Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of interferential stimulation on pain and motion after shoulder surgery. Study Design: Randomized Controlled Trial. Methods: 102 patients undergoing arthr...Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of interferential stimulation on pain and motion after shoulder surgery. Study Design: Randomized Controlled Trial. Methods: 102 patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair or labral repair were prospectively randomized to receive either an interferential stimulation unit immediately after surgery (STIM) or not to receive the unit (NO-STIM). Each patient was measured for the range of motion (ROM) in forward flexion (FF), abduction (ABD), internal rotation (IR) and external rotation (ER). These measurements were taken prior to surgery and at the 6 weeks post-operative time point. Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) scores (0 - 10) and the amount of narcotic taken (standardized to 10 mg equivalents of hydrocodone) were measured and compared between the two groups at 2 days and 4 weeks post-operatively. 51 patients were excluded due to failure to document VAS scores and medication usage, lack of follow-up at the 6 weeks post-operative time point or hospitalization after surgery. This left 27 patients in the STIM group and 24 patients in the NO-STIM group. Results: No difference was found in the amount of narcotic taken after 2 days (STIM 14.37 ± 1.02, NO-STIM 15.88 ± 1.22, p = 0.34) or after 4 weeks (STIM 45.32 ± 4.36, NO-STIM 48.96 ± 5.50, p = 0.60). No difference in mean VAS scores were found at 2 days (STIM 5.56 ± 0.53, NO-STIM 4.63 ± 0.57, p = 0.24) or 4 weeks (STIM 1.68 ± 0.39, NO-STIM 1.38 ± 0.34, p = 0.57). At 6 weeks post-operatively, a difference was found in ER (STIM 62.5 ± 4.09, NO-STIM 50.4 ± 4.09, p = 0.04), and no differences found in FF (STIM 134.2 ± 5.29, NO-STIM 133.3 ± 4.85, p = 0.60), ABD (STIM 124.8 ± 6.22, NO-STIM 119.6 ± 5.42, p = 0.53) or IR (STIM 60.0 ± 3.69, NO-STIM 55.9 ± 3.03, p = 0.39). A post-hoc power analysis performed using an á = 0.05 revealed the study to be 90% powered to identify a difference of one narcotic equivalent between groups and 90% powered to identify a 0.3 difference in VAS scores. Conclusions: The use of an interferential stimulator in the immediate post-operative period had no effect on pain or narcotic usage following arthroscopic rotator cuff repair or labral repair. External rotation was significantly greater in the interferential stimulator group while no differences were found in other motion parameters.展开更多
Distributed source coding （DSC） is applied to interferential multispectral image compression owing to strong correlation among the image frames. Many DSC systems in the literature use feedback channel （FC） to cont...Distributed source coding （DSC） is applied to interferential multispectral image compression owing to strong correlation among the image frames. Many DSC systems in the literature use feedback channel （FC） to control rate at the decoder, which limits the application of DSC. Upon an analysis of the image data, a rate control approach is proposed to avoid FC. Low-complexity motion compensation is applied first to estimate side information at the encoder. Using a polynomial fitting method, a new mathematical model is then derived to estimate rate based on the correlation between the source and side information. The experimental results show that our estimated rate is a good approximation to the actual rate required by FC while incurring a little bit-rate overhead. Our compression scheme performs comparable with the FC based DSC system and outperforms JPEG2000 significantly.展开更多
We examined the changes in numerous skin conditions before and after the ap-plication of interferential current therapy to various regions of healthy male bodies. In this study, we assessed the differences in the skin...We examined the changes in numerous skin conditions before and after the ap-plication of interferential current therapy to various regions of healthy male bodies. In this study, we assessed the differences in the skin’s sebum, moisture levels, pores, wrinkles, pigmentation, and elasticity on the shoulders, lower back, and the knees of Korean males in their 20s. A total of 30 healthy males were in-cluded in the study. We used a skin diagnosis meter as a device for measuring the state of the skin. A statistical difference was found when comparing the pre- and post-measurement values in regards to the moisture levels, wrinkles, and pig-mentation. In the correlation analysis results, the sebum and pigmentation, moisture levels and wrinkles, moisture levels and pigmentation, and moisture levels and elasticity were all positively correlated, respectively. The results of this study partially suggest that a change in skin condition is associated with ex-ternal stimulation. The study also found that the effects of the application of in-terferential current therapy on the various skin conditions may differ depending on the region of the body that the application is conducted as well.展开更多
