Influence of synchronous and sequential stimulation on muscle fatigue.

abstract：:Induction coils were fabricated based on flexible printed circuit board for inductive transcutaneous power transmission. The coil had closed magnetic circuit (CMC) structure consisting of inner and outer magnetic core. The power transmission efficiency of the fabricated device was measured in the air and in vivo condi...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Jo SE,Joung S,Suh JK,Kim YJ

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue hardness is related to tissue composition, and this is often changed by disease. It is therefore of interest to measure the hardness in an objective and non-invasive way. A tactile sensor based on a vibrating piezoelectric ceramic element in a feedback loop is described. When the sensor touches an object it pro...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Eklund A,Bergh A,Lindahl OA

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system, to collect, analyse and display biological data, is developed using IBM PC AT compatibles (PCs) or CED1401/1609 devices networked to a VAX environment. It can be operated in three separate modes: using the CED/IEEE/VAX network; using the PC/Ethernet/VAX network; as a standalone PC. The original system compri...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Marlow SP,Mackenzie DA,Tomlinson JB

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented for automatic analysis of the P-wave, based on lead II of a 12-lead standard ECG, in resting conditions during a routine examination for the detection of patients prone to atrial fibrillation (AF), one of the most prevalent arrhythmias. First, the P-wave was delineated, and this was achieved in t...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Clavier L,Boucher JM,Lepage R,Blanc JJ,Cornily JC

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Portable biomedical instrumentation has become an important part of diagnostic and treatment instrumentation, including telemedicine applications. Low-voltage and low-power design tendencies prevail. Modern battery cell voltages in the range of 3-3.6 V require appropriate circuit solutions. A two-electrode biopotentia...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Dobrev D

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Divided attention is defined as focusing on different tasks at once, and this is described as one of the biggest problems of today's society. Default examinations for understanding attention are questionnaires or physiological signals, like evoked potentials and electroencephalography. Physiological records were obtai...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Batbat T,Güven A,Dolu N

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we introduce a novel simulation technique to incorporate delineation errors into radiotherapy treatment margins and combine them with organ motion and set-up errors to investigate the cumulative dosimetric effects in different tumour sites. The effects of applying patient realignment correction protocol...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Mzenda B,Hosseini-Ashrafi M,Palmer A,Liu H,Brown DJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many successful models to describe the biomechanical characteristics of planar biological soft tissues are based on strain energy function. However, the parameters in these models are determined by biaxial extension test, which might be difficult to exercise for certain types of soft tissue. This study presents a new ...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Li L,Qian X,Wang H,Hua L,Zhang H,Liu Z

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tortuosity of retinal blood vessels is an important diagnostic indicator for a number of retinal pathologies. We applied robust quantitative tortuosity metrics, which are well suited to automated detection and measurement, to retinal fluorescein images of normal and diseased vessels exhibiting background diabetic ...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Dougherty G,Johnson MJ,Wiers MD

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An original numerical method is developed to compute the 3D electric potential generated by a dot-contact cuff electrode implanted around an axisymmetrical, inhomogeneous, anisotropic nerve. The technique is based on a 2D finite-element approach coupled with a semi-analytical Fourier spectral decomposition to approxim...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Parrini S,Delbeke J,Romero E,Legat V,Veraart C

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accelerometer is used for mechanomyogram (MMG) recordings of muscle contractions. Although the mechanical characteristics of other MMG transducers have been determined with reference to the accelerometer, mechanical aspects of the accelerometer itself, including the weight of the transducer, have not been verified...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Watakabe M,Mita K,Akataki K,Ito K

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method of stimulation of the lower extremities was devised that automatically adjusts the stimulation conditions at any angle of the knee joint. An M-wave is considered to indicate the stimulation conditions, because it is the waveform that results from direct stimulation to the axon of the alpha motor neuron. T...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Tanabe S,Muraoka Y,Tomita Y

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for accurately finding cardiac bidomain conductivity parameters is a crucial part of efforts to study and understand the electrical functioning of the heart. The bidomain model considers current flowing along (longitudinal) and across (transverse) sheets of cardiac fibres, as well as between these sheets (nor...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Johnston BM,Johnston PR

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe upper airway obstruction in patients with sleep apnea syndrome, the steady state solutions of a simple model of local pharyngeal obstruction were studied. Importantly, the present model embodies a series of two individualised elements, each having its own compliance, which enables the consideration, from a...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Fodil R,Ribreau C,Louis B,Lofaso F,Isabey D

