The identification of conductive objects of known shape embedded in low- or non-conductive regions is a special application of non-destructive testing, with important applications in some surgical procedures. In particular, some classes of fractures are routinely stabilized and aligned by the use of intra-medullary nails. Identifying the position and the orientation of the drill holes hidden by bone and tissue is currently done by X-Ray with all the well known disadvantages of this technology. The idea of substituting this methodology with an eddy-current based one has been explored in previous work but the developed technique suffered from some hard to address shortcomings. In this paper we propose a new technique which is computationally efficient and inexpensive to implement.
Enhanced Identification of Hidden Conductive Objects with Deterministic and Stochastic Methods
ALOTTO, PIERGIORGIO;
2013
Abstract
The identification of conductive objects of known shape embedded in low- or non-conductive regions is a special application of non-destructive testing, with important applications in some surgical procedures. In particular, some classes of fractures are routinely stabilized and aligned by the use of intra-medullary nails. Identifying the position and the orientation of the drill holes hidden by bone and tissue is currently done by X-Ray with all the well known disadvantages of this technology. The idea of substituting this methodology with an eddy-current based one has been explored in previous work but the developed technique suffered from some hard to address shortcomings. In this paper we propose a new technique which is computationally efficient and inexpensive to implement.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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