In vivo rat knee cartilage volume measurement using quantitative high resolution MRI (7 T): feasibility and reproducibility.

abstract：UNLABELLED:It is suggested that nanophase hydroxyapatite (nHAP) might have advantages over conventional hydroxyapatite (cHAP) as a biomaterial for bone regeneration. To be a satisfactory candidate for bone tissue engineering, it is important to support the growth and differentiation of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal s...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Zhou GS,Su ZY,Cai YR,Liu YK,Dai LC,Tang RK,Zhang M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have stressed on the sensitivity of stress distribution in different mechanical properties of the articular cartilage and subchondral bone. The purpose of this study was to establish parametric variations of mechanical factors individually and examine how these biomechanical effects influenced the cartilag...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wang Y,Wei HW,Yu TC,Cheng CK

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxyapatite is widely utilized as a component in dental hygiene agents. The ability to adsorb and remove dental plaque adhering to tooth surfaces is recognized as an important property of hydroxyapatite particles. In this study, the adsorptive ability of hydroxyapatite was evaluated based on its adsorptive amount a...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Niwa M,Li W,Sato T,Daisaku T,Aoki H,Aoki H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of lung cancer cells is very important to the clinical diagnosis of lung cancer. In this paper we present a novel method to extract the structure characteristics of lung cancer cells and automatically recognize their types. Firstly soft mathematical morphology methods are used to enhance the grayscale imag...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Chen YC,Hu KH,Li FZ,Li SY,Su WF,Huang ZY,Hu YX

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A driver's response to a front-coming vehicle collision consists of braking reaction time and braking behavior. The purpose was to investigate drivers' responses at different speeds, relative distances, and particularly the behavior on the accelerator at the collision moment. Twelve young men participated in driving s...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Gao Z,Li C,Hu H,Zhao H,Chen C,Yu H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wearable robotic devices provide safe and intensive rehabilitation, enabling repeated motions for motor function recovery in stroke patients. The aim of this small case series was to demonstrate the training effects of a three-week robotic leg orthosis, and to investigate possible mechanisms of the sensory-motor alter...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Li L,Ding L,Chen N,Mao Y,Huang D,Li L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Age is the most important risk factor for primary osteoarthritis (OA). Members of the TGF-β superfamily play a crucial role in chondrocyte differentiation and maintenance of healthy articular cartilage. OBJECTIVE:We have investigated whether age-related changes in TGF-β superfamily signaling components play...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： van der Kraan PM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gait analysis, such as portable gait rhythmogram (PGR), provides objective information that helps in the quantitative evaluation of human locomotion. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability of PGR in post-stroke patients. METHODS:Two raters (A and B) examined 48 post-stroke patien...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Miyata R,Matsumoto S,Miura S,Kawamura K,Uema T,Miyara K,Niibo A,Hoei T,Ogura T,Shimodozono M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acrylic resins have been used in many different applications in dentistry, especially in the fabrication of provisional fixed partial dentures. Ideally, a provisional crown and bridge material should be easy to handle and should protect teeth against physical, chemical, and thermal injuries. Some of the problems assoc...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Panyayong W,Oshida Y,Andres CJ,Barco TM,Brown DT,Hovijitra S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The method used in this paper is developed to estimate the degree of viscoelasticity of the blood vessel wall in a noninvasive mechanical method. In this proposed method, we can obtain an output waveform connected with mechanical behavior of blood vessels by using Ultrasonic Doppler Effect Sensory (UDES). Characterizi...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Yoshinari H,Yokobori AT Jr,Ohkuma T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxyapatite was coated with 1 microm thickness on titanium columns of a length of 10 mm, an outer diameter of 4.0 mm by radio frequency magnetron sputtering. The hydroxyapatite coating titanium columns were implanted in the diaphysis of femora of 3 adult dogs, and push-out test was carried out after 2, 4 and 12 wee...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Ozeki K,Yuhta T,Aoki H,Nishimura I,Fukui Y

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to design a statistical segmentation technique to allow extraction of grey matter, white matter and cerebral spinal fluid volumes from diffusion tensor imaging. Four channel maps of the DTI are used as the input features, which provide more information for brain tissue segmentation compared wi...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wen Y,He L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a common tool in regenerative medicine. The nanoscale extracellular vesicles (nEVs) secreted by these cells were recently brought up to light thanks to their therapeutic potential. In this study, we assessed the in vitro behaviour of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) exp...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Dostert G,Willemin AS,Jouan-Hureaux V,Louis H,Hupont S,Gillet P,Menu P,Decot V,Moby V,Velot É

