Abstract:
A rehabilitation apparatus for wrist and forearm therapy comprising an adjustable armrest, a motor, and a rotatable base having a plurality of sockets for engaging a plurality of handles for different types of therapy, wherein the motor is configured to move the rotatable base.
Abstract:
Medical training model with additively manufactured, individualized vessel models (10) which can be interchangeably connected in at least one training region to the fluid system (2) of an anatomically replicated training model with the respective patient-specifically replicated lumen, wherein the fluid system (2) simulates a blood circulation replacement system, wherein a vessel model (10) reproduced with patient-specific geometry can be connected to the fluid system (2) via a hydraulic quick coupling, the hydraulic quick coupling comprises as coupling pieces a plug and a sleeve or bushing, which are each provided with an inner flow channel for sealed connection when the coupling pieces are joined together, wherein in each case one of the coupling pieces is designed as an adapter on the connection side of the vessel model (10) with a flow channel course of varying diameter which connects the lumen of the patient-specific vessel model (10) to a standardized coupling connection opening.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a lidar measurement system for the detection of the presence and/or motion of particles and/or objects in a space region remote from the lidar measurement system and comprising an interferometer arrangement, as well as to a corresponding method using such a measurement system. The interferometer arrangement comprises a continuous wave laser source (2), a photodetector arrangement (7), and optical components which are adapted to split light (23) emitted by the continuous wave laser source (2), to guide it along a first optical path constituting a measurement branch (4) and along a second optical path, which is separate from the first optical path and constitutes a reference branch (5), and to eventually have it incident in a spatially coherently superimposed manner onto the photodetector arrangement (7). The reference branch (5) has a predetermined optical path length, and the measurement branch (4) comprises a measurement portion (16), in which the light is directed away from the measurement system towards a space region remote from the measurement system and passes through the space region and light backscattered towards the measurement system by particles present in the space region is received again at the measurement system. Further, an evaluation unit (9) is provided which is coupled to the photodetector arrangement (7) and is adapted to receive the detector signal thereof and to determine from the detector signal the presence and/or movement of particles in the remote space region. The continuous wave laser source (2) has a coherence length in the range of 0.1 to 100 m.
Abstract:
Medical training model having at least one blood vessel model (1) which in at least one practice region can be connected to an anatomically replicated substitute blood circulation system (2) and in which a real instrument (17) is used, further having an image recording device (3) for creating measured images of the at least one blood vessel model (1), and having an image processing device (11) which converts the recorded measured images into an imaging blood vessel representation and makes same displayable on a screen (12), wherein the image recording device (3) is designed as a photo-optical system (8) which records transmitted-light images (13) as measured images of the at least one blood vessel model (1) for simulation of medical activity, for which purpose the at least one blood vessel model (1) is replicated in a transparently produced solid-bdy block (4) for a contrast between transparent solid-body block (4) and non-transparent instrument (17).
Abstract:
The invention is directed to a novel method for measuring contraction characteristics of engineered heart tissue constructs (16) which is based on the mechanical coupling of the construct (16) to a support element (8) which comprises or is mechanically coupled to a piezoelectric element (10). An apparatus (1) for carrying out the method of the invention is also provided.
Abstract:
Synthetic thrombus model for learning the surgical removal of a blood clot from a blood vessel using mechanical thrombectomy in a simulation of various stroke scenarios in a training model, which simulates a lifelike shape with a realistic feel of a human blood clot thereby that an elongated base body based on an elastically deformable main material with a Shore A hardness in the range of 0 to 10 is provided, the property profile of which at least with respect to hardness and fragmentation is improved by providing a material combination of the main material with at least one addition of an adhesive with 5 to 40 wt.-% and/or with a reinforcing material.
Abstract:
A damping device for damping vibrations of a bridge with a bridge deck comprises at least one damping wing comprising a center and configured to dampen vibrations of the bridge. A longitudinal direction of the at least one damping wing is disposed parallel to a longitudinal direction of the bridge deck and the at least one damping wing is stationary upon wind acting on the bridge in a given direction. At least one support structure is laterally attached to at least one side of the bridge deck and configured to attach the at least one damping wing to the bridge deck such that the at least one damping wing is disposed with a lateral offset from an outer edge of the bridge deck facing the at least one damping wing.
Abstract:
A damping device for damping vibrations of a bridge with a bridge deck comprises at least one damping wing comprising a center and configured to dampen vibrations of the bridge. A longitudinal direction of the at least one damping wing is disposed parallel to a longitudinal direction of the bridge deck and the at least one damping wing is stationary upon wind acting on the bridge in a given direction. At least one support structure is laterally attached to at least one side of the bridge deck and configured to attach the at least one damping wing to the bridge deck such that the at least one damping wing is disposed with a lateral offset from an outer edge of the bridge deck facing the at least one damping wing.
Abstract:
A system and methods for determining a mechanical tissue characteristic (Ψ) are provided. The system comprises a providing unit for providing a set of images of a tissue region of interest, wherein the provided set of images comprises image features indicative of one or more structural properties (α, a0, CO, PG) of the tissue region of interest and has been acquired using an imaging modality suitable for in-vivo imaging of the tissue region of interest. The system further comprises a determining unit for determining, based on the provided set of images, a mechanical tissue characteristic (Ψ) indicative of a mechanical responsiveness of the tissue region of interest. The determining unit comprises a machine learning architecture adapted to receive the provided set of images as an input and to provide the mechanical tissue characteristic as an output.
Abstract:
The invention is directed to a novel method for measuring contraction characteristics of engineered heart tissue constructs (16) which is based on the mechanical coupling of the construct (16) to a support element (8) which comprises or is mechanically coupled to a piezoelectric element (10). An apparatus (1) for carrying out the method of the invention is also provided.