Abstract:
The present invention relates to a wound care system for treating a wound (14) of a patient comprising: a bathing unit (16) being designed to limit a volume (18) surrounding the wound (14) and sealing said volume (18) against the outer atmosphere, the bathing unit (16) comprising at least one gas inlet (28) and one gas outlet (30) being in fluid communication with said volume (18), a source (20) for nitric oxide being connectable to said gas inlet (28), a vacuum unit (34) being connectable to said gas outlet (30) for creating a negative pressure inside said volume (18), and a sponge (36) being placeable inside said volume (18).
Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for providing a questionnaire to a patient based on patient's current health condition is provided. The method includes measuring physical activity of the patient with an activity monitor; measuring respiration rate with a respiration rate sensor; measuring heart rate with a heart rate monitor; measuring cough frequency with a cough frequency monitor; and executing, on the processor of the computer system, one or more computer program modules configured to generate a questionnaire to gather information from the patient. The questionnaire comprises a set of questions that are based the gathered physical activity data, respiration rate data, heart rate data, cough frequency data, or any combination thereof.
Abstract:
A coffee beverage system is described including a coffee bean packaging cartridge and a coffee brewing apparatus. The coffee beans packaging cartridge includes a container holding coffee beans and transportation means adapted for enabling transportation of the coffee beans towards an exit opening of the cartridge. The coffee apparatus comprises a grinder for grinding the coffee beans from the cartridge and a brewing device for brewing coffee on the basis of ground coffee obtained by means of the grinder. The system is further provided with a metering chamber for receiving coffee beans which are transported with the aid of the transportation means into the metering chamber. In use the metering chamber will hold a predetermined amount of coffee beans. The metering chamber comprises a bottom portion which forms a part of the grinder, said bottom portion being arranged in the coffee apparatus for rotating around an axis extending in a vertical direction. T system is further provided with a second coffee bean packaging cartridge including a second dosing device separate from the first dosing device for independently of the coffee brewing apparatus preparing and/or supplying a dose of coffee beans to the entrance opening of the coffee brewing apparatus.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a sealed thin- film device (10) to an organic light emitting diode device (100) and to a solar cell device (200) comprising the sealed thin- film device. The sealed thin-film device comprises a thin-film device (20) and a barrier stack (30) for protecting the thin-film device from environmental influence. The barrier stack (30) comprises an inorganic barrier layer (34) in contact with at least one organic sealing layer (32) which comprises organic material comprising selected organic material selected to comprise a value of the Young's modulus (Eorg) remaining equal to or higher than 200 Mega- Pascal during a part of the processing of the sealed thin- film device during which the at least one organic sealing layer comprising the selected organic material has been applied. An effect of the sealed thin- film device according to the invention is that the use of the selected organic material reduces the crack occurrence and growth in the barrier stack which improves the sealing properties of the barrier stack and consequently improves the operational life-time of the thin- film device.
Abstract:
A method includes generating, via a dose estimator (208), a dose map indicative of an estimated dose deposited for a subject based on acquisition protocol parameter values of an acquisition protocol of an imaging system (100), and generating, via a noise estimator (210), at least one of a noise map indicative of an estimated image noise based on the acquisition protocol parameter values or a contrast-to-noise map based on the noise map and an attenuation map. The method further includes displaying, via a display (216), the dose and noise maps in a human readable format.
Abstract:
The present invention refers to an active sound reduction system and method for attenuation of sound emitted by a primary sound source, especially for attenuation of snoring sounds emitted by a human being. This system comprises a primary sound source, at least one speaker as a secondary sound source for producing an attenuating sound to be superposed with the sound emitted by said primary sound source, a reference microphone for receiving sound from said primary sound source, and at least one error microphone being allocated to each speaker to form a speaker/microphone pair. The at least one error microphone is provided as a directional microphone pointing at its allocated speaker to receive residual sound resulting from the superposition of the sounds from the primary sound source and the corresponding speaker. The error microphone and speaker of at least one speaker/microphone pair and the primary sound source are arranged substantially collinear. A control unit is provided to receive an output reference signal of the reference microphone representing the sound received by the reference microphone and an output error signal of the at least one error microphone representing the sound received by the at least one error microphone and to calculate a control signal for the speaker from the output reference signal and the output error signal.
Abstract:
A radiation sensitive detector array includes a plurality of detector modules (118) extending along a z-axis direction and aligned along an x-axis direction with respect to the imaging system (100). At least one of the detector modules (118) includes a module backbone (124) and at least one detector tile (122). The at least one detector tile (122) is coupled to the module backbone (124) through a non-threaded fastener (142). The at least one detector tile (122) includes a two-dimensional detector (126) and a two-dimensional anti-scatter grid (128) that is focused at a focal spot (112) of an imaging system (100).
Abstract:
A light-emitting textile-based architectural element (1), comprising a frame (4); and a first textile sheet (5) being tensioned by the frame (4) to cover an area defined by the frame (4). The first textile-sheet (5) is a light-emitting electronic textile comprising a textile substrate (6) having a preformed conductor pattern (7a-b); and a plurality of light sources (8) attached to the textile substrate (6) in such a way that each light source (8) is electrically connected to the conductor pattern (7a-b).
Abstract:
A kit for fitting a patient interface device (10) to the naris of a patient. The patient interface device employs a replaceable nasal pillow (46). The kit comprises a plurality of nasal pillows each having a characteristic that varies from one of the plurality of nasal pillows to another of the plurality of nasal pillows. Each of the nasal pillows comprises a base portion (62), a casing (65) and a fill material (66). The base portion is structured to be disposed on a portion of the patient interface device. The casing is coupled to the base in a manner which defines a sealed cavity therein. The casing includes an outer portion (65) structured to sealingly engage a naris of a patient and an inner portion (67). The fill material is disposed in the sealed cavity defined by the casing and the base.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a dynamic nuclear polarization apparatus (116) for continuous provision of hyperpolarized samples (114) comprising dynamically nuclear polarized nuclear spins, the apparatus (116) comprising a polarization region (106) for polarization of said nuclear spins resulting in said hyperpolarized samples, wherein the apparatus (116) further comprises: a cryostat (102) for cooling the samples (114) in the polarization region (106), a magnet (100) for providing a magnetic field to the cooled samples in the polarization region (106), a radiation source (112) for concurrently to the magnetic field provision providing a nuclear polarizing radiation to the polarization region (106) for receiving the hyperpolarized samples, a sample transport system (104) for continuously receiving unpolarized samples (114), transporting the unpolarized samples to the polarization region (106) for nuclear spin polarization and providing the resulting hyperpolarized samples (114).