Abstract:
A method for evaluating a structural strength of cancellous bone and a computer readable media incorporating a program for implementing the method therein. The method includes the steps of acquiring an x-ray image and defining a region of interest on the acquired x-ray image; extracting a bone trabecular pattern in the defined region of interest; and setting an index of the structural strength of the cancellous bone using an area density of the extracted bone trabecular pattern.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a carrier-type sand art experience box in which various patterns are formed by scattering sand and a work of art is formed by radiating light. The carrier-type sand art experience box includes: a box-shaped case body inside which is formed a space part, and on the top of which is formed an edge part; art glass which is seated inside the edge part of the case body, and on which sand is scattered; a backlight which radiates various types of light onto art sand formed by a user from a surface below the art glass; a control unit which is seated on one side of the case body, which controls the backlight, and which is provided with an on/off switch; and a cover which selectively opens and closes the top of the case body, and which surrounds the art glass.
Abstract:
A supple, globally flexible, composite protective material having guard plates on a substrate with a clearly visible pattern. The substrate is flexible and has a surface with a colored pattern including two or more colors. The guard plates are small, non-overlapping, printed resin material members having major and minor dimensions and are arranged in a predetermined pattern over a substantial portion of the surface of the substrate. In one embodiment of the invention the guard plates are transparent or translucent to visible light so that the colored pattern on the surface of the substrate is visible. In another embodiment the colors of the guard plates blend in with the colored pattern of the substrate.