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has been used to solubilize freeze-dried chitosan (CS) formulations to form injectable implants for tissue repair. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the in vitro performance of the formulations depends on the type of PRP preparation used to solubilize CS. METHODS:Formulations contai...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Ghazi Zadeh L,Chevrier A,Lamontagne M,Buschmann MD,Hoemann CD,Lavertu M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scallop shell powder is called bioshell calcium oxide (BiSCaO), which is known to possess deodorizing properties and broad antimicrobial activity against various pathogenic microbes, including viruses, bacteria, spores, and fungi. OBJECTIVE:This study aims to investigate the applications of BiSCaO suspensio...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Takayama T,Ishihara M,Sato Y,Nakamura S,Fukuda K,Murakami K,Yokoe H

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the single channel speech enhancement system using subband Kalman filtering by estimating optimal Autoregressive (AR) coefficients and variance for speech and noise, using Weighted Linear Prediction (WLP) and Noise Weighting Function (NWF). The system is applied for normal and Oesophageal speech si...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Ishaq R,García Zapirain B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the comprehensive biomechanical properties of the cancellous bone of distal femur through a series of mechanical tests, and provide relevant subjects with the basic technical data. BACKGROUND:The study on bone mechanics is a commonly used approach to evaluate the biomechanical competency of bone. Th...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Du C,Ma H,Ruo M,Zhang Z,Yu X,Zeng Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, a new method for individual tooth segmentation was proposed. The proposed method is composed of enhancement and extraction of boundary and seed of watershed algorithm using trisection areas by morphological characteristic of teeth. The watershed algorithm is one of the conventional methods for tooth seg...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Na SD,Lee G,Lee JH,Kim MN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To establish a method for mouse coronary angiography in vivo using synchrotron radiation, which is essential for physiological and pathological research on coronary diseases. METHODS:1) The imaging parameters (e.g., photon energy, spatial resolution of the detector, and injection rate of contrast agent) optima...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Xu L,Zhang A,Du G,Xie H,Chen Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based upon previous research on the relation between hip prosthesis designs and strain distributions in a proximal femur model, a prototype of a "physiological" hip prosthesis was designed and manufactured. Strain gauge measurements on a dry femur before and after implantation of this prosthesis were made in different...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Vander Sloten J,Labey L,Van Audekercke R,Van der Perre G

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High order partial least squares (HOPLS) is a novel data processing method. It is highly suitable for building prediction model which has tensor input and output. The objective of this study is to build a prediction model of the relationship between sinoatrial node field potential and high glucose using HOPLS. The thr...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Feng Y,Cao H,Zhang Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents a novel spatial registration method of Image-guided neurosurgery system (IGNS) based on stereo-vision. Images of the patient's head are captured by a video camera, which is calibrated and tracked by an optical tracking system. Then, a set of sparse facial data points are reconstructed from them by ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： An Y,Wang M,Song Z

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous constitutive models describing the mechanical properties of tendons have been proposed during the past few decades. However, few were widely used owing to the lack of implementation in the general finite element (FE) software, and very few systematic studies have been done on selecting the most appropriate pa...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Tang CY,Ng GY,Wang ZW,Tsui CP,Zhang G

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Some computer applications for cell characterization in medicine and biology, such as analysis of surface structure of cell wall-deficient EVC (El Tor Vibrio of Cholera), operate with cell samples taken from very small areas of interest. In order to perform texture characterization in such an application, only a few t...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Li S,Hu K,Cai N,Su W,Xiong H,Lou Z,Lin T,Hu Y

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Repairing contour defects is a challenge in plastic surgery. Different filling materials have been used with inadequate results and complications. The autologous fat transfer is the standard technique at the moment, but adipose tissue reserves are limited. The aim of our study was to compare in vivo on an ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Mojallal A,Lequeux C,Auxenfans C,Braye F,Damour O

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Longitudinal stent compression (LSC) is a new failure mode not previously observed in coronary stents. This phenomenon occurs when the physician tries to cross the deployed stent with other devices. While this phenomenon has been observed with a number of stent designs, it seems more common with the Element stent. A c...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Hsiao HM,Yeh CT,Chiu YH,Wang C,Chen CP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Understanding the biomechanical properties of hernia meshes is essential in facilitating their selection. The aim of this study was to evaluate the mechanical compatibility of hernia meshes and human abdominal fascia and assess their applicability in hernia repair. METHODS:Uniaxial tensile tests were perform...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Doneva M,Pashkouleva D

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00