Failed attempts and improvement strategies in peripheral intravenous catheterization.

abstract：:Mechanical testing has been performed to characterize the locking strength of Morse taper locks used for reconstruction of large bone defects. Taper joint pairs were locked with a series of compressive loads increasing from 500 to 3500 N. Following each load application the taper locks were distracted with either an a...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Duda GN,Elias JJ,Valdevit A,Chao EY

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a wet method, we have synthesized octacalcium phosphate carbonate, in which HPO42- in octacalcium phosphate is replaced with CO32-. The physical, crystal, and chemical properties of this new material were compared to octacalcium phosphate, Ca-deficient hydroxyapatite, and Ca-deficient carbonate apatite using X-r...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Shen D,Horiuchi N,Nozaki S,Miyashin M,Yamashita K,Nagai A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, clinicians face choices of restoration including amalgams (mercury-based, gallium-based alloys, or mercury-free silver-based substitutes), composite resins, ceramics, and gold alloy. In order to choose an appropriate restorative material, many parameters are involved; they include preparation time requireme...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Miyazaki M,Oshida Y,Xirouchaki L

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(propylene fumarate-co-ethylene glycol) random (PPF-1) and block (PPF-2) copolymer oligomers were prepared. Comparing the setting characteristics of PPF-1 and PPF-2 with comonomer n-vinyl pyrrolidone (n-VP) and swelling characteristics of cured PPF-1 and PPF-2, lower setting temperature and setting time was observ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Jayabalan M,Thomas V,Sreelatha PK

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor imagery EEG-based BCI has advantages in the assistance of human control of peripheral devices, such as the mobile robot or wheelchair, because the subject is not exposed to any stimulation and suffers no risk of fatigue. However, the intensive training necessary to recognize the numerous classes of data makes it...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Yu W,Feng H,Feng Y,Madani K,Sabourin C

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:In this work composite materials, based on quartz fibers and epoxy resins, were employed with the aim to restore damaged teeth. The composite materials were chosen because they show biomechanical features very similar to that of the dentine, the main constituent of the tooth. Extracted teeth were rebuilt with two diff...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Visco AM,Calabrese L,Campo N,Torrisi L,Oteri G,Lo Giudice G,Cicciù D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In order to manufacture pharmaceutical products, real-time monitoring in the manufacturing process is necessary, but large equipment cost is required to achieve it. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this research is to use ultra-violet-visible spectroscopy along with chemometrics procedure to simultaneously carry out qu...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Peerapattana J,Hattori Y,Otsuka M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PVA-hydrogel has excellent biocompatibility as well as preferable tribological characteristics as an artificial articular cartilage. One of the most difficult problems is the attachment of PVA-hydrogel to the underlying bone (or metal substrate). In the present study, the micro-mechanical attachment between the PVA-hy...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Gu ZQ,Xiao JM,Lou SQ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Introduction of a new generation of artificial ligaments for ACL reconstruction, the Ligament Augmentation and Reconstruction System (LARS), gives promising clinical results [1]. The current literature supports the use of LARS from short to medium term. To go even further to improve the biocompatibility of t...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Lessim S,Migonney V,Thoreux P,Lutomski D,Changotade S

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:Microarray data has small samples and high dimension, and it contains a significant amount of irrelevant and redundant genes. This paper proposes a hybrid ensemble method based on double disturbance to improve classification performance. Firstly, original genes are ranked through reliefF algorithm and part of the gene...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Chen T,Xue H,Hong Z,Cui M,Zhao H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial nerve paralysis is a common disease due to nerve damage. Most approaches for evaluating the degree of facial paralysis rely on a set of different facial movements as commanded by doctors. Therefore, automatic recognition of the patterns of facial movement is fundamental to the evaluation of the degree of facial...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wang T,Dong J,Sun X,Zhang S,Wang S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of carbonate in reducing the crystal size of precipitated hydroxyapatite by approximately an order of magnitude has not been used previously in the preparation of gel monoliths for the fabrication of carbonate hydroxyapatite ceramics. The aim of this study was to devise a method whereby gel monoliths of car...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Barralet JE,Best SM,Bonfield W

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:Poly(N-substituted alpha/beta-asparagine) was evaluated as a thermoresponsible and an injectable scaffold for cartilage regeneration. Solutions of this polymer are liquid state below 25 degrees C and nonfluid hydrogel above 35 degrees C, allowing an aqueous solution containing cells at room temperature to form a hydro...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Chueh SK,Tachibana Y,Uyama H,Kobayashi S,Tomita N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we present an evolutive trabecular model for bone remodeling based on a boundary detection algorithm accounting for both biology and applied mechanical forces, known to be an important factor in bone evolution. A finite element (FE) numerical model using the Abaqus/Standard® software was used with a UMAT...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Spingarn C,Wagner D,Rémond Y,George D

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to determine the optimal starting material for the development of an acellular osteochondral graft. Osteochondral tissues from three different species were characterised; pig (6 months), cow (18 months) and two ages of sheep (8-12 months and >4 year old). Tissues from the acetabulum and femoral head o...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Fermor HL,McLure SW,Taylor SD,Russell SL,Williams S,Fisher J,Ingham E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel technique and product for carpal tunnel microscopic surgical procedures using a modified medical device containing a head as a surgical scalpel under light guidance were designed and studied. The novel design of the medical device was developed and applied in a new carpal tunnel microscopic surgical procedure ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Chiang MC,Huang CC

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：:To obtain an appropriate model for the simulation of the biomechanical behavior of brain tissue and the deformation of ventricles, in particular, we have developed a novel computerized plain strain finite element model. For optimum results, a multiple loading solutions approach using various tissue parameters for the ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Farmanzad F,Najarian S,Eslamee MR,Seddighi AS

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：:Food systems are complex and inhomogeneous in nature. Ultrasonic propagation velocity in the food systems, in this case processed milk cream and vegetable oils, is studied. Ultrasonic properties of the food systems are similar to those of complex biological tissues. The presence of vegetable oil as an adulterant in th...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Singh VR,Kumar A

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electrospinning is a highly effective method in order to generate nano-scaled fibers. In conventional electrospinning technique, geometry of nanofibers are mostly random due to the chaotic behavior of polymer jet. OBJECTIVE:Purpose of this study is to produce aligned nanofibers from PVP polymers with advanc...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Karayeğen G,Koçum IC,Çökeli Ler Serdaroğlu D,Doğan M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological, biochemical, mechanical, and structural properties of artificial scaffolds for tissue engineering are known to be of great importance. Therefore, in this study a hydrogel derived scaffold with biomechanical and structural properties similar to native articular cartilage was synthesized. The gelatine-ba...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Zehbe R,Libera J,Gross U,Schubert H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thrust of the present work is the demonstration of the feasibility of using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection and quantification of a monoclonal antibody human serum. The antibodies used, 7E3 and D3GP3, have been proposed as platelet receptor blockers, being directed specifically again...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Lewis G

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：: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