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Nicholas Hashem, Mitchell Pryor, Derek Haas and James Hunter
This paper presents a literature review on techniques related to the computed tomography procedure that incorporate automation elements in their research investigations or industrial applications. Computed tomography (CT) is a non-destructive testing (ND...
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Erik Nyberg, Dídac Llopart i Cervelló and Ichiro Minami
Liquid lubricants are critical to enable long-life operation of high-performance machinery, such as geared actuators employed in robotics. In space applications, actuator gearboxes must operate in low temperatures, where liquid lubricants face inherent p...
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Francesca Marradi, Edoardo Staderini, Maria Antonietta Zimbalatti, Andrea Rossi, Cristina Grippaudo and Patrizia Gallenzi
This systematic review summarizes the available literature about integration of CBCT scans, digital casts, and facial scans.
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Jessica Imbrescia, Giulia Volpi, Silvia Lucchini, Cristian Toraci, Giorgio Facheris, Salvatore La Mattina, Navdeep Singh, Filippo Vaccher, Andrea Guerini, Michela Buglione di Monale e Bastia, Alessio Bruni and Paolo Borghetti
Background: The standard treatment for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC) is represented by concomitant chemo-radiotherapy followed by consolidation with durvalumab that ensures a 5-year survival of 46%. However, the risk of radiother...
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Diego Riquelme and Moulay A. Akhloufi
Detecting malignant lung nodules from computed tomography (CT) scans is a hard and time-consuming task for radiologists. To alleviate this burden, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have been proposed. In recent years, deep learning approaches have s...
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Xin Lin, Weihai Zhuo, Haikuan Liu and Tianwu Xie
Reducing radiation dose to patients without compromising imaging quality has been an important issue in the medical use of X-ray computed tomography (CT). In this study, based on the conceptual designs of different types of attenuation filters, the radia...
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Krzysztof Malczewski
One of the most challenging aspects of medical modalities such as Computed Tomography (CT) as well hybrid techniques such as CT/PET (Computed Tomography/Positron emission tomography) and PET/MRI is finding a balance between examination time, radiation do...
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Ali Abdul-Aziz and Adam C. Wroblewski
To understand the failure mechanism or to predict the spallation life of environmental barrier coatings (EBC) on fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composites, the fracture strength of EBC and the process of the crack growth in EBC layers need to be experim...
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Yangchun Lu, Yudong Lu, Ting Lu, Bo Wang, Guanghao Zeng and Xu Zhang
Malan loess is an eolian sediment in arid and semi-arid areas. It is of great significance to study the pore structure of Malan loess for its evolution, strength, and mechanical properties. In order to quantitatively characterize the absolute permeabilit...
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Frank Liebold, Franz Wagner, Josiane Giese, Szymon Grzesiak, Christoph de Sousa, Birgit Beckmann, Matthias Pahn, Steffen Marx, Manfred Curbach and Hans-Gerd Maas
Carbon-reinforced concrete (CRC) is increasingly utilized in construction, due to its unique properties, such as corrosion resistance, high-tensile strength, and durability. Understanding its behavior under different loads is crucial to ensuring its safe...
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Teresa Kwamboka Abuya, Richard Maina Rimiru and George Onyango Okeyo
Denoising computed tomography (CT) medical images is crucial in preserving information and restoring images contaminated with noise. Standard filters have extensively been used for noise removal and fine details? preservation. During the transmission of ...
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Monica Macrì, Elena Toniato, Giovanna Murmura, Giuseppe Varvara and Felice Festa
Background and objectives. This paper aimed to evaluate the changes in mean bone density values of the midpalatal suture (MPS) in 392 young patients treated with a rapid palatal expander (RPE) appliance, depending on sex and vertical and sagittal skeleta...
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Chih-Chang Chang, Chao-Hung Kuo, Hsuan-Kan Chang, Tsung-Hsi Tu, Li-Yu Fay, Jau-Ching Wu, Henrich Cheng and Wen-Cheng Huang
Percutaneous pedicle screw instrumentation is the keystone of minimally invasive spine surgery. Percutaneous screw placement demands experience and relies greatly on intra-operative image guidance. This study aims to validate the feasibility and accuracy...
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Alba Belanche Monterde, Alberto Albaladejo Martínez, Alfonso Alvarado Lorenzo, Adrián Curto, Jorge Alonso Pérez-Barquero, Clara Guinot-Barona and Álvaro Zubizarreta-Macho
The aim of the present study is to present a repeatable, reproductible, and accurate morphometric measurement method for measuring and quantifying the area and volume of cement that remains after fixed lingual multibracket appliance debonding, enamel los...
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Peter R. Møller, Werner W. Schwarzhans, Henrik Lauridsen and Jørgen G. Nielsen
Two specimens from the Koko Seamount (Koko Guyot), in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, Central North Pacific, caught in 2009 and 2010 are here described as a new species, Bidenichthys okamotoi. The taxonomy of the species in the genera Bidenichthys B...
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Joon H. Ahn, Hyun J. Hwang, Sehoon Chang, Sung Nam Jung, Steffen Kalow and Ralf Keimer
This paper describes an evaluation of the structural properties of the next-generation active twist blade using X-ray computed tomography (CT) combined with digital image processing. This non-destructive testing technique avoids the costly demolition of ...
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Rania M. Ghoniem
Current research on computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of liver cancer is based on traditional feature engineering methods, which have several drawbacks including redundant features and high computational cost. Recent deep learning models overcome these prob...
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Rajesh P,Murugan A,Murugamantham B,Ganesh Kumar S
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Cancer has become very common in this evolving world. Technology advancements, increased radiations have made cancer a common syndrome. Various types of cancers like Skin Cancer, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Blood Cancer, Colorectal cancer, Kidney Can...
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Giovanni Bruno, Alberto de Stefani, Manila Caragiuli, Francesca Zalunardo, Alida Mazzoli, Daniele Landi, Marco Mandolini and Antonio Gracco
AIM: The purpose of this study is to compare the stress effects developed on the periodontal ligaments and teeth by three different types of mandibular advancement devices (MADs) using a finite element method (FEM) analysis. Introduction: Obstructive sle...
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Xinglin Lei
The present study investigated the evolutions of b-value and fractal dimension of acoustic emission (AE) events during shear rupture of a naturally-created rough fracture in a granite specimen under triaxial compression. Acoustic emission signals were mo...
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