A method for bonding resin members by laser welding in which melting of a resin member can be prevented on the contact surface with a base or a tool used for bonding. In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining a design description of the integrated circuit that includes a virtual design block, creating a representative netlist for representing the virtual design block, where the representative netlist includes one or more soft design models, and each soft design model comprises one or more template cells for modeling a portion of the integrated circuit. A Viterbi metric is used to determine the direction and magnitude of equalization shift that best compensates for a systematic separation, such as pole tip recession. 9 mm parallel plate of from 3\xd7108 to 1\xd7109 Pa, and a storage modulus at 70\xb0 C. Another swivel ball joint is located at the non-instrument end of the articulated arm, to connect the arm to a support member that is anchorable to a surgical table or other surface. A phase image in a coronal plane direction of a phantom is used to make an estimation of a degree of symmetry of the phase image for each test position of the shimming device.