Multiscale Modeling in the Clinic: Drug Design and Development.

abstract：:A model predictive control strategy to simultaneously regulate hemodynamic and anesthetic variables in critical care patients is presented. A nonlinear canine circulatory model, which has been used to study the effect of inotropic and vasoactive drugs on hemodynamic variables, has been extended to include propofol pha...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Rao RR,Bequette BW,Roy RJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the fetal-to-neonatal transition, transvalvular pressures (TVPs) on the aortic and pulmonary valves change dramatically-but differently for each valve. We have examined changes in the molecular stability and crosslinking of collagen during this transition. Aortic and pulmonary valves were harvested from fetal a...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Aldous IG,Lee JM,Wells SM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local hemodynamics are an important factor in atherosclerosis, from the development of early lesions, to the assessment of stroke risk, to determining the ultimate fate of a mature plaque. Until recently, our understanding of arterial fluid dynamics and their relationship to atherosclerosis was limited by the use of i...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Steinman DA

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with cerebral palsy frequently experience foot dragging and tripping during walking due to a lack of adequate knee flexion in swing (stiff-knee gait). Stiff-knee gait is often accompanied by an overly flexed knee during stance (crouch gait). Studies on stiff-knee gait have mostly focused on excessive knee mus...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： van der Krogt MM,Bregman DJ,Wisse M,Doorenbosch CA,Harlaar J,Collins SH

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous stent implantation has revolutionized the clinical treatment of occluded arteries. Nevertheless, there is still a large unmet need to prevent re-occlusion after implantation. Consequently, a niche exists for a cost-effective pre-clinical method of evaluating novel interventional devices in human models. T...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Punchard MA,O'Cearbhaill ED,Mackle JN,McHugh PE,Smith TJ,Stenson-Cox C,Barron V

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past literature has provided evidence that a normal mechanical force environment of blood flow may guide normal development while an abnormal environment can lead to congenital malformations, thus warranting further studies on embryonic cardiovascular flow dynamics. In the current study, we developed a non-invasive 4D...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Ho S,Tan GXY,Foo TJ,Phan-Thien N,Yap CH

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A search for robust noninvasive methods permitting to discern the respiration subtle peculiarities in mammals is a topical issue. A novel approach called "sorption-enhanced infrared thermography" (SEIRT), helping to solve this problem, is described. Its benefits spring from the integration of the infrared thermography...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Vainer BG

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipids have been identified by thin-layer chromatography in appreciable quantities in pericardial fluid taken from 12 dogs and found to include sphingomyelin and phosphatidylcholines, -ethanolamines, -inositols and -serines--the cholines predominating. The extracts, the synthetic surfactants and a mixture of sy...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Hills BA,Butler BD

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulations are useful to study the heart's ability to generate flow and the interaction between contractility and loading conditions. The left ventricular pressure-volume (PV) relation has been shown to be nonlinear, but it is unknown whether a linear model is accurate enough for simulations. Six models were fitted t...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Lankhaar JW,Rövekamp FA,Steendijk P,Faes TJ,Westerhof BE,Kind T,Vonk-Noordegraaf A,Westerhof N

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The compression of blood vessels by surrounding tissue is an important problem in hemodynamics, most prominently in studies relating to the heart. In this study we consider a long tube of elliptic cross section as an idealization of the geometry of a compressed blood vessel. An exact solution of the governing equation...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Haslam M,Zamir M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A kinematic analysis of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is developed to determine the range of motion of the mandible during normal opening and during special motions required for arthroscopic surgery. The translation of the mandible is restricted by the constraint of the ligaments. By accounting for the maximum all...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Kang QS,Updike DP,Salathe EP

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scarcity of data available on the best approach for pulmonary fetal valve replacement or implantation necessitate an investigation on whether practices using adult transcatheter valves could be translated to fetal applications. The objective of this study is to evaluate the hemodynamic characteristics and the turb...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Hatoum H,Gooden S,Heitkemper M,Blum KM,Zakko J,Bocks M,Yi T,Wu YL,Wang Y,Breuer CK,Dasi LP

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid screening of biomarkers, with high specificity and accuracy, is critical for many point-of-care diagnostics. Microfluidics, the use of microscale channels to manipulate small liquid samples and carry reactions in parallel, offers tremendous opportunities to address fundamental questions in biology and provide a ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Ng E,Chen K,Hang A,Syed A,Zhang JX

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblasts are abundant in cardiac tissue. Experimental studies suggested that fibroblasts are electrically coupled to myocytes and this coupling can impact cardiac electrophysiology. In this work, we present a novel approach for mathematical modeling of electrical conduction in cardiac tissue composed of myocytes, f...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Sachse FB,Moreno AP,Seemann G,Abildskov JA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of hemodynamic shear stress on endothelial gene expression was investigated in the porcine iliac arteries. A novel statistical approach was applied to computational fluid dynamics simulations of the iliac artery flow field to identify three anatomical regions likely to experience high, medium, and low level...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： LaMack JA,Himburg HA,Zhang J,Friedman MH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continued progress in the field of Brain Interface (BI) research has encouraged the rapid expansion of the BI community over the last two decades. As the number of BI researchers and organizations steadily increases, newer and more advanced technologies are constantly produced, evaluated, and reported. Though the BI c...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Jackson MM,Mason SG,Birch GE

