Failures of yttria-stabilised tetragonal zirconia: 52 retrieved ceramic femoral heads of total hip prostheses.

abstract：:In this study, a computer-aided detection (CAD) system was developed for the detection of lung nodules in computed tomography images. The CAD system consists of four phases, including two-dimensional and three-dimensional preprocessing phases. In the feature extraction phase, four different groups of features are extr...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Demir Ö,Yılmaz Çamurcu A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A potassium-doped synthetic apatite was prepared by soaking hydroxyapatite in potassium carbonate and potassium chloride solutions. The hydroxyapatite was prepared by firing slip cast ceramic bodies in vacuum at 1100 degrees C. The conical ceramic samples and a crushed material of this were soaked in carbonate and chl...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Nordström EG,Karlsson KH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One goal of functional tissue engineering is to manufacture scaffolds infiltrated with chondrocytes which are suitable for transplantation into the lesion areas of articular cartilage. Various research strategies are used to fabricate cartilage transplants which would have the correct phenotype, contain enough extrace...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Pulkkinen H,Tiitu V,Lammentausta E,Laasanen MS,Hämäläinen ER,Kiviranta I,Lammi MJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DMPC and DSPC liposomes were prepared via thin film hydration method followed by sonication. Propranolol solution was incorporated into liposomes at hydration stage. TEM images showed the sizes of DSPC and DMPC were around 88 and 137 nm, respectively. The highest encapsulation ratio of propranolol was approximately 70...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Teong B,Kuo SM,Chen CH,Chen YK,Cheng ZJ,Huang HH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new training system that can adjust training intensity and indicate the center pressure of a subject was proposed by applying controlled electric current to the Magneto-Rheological damper. The experimental studying on the muscular activities were performed in lower extremities during maintaining and moving exercises...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Yu CH,Piao YJ,Kim K,Kwon TK

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection of stent and balloon type is decisive in the stenting process. In the treatment of an eccentric plaque obstruction, a symmetric expansion from stent dilatation generates nonuniform stress distribution, which may aggravate fibrous cap prone to rupture. This paper developed a new stent design to treat ecce...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Syaifudin A,Takeda R,Sasaki K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-binding proteins are involved and play a crucial role in a lot of important biological processes. Hence, the identification of the DNA-binding proteins is a challenging and significant problem. In order to reveal the intrinsic information correlated to DNA-binding, nine classes of candidate features based on diffe...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Guan C,Niu X,Shi F,Yang K,Li N

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dry emulsion containing curcumin (DE-CUR) was prepared for oral delivery of poorly water-soluble curcumin, and its oral bioavailability and antiasthmatic efficacy was evaluated. After comparison of the solubility of curcumin in various oils, Plurol® Oleique CC497 was selected to be the oil phase due to its higher solu...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Jang DJ,Kim ST,Oh E,Lee K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surface replication is a nondestructive evaluation technique applied in examining surface wear by recording surface irregularities, especially in conditions when surfaces of interest cannot be further manipulated to fit directly under a microscope to be examined. Enamel is the outermost protective layer of t...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Ijbara M,Wada K,Wada J,Jayawardena JA,Miyashin M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances of fundamental research on the in vitro generation of red blood cells (RBCs) from hematopoietic stem cells in the laboratory open new possibilities of the utilization of cultured RBCs in transfusion medicine. We study the economic challenge of the setup and development of the mass industrial production...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Mercier Ythier J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The finite element (FE) method has been widely used to investigate the mechanism of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), because it is technically difficult to quantify the responses of the brain tissues to the impact in experiments. One of technical challenges to build a FE model of a human head is the modeling of the ce...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wu JZ,Pan CS,Wimer BM,Rosen CL

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of hydroxyapatite sol (HAm) which is composed of unheating hydroxyapatite microcrystal particle on cell proliferation and alkaline phophatase activity in osteoblastic MC3T3-E1 cells, was examined in the presence or absence of fetal calfe serum (FCS) in the medium. In the absence of FCS, HAm inhibited the ce...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Iwakami T,Imai T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modeling of thermal-induced mechanical behaviors of soft tissues is of great importance for thermal ablation. This paper presents a method by integrating the heating process with thermal-induced mechanical deformations of soft tissues for simulation and analysis of the thermal ablation process. This method combines bi...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Li X,Zhong Y,Jazar R,Subic A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue engineering is a multidisciplinary field that applies the principles of engineering, life sciences, cell and molecular biology toward the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, and improve tissue function. In Western Countries, tissues or cells management for clinical uses is a medical ac...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： de Isla N,Huseltein C,Jessel N,Pinzano A,Decot V,Magdalou J,Bensoussan D,Stoltz JF

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The simulated Doppler blood flow signals are widely used to assess the performance of the clutter filters for removing wall components while reserving low-velocity signals scattered from physiological blood flow approaching the inner vessel-wall injured by a stenosed lesion. OBJECTIVE:By simultaneously taki...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Gao L,Zhang Y,Zhou Y,Hu X,Deng L,Zhang K,Cai G,Zhang J

