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The thirty-year war, revisited
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The war in Afghanistan started in October 2001, achieved the overthrow of the the Taliban regime in November and was assumed to have been won by January ...
Eclipse forges ahead on 500 fixes
Aviation International News, NJ - Aug 1, 2008
Company vice president of sales and marketing Mike McConnell told AIN that S/N 266, scheduled for delivery in late summer, will be the first Eclipse 500 off ...
Clariant Reports Improved Operating Margin in the First Half of ...
WELT ONLINE, Germany - Jul 28, 2008
Since November 2006, Clariant has reduced about 1800 out of the 2200 job positions that were planned for reduction in the Clariant 2010 strategy. ...
Tackling the PKK: New directions for Turkey's Special Forces
Turkish Daily News (subscription), Turkey - Jul 22, 2008
The PKK's casualties ? as given by the TSK ? indicate that Operation Sun, by killing 266 PKK militants, delivered a major blow to the PKK. ...
First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. Announces Significant Milestones ...
Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada - Jul 31, 2008
Gas marketing terms were agreed with Sonatrach in November 2006 and were attached to the MLE development plan. The gas terms specify and clarify the ...LON:FPL - TSE:FCP
Theratechnologies Announces Financial Results and Highlights for ...
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Candidates reject gifts from some
Arkansas Democrat Gazette, AR - Jul 20, 2008
Halter?s 2006 lieutenant governor campaign, which has more than $ 400, 000 debt owed to Halter, paid for Halter?s travel to Louisville ($ 266. ...
Pricey podiatrist still trying to collect
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Jul 23, 2008
Go online at drl.wi.gov or call (608) 266-2112. Call ahead to make sure a doctor is covered by your insurance company. Ask the doctor for an estimate of how ...
Business briefs: Rock Water Tavern shutting down today
Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription), SC - Jul 22, 2008
266 this year, earning most of its plaudits for increasing its total year-over-year revenues by 15.3 percent in 2007. Restaurants & Institutions also ...
Interest in State Politics high-As filing deadline passes
The Daily Kenoshan, Wisconsin - Jul 9, 2008
Get more information about the work of the Government Accountability Board by telephone at 1-608-266-8005, by electronic mail at This e-mail address is ...
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[BOOK] Digital video processing -
AM Tekalp
... on Multimedia (Part 2), p.5-7, October 30-November 05, 1999 ... video coding, EURASIP
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Collaborative interface agents -
Y Lashkari, M Metral, P Maes - Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial …, 1994 - portal.acm.org
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Molecular computation of solutions to combinatorial problems -
LM Adleman - Science, 1994 - sciencemag.org
... Science 11 November 1994: Vol ... Science, Vol 266, Issue 5187, 1021-1024 Copyright ?
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Improving resolution by image registration
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[BOOK] Two-dimensional signal and image processing -
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The genomic structure of the human glucocorticoid receptor -
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Future paths for integer programming and links to artificial intelligence -
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Scientists Use Pixels To Ease Amputees' Pain

Article Date: 18 Nov 2006 - 8:00am (PST)
Academics from the School of Computer Science and School of Psychological Sciences have developed a virtual reality system, which gives the illusion that a person's amputated limb is still there.

The computer system created by Dr Stephen Pettifer and Toby Howard of the School of Computer Science, immerses patients into a life-size virtual reality world.

By putting on a headset, patients will see themselves with two limbs. They can use their remaining physical limb to control the movements of a computer-generated limb, which appears in the 3D computer-generated world in the space of their amputated limb.

So for example, they can use their physical right arm to control the movement of their virtual left arm.

Patients have complex hand-eye coordination and can move their fingers, hands, arms, feet and legs. They can also use their virtual limb to play ball games.

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Phantom limb pain or PLP is discomfort felt by a person in a limb that is missing due to amputation. Previous research has found that when a person's brain is 'tricked' into believing they can see and move a 'phantom limb', pain can decrease.

So far, five patients living in the Manchester area - including one who has suffered from PLP for 40 years - have used the virtual reality system over several weeks in a small-scale study.

But this initial project has produced startling results, with four out of the five patients reporting improvement in their phantom limb pain. Some improvements were almost immediate.

The Manchester team's findings were recently presented at a major conference in Denmark on the use of virtual reality for rehabilitation.

Dr Stephen Pettifer, of the School of Computer Science said: "Most people know about 3D graphics and virtual reality from their use in the entertainment industry, in computer games and special effects in films.
 
"It's very satisfying being able apply the same technology to something that may have a real positive impact on someone's health and well being."

Project leader, Dr Craig Murray of the School of Psychological Sciences, said "Many people who undergo an amputation experience a phantom limb. These are often very painful for the person concerned. They can persist for many years, and are very difficult to treat.

"One patient felt that the fingers of her amputated hand were continually clenched into her palm, which was very painful for her. However, after just one session using the virtual system she began to feel movement in her fingers and the pain began to ease."

Each participant used the system between seven and 10 times over the course of two to three months. Sessions lasted around 30 minutes and involved putting on a special virtual reality headset.

Upper-limb amputees were fitted with a special data glove and had sensors attached to the elbow and wrist joints. Sensors were fitted to the knee and ankle joints of lower-limb amputees. Head and arm movements were also monitored.

The three men and two women who took part in the study were aged between 56 and 65. The group included three arm amputees and two leg amputees, who had lost limbs between one and 40 years ago.

The University of Manchester research team hopes to include a larger number of patients in their future work in order to identify those most likely to benefit from the virtual reality system they have developed.

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For more information about the University of Manchester project see http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/research/phantomlimb/phantomlimb.php

For more information about the International Conference Series On Disability, Virtual Reality And Associated Technologies in Denmark see http://www.icdvrat.reading.ac.uk/

Contact: Alex Waddington
University of Manchester
 
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