Real-time 3D visual tracking of laparoscopic instruments for robotized endoscope holder.

abstract：:This study investigates the radiation safety of a newly designed magnetic induction sensor. This novel magnetic induction sensor uses a two-arm Archimedean spiral coil (TAASC) as the exciter. A human head model with a real anatomical structure was used to calculate the specific absorption rate (SAR) and temperature ch...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Zhang Z,Liu P,Zhou D,Zhang L,Ding L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The periodontal ligament (PDL), which maintains homeostasis in the periodontium, is a group of specialized connective tissue fibers attached to both the cementum and alveolar bone. Regeneration of periodontium with PDL cells has been investigated, and the chemical and molecular structures of scaffolds contro...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Fujita K,Nozaki K,Horiuchi N,Yamashita K,Miura H,Nagai A

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：: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：:The mechanical properties of a contracting smooth muscle can be changed by changing its length. A viscoelastic material model was developed to predict the length-dependent stiffness changes when a constrained muscle is allowed to shorten under a constant external force. Three-dimensional finite element simulations wer...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Pidaparti RM,Liu Y,Meiss RA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, there is an increasing utilization and demand to use magnetic fields in bioengineering applications due to its beneficial effects. Although in the last decade more attention has been given by tribologists to the electromagnetic processes taking place between sliding surfaces, which influence the tribo...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Zaki M,Aljinaidi A,Hamed M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Level set method has been widely used in medical image analysis, but it has difficulties when being used in the segmentation of left ventricular (LV) boundaries on echocardiography images because the boundaries are not very distinguish, and the signal-to-noise ratio of echocardiography images is not very high. In this...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Zhang Y,Gao Y,Li H,Teng Y,Kang Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to verify the effect of indoor horse riding exercise on basal physical exercise and lumbar muscular function. The subjects included were 20 healthy females, who participated in the horse riding exercise using SRider (Rider Co. & ChonbuK National Univ, Korea) for 30 minutes per day, 3 days per ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Yu CH,Hong CU,Kang SR,Kwon TK

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The balance between extracellular inorganic phosphate (ePi) and extracellular inorganic pyrophosphate (ePPi) is controlled by four membrane proteins: the transporters ANK (exporting PPi outside the cells) and PiT-1 (importing ePi into the cells), and the enzymes PC-1 (generating ePPi from nucleotides) and Tissue Non-s...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Hamade T,Bianchi A,Sebillaud S,Netter P,Jouzeau JY,Cailotto F

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response syndrome with high mortality, which results from severe infection and can lead to secondary organ dysfunction. It is one of the most common cause of death in intensive care unit. Clinical reports have shown that sepsis was often accompanied by thyroid dysfunction, which is ca...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Luo B,Yu Z,Li Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current density of Ti-56mass%Ni (Ti-50at.%) alloy after abrasion in simulated bioliquids was measured using a potentiostat to estimate the amount of metallic ions released from the alloy during repassivation and maturation. The current density in saline, saline with and without N2 bubbling, and Hanks' solutions wi...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Watarai M,Hanawa T,Moriyama K,Asaoka K

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：: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：:Chimerism analysis has become an important tool to manage patients in the peri-transplant period of allogenic stem cell transplantation. During this period, cells of donor and host origin can coexist and increasing proportion of cells of host origin is considered as a recurrence of the underlying disease. We currently...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Decot V,Latger-Cannard V,Lecompte T,Clément L,Salmon A,Bordigoni P,Stoltz JF,Bensoussan D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physical activity plays a tremendous role in determining bone mechanical behavior, which is superimposed to gravidity. OBJECTIVE:Compare the geometric and material responses of the rat femur to a high intensity treadmill running training of a relatively short duration, as assessed by 3-point mechanical test...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Bozzini C,Viscor G,Kristjánsson JCR,Picasso E,Champin G,Alippi RM,Bozzini CE

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since adhesive technology was introduced into dental field, metal-based restoration has been gradually replaced by metal-free restoration. Using the adhesive technology, minimum invasive technique has been possible in daily clinical practice as well as esthetic tooth-colored restorations have become very popular all o...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Nagano F,Selimovic D,Noda M,Ikeda T,Tanaka T,Miyamoto Y,Koshiro K,Sano H

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resorbable ceramics can promote the bony integration of implants. Their rate of degradation should ideally be synchronized with bone regeneration. This study examined the effect of rapidly resorbable calcium phosphate ceramics 602020, GB14, 305020 on adherence, proliferation and morphology of human bone-derived cells ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Radetzki F,Wohlrab D,Zeh A,Delank KS,Mendel T,Berger G,Syrowatka F,Mayr O,Bernstein A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the ability of assessing the refractive change induced by myopic laser surgery using the intrinsic data, obtained from a reference intrinsic to the cornea. Twenty-nine eyes with laser in situ keratomileusis for myopia were included in the study. Statistical analyses were performed to determine the relation...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Liu Y,Wang Z,Wang Y

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：:This paper presents an X-ray diffraction method of measuring the residual stress/strain in bone tissue of rabbit's tibia. To derive the residual stress, bone powder of the diameter less than 40 micrometers was used as a control specimen at non-stressed state. From the X-ray measurements, it was clear that the distribu...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Tadano S,Okoshi T

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Correlation-based feature selection (CFS) using neighborhood mutual information (NMI) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) are combined into an ensemble technique in this paper. Based on this observation, an efficient gene selection algorithm, denoted by NMICFS-PSO, is proposed. Several cancer recognition tasks are g...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Xu J,Sun L,Gao Y,Xu T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Milkvetch root as a medicine has been used for more over 2000 years in China, can strengthen immune function, protect liver, promote urination, resist aging and stress, reduce blood pressure and extensively resist bacterium. This study explored the effects of milkvetch root on the immune function of patients with a de...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Jiang D,Wang X,Su Q,Jiang S,Yuan F,Zhang C,Gong F,Dong Q,Shi J,Chen B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface roughness has been considered as an important influencing factor for cell response. The aim of this study was to find out whether MC3T3-E1 cells, a mouse osteoblast-like cell line, can sense the amplitudes of surface topography of titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V), and if surface-dependent cell morphology would be pres...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wu C,Chen M,Zheng T,Yang X

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most drug delivery systems as treatment modalities for osteomyelitis have not been evaluated for resistant infections. Tigecycline (TG) is an antimicrobial agent that could be used in the treatment of multi-drug-resistant orthopedic infections. The objective of this in vitro study has been to determine what dosage of ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Ignjatović NL,Ninkov P,Sabetrasekh R,Lyngstadaas SP,Uskoković DP

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The cilia, presenting a rotational movement in the embryonic nodes, play a crucial role in the left-right specification during embryogenesis. The characteristic architecture of these cilia is based on a cylindrical arrangement of 9 doublet microtubules and the motion of the cilia is triggered by the dynein motors loca...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Chen D,Zhong Y,Shinohara K,Nishida T,Hasegawa T,Hamada H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous literatures have indicated that hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) neurons are important for regulating the level of sympathetic and vagal nervous activity. Sympathovagal balance is closely related to heart rate variability (HRV). However, it still requires further elucidation regarding the effect of ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Deng X,Feng X,Li S,Gao Y,Yu B,Li G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental results on the platelet adhesion, and CHO cell adhesion and growth onto nonionic surfactant which is composed of a long alkyl chain (n = 12-18) as the hydrophobic part, and a polyethyleneoxide (PEO) segment (n = 10-23) as the hydrophilic part coated and air-plasma treated PSf surfaces are presented in ter...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Khang G,Jeong BJ,Lee HB,Park JB

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00