By means of the weakly guiding approximation, the mode spot sizes Wx and Wy of the fundamental mode along the semimajor （x-direction） and semiminor （y-direction） axes of the fiber core in elliptical core two- mode...By means of the weakly guiding approximation, the mode spot sizes Wx and Wy of the fundamental mode along the semimajor （x-direction） and semiminor （y-direction） axes of the fiber core in elliptical core two- mode fiber are discussed. The variation of their ratio value Wx/W9 with the operation wavelength A and the length ratio a/b between the semimajor axis and the semiminor axis of the fiber core is analyzed. Based on this analysis, the distribution figures of two-lobe interferential mode patterns are evaluated and simulated quantitatively for different phase difference changes between LP01 and LP~~n modes. The two-lobe interferential mode patterns have the same profile and distribute symmetrically when the phase difference equals ~r/2. Their central distance S becomes larger when W~：/W~ augments gradually. F^rthermore, the equation about the central distance S of the two-lobe interferential mode patterns is given when the operation wavelength varies between 0.65 and 1.31 #m, which is important to applications shuch as sensors and coupling devices between different fibers.展开更多
Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of electroacupuncture plus interferential current therapy(ICT) in treating chronic fatigue syndrome(CFS), and to explore the mechanism. Methods: Sixty eligible CFS patients ...Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of electroacupuncture plus interferential current therapy(ICT) in treating chronic fatigue syndrome(CFS), and to explore the mechanism. Methods: Sixty eligible CFS patients were randomized into a treatment group and a control group, 30 in each group. The treatment group was intervened by electroacupuncture plus ICT, while the control group was by electroacupuncture alone. The therapeutic efficacies were evaluated after 2 treatment courses and compared between the two groups. Results: The recovery rate and total effective rate were respectively 43.3% and 93.3% in the treatment group, versus 20.0% and 80.0% in the control group. There were significant differences in comparing the recovery rate and total effective rate between the two groups(P<0.05), showing that the recovery rate and total effective rate in the treatment group were higher than those in the control group. Conclusion: Electroacupuncture plus ICT can produce a remarkable efficacy in treating CFS.展开更多
We studied the muscle fatigue and recovery of thirty male sprinters(aged 18–22 years)using the Frequency Analysis Method(FAM).The interferential currents(ICs)with different thresholds for sensory,motor and pain respo...We studied the muscle fatigue and recovery of thirty male sprinters(aged 18–22 years)using the Frequency Analysis Method(FAM).The interferential currents(ICs)with different thresholds for sensory,motor and pain responses,the maximal voluntary contraction(MVC),and the amplitude of the surface EMG(aEMG,sEMG)were assessed prior to and immediately after an acute explosive fatigue training session,and during one-week recovery.We found that IC increased on average from 32.38.9 mA to 37.57.5 mA in sensory response at 10 Hz immediately post training(p=0.004)but decreased at 24-hr post training(p=0.008)and returned to pre-levels thereafter.Motor and pain response patterns at 10 Hz were similar(motor:p=0.033 and 0.040;pain:p=0.022 and 0.019,respectively).The change patterns of ICs were similar to but prior to the changes of sEMG.The agreement between IC assessment and amplitude of sEMG(aEMG)/MVC ratio was good(>95%).The present study suggested that the changes in ICs were prior to the changes in both the aEMG and force during fatigue.These changes may reflect the physiological sensory change due to peripheral fatigue.FAM may be useful as an effective early detection and simple tool for monitoring muscle fatigue during training and recovery in athletes.展开更多
