Computer-aided minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has progressed significantly in the last decade and it has great potential in surgical planning and operations. To limit the damage to nearby healthy tissue, accurate modeling is required of the...
Potential dental implant site assessment is initially determined clinically. Subsequent radiographic assessment also provides information about the quantity of available bone. It was hypothesized that the use of radiographic markers in mandibular...
This project investigated the effect of hypothermia on the monocyte response with the goal of understanding, which intracellular processes are affected by hypothermia leading to differences in cytokine secretion. A better understanding of the...
Background - Cranial cruciate ligament (CrCL) rupture in the canine stifle is a leading
cause of orthopedic lameness in the dog. Several corrective surgical procedures have
been developed to return dogs to pre-injury function following CrCL...
Bioinformatics; Breast--Cancer--Treatment; Medical care--Data processing
Statistical models have been the first choice for comparative effectiveness in clinical research. Though effective, these models are limited when the data to be analyzed do not fit the assumed distributions; which is mostly the case when the study...
Background: Emerging circulatory support devices that operate in counterpulsation to the native heart require synchronized timing of device ejection and filling on a beat-to-beat basis with the native heart using a patient's ECG. Surface leads are...
Data mining; Lungs--Cancer; Outcome assessment (Medical care)
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and the world, with more than 1.3 million deaths worldwide per year. However, because of a lack of effective tools to diagnose Lung Cancer, more than half of all cases are...
Parkinson's disease--Treatment; Stem cells--Therapeutic use
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a hypokinetic movement disorder resulting from the
progressive neurodegeneration of the dopaminergic nigrostriatal system in the brain and
the resulting imbalance between dopamine and acetylcholine in the basal ganglia...
Cancer patients show circadian disruption that increases as disease progresses. Disrupted endocrine and activity rhythms predict early metastatic cancer mortality. Effects of psychological versus biological factors on rhythms are unknown, as are...
Heart--Diseases--Diagnosis; Diagnostic imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Imaging systems in medicine
Many cardiac diseases, such as myocardial ischemia, secondary to coronary artery disease, may be identified and localized through the analysis of cardiac deformations. Early efforts for quantifying ventricular wall motion used surgical implantation...
Newspapers; Medical equipment & supplies; Men; Women; Body parts; Children; Maps
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: dark rectangular-shaped image (illegible); masthead for "Louisville School Messenger"; surgical instrument with pipe, hose, and two bulbs, manufactured by Codman &...
Six men and one woman who work at Doak Surgical Supply Company sit and stand in two rows inside the store. Address: 109 West Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky.
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of Carl G. Tafel of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a printed tie. He managed Theodore Tafel Surgical and Hospital Supplies. The photograph is marked with discolorations from age. Handwritten on back of image: Cusick (Studio, Louisville);...
Body parts; Animals; Insects; Medical equipment & supplies
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: two-piece belted contraption with ties, possibly a girdle; anatomical drawing of a woman's internal organs, the most prominent of which is the bladder; skunk; anatomical drawing of woman's external body...
This set of woodblock prints was reprinted in the 1980s. With the exception of the caterpillars on leaves, the fossil, the conch shell, the deer by the body of water, the man leaning toward the dog, and the horses running past trees, the images...
James Graham Brown Cancer Center (Louisville, Ky.); Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Clinics; Health care facilities;
Location: 529 South Jackson Street. Current uses: Outpatient facility. Located in the building are the Department of Radiation Oncology, Divisions of Medical Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Dental Oncology/Maxiofacial Prosthodontics, and Gynecologic...
Several people look over information tables and posters that appear to describe various kinds of pollution. A map titled "OPEN YOUR EYES" leans against one of the tables. A mannequin wearing a surgical mask stands in the foreground...
