Purpose The study aimed to evaluate a new robotic assistance system (RAS) for needle placement in combination with a multi-axis C-arm angiography system for cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) in a phantom setting. Materials and Methods The RAS consisted of a tool holder, dedicated planning software, and a mobile platform with a lightweight roboti...
Purpose. Additive manufacturing (AM) offers potential solutions when conventional manufacturing reaches its technological limits. These include a high degree of design freedom, lightweight design, functional integration and rapid prototyping. In this paper, the authors show how AM can be implemented not only for prototyping but also production usin...
Freeze foaming is a method to manufacture cellular ceramic scaffolds with a hierarchical porous structure. These so-called freeze foams are predestined for the use as bone replacement material because of their internal bone-like structure and biocompatibility. On the one hand, they consist of macrostructural foam cells which are formed by the expan...
Disposable food packaging accounts for a large proportion of the plastic waste in the environment. Bio-based and biodegradable alternatives could help to reduce plastic pollution but must perform similarly to current synthetic materials. Here, we investigated the effect of two plasticizers (glycerol and sorbitol) on the mechanical and barrier prope...
Iris Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) algorithms address the vulnerability of iris recognition systems to presentation attacks. With the great success of deep learning methods in various computer vision fields, neural network-based iris PAD algorithms emerged. However, most PAD networks suffer from overfitting due to insufficient iris data varia...
Vaccines consisting of whole inactivated bacteria (bacterins) are generated by incubation of the pathogen with chemicals. This is a time-consuming procedure which may lead to less immunogenic material, as critical antigenic structures can be altered by chemical modification. A promising alternative approach is low-energy electron irradiation (LEEI)...
Molecules containing different elements and moieties like P-N and P-O-Si have high impact on flame retardant properties. In this study, a novel group of flame retardants based on phosphasilazanes containing a P-N-Si structure is established. Due to introduction of the silazane moiety to various phosphorus environments, further properties, like mech...
Well drilling with core extraction is one of the most expensive procedures in the oil industry. The potential alternative, which may open opportunities for cost-efficient acquisition of petrophysical data, can be an approach based on digital analysis of drill cuttings. The main purpose of this research was to evaluate the possibility of using digit...
The aim of the present thesis is the development of a novel CO2 sensor, which is able to meet the main requirements for implementation in battery-powered electronic devices: high accuracy, fast response, negligible production costs, smallfootprint packaging, and low power consumption. In order to meet these requirements, the feasibility of an “elec...