The effects of semiochemicals extracted from 63 species of plants, on peach aphid (Myzus per-sicae) and mustard aphid (Lipaphis erysimi), were studied in laboratory. The deterrent rate, reproduction deterrent index an...The effects of semiochemicals extracted from 63 species of plants, on peach aphid (Myzus per-sicae) and mustard aphid (Lipaphis erysimi), were studied in laboratory. The deterrent rate, reproduction deterrent index and the interferential index of population control (IIPC) was used to evaluate the efficiency of semiochemicals on population control of the two target aphids. The results showed that the extracts of 34 species of common plants have noticeable effect on both aphid populations, especially, Xanthium sibiricum Petr. Et Widd. and Syngonium podophyllum Schott. These plant extracts could be used to construct the plant pro-tectant to protect crops.展开更多
This paper describes a multi-reflected mode based on a narrow waveguide to enlarge the interferential area of surface plasmon polaritons （SPPs）. A reasonable thickness of metal film is coated under the waveguide, th...This paper describes a multi-reflected mode based on a narrow waveguide to enlarge the interferential area of surface plasmon polaritons （SPPs）. A reasonable thickness of metal film is coated under the waveguide, the incident angle and the waveguide thickness are optimized in order to effectively increase interferential area. This is a key point for research into the Coos Hǎnchen shift to optimize the waveguide thickness. Finally, the SPP interferential field is simulated with the finite-difference time-domain （FDTD） technique to prove the optimized results, and indicates that not only is the interferential area enlarged, but the high contrast is also maintained. Furthermore, the mode can fabricate some specific interferential patterns by adding some modulating techniques to the waveguide. So the mode has potential application in the fabrication of sub-wavelength patterns.展开更多
Because of its all-reflective layout based on the Fresnel double-mirror interference system, the newly developed Fourier transform imaging spectrometer has a very large spectral bandwidth ranged from a cut-off wavelen...Because of its all-reflective layout based on the Fresnel double-mirror interference system, the newly developed Fourier transform imaging spectrometer has a very large spectral bandwidth ranged from a cut-off wavelength (related to the cut-off wave number σ max ) to far infrared. According to the signal's symmetry and wide-band characteristics, a simple method that can efficiently weaken the low frequency noise in the reconstructed spectrum is presented. Also, according to the symmetry, the eigenvector method is applied to the reconstruction of the spectrum.展开更多
As one of the next generation imaging spectrometers, the interferential spectrometer （iS） possesses the advantages of high throughput, multi-channel and great resolution. The data of IS are produced in the spatial d...As one of the next generation imaging spectrometers, the interferential spectrometer （iS） possesses the advantages of high throughput, multi-channel and great resolution. The data of IS are produced in the spatial domain, but optical applications are in the Fourier domain. Traditional compression methods can only protect the visual quality of interferometer data in the spatial do- main but ignore the distortion in the Fourier domain. The relation between the distortion in the Fourier domain and the compression in the spatial domain is analyzed. By mathematical proof and val- idation with experiments, the relation between spatial and Fourier domains is discovered, and the significance in the Fourier domain is more important as optical path difference （OPD） increasing in the spatial domain. Based on this relation, a novel coding scheme is proposed, which can compress data in the spatial domain while reducing the distortion in the Fourier domain. In this scheme, the bit stream of the set partitioning in hierarchical trees （SPIHT） is truncated by adaptively lifting rate-distortion slopes according to the priorities of OPD based on rate-distortion optimization theory. Experimental results show that the proposed method can provide better protection of spectrum curves in the Fourier domain while maintaining a comparable visual quality in the spatial domain.展开更多
