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Sarwin, Dennis (author)Purpose<br/>As a result of the worldwide aging population, Vertebral Compression Fractures (VCF) are commonly detected in osteoporotic patients; these can originate from traumatic events or occur spontaneously. The existing VCF devices and their corresponding surgical instruments have their limitations in terms of short- and long-term...master thesis 2021
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Kleindouwel, Lola (author)In contemporary architecture, we design with the preconceived notions of what rooms are, where habit and habitat are unconditionally linked. We sleep in the bedroom, we dine in the dining room, we work in the study. The rooms are linked to each other, where the architecture is static, the user the dynamic factor moving from room to room, leaving...master thesis 2021
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Wijn, Victor (author)Philips is the global leader in Image-Guided Therapy (IGT). This medical specialization provides integrated solutions that allow for minimally invasive medical procedures. A specialized medical team consisting of multiple stakeholders works closely with Philips's newest technological devices and systems during these interventions. These complex...master thesis 2021
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Kortman, Vera (author)Gripping slippery, compliant, and irregular tissues during MIS is often challenging using a conventional gripper. A force grip has to compensate for the low friction coefficient between the gripper’s jaws and tissue surface. This study focuses on the development of a suction gripper as an alternative for the well-known tissue gripper. Suction...master thesis 2021
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Treep, Sanne (author)Background: The goal of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is to perform surgery by minimal damaging the body. Compared to traditional open surgery MIS results in faster recovery and lower mortality, and is therefore the preferred method for performing a biopsy. Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) is a type of MIS where an...master thesis 2021
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van Zaanen, Pam (author)In the history of medicine and surgery, a slow transition is made from open surgery to minimally invasive surgery. Nowadays, natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is investigated and tested. A NOTES procedure includes flexible instruments, which are inserted through natural orifices such as the mouth, nose, anus or vagina. The...master thesis 2021
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Modular steering mechanism design for cable guidance through reusable minimally invasive instrumentsLether, Remie (author)Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has made tremendous impact on hospitals worldwide. Introduced as a patient friendly alternative to open surgery by significantly reducing incisions size, benefits such as faster patient recovery time, and less pain for patients, are achieved. However, in MIS, rigid instrument shafts can impair surgeons’ dexterity...master thesis 2021
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Joosen, Max (author)Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is a procedure that is used to determine the stage of disease of melanoma patients and determine further treatment. However, the morbidities accompanied with this procedure are not negligible (e.g., wound infection, lymphoedema and seroma). With the goal reduce the incidence of morbidities, this thesis...master thesis 2021
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Blanken, D.M. (author)Cells, the building blocks of life, are vastly complex. This complexity confers to every living organism the ability to maintain oneself, reproduce oneself, and evolve. Creating a minimal system from nonliving components that is capable of self-maintenance, self-reproduction, and evolvability, will greatly increase our understanding of life....doctoral thesis 2021
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Rawat, Anshika (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Bargh, Mortaza S. (author), Choenni, Sunil (author)Data sets often contain personal data that are not needed for analysis. Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) is a personal data minimizing technology to reduce personal data in a data set while maintaining the utility of the data set at an acceptable level. SDC tools usage lags due to the complexity encountered by users. The aim of the research...conference paper 2021
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Wang, F. (author), Tian, Zhi (author), Leus, G.J.T. (author), Fang, Jun (author)In this paper, we study the problem of wideband direction of arrival (DoA) estimation with sparse linear arrays (SLAs), where a number of uncorrelated wideband signals impinge on an SLA and the data is collected from multiple frequency bins. To boost the performance and perform underdetermined DoA estimation, the difference co-array response...journal article 2021
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Losch, M.S. (author), Swamy, A. (author), Elmi-Terander, Adrian (author), Edström, Erik (author), Hendriks, B.H.W. (author), Dankelman, J. (author)Background: The increased popularity of minimally invasive spinal surgery calls for a revision of guidance techniques to prevent injuries of nearby neural and vascular structures. Lipid content has previously been proposed as a distinguishing criterion for different bone tissues to provide guidance along the interface of cancellous and...journal article 2021
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Minnaard, Jeffrey (author), Kleipool, Roeland P. (author), Baars, Wim (author), Dankelman, J. (author), Stufkens, Sjoerd (author), Horeman, T. (author)Aims: Resection of bone is performed in over 75% of all orthopaedic procedures and the electrically powered oscillating saw is commonly used to cut bone. Drawbacks are relatively large incisions and tissue damage due to overshooting often occur. Therefore, the goal of this study is to develop an improved bone-cutting system that has minimally...journal article 2021
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Birnie, Anthony (author), Dekker, C. (author)Chromosome structure and dynamics are essential for life, as the way that our genomes are spatially organized within cells is crucial for gene expression, differentiation, and genome transfer to daughter cells. There is a wide variety of methods available to study chromosomes, ranging from live-cell studies to single-molecule biophysics,...review 2021
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de Kater, E.P. (author), Sakes, A. (author), Bloemberg, J. (author), Jager, D.J. (author), Breedveld, P. (author)Tissue transport is a challenge during Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) with the current suction-based instruments as the increasing length and miniaturisation of the outer diameter requires a higher pressure. Inspired by the wasp ovipositor, a slender and bendable organ through which eggs can be transported, a flexible transport mechanism for...journal article 2021
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Tummers, Fokkedien H.M.P. (author), Hoebink, Jasmin (author), Driessen, Sara R.C. (author), Jansen, F.W. (author), Twijnstra, A.R.H. (author)Introduction: The implementation of advanced minimally invasive surgical (MIS) techniques has broadened. An extensive body of literature shows that high hospital and surgeon volumes lead to better patient outcomes. However, no information is available regarding volume trends in the post-implementation phase of MIS. This study investigated...journal article 2021
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Yeates, Christopher (author), Schmidt-Hattenberger, Cornelia (author), Weinzierl, Wolfgang (author), Bruhn, D.F. (author)Designing low-cost network layouts is an essential step in planning linked infrastructure. For the case of capacitated trees, such as oil or gas pipeline networks, the cost is usually a function of both pipeline diameter (i.e. ability to carry flow or transferred capacity) and pipeline length. Even for the case of incompressible, steady flow,...journal article 2021
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Teunissen, P.J.G. (author), Khodabandeh, A. (author), Psychas, D.V. (author)In this contribution, we introduce a generalized Kalman filter with precision in recursive form when the stochastic model is misspecified. The filter allows for a relaxed dynamic model in which not all state vector elements are connected in time. The filter is equipped with a recursion of the actual error-variance matrices so as to provide an...journal article 2021
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Callens, S.J.P. (author), Arns, Christoph H. (author), Kuliesh, Alina (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Rapid advances in additive manufacturing have kindled widespread interest in the rational design of metamaterials with unique properties over the past decade. However, many applications require multi-physics metamaterials, where multiple properties are simultaneously optimized. This is challenging since different properties, such as...journal article 2021
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Veluwenkamp, H.M. (author)Metasemantic inferentialism has gained popularity in the last few decades. Traditionally, inferentialism is combined with a deflationary attitude towards semantic terms such as truth and reference, i.e., many inferentialists hold that when we use these semantic terms we do not purport to refer to substantive properties. This combination makes...journal article 2021