Principles of oximetry

Cellular respiration and oxygen transport in the body A basic understanding of cellular respiration is crucial to this work; to wit, a brief overview will be provided. There are two types of cellular respiration in the body:  aerobic and anaerobic respiration. Aerobic...

Matching of Micro-CT image With Histology

Matching of Micro-CT image With Histology Image registration is an emerging field in medical research which is concerned with aligning volumetric data from multiple modalities,  such as MRI, CT, ultrasound, and even histology. While registration algorithms for the...

Micro-CT Scanning

Micro-CT Scanning Micro-CT scanners use many of the same physical principles as traditional CT-scanners, but are engineered to accommodate smaller  samples. Beginning at x-ray production, the x-ray vacuum tube contains a tungsten filament through which a user inputted...

Micro-CT in Breast Cancer and Margin Assessment

Micro-CT in Breast Cancer and Margin Assessment Micro-CT scans of lumpectomy specimens are another proposed solution to intraoperative margin assessment. Micro-CT is a technology which allows for 3-dimensional imaging of smaller specimens, providing faster imaging...

Intraoperative techniques for determining margin status

Intraoperative techniques for determining margin status A concerted effort to reduce re-excision rates has produced an active interest in intraoperative margin status determination. A fast, accurate intraoperative method would allow surgeons to resect tissue while the...

Margin Status in Breast Conservation Therapy

Margin Status in Breast Conservation Therapy Margin status is a prevalent issue in cancer surgery, and especially so in lumpectomy procedures. Margin status refers to the presence of cancer on the surface of excised tissue, and is most often described in one of three...

Breast Cancer Treatment

Overview of Breast Cancer Treatment Breast Cancer is a serious issue in women’s health. It is the most prevalent invasive cancer in women with over 200,000 new cases in the US in 2013, and is the second leading cause of cancer death in women (“Cancer Facts &...

Criminal Activity on Tor

Criminal Activity on Tor When standard communications traverse the Internet, they do so in form of TCP/IP packets. These packets are like envelopes that are stamped with the address of the intended recipient and the return address of the original sender . If a third...

Definition of Cyber Crime

Definition of Cyber Crime Cyber crime is only different from traditional crime by the way it is carried out or committed. Cyber crime is real-world crime that has migrated into cyberspace .Parker describes the ways in which computers can play a role in cyber crime or...

Algorithm for Eating Detection

Algorithm for Eating Detection The eating detection mechanism is contained in the Eating Detector class of the Python module Eating Detector. This class is responsible for detecting the eating activity of the patient in the home A change in state is required of all...

Embedded System

Embedded System The embedded system consists of three types of hardware components and a user interface. First, we have the sensors. Numerous passive and active sensors are used to monitor the patient’s activities and location within the home. Second, a number of...

Medical Imaging Overutilization

Medical Imaging Overutilization Overutilization of medical imaging services is a healthcare disparity that may not be widely recognized by the healthcare industry, but this issue has known implications on quality, value, and safety of healthcare delivery....

Techniques for Network Data Collection

Techniques for Network Data Collection Political scientists have applied a variety of approaches to collect data for statistical network analysis on political actors, including questionnaires, observations,experiments, and archival record analysis. In this section, I...

Tools In Adroid Memory Forensics

Dalvik Inspector To establish the environment for conducting the tool analysis of Dalvik Inspector alpha (DI), various attempts to build a test environment were assembled on variety of operating systems and hardware. Each was configured with a minimum suite of...