PURPOSE To assess the efficacy of combined transcutaneous interferential (IF) electrical stimulation and pelvic floor muscle training through biofeedback on non-neuropathic urinary incontinence in children. METHODS Th...PURPOSE To assess the efficacy of combined transcutaneous interferential (IF) electrical stimulation and pelvic floor muscle training through biofeedback on non-neuropathic urinary incontinence in children. METHODS This prospective study comprised of 46 anatomically and neurologically normal children (9 boys, 37 girls;mean age of 8.4±2.2 years old) with non-neuropathic urinary incontinence. All children were evaluated by kidney and bladder ultrasounds, uroflowmetry with electromyography (EMG), a complete voiding diary and a dysfunctional voiding scoring questionnaire at the baseline. Children were randomly allocated into two treatment groups including group A (n=23) who underwent biofeedback therapy in addition to IF electrical stimulation and group B (n=23) who received only biofeedback therapy. Re-evaluation was performed 6 months and one year after completion of the treatment sessions.展开更多
文摘Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of interferential stimulation on pain and motion after shoulder surgery. Study Design: Randomized Controlled Trial. Methods: 102 patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair or labral repair were prospectively randomized to receive either an interferential stimulation unit immediately after surgery (STIM) or not to receive the unit (NO-STIM). Each patient was measured for the range of motion (ROM) in forward flexion (FF), abduction (ABD), internal rotation (IR) and external rotation (ER). These measurements were taken prior to surgery and at the 6 weeks post-operative time point. Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) scores (0 - 10) and the amount of narcotic taken (standardized to 10 mg equivalents of hydrocodone) were measured and compared between the two groups at 2 days and 4 weeks post-operatively. 51 patients were excluded due to failure to document VAS scores and medication usage, lack of follow-up at the 6 weeks post-operative time point or hospitalization after surgery. This left 27 patients in the STIM group and 24 patients in the NO-STIM group. Results: No difference was found in the amount of narcotic taken after 2 days (STIM 14.37 ± 1.02, NO-STIM 15.88 ± 1.22, p = 0.34) or after 4 weeks (STIM 45.32 ± 4.36, NO-STIM 48.96 ± 5.50, p = 0.60). No difference in mean VAS scores were found at 2 days (STIM 5.56 ± 0.53, NO-STIM 4.63 ± 0.57, p = 0.24) or 4 weeks (STIM 1.68 ± 0.39, NO-STIM 1.38 ± 0.34, p = 0.57). At 6 weeks post-operatively, a difference was found in ER (STIM 62.5 ± 4.09, NO-STIM 50.4 ± 4.09, p = 0.04), and no differences found in FF (STIM 134.2 ± 5.29, NO-STIM 133.3 ± 4.85, p = 0.60), ABD (STIM 124.8 ± 6.22, NO-STIM 119.6 ± 5.42, p = 0.53) or IR (STIM 60.0 ± 3.69, NO-STIM 55.9 ± 3.03, p = 0.39). A post-hoc power analysis performed using an á = 0.05 revealed the study to be 90% powered to identify a difference of one narcotic equivalent between groups and 90% powered to identify a 0.3 difference in VAS scores. Conclusions: The use of an interferential stimulator in the immediate post-operative period had no effect on pain or narcotic usage following arthroscopic rotator cuff repair or labral repair. External rotation was significantly greater in the interferential stimulator group while no differences were found in other motion parameters.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （No. 60532060 60672117）, the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University （PCS1TR）.
文摘Distributed source coding （DSC） is applied to interferential multispectral image compression owing to strong correlation among the image frames. Many DSC systems in the literature use feedback channel （FC） to control rate at the decoder, which limits the application of DSC. Upon an analysis of the image data, a rate control approach is proposed to avoid FC. Low-complexity motion compensation is applied first to estimate side information at the encoder. Using a polynomial fitting method, a new mathematical model is then derived to estimate rate based on the correlation between the source and side information. The experimental results show that our estimated rate is a good approximation to the actual rate required by FC while incurring a little bit-rate overhead. Our compression scheme performs comparable with the FC based DSC system and outperforms JPEG2000 significantly.