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fitting the measured bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) data to the Cole model and then extracting the Cole parameters is a common practice in BIS applications. The extracted Cole parameters then can be analysed as descriptors of tissue electrical properties. To have a better evaluation of physiological or pathological p...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Gholami-Boroujeny S,Bolic M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OKAS-3D is a further development of the single floating circle target tracker. This tracker consists of a cathode ray tube display, a lens in front of the display and a circular light-sensitive photocell placed in the image field of the lens. A small circular trace generated on the screen is focused around the photoce...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Naeije M,Van der Weijden JJ,Megens CC

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral arterial occlusive disease is a serious cardiovascular disorder. The arterial occlusion leads to turbulent flow and arterial sound generation on the inner vessel wall. Stenosis-induced vibro-acoustic waves propagate through the surrounding soft tissues and reach the skin surface. In this study, the feasibil...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Salman HE,Yazicioglu Y

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mean arterial pressure (MAP) is determined in most automated oscillometric blood pressure devices, but its derivation has been little studied. In this research, different techniques were studied and compared with the auscultatory technique. Auscultatory systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP) were obtained...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Zheng D,Amoore JN,Mieke S,Murray A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thousands of patients receive human tissue grafts every year. Developments in cell and tissue engineering have also increased considerably the number of available products of human origin. France has very strict regulations, in part stimulated by problems of public health and ethics that have emerged in recent years a...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Pascal P,Damour O,Colpart JJ,Braye F

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work addresses the problem of estimating the conduction velocity (CV) of single motor unit (MU) action potentials from surface EMG signals detected with linear electrode arrays during voluntary muscle contractions. In ideal conditions, that is without shape or scale changes of the propagating signals and with add...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Farina D,Muhammad W,Fortunato E,Meste O,Merletti R,Rix H

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An automatic power-generating system (AGS) which converts kinetic energy into electric energy for quartz watches was tested as a power source for implantable cardiac pacemakers. An automatic power-generating mechanism and a capacitor (0.33 F) were removed from a quartz watch (SEIKO) and encapsulated in a polyvinyl cas...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Goto H,Sugiura T,Harada Y,Kazui T

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system, especially for chest radiograph or chest X-ray (CXR) screening, CXR image view information is required. Automatically separating CXR image view, frontal and lateral can ease subsequent CXR screening process, since the techniques may not equally work for both views. We presen...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Santosh KC,Wendling L

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The starting point of this paper is the analysis of the reference problem in intra-cerebral electroencephalographic (iEEG) recordings. It is well accepted that both surface and depth EEG signals are always recorded with respect to some unknown time-varying signal called reference. This article discusses different meth...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Madhu N,Ranta R,Maillard L,Koessler L

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taking advantage of motion sensing technology, a quantitative assessment method for lower limbs motor function of cerebral palsy (CP) based on the gross motor function measurement (GMFM)-24 scale was explored in this study. According to the motion analysis on GMFM-24 scale, we translated the assessment problem of GMFM...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Chen X,Wu Q,Tang L,Cao S,Zhang X,Chen X

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents model predictive controllers (MPCs) and multi-parametric model-based controllers for delivery of anaesthetic agents. The MPC can take into account constraints on drug delivery rates and state of the patient but requires solving an optimization problem at regular time intervals. The multi-parametr...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Dua P,Dua V,Pistikopoulos EN

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis proteins are related to many diseases. Obtaining the subcellular localization information of apoptosis proteins is helpful to understand the mechanism of diseases and to develop new drugs. At present, the researchers mainly focus on the primary protein sequences, so there is still room for improvement in the...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Ruan X,Zhou D,Nie R,Hou R,Cao Z

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) with biventricular pacing (BV) is an established therapy for heart failure (HF) patients with inter- and intraventricular conduction delay. The aim of this pilot study was to test the feasibility of both transesophageal measurement of left ventricular (LV) electrical delay and t...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Heinke M,Ismer B,Kühnert H,Figulla HR

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood oxygenation level is an important measure that can be used alongside functional magnetic resonance imaging data in order to obtain closer correlates of neuronal activation. A robust estimate of this measure has thus far not been demonstrated. This is mainly due to the lack of knowledge of the underlying paramete...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Dagher J,Du YP

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the principle of backscattering of laser radiation from tissues, a non-invasive PC-AT based reflectance imaging technique is developed. The laser beam from a semiconductor laser operating at 670 nm is guided to the tissue site by an optical fibre. The backscattered radiation is collected by another fibre plac...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Shanthi S,Singh M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of multifunctional nanoparticle has enabled numerous innovative strategies in diagnostics, imaging, and cancer therapy. Despite the intense research efforts in developing new nanoparticles and surface bonding ligands, one major obstacle in achieving highly effective treatment, including minimizing detriment...

journal_title：Medical & biological engineering & computing

authors： Xu Z,Kleinstreuer C

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00