Open image in new window Fig. 2 Illustrating step-by-step deployment of the device (a e), described in detail in the main body of the text.
Open image in new window Fig. 3 Digitally subtracted angiographic images demonstrating the right renal artery (a) before and (b) after deployment of the device.
The risk is perturbation of the groundwater, not the sediment, because deployment of the device within a PVC pipe essentially eliminates contamination of the bottom of the hole with sediment material falling from a shallower depth [19].
TEE allows us to visualize the LAA during the procedure: it is essential for the positioning and deployment of the device.
In order to mimic clinical practice, the deployment of the device was either initiated at the centre and progressed to both extremities (first row) or was started at the one end and progressed towards the other extremity (second row), as common for this type of stent grafts.
For the ISI and SFHH deployments the devices were configured for a shortest spatial range of about 1 meter (for packets emitted at the lowest power), which affords the detection of face-to-face proximity.
Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which filed the original lawsuit to suspend deployment of the devices, says the new policy represents an important reversal.
The full deployment of the devices follows trials, which involved 28 police forces using technology developed under the Lantern programme to test how mobile fingerprinting performs in an operational environment.
In a letter on May 28, several organizations and individuals, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Ralph Nader, asked Congress to stop deployment of the devices pending "an independent review of the devices' health effects".
"The scanners were sold to Congress and the public on the promise that they were optional, but for at least some people, that is no longer the case". Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which filed the original lawsuit to suspend deployment of the devices, says the new policy represents an important reversal.