文摘We examined the changes in numerous skin conditions before and after the ap-plication of interferential current therapy to various regions of healthy male bodies. In this study, we assessed the differences in the skin’s sebum, moisture levels, pores, wrinkles, pigmentation, and elasticity on the shoulders, lower back, and the knees of Korean males in their 20s. A total of 30 healthy males were in-cluded in the study. We used a skin diagnosis meter as a device for measuring the state of the skin. A statistical difference was found when comparing the pre- and post-measurement values in regards to the moisture levels, wrinkles, and pig-mentation. In the correlation analysis results, the sebum and pigmentation, moisture levels and wrinkles, moisture levels and pigmentation, and moisture levels and elasticity were all positively correlated, respectively. The results of this study partially suggest that a change in skin condition is associated with ex-ternal stimulation. The study also found that the effects of the application of in-terferential current therapy on the various skin conditions may differ depending on the region of the body that the application is conducted as well.
基金National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No.2006CB806001.
文摘By means of the weakly guiding approximation, the mode spot sizes Wx and Wy of the fundamental mode along the semimajor （x-direction） and semiminor （y-direction） axes of the fiber core in elliptical core two- mode fiber are discussed. The variation of their ratio value Wx/W9 with the operation wavelength A and the length ratio a/b between the semimajor axis and the semiminor axis of the fiber core is analyzed. Based on this analysis, the distribution figures of two-lobe interferential mode patterns are evaluated and simulated quantitatively for different phase difference changes between LP01 and LP~~n modes. The two-lobe interferential mode patterns have the same profile and distribute symmetrically when the phase difference equals ~r/2. Their central distance S becomes larger when W~：/W~ augments gradually. F^rthermore, the equation about the central distance S of the two-lobe interferential mode patterns is given when the operation wavelength varies between 0.65 and 1.31 #m, which is important to applications shuch as sensors and coupling devices between different fibers.
基金supported by Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine
文摘Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of electroacupuncture plus interferential current therapy(ICT) in treating chronic fatigue syndrome(CFS), and to explore the mechanism. Methods: Sixty eligible CFS patients were randomized into a treatment group and a control group, 30 in each group. The treatment group was intervened by electroacupuncture plus ICT, while the control group was by electroacupuncture alone. The therapeutic efficacies were evaluated after 2 treatment courses and compared between the two groups. Results: The recovery rate and total effective rate were respectively 43.3% and 93.3% in the treatment group, versus 20.0% and 80.0% in the control group. There were significant differences in comparing the recovery rate and total effective rate between the two groups(P<0.05), showing that the recovery rate and total effective rate in the treatment group were higher than those in the control group. Conclusion: Electroacupuncture plus ICT can produce a remarkable efficacy in treating CFS.
基金The study was funded by National Key Research and Development Program(2018YFF0300904,2019YFF0301700)from Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China.
文摘We studied the muscle fatigue and recovery of thirty male sprinters(aged 18–22 years)using the Frequency Analysis Method(FAM).The interferential currents(ICs)with different thresholds for sensory,motor and pain responses,the maximal voluntary contraction(MVC),and the amplitude of the surface EMG(aEMG,sEMG)were assessed prior to and immediately after an acute explosive fatigue training session,and during one-week recovery.We found that IC increased on average from 32.38.9 mA to 37.57.5 mA in sensory response at 10 Hz immediately post training(p=0.004)but decreased at 24-hr post training(p=0.008)and returned to pre-levels thereafter.Motor and pain response patterns at 10 Hz were similar(motor:p=0.033 and 0.040;pain:p=0.022 and 0.019,respectively).The change patterns of ICs were similar to but prior to the changes of sEMG.The agreement between IC assessment and amplitude of sEMG(aEMG)/MVC ratio was good(>95%).The present study suggested that the changes in ICs were prior to the changes in both the aEMG and force during fatigue.These changes may reflect the physiological sensory change due to peripheral fatigue.FAM may be useful as an effective early detection and simple tool for monitoring muscle fatigue during training and recovery in athletes.