更新日期：2016-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel multicomponent nano-hydroxyapatite-poly(D,L-lactide-co-glycolide)-collagen biomaterial (nHAP-PLGA-collagen) with mechanical properties similar to human cancellous bone. To demonstrate the bone forming capacity of nHAP-PLGA-collagen prior to in vivo experiments, nHAP-PLGA-collagen films and 3D...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Bhuiyan DB,Middleton JC,Tannenbaum R,Wick TM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the deterioration in the superelasticity of Ti-coated NiTi orthodontic wires, titanium was coated onto wires to form a 1-microm thick film using radio frequency magnetron sputtering. In superelasticity cycle tests, the sigma5.0 value (the stress at 5.0% strain) of a Ti-coated wire was lower than that of a ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Ozeki K,Yuhta T,Aoki H,Asaoka T,Daisaku T,Fukui Y

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To build a patient specific respiratory motion model with a low dose, a novel method was proposed that uses a limited number of 3D lung CT volumes with an external respiratory signal. 4D lung CT volumes were acquired for patients with in vitro labeling on the upper abdominal surface. Meanwhile, 3D coordinates of in vi...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Cui X,Gao X,Xia W,Liu Y,Liang Z

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skilled behavior is difficult or impossible to articulate explicitly by the performers. Likewise biomechanical models of skilled motor actions are often limited by the lack of knowledge of the underlying mechanisms. A 'behavioral cloning' technique is described, based on a trained artificial neural network (ANN), that...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Andrews BJ,Davoodi R,Kamnik R,Bajd T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local strains acting across an area of skin loaded uniaxially in vivo are converted to stresses using the standard elastic formulae. The stress values are compared to those obtained using the classical Bossinesq and Michell stress functions. The results indicate that these functions are capable of describing the respo...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wan Abas WA,Asseli MR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of the Co-Cr-Mo dental alloy immersed in artificial salivas (pH 6.7) was investigated over 24 h. Three artificial salivas have been studied: saline saliva (saliva I); saline saliva buffered with phosphate ions (saliva II) and saliva II plus mucin molecules (saliva III). For all the systems, open circuit ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： de Aguiar SR,Nicolai M,Almeida M,Gomes A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous work by the author [H.S. Hedia and M. Nemat-Alla, Design optimization of functionally graded dental implant, submitted to be published in the J. Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering], a functionally graded material dental implant was designed without cansellous bone in the model. In this investigation t...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Hedia HS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shape memory alloys (SMA) are being increasingly used in various industrial applications as actuators, connectors, or damping materials. In the medical field, superelastic devices such as eyeglass frames, stents or guide catheters have come to market in the recent years. The design of SMA devices has usually been base...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Trochu F,Brailovski V,Meunier MA,Terriault P,Qian YY

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-dose computed tomography reconstruction is an important issue in the medical imaging domain. Sparse-view has been widely studied as a potential strategy. Compressed sensing (CS) method has shown great potential to reconstruct high-quality CT images from sparse-view projection data. Nonetheless, low-contrast struct...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Qi H,Chen Z,Guo J,Zhou L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize the structure and to evaluate the cytotoxicity of cellulose nanowhiskers (CNW) prepared from cotton linters. METHODS:A series of CNW dispersions was prepared by hydrolyzing cotton linters with sulfuric acid. The structure of CNW was characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmi...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Ni H,Zeng S,Wu J,Cheng X,Luo T,Wang W,Zeng W,Chen Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection of best material pair in the hip prosthetics design for improved performance and life relies on the estimation of hip joint contact stresses and contact pressure distribution during various dynamic loading cycles: Climbing Upstairs, Climbing downstairs and Knee bending. The maximum Von Mises stress, cont...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Kalayarasan M,Shankar S,Manikandan M,Adithan K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NiTi alloy used in dental prosthetic fixators shows pseudoelastic behaviour and exhibits a great potential in dental and orthopaedic applications where constant correcting loads are required. In order to use such materials in dental prosthetic fixators, where the device is cyclically deformed, it is necessary to inves...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Sabrià J,Cortada M,Giner L,Gil FJ,Fernández E,Manero JM,Planell JA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the influence of Zn on the formation of hydroxyapatite (HA), zinc-containing glass 58S4Z was prepared by substitution of CaO with 4 wt% ZnO in 58S bioactive glass, and Zn-containing simulated body fluid (ZnSBF) was prepared as soaking fluid. During the soaking, all samples could induce the deposition of HA...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Du RL,Chang J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper established the extracting method and algorithm for liposome images on the basis of analyzing the form feature of liposome, and its corresponding automatic analysis software. Some algorithms, such as the logical algorithms of mathematical morphology, the grayscale-gradient co-occurrence matrix-based method ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Haitao X,Kuanghu H,Wanfang S,Shuyu L,Desen S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morse code is now being harnessed for use in rehabilitation applications of augmentative-alternative communication and assistive technology, including mobility, environmental control and adapted worksite access. In this paper, Morse code is selected as a communication adaptive device for disabled persons who suffer fr...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Yang CH,Luo CH,Yang CH,Chuang LY

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00