Pectus excavatum is the most common deformity of the thorax. A minimally invasive surgical correction is commonly carried out to remodel the anterior chest wall by using an intrathoracic convex prosthesis in the substernal position. The process of prosthesis modeling and bending still remains an area of improvement. The authors developed a new system, i3DExcavatum, which can automatically model and bend the bar...
Background: Surgical repair of pectus excavatum (PE) has become more popular due to improvements in the minimally invasive Nuss procedure. The pre-surgical assessment of PE patients requires Computerized Tomography (CT), as the malformation characteristics vary from patient to patient. Objective: This work aims to characterize soft tissue thickness (STT) external to the ribs among PE patients. It also presents ...
Pectus excavatum is the most common deformity of the thorax. A minimally invasive surgical correction is commonly carried out to remodel the anterior chest wall by using an intrathoracic convex prosthesis in the substernal position. The process of prosthesis modeling and bending still remains an area of improvement. The authors developed a new system, i3DExcavatum, which can automatically model and bend the bar...
Pectus carinatum (PC) is a chest deformity caused by a disproportionate growth of the costal cartilages compared to the bony thoracic skeleton, pulling the sternum towards, which leads to its protrusion. There has been a growing interest on using the ‘reversed Nuss’ technique as minimally invasive procedure for PC surgical correction. A corrective bar is introduced between the skin and the thoracic cage and pos...
Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores ; Virtual environments are an increasing trend in today’s society. In this context, the avatar concept appears as the representation of the user in the virtual world. Nevertheless the relationship between avatars and human beings lacks on empirical studies in what concerns their interaction. Based on this motivation, thi...
BACKGROUND: Surgical repair of pectus excavatum (PE) has become more popular due to improvements in the minimally invasive Nuss procedure. The pre-surgical assessment of PE patients requires Computerized Tomography (CT), as the malformation characteristics vary from patient to patient. OBJECTIVE: This work aims to characterize soft tissue thickness (STT) external to the ribs among PE patients. It also presents ...
Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia de Comunicações ; Nos dias de hoje a grande diversidade e o aumento da capacidade dos dispositivos móveis sem fios e simultaneamente a evolução das aplicações multimédia, criou-se a necessidade de propor e avaliar formas de oferecer garantias de Qualidade de Serviço (QoS) ao tráfego fim a fim nas redes móveis ad hoc (Mobile Ad hoc Networks - MANET). Este tipo de ...
Devido às características próprias das redes móveis ad hoc (Mobile Ad hoc Network - MANET), dotar este tipo de redes de garantias de qualidade de serviço (QoS) no tráfego fim a fim torna-se um desafio. Este artigo apresenta um protocolo de encaminhamento com QoS para redes ad hoc, que se designa por Ad hoc QoS Multipath Routing with Route Stability (QMRS), que tem como objectivo suportar aplicações com requisit...
Prova tipográfica. ; Thoracoscopic repair of esophageal atresia has becoming the gold standard in many centers since it allows a better cosmetic result and avoids the musculoskeletal sequelae of a thoracotomy. Natural Orifices Transluminal Endocopic Surgery (NOTES) is a new surgical paradigm and its human application was already started in some procedures. In the present study, we explore the feasibility to pe...
Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil ; O presente trabalho tem como objectivo analisar a influência da presença de esforço transverso na resistência plástica à flexão de vigas de aço. Em primeiro lugar apresentam-se, discutem-se e comparam-se as soluções propostas por vários autores (entre as quais se encontra a abordagem actualmente preconizada no Eurocódigo3) para o problema da fle...
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