early feather development, Sonic hedgehog appears very early in epithelial placodes. During late feather development, Sonic hedgehog expression precedes the development of the marginal plates and is specifically localized in the marginal plate epithelium, which will later undergo cell death. By using retrovi...

While the majority of studies in sonic interaction design (SID) focuses on sound as the output modality of an interactive system, the broad scope of SID includes also the use of sound as an input modality. Sonic gestures can be defined as sound-producing actions generated by a human in order to convey information. Their use as input in computational systems has been studied in several isolated ...

INTRODUCTION We study the application of artificial neural networks (ANNs) to the classification of spectra from impact-echo signals. In this paper we focus on analyses from experiments. Simulation results are covered in paper I. Impact-echo is a procedure from Non-Destructive Evaluation where a material is excited by a hammer impact which produces a response from the material microstructure. T...