Background: In patients with burns, an early accurate diagnosis of burn depth facilitates optimal treatment. Laser Doppler imaging combined with clinical assessment leads to an accurate estimate of burn depth. However, the actual effects of the introduction of laser Doppler imaging on therapeutic decisions, …

Gas-phase diffusion is a widespread process in nature, for example diffusion of pollutants in the atmosphere. A special case of diffusion is the so-called Knudsen diffusion where a gas diffuses in the molecular flow regime. The theory for Knudsen diffusion is well-known therefore, diffusion experiments …

Presentatie, gehouden op 21 januari 2015. Het komt vaak voor dat de verdelingsassumptions onder statistische toetsen niet of slechts gedeeltelijk opgaan. In dergelijke gevallen is het nodig hypothesen te toetsen met methoden die hiervan minder afhankelijk zijn. Er worden meerdere toetsen op normaliteit …

The concept originated from a brainstorm session with the project leader and the executive. Where the idea was to follow a professional cyclist with a drone. However soon thereafter it was realised that the project would not be limited to just following cyclist. Hence the name FollowMe. The target …

Aim: Optimise a set of exposure factors, with the lowest effective dose, to delineate spinal curvature with the modified Cobb method in a full spine using computed radiography (CR) for a 5-year-old paediatric anthropomorphic phantom. Methods: Images were acquired by varying a set of parameters: positions …

Three-dimensional (3D) body scanning becomes increasingly important in the medical, ergonomical and apparel industry. The SizeStream 3D body scanner is a 3D body scanner in the shape of a fitting room that can generate a 3D copy of the human body in a few seconds. The Poikos modeling system generates …

Cardiovascular disease is an important cause of disability in activities of daily living (ADL) through its effect on physical functioning. However, it is unclear whether subclinical vascular abnormalities and rate of change in subclinical vascular abnormalities is also associated with an impaired physical …

Background: Delirium is a high prevalent postoperative complication in older cardiac surgery patients and can have drastic consequence for the patient. Preventive interventions, diagnosis and treatment of delirium require specialized knowledge and skills. Objective: To gain insight …

TU Delft has started working on its third satellite mission called DelFFi, which is planned for a launch in 2015. In this graduation project spanning 17 weeks, a faulttolerant storage system consisting of three SD cards was designed, implemented and tested for DelFFi that utilizes triple-modular redundancy …

Om meer inzicht te krijgen in de eigenschappen van running blades is dit onderzoek verricht. Dit is gedaan aan de hand van de volgende onderzoeksvragen: 1. Wat zijn de stijfheden van de verschillende categorieën blades bij verschillende hoeken? 2. Wat is de invloed van de lengte van het onderbeen op …