Small footprint phase locking system for a large tiled aperture laser array.

A phase sensing system fitted to the control of coherent laser beam array of large cross section is experimented. It is based on the use of a fiber bundle that collects a weak part of the synthetic wavefront, that scales it down (1/40) and that reshapes it in a more compact arrangement (2D to 1D array). Then, the reconfigured beam array can be analyzed by a small footprint system making the large laser beam array easier to phase-lock.

Urodynamic and morphometric characteristics of the lower urogenital tract of male Beagle littermates from four months to two years of age.

Objective: To describe functional and anatomic changes of the lower urogenital tract of healthy male dogs during the sexually immature period and up to 2 years of age by urodynamic and morphometric assessment.

Animals: 6 sexually intact male Beagle littermates.

Procedures: Dogs underwent electromyography-coupled urodynamic tests, CT-assisted retrograde urethrography, prostatic washes, and blood sampling monthly from 4 through 12 months of age and then at 3-month intervals.

[Urodynamic evaluation of patients cured of their post-radical prostatectomy stress urinary incontinence following transobturator male sling implantation].

Introduction: The mechanism(s) responsible(s) for continence recovery after male sling implantation for post-radical prostatectomy incontinence are imperfectly known. The goal of this study was to evaluate urodynamic parameters before and after male sling insertion, only in patients cured of their stress urinary incontinence.

Patients And Methods: In total, 10 continent patients after transobturator male sling, with no history of urethral stenosis or pelvic radiation, were randomly selected from a database for urodynamic studies.

New surgical technique for treatment of stress urinary incontinence TVT-ABBREVO from development to clinical experience.

Tension-free suburethral tapes have revolutionized the surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI). These tapes are inserted by way of a retropubic or transobturator route. The inside-out tension-free vaginal tape transobturator approach, or TVT-Obturator system (TVT-O, Ethicon Women's Health and Urology, Somerville, NJ), was developed ten years ago with the aim of minimizing the risk of urinary tract injuries associated with retropubic and outside-in transobturator tapes while reproducibly ensuring minimal tissue dissection.