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18,202. Sanborn, H., McMahon, H. G., Overbury, J. T., and Young, S. W. Aug. 11. Sulphur is recovered from fumes containing sulphur oxides by treatment with a sulphide whereby a mixture of sulphate, sulphite, and sulphur is obtained from which the sulphur may be recovered by fusion, solution, distillation, or other means. The sulphide is delivered as a spray of liquid or powder to a tower 6 into which the fumes pass by a flue 4. The sludge is passed into a settling-tank 9, and the sediment is delivered by a conveyer 9 to a furnace 10, where, after drying, the sulphur is distilled off with exclusion of air. and the residue is mixed with a carbonaceous reducing-agent and heated to re-form sulphide.
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11,495. Young, S. W. May 12. Blasting-cartridges.-Relates to fume-destroying compositions for use with blasting-cartridges, and consists in a mixture of two parts of ammonium carbonate, and one part of an oxidizing-agent, with or without gum camphor and sodium bicarbonate Suitable oxidizing- agents are : chloride of lime, manganese dioxide, potassium chlorate, potassium permanganate, and potassium bichromate. Specification 2926/99 is referred to.
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A digital processing device (14, 14') has first and second independent communication links with a local medical information system (10) and an Internet-based electronic health record (EHR) account (12) of an individual, respectively. The digital processing device presents a first window (W1) indicating content pertaining to the individual stored at the local medical information system and a second window (W2) indicating content stored at the EHR account. A selection (D1, D2, S4, S14) of content to transfer from the EHR account of the individual to the local medical information system or vice versa is received. The selected content is transferred via one of the first or second communication link to an isolation container (50) at the digital processing device, and is transferred via the other of the first or second communication link from the isolation container to the destination local medical information system or EHR account..
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A device (20) for connection to a component (R) used in association with spinal instrumentation, including a connector body (22), at least one clamp element (24), and at least one fixation element (26). The connector body (22) defines a receptacle (30) extending therethrough and opening onto an outer surface thereof. The connector body (22) also defines a passage (50) in transverse communication with the receptacle (30). The clamp element (24) includes at least two arm portions (72a, 72b) defining a space (S) therebetween having an open end (94). The clamp element (24) is positioned within the passage (50) in the connector body (22) with the space (S) between the arm portions (72a, 72b) generally aligned with the receptacle (30) and with the component (R) received through the open end (94) and retained within the space (S). The fixation element (26) interacts with the clamp element (24) to displace the clamp element (24) relative to the connector body (22) to position at least a portion of the component (R) within the receptacle (30).
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A computer assisted therapy apparatus (100) uses data from functional medical imaging examinations of a patient to evaluate the response of a patient to an applied therapy. A lesion tracker (112) tracks lesion(s) detected in the medical imaging examinations, and a lesion quantifier (114) generates quantitative information indicative of functional characteristic of the lesion(s). A trend analyzer (116) uses the quantitative information to determine trends in the functional characteristic.
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The invention relates to a method for data processing. At stage 3 the position of the reference object in the reference image and its relation to a set of reference landmarks in the reference image is established at step 6. In order to enable this, the reference imaging of learning examples may be performed at step 2 and each reference image may be analyzed at step 4, the results may be stored in a suitably arranged database. In order to process the image under consideration, the image is accessed at step 11, the suitable landmark corresponding to the reference landmark in the reference image is identified at step 13 and the spatial relationship established at step 6 is applied to the landmark thereby providing the initial position of the object in the actual image. In case when for the object an imaging volume is selected, the method 1 according to the invention follows to step 7, whereby the scanning 17 is performed within the boundaries given by the thus established scanning volume. In case when for the object a model representative of the target is selected, the method 1 follows to the image segmentation step 19, whereby a suitable segmentation is performed. In case when for the model a deformable model is selected, the segmentation is performed by deforming the model thereby providing spatial boundaries of the target area. The invention further relates to an apparatus and a computer program for image processing.
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The invention relates to a method 1 of image segmentation where in step 2 a prior model representative of a structure conceived to be segmented in an image is accessed. Preferably, the image comprises a medical diagnostic image. Still preferably, the medical diagnostic image is prepared in a DICOM format, whereby supplementary information is stored besides diagnostic data. In these cases the method 1 according to the invention advantageously proceeds to step 3, where the supplementary information is extracted from electronic file 5, comprising for example suitable patient-related information 5a and/or suitable structure-related information 5b. Examples of the patient-related information comprise a patient's age, sex, group, etc., whereas examples of the structure-related information may comprise an anatomic location of the structure, such as rectum, bladder, lung etc, or the suspected / diagnosed pathology of the patient. In an alternative embodiment of the method 1 according to the invention, the supplementary information is provided by a human operator in step 7, where he can enter suitable supplementary information 9a, 9b using a user interface 9. When the supplementary information is loaded, the method 1 according to the invention proceeds to step 4 in which the prior model is being changed using the supplementary information yielding a further model. In step 6 the method 1 performs the image segmentation using the thus obtained further model and in step 8 the results of the segmentation step may be visualized on a suitable viewer.