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesize that variations of body anthropometry, conjointly with the bone strength, determine the risk of hip fracture. To test the hypothesis, we compared, in a simulated sideways fall, the hip impact energy to the energy needed to fracture the femur. Ten femurs from elderly donors were tested using a novel drop...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Palanca M,Perilli E,Martelli S

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Blunt carotid artery injuries occur in 0.3% of blunt injured patients and may lead to devastating neurological consequences. However, arterial mechanics leading to internal layer subfailure have not been quantified. Twenty-two human carotid artery segments and 18 porcine thoracic aorta segments were opened to expose t...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Stemper BD,Yoganandan N,Sinson GP,Gennarelli TA,Stineman MR,Pintar FA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of scaffold compliance on blood vessel tissue engineering remains unclear and compliance mismatch issues are important to an in vivo tissue-engineering approach. We have designed and constructed a modular bioreactor system that is capable of imparting pulsatile fluid flow while simultaneously measuring v...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Webb AR,Macrie BD,Ray AS,Russo JE,Siegel AM,Glucksberg MR,Ameer GA

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue engineering strategies have utilized a wide spectrum of synthetic and naturally-derived scaffold materials. Synthetic scaffolds are better defined and offer the ability to precisely and reproducibly control their properties, while naturally-derived scaffolds typically have inherent biological and structural pro...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Allen AB,Priddy LB,Li MT,Guldberg RE

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative analysis of breast morphometry is critical to breast plastic surgery. Recently, three-dimensional (3D) photography has emerged as a strong new alternative for breast morphometry analysis in comparison to other existing techniques. 3D photography enables the capture of the entire breast surface topology vi...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Chen D,Chittajallu DR,Passalis G,Kakadiaris IA

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified conductance method to determine the cross-sectional areas (CSAs) of arteries in piglets was evaluated in vivo. The method utilized a conductance catheter having four electrodes. Between the outer electrodes an alternating current was applied and between the inner electrodes the induced voltage difference wa...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Kornet L,Jansen JR,Gussenhoven EJ,Hardeman MR,Hoeks AP,Versprille A

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymeric heart valves have the potential to reduce thrombogenic complications associated with current mechanical valves and overcome fatigue-related problems experienced by bioprosthetic valves. In this paper we characterize the in vitro velocity and Reynolds Shear Stress (RSS) fields inside and downstream of three d...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Leo HL,Dasi LP,Carberry J,Simon HA,Yoganathan AP

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear autoregressive (AR) model-based heart rate (HR) spectral analysis has been widely used to study HR dynamics. Owing to system and measurement noise, the parameters of an AR model have intrinsic statistical uncertainty. In this study, we evaluate how this AR parameter uncertainty can translate to uncertainty in H...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Christini DJ,Kulkarni A,Rao S,Stutman ER,Bennett FM,Hausdorff JM,Oriol N,Lutchen KR

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous measurement of arterial blood density after bolus injection of fluids of different density into the right atrium has been used to measure cardiac output and mean transit time through the central circulation. The transit time distribution for density, however, differs from that for plasma-phase tracers such ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Ligas JR,Moslehi F,Epstein MA

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric 75% and 95% area reduction, transparent Sylgard stenotic models were operated under internal carotid artery (ICA) [Womersley parameter, alpha=5.36, Re(mean) =213 and 180, respectively, and Re(peak)=734 and 410, respectively] and left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) flow wave forms (alpha=2.65, Re(...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Cao J,Rittgers SE

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contractile power of the latissimus dorsi muscle (LDM) is used in skeletal muscle cardiac assist (SMCA) to augment the blood pumping ability of a failing heart. The LDM has three anatomically distinct, independently innervate segments-the transverse, oblique, and lateral. There are potential advantages to selectiv...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Thompson DR,Michele JJ,Cheever EA,George DT

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pressure ulcers (PUs) can occur in any situations where people are subjected to non-uniform distribution of pressure over a prolonged period. They can have devastating effects on the patients' well-being and in extreme conditions can prove fatal. In addition to traditional wisdom implicating mechanically induced ischa...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Mirtaheri P,Gjøvaag T,Worsley PR,Bader DL

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet thrombosis under arterial conditions remains a large clinical problem. Previous in vitro experiments have concentrated on early adherence without thrombotic occlusion. We have developed a controllable hemodynamic system that creates intravascular thrombosis to occlusion. Lightly heparinized (3.5 USP units/mL)...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Para A,Bark D,Lin A,Ku D

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work is to develop understanding of the local fluid dynamic mechanisms that underpin gas exchange in high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV). The flow field during HFOV was investigated experimentally using particle image velocimetry in idealized and realistic models of a single bifurcation...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Heraty KB,Laffey JG,Quinlan NJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00