1. A clamping spring device for an elastic clamp for attaching at least one electrical conductor, comprising:
a support defining a hole, an edge of the hole forming a freestanding edge; and
a clamping leg disposed at an end of a spring leg, the clamping leg projecting toward the support at an acute angle so as to form a receiving space between the clamping leg and the support, the receiving space narrowing in a conductor insertion direction from a conductor insertion side toward a clamping point and being configured to receive the at least one electrical conductor inserted in a lengthwise direction of the at least one electrical conductor, the clamping leg including a clamping edge on a face thereof so as to be capable of clamping the at least one electrical conductor between the clamping edge and the support at the clamping point in a clamping position;
wherein, in the clamping position, the clamping leg is offset from the freestanding edge in the conductor insertion direction so that, when clamped, the at least one electrical conductor is bent around the freestanding edge so as to provide an interlocking effect;
wherein a second edge of the hole opposite the freestanding edge forms a second freestanding edge, and wherein, in the clamping position, the clamping edge is aligned with a central portion of the hole so that, when clamped, the at least one electrical conductor is bent around the second freestanding edge.
2. The clamping spring device as recited in claim 1 wherein the freestanding edge projects toward the clamping leg.
3. The clamping spring device as recited in claim 1 wherein the support includes a tongue having a free end cut and bent out of a plane of the support, the freestanding edge projecting from the tongue.
4. The clamping spring device as recited in claim 1 wherein the clamping edge defines an indentation configured to partially encircle the at least one electrical conductor when clamped.
5. A clamping spring device for an elastic clamp for attaching at least one electrical conductor, comprising:
a support defining a hole, an edge of the hole forming a freestanding edge; and
a clamping leg disposed at an end of a spring leg, the clamping leg projecting toward the support at an acute angle so as to form a receiving space between the clamping leg and the support, the receiving space narrowing in a conductor insertion direction from a conductor insertion side toward a clamping point and being configured to receive the at least one electrical conductor inserted in a lengthwise direction of the at least one electrical conductor, the clamping leg including a clamping edge on a face thereof so as to be capable of clamping the at least one electrical conductor between the clamping edge and the support at the clamping point in a clamping position;
wherein, in the clamping position, the clamping leg is offset from the freestanding edge in the conductor insertion direction so that, when clamped, the at least one electrical conductor is bent around the freestanding edge so as to provide an interlocking effect;
wherein a second edge of the hole opposite the freestanding edge forms a second freestanding edge, and wherein, in the clamping position, the clamping edge is aligned with the hole so that, when clamped, the at least one electrical conductor is bent around the second freestanding edge.
6. The clamping spring device as recited in claim 5 wherein the freestanding edge projects toward the clamping leg.
7. The clamping spring device as recited in claim 5 wherein the clamping edge defines an indentation configured to partially encircle the at least one electrical conductor when clamped.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for analyzing and evaluating of at least one anatomical structure in a medical image, said medical image representing at least a part of a patient or person, said method comprising the steps of:
a. mapping and registering the medical image to a reference image thereby segmenting the medical image, wherein the reference image is a segmented medical image based on and averaged over a plurality of medical images obtained from normal persons,
b. analysing the segmented medical image for calculating the volume andor providing the shape of the said anatomical structure(s), and
c. providing a confidence interval of the volume andor the shape of the analysed anatomical structure(s) based on individual data of the patient or person by analysing a database comprising information of normal volume andor shape of said anatomical structure(s) corresponding to said individual data thereby quantifying the normality of said anatomical structure(s).
2. The method according to claim 1 wherein said individual data comprises information about at least one of: gender, age, height, weight, genotype, ethnicity, habits, handedness, cognitive measures andor nationality of the patient or person.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the medical image is normalized prior to analysis of said medical image.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the confidence interval of the volume andor the shape is provided as:
at least one numerical value,
andor
a graphical representation in the analysed medical image andor in the reference image.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the medical image comprises at least a part of the brain of the patient or person.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the medical mage is a magnetic resonance image, a CT image, or an ultrasound image.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the analysed anatomical structure(s) is any segmentable brain structure selected from the group of hippocampus, amygdala, putamen, pons, thalamus, global pallidus, brainstem or cerebellum.
8. The method according to claim 1 for diagnosing a disease, andor diagnosing the initial stage of a disease, said diagnosis based on the normality andor the confidence interval of the analysed volume andor shape of the at least one anatomical structure.
9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the disease is selected from the group of depression, Alzheimer, epilepsy, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, or Parkinson’s disease.
10. A computer program product having a non-transitory computer readable medium, said computer program product providing a system for analysis and evaluation of at least one anatomical structure in a medical image, said medical image representing at least a part of a patient or person, said computer program product comprising means for carrying out all the steps of the method according to claim 1.