Cartilage segmentation was conducted on a slice-by-slice basis (number of slices was dependent upon patient size) by manual tracing the bone-cartilage interface and the cartilage surface of the entire MT [ 25, 26].
By tracking bone formation with radioisotopes, the researchers traced the bone buildup to overtime work of cells called osteoblasts.
Some of these bones are attached by the strolling audience members, who then trace the bones' shadows on paper below.
Because they are not scientists or DNA experts, it is impossible for them to trace the bones back to the bodies to which they once belonged: active, lively people who spoke and laughed and danced and loved.
On each of these slices the investigator manually traced the bone-cartilage boundary using predefined segmentation rules.
Nerve transections and double-virus tracing from the bone marrow and the surrounding muscles were used to confirm the specific spreading of the virus.
The tracing of the bone resorption is difficult for the complete denture with the continuous rated atrophy of the residual alveolar ridge beneath the conventional denture [15, 16].
"I'd look at some of them, and think, 'How the heck did you get up in the morning?' " Mr. Amorosi said, tracing the ravages mapped in the bones by poverty, illness and birth defects.
Tracing the genealogy of the "racist bone" defense helps to shed light on how the Reagan administration and its allies helped to normalize a discourse that suggests ending racism is a matter of individual benevolence and magnanimity, a discourse that makes it harder to grapple with the damaging legacies of centuries of slavery, segregation and racism.
All transverse cross sections were converted to binary cortical bone profiles by tracing the periosteal and endosteal surfaces and subsequently filling the area of the original cortical bone white41.
Her most tender memory of her father involves the study of anatomy, "his strong fingers tracing the lines of muscles and bones on my small foot".
