THE EFFECTIVENESS OF RIGID PERICARDIAL ENDOSCOPY FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE MINOR SURGERIES: CELL TRANSPLANTATION, EPICARDIAL PACEMAKER LEAD IMPLANTATION, AND EPICARDIAL ABLATION

The effectiveness of rigid pericardial endoscopy for minimally invasive minor surgeries: cell transplantation, epicardial pacemaker lead implantation, and epicardial ablation

Abstract Background The efficacy and safety of rigid pericardial endoscopy as the promising minimally invasive approach to the pericardial space was evaluated.Techniques for cell transplantation, epicardial pacemaker lead implantation, and epicardial ablation were developed.Methods Two swine and 5 canines were studied to evaluate the safety and eff

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Virtual Restoration of Stained Chinese Paintings Using Patch-Based Color Constrained Poisson Editing with Selected Hyperspectral Feature Bands

Stains, as one of most common degradations of paper cultural relics, not only affect paintings’ appearance, but sometimes even cover the text, patterns, and colors contained in the relics.Virtual restorations based on common red−green−blue images (RGB) which remove the degradations and then fill the lacuna regions with the image&#

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