![Loading...](https://link.springer.com/static/c4a417b97a76cc2980e3c25e2271af3129e08bbe/images/pdf-preview/spacer.gif)
-
Article
Open AccessAdherence to the Mediterranean diet in young male soccer players
Nutrition is vital in health and sports performance by improving anthropometric-related parameters and dietary habits, especially in the youngest ages. The Mediterranean diet (MD) has been highly recognized fo...
-
Article
Tobacco effects on ocular surface, meibomian glands, and corneal epithelium and the benefits of treatment with a lipid-based lubricant
Our aim was to evaluate the ocular surface in chronic smokers and to assess the benefit of sodium hyaluronate (SH) versus semi-fluorinated alkane (SFA) eyedrops on tear film, meibomian glands, and corneal epit...
-
Article
A comparison of thin-plate spline deformation and finite element modeling to compensate for brain shift during tumor resection
Brain shift during tumor resection can progressively invalidate the accuracy of neuronavigation systems and affect neurosurgeons’ ability to achieve optimal resections. This paper compares two methods that hav...
-
Article
Using the variogram for vector outlier screening: application to feature-based image registration
Matching points that are derived from features or landmarks in image data is a key step in some medical imaging applications. Since most robust point matching algorithms claim to be able to deal with outliers,...
-
Article
Non-rigid registration of 3D ultrasound for neurosurgery using automatic feature detection and matching
The brain undergoes significant structural change over the course of neurosurgery, including highly nonlinear deformation and resection. It can be informative to recover the spatial map** between structures ...