文摘The effects of semiochemicals extracted from 63 species of plants, on peach aphid (Myzus per-sicae) and mustard aphid (Lipaphis erysimi), were studied in laboratory. The deterrent rate, reproduction deterrent index and the interferential index of population control (IIPC) was used to evaluate the efficiency of semiochemicals on population control of the two target aphids. The results showed that the extracts of 34 species of common plants have noticeable effect on both aphid populations, especially, Xanthium sibiricum Petr. Et Widd. and Syngonium podophyllum Schott. These plant extracts could be used to construct the plant pro-tectant to protect crops.
基金Project supported by the National Basic Research of China (Grant No 2006CD302902)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 60676024 and 60878031)the Specialized Research Fund of China for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (Grant No 20060610006)
文摘This paper describes a multi-reflected mode based on a narrow waveguide to enlarge the interferential area of surface plasmon polaritons （SPPs）. A reasonable thickness of metal film is coated under the waveguide, the incident angle and the waveguide thickness are optimized in order to effectively increase interferential area. This is a key point for research into the Coos Hǎnchen shift to optimize the waveguide thickness. Finally, the SPP interferential field is simulated with the finite-difference time-domain （FDTD） technique to prove the optimized results, and indicates that not only is the interferential area enlarged, but the high contrast is also maintained. Furthermore, the mode can fabricate some specific interferential patterns by adding some modulating techniques to the waveguide. So the mode has potential application in the fabrication of sub-wavelength patterns.
文摘Because of its all-reflective layout based on the Fresnel double-mirror interference system, the newly developed Fourier transform imaging spectrometer has a very large spectral bandwidth ranged from a cut-off wavelength (related to the cut-off wave number σ max ) to far infrared. According to the signal's symmetry and wide-band characteristics, a simple method that can efficiently weaken the low frequency noise in the reconstructed spectrum is presented. Also, according to the symmetry, the eigenvector method is applied to the reconstruction of the spectrum.
文摘As one of the next generation imaging spectrometers, the interferential spectrometer （iS） possesses the advantages of high throughput, multi-channel and great resolution. The data of IS are produced in the spatial domain, but optical applications are in the Fourier domain. Traditional compression methods can only protect the visual quality of interferometer data in the spatial do- main but ignore the distortion in the Fourier domain. The relation between the distortion in the Fourier domain and the compression in the spatial domain is analyzed. By mathematical proof and val- idation with experiments, the relation between spatial and Fourier domains is discovered, and the significance in the Fourier domain is more important as optical path difference （OPD） increasing in the spatial domain. Based on this relation, a novel coding scheme is proposed, which can compress data in the spatial domain while reducing the distortion in the Fourier domain. In this scheme, the bit stream of the set partitioning in hierarchical trees （SPIHT） is truncated by adaptively lifting rate-distortion slopes according to the priorities of OPD based on rate-distortion optimization theory. Experimental results show that the proposed method can provide better protection of spectrum curves in the Fourier domain while maintaining a comparable visual quality in the spatial domain.
文摘PURPOSE To assess the efficacy of combined transcutaneous interferential (IF) electrical stimulation and pelvic floor muscle training through biofeedback on non-neuropathic urinary incontinence in children. METHODS This prospective study comprised of 46 anatomically and neurologically normal children (9 boys, 37 girls;mean age of 8.4±2.2 years old) with non-neuropathic urinary incontinence. All children were evaluated by kidney and bladder ultrasounds, uroflowmetry with electromyography (EMG), a complete voiding diary and a dysfunctional voiding scoring questionnaire at the baseline. Children were randomly allocated into two treatment groups including group A (n=23) who underwent biofeedback therapy in addition to IF electrical stimulation and group B (n=23) who received only biofeedback therapy. Re-evaluation was performed 6 months and one year after completion of the treatment sessions.
