This study gives further evidence that even mixtures of organic solvents at concentrations below the threshold-limit values may impair color vision.

Special requirements are needed for highly flexible, multi station laser processing. Linkage of several lasers with various handling stations causes different kinds of tasks to be solved in the fields of optics, electro mechanics, laser technology and opto electronics.A new design for flexible high power CO2 laser beam handling has been developed, including self-checking security systems, laser beam diagnostics, easily adjustable high power beam bending mirrors, high precision motorized mechanics and computer controlled user guidance.

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During a clinical study the AEA (Acoustic Emission Analysis) of arthritic defects in the knee joint was enhanced by the addition of kinetic measurement data. This enhanced AEA based method permits a non-invasive diagnosis and assessment of arthritic joint damage at an early stage. The diagnostic procedure includes three separate measurements that contribute in different ways to an extended diagnosis of the disease pattern [1, 2, 3]. During a series of three knee bends a force plate provides data of the ground force while a video-based gait analysis records the corresponding movement and the angles of hip-, knee-, and ankle joints. At the same time AEA detects the acoustic anomalies of damaged cartilage and the absolute angle of the system. The patterns of the kinetic data were analyzed to define the instants of time to correlate the data of the 3 measurement systems. The analysis of the force data yields a pattern with 8 phases. By means of the stance phase between the knee bends the instants of time are used to synchronize force and video based data. In the second step the synchronization of video based data was done by means of the absolute angle of the AEA system [4, 5]. The superposition of kinetic data and the acoustic emission permits a preliminary graphic representation and assessment of the measurement data. The procedure will be applied for the analysis of patients in a clinical study

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