Objective. To investigate the biomechanical aspects of etiology,pathology, clinical manifestation, diagnosis and surgical treatment of the lumbar spinal stenosis. Methods’ A series of biomechanical methods, such as t...Objective. To investigate the biomechanical aspects of etiology,pathology, clinical manifestation, diagnosis and surgical treatment of the lumbar spinal stenosis. Methods’ A series of biomechanical methods, such as three-dimensional finite element models. three-dimensional kinematic measurement, cadeveric evaluation, and imaging assessment was applied to correlate lumbar biomechanics and lumbar spinal stenosis. Surgery of lumbar spinal stenosis has been improved. Results. The stresses significantly concentrate on the posterolateral part of the annulus fibrosus of disc, the posterior surface of vertebral body, the pedicle, the interarticularis and the facet joints. This trend is intensified by disc degeneration and lumbar backward extension. Posterior element resection has a definite effect upon the biomechanical behavior of lumbar vertebrae. The improved operations proved satis- factory. Conclusion. Stress concentration in the lumbar vertebrae is of importance to the etiology of degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis, and disc degeneration is the initial key of this process. Then these will be aggravated by backward extension. Functional radiography and myelography are of assistance to the diagnosis o f the lumbar spinal stenosis. For the surgical treatment of the lumbar spinal stenosis, destruction of the posterior element should be avoid as far as possible based upon the thorough decompression. Maintaining the lumbar spine in flexion by fusion after decompression has been proved a useful method. When developmental spinal stenosis is combined with disc herniation, discectomy through laminotomy is recommend for decompression.展开更多
Objective:To provide the virtual model of the temporal bone for improving 3-dimension (3D) visualization of the inner ear. Methods: Plastination technique was used to make equidistant serial thin sections 1.0 mm in th...Objective:To provide the virtual model of the temporal bone for improving 3-dimension (3D) visualization of the inner ear. Methods: Plastination technique was used to make equidistant serial thin sections 1.0 mm in thickness. On SGI workstation, a Contours+Marching Cubes algorithm was selected to reconstruct the temporal bone and intratemporal structures in 3D, then to view the middle ear, inner ear, and intratemporal structures which imitate the scenes observed by the traditional endoscopy. Results: The virtual model of the temporal bone was successfully constructed, with all reconstructed structures being represented individually or jointly and being rotated continuously in any plane. Virtual endoscopy improved 3D visualization of the middle ear, inner ear, and intratemporal structures. Conclusion: The reconstructed model can be used for the medical students to rehearse or review the surgeries on this part and for the surgeons to develop a new approach for operation. Virtual otoscopy stands as a promising new visualization technique for elucidating the structure and relation of the middle ear, inner ear, and intratemporal structures.展开更多
A three-dimensional finite element model of the lumbar motion segment was used to predict the stress distribution in lumbar spine with posterior element resection. It was shown that the stress level in all parts of th...A three-dimensional finite element model of the lumbar motion segment was used to predict the stress distribution in lumbar spine with posterior element resection. It was shown that the stress level in all parts of the lumbar spine was elevated although the stress distribution remained unchanged. The authors concluded that the posterior element resection in lumbar surgery should be avoided as much as possible.展开更多
The structure and decay properties of d＊ have been detailedly investigated in both the chiral SU（3） quark model and the extended chiral SU（3） quark model that describe the energies of baryon ground states and the...The structure and decay properties of d＊ have been detailedly investigated in both the chiral SU（3） quark model and the extended chiral SU（3） quark model that describe the energies of baryon ground states and the nucleon-nucleon （NN） scattering data satisfactorily. By performing a dynamical coupled-channels study of the system of △△ and hidden-color channel （CC） with quantum numbers l（JP） = 0（3^＋） in the framework of the resonating group method （RGM）, we find that the d＊ has a mass of about 2.38-2.42 GeV and a root-mean-square radius （RMS） of about 0.76-0.88 fm. The channel wave function is extracted by a projection of the RGM wave function onto the physical basis, and the fraction of CC component in the d＊ is found to be about 66%-68%, which indicates that the d＊ is a hexaquark-dominated exotic state. Based on this scenario the partial decay widths of d＊ → dπ^0π^0 and d＊ → dn^＋n^- are further explicitly evaluated and the total width is then obtained by use of the branching ratios extracted from the measured cross sections of other possible decay channels. Both the mass and the decay width of d＊ calculated in this work are compatible with the data （M ≈ 2380 MeV, F ≈ 70 MeV） reported by WASA-at-COSY Collaboration.展开更多
基金This project was supported by the National Natural ScienceFoundation of China.
