DICOM standard (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine) is a non-proprietary protocol for the medical exchange information. DICOM represents and defines the information of real world objects like a magnetic resonance ...

There are available artificial teeth made of three types of acrylic resin: conventional, IPN (interpenetrating polymer network) and composite. When the properties of these acrylic teeth are compared with the natural ones, ...

Synthetic Hydroxyapatite (HA) is a calcium phosphate whose chemical composition is very similar to that present in human bones. This characteristic makes it biocompatible with live tissue. Due to this biocompatibility, it ...

Bone tissue engineering came up as a new option treatment for different kinds of illness, among them bone diseases. All this development has allowed solving multiple medical problems. The development of a hydroxyapatite ...

The measurement of the plantar pressure is basic to know the force distribution in the sole. These values are important to diagnosis and treat different pathologies as diabetic ulcerate in the sole, bone, and muscular ...

Ha quedado claro que las propiedades superficiales de los materiales utilizados como sustratos para cultivo celular pueden influir en el comportamiento de las células afectando diferentes factores tales como la orientación ...

This paper introduces a device for the gait kinematic analysis. It is based on videogrametry methods and image processing in order to record the human movement. It was used a digital camcorder, located to a distance of ...

Usually bone tissue loss caused by trauma, osteonecrosis, and tumors has been treated using autograft, allograft, xenograft, and implantation of substitute materials. Each of these treatments has significant limitations, like ...

Dengue fever has been considered a public health problem worldwide. In several Colombian regions, where environmental conditions seem to be favorable enough for disease transmission, incidence has been showing important ...

A chromatografic method for the determination of dioxins and furans from one of their precursors is shown from standards of measurements and from real samples of gases taken from an incineration plant in Itagüí, Colombia. ...