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The RERC Laboratory in the NY campus of the VA NYHHS in Manhattan
is a modern 2,300 sq. ft. facility established especially for research,
development, and clinical testing of Rehabilitation, Orthopedic,
Prosthetic and Orthotic devices, techniques, and systems. It contains
offices, a patient examining/fitting/testing room, a computer laboratory,
an electronics laboratory, and a modern machine shop. The RERC Laboratory
contains the VA Cyberware Model 3050PD, 3030PD, and 2020PD optical
digitizers, the Tekscan PScan, FScan, and DScan Stress Measurement
Systems and precision calibration fixture, the VA optoelectromechanical
tissue indentor, the AMI AK 7000 Diagnostic Ultrasound Imager, the
CyberLogic VAT 5000 Acoustic Tissue Characterization Unit, and the
IMEX 9000 Vascular Pulse Waveform Recorder. There are also personal
computers, SGI Origin 2000 and Indigo workstations, with MARC and
ABAQUS nonlinear and linear finite element analysis programs, MATLAB,
NAG, and IMSL scientific and SPlus statistical analysis programs,
and with the VA Pedorthics CAD/CAM System, the VA Shapemaker Prosthetics
CAD/CAM System, the Vorum LastfitTM and CanfitPlusTM Prosthetics
CAD/CAM Systems, the VA NYHHCS Prosthetics Orthotics electromechanical
digitizer, Servo Systems 4 degree of freedom and TopOne and MHO
3 degree of freedom computer numerically controlled (CNC) milling
machines, and UCL/Nutem Rapid Shape plastics thermoforming machine.
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