文摘Objective. To investigate the biomechanical aspects of etiology,pathology, clinical manifestation, diagnosis and surgical treatment of the lumbar spinal stenosis. Methods’ A series of biomechanical methods, such as three-dimensional finite element models. three-dimensional kinematic measurement, cadeveric evaluation, and imaging assessment was applied to correlate lumbar biomechanics and lumbar spinal stenosis. Surgery of lumbar spinal stenosis has been improved. Results. The stresses significantly concentrate on the posterolateral part of the annulus fibrosus of disc, the posterior surface of vertebral body, the pedicle, the interarticularis and the facet joints. This trend is intensified by disc degeneration and lumbar backward extension. Posterior element resection has a definite effect upon the biomechanical behavior of lumbar vertebrae. The improved operations proved satis- factory. Conclusion. Stress concentration in the lumbar vertebrae is of importance to the etiology of degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis, and disc degeneration is the initial key of this process. Then these will be aggravated by backward extension. Functional radiography and myelography are of assistance to the diagnosis o f the lumbar spinal stenosis. For the surgical treatment of the lumbar spinal stenosis, destruction of the posterior element should be avoid as far as possible based upon the thorough decompression. Maintaining the lumbar spine in flexion by fusion after decompression has been proved a useful method. When developmental spinal stenosis is combined with disc herniation, discectomy through laminotomy is recommend for decompression.
基金the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (NO. 39925022)
文摘Objective:To provide the virtual model of the temporal bone for improving 3-dimension (3D) visualization of the inner ear. Methods: Plastination technique was used to make equidistant serial thin sections 1.0 mm in thickness. On SGI workstation, a Contours+Marching Cubes algorithm was selected to reconstruct the temporal bone and intratemporal structures in 3D, then to view the middle ear, inner ear, and intratemporal structures which imitate the scenes observed by the traditional endoscopy. Results: The virtual model of the temporal bone was successfully constructed, with all reconstructed structures being represented individually or jointly and being rotated continuously in any plane. Virtual endoscopy improved 3D visualization of the middle ear, inner ear, and intratemporal structures. Conclusion: The reconstructed model can be used for the medical students to rehearse or review the surgeries on this part and for the surgeons to develop a new approach for operation. Virtual otoscopy stands as a promising new visualization technique for elucidating the structure and relation of the middle ear, inner ear, and intratemporal structures.
文摘A three-dimensional finite element model of the lumbar motion segment was used to predict the stress distribution in lumbar spine with posterior element resection. It was shown that the stress level in all parts of the lumbar spine was elevated although the stress distribution remained unchanged. The authors concluded that the posterior element resection in lumbar surgery should be avoided as much as possible.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.1147518111475192+2 种基金11035006 and 11165005)the fund provided to the Sino-German CRC 110"Symmetries and the Emergence of Structure in QCD"project by the DFGthe IHEP InnovationFund(Grant No.Y4545190Y2)
文摘The structure and decay properties of d＊ have been detailedly investigated in both the chiral SU（3） quark model and the extended chiral SU（3） quark model that describe the energies of baryon ground states and the nucleon-nucleon （NN） scattering data satisfactorily. By performing a dynamical coupled-channels study of the system of △△ and hidden-color channel （CC） with quantum numbers l（JP） = 0（3^＋） in the framework of the resonating group method （RGM）, we find that the d＊ has a mass of about 2.38-2.42 GeV and a root-mean-square radius （RMS） of about 0.76-0.88 fm. The channel wave function is extracted by a projection of the RGM wave function onto the physical basis, and the fraction of CC component in the d＊ is found to be about 66%-68%, which indicates that the d＊ is a hexaquark-dominated exotic state. Based on this scenario the partial decay widths of d＊ → dπ^0π^0 and d＊ → dn^＋n^- are further explicitly evaluated and the total width is then obtained by use of the branching ratios extracted from the measured cross sections of other possible decay channels. Both the mass and the decay width of d＊ calculated in this work are compatible with the data （M ≈ 2380 MeV, F ≈ 70 MeV） reported by WASA-at-COSY Collaboration.
