LDL decreases the membrane compliance and cell adhesion of endothelial cells under fluid shear stress.

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：: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：:This study aimed to quantify the elongation patterns of the collateral ligaments following TKA during functional activities of daily living. Using mobile video-fluoroscopy to capture radiographic images of the knee in a group of six patients, each with an ultra-congruent knee implant, tibiofemoral kinematics were reco...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Hosseini Nasab SH,Smith CR,Schütz P,Damm P,Trepczynski A,List R,Taylor WR

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We and others have shown that changing surface characteristics of the spacer implanted during the first Masquelet stage alters some aspects of membrane development. Previously we demonstrated that titanium (TI) spacers create membranes that are better barriers to movement of solutes > 70 kDa in size than polymethyl me...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Toth Z,Roi M,Evans E,Watson JT,Nicolaou D,McBride-Gagyi S

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-exposure holographic interferometry is a contactless whole-field method. Dimensional changes are visualized as a series of interference fringes overlaid on the holographic image of the femur, where each fringe represents 0.316 micron (half the wavelength of the laser light) of motion. Interferograms for intact ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Ovryn B,Manley MT,Stern LS

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The second equation in the section "Definition of Objective Functions and Constraints" was corrected to fix a mismatch between the PDF and HTML versions of the article. ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Lv C,Wang S,Shi C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early stage changes in hypertensive arteries have a significant effect on the long-term adaptation of the arteries. Compared to the long-term adaptation, little is known about the early dimensional and functional changes in hypertensive arteries in the first few days of hypertension. To study the early stage changes i...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Han HC,Ku DN

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an optical non-contact method for heart beat monitoring, based on the measurement of chest wall movements induced by the pumping action of the heart, which is eligible as a surrogate of electrocardiogram (ECG) in assessing both cardiac rate and heart rate variability (HRV). The method is based on the optica...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Morbiducci U,Scalise L,De Melis M,Grigioni M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pelvic floor muscle (PFM) strength measurement provides useful information for the study of pelvic floor dysfunctions. Vaginal digital palpation, intravaginal pressure measurements, and the use of a dynamometric speculum represent currently available clinical methods for evaluating PFM strength. However, none of these...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Saleme CS,Rocha DN,Del Vecchio S,Silva Filho AL,Pinotti M

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:This article presents a computer-aided detection system for capsule endoscopy (CE) images using contourlet-based color textural features to recognize tumors in the digestive tract. As tumor exhibits rich information in color texture, a novel color texture feature based on contourlet transform is proposed to describe c...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Li B,Meng MQ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular smooth muscle mechanics have been studied in vitro in cylindrical segments of dog carotid artery, human internal mammary artery, and human saphenous vein. Such cylindrical preparations maintain normal vessel geometry and also permit correlation of mechanical phenomena with transmural pressure. These studies s...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Dobrin PB

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed muscle-tendon models incorporating Hill-type structure and length-dependent coupling between activation and velocity. The models were evaluated in electrically stimulated cat soleus muscles. Dynamic model parameters were estimated by a nonlinear parameter estimation algorithm from input-output data obtain...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Shue GH,Crago PE

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The false vocal folds are believed to be components of the acoustic filter that is responsible for shaping the voice. However, the effects of false vocal folds on the vocal fold vibration and the glottal aerodynamic during phonation remain unclear. This effect has implications for computational modeling of phonation a...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Zheng X,Bielamowicz S,Luo H,Mittal R

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, a novel cell stretcher design that mimics the real-time stretch of the heart wall is introduced. By culturing cells under stretched conditions that mimics the mechanical aspects of the native cardiac environment, better understanding on the role of biomechanical signaling on cell development can be achi...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Lau JJ,Wang RM,Black LD 3rd

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation applied for therapy and diagnostics damages molecular/atomic couples of biotissues, bones being among them. As a result, electron peculiarities and mechanical behavior of the latter are altered. Correlation between strength of the irradiated bone and its electron features explored due to photo- and exoelectr...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Dekhtyar Y

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents a novel approach to modeling the electrocardiogram (ECG): the Gaussian pulse decomposition. Constituent waves of the ECG are decomposed into and represented by Gaussian pulses using an iterative algorithm: the chip away decomposition (ChAD) algorithm. At each iteration, a nonlinear minimization met...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Suppappola S,Sun Y,Chiaramida SA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor vasculature damage induced by various thermal treatments has been studied in vivo via laser confocal microscopy. Murine mammary carcinoma 4T1 was implanted in the nude mice dorsal skin fold window chamber. The implanted tumor was treated by alternate cooling and heating. Results showed that the treatment was muc...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Shen Y,Liu P,Zhang A,Xu LX

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncomplicated acute type B aortic dissections are usually treated medically, but they can become acutely complicated by rapid expansion, rupture and malperfusion syndromes and in the longer term by chronic dilatation and aortic aneurysm formation. The objective of this study is to use computational fluid dynamics reco...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Cheng Z,Wood NB,Gibbs RG,Xu XY

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate identification of contracting muscles can help us to understand the muscle function in both physiological and pathological conditions. Conventional electromyography (EMG) have limited access to deep muscles, crosstalk, or instability in the recordings. Accordingly, a novel framework was developed to detect co...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Zheng Y,Shin H,Kamper DG,Hu X

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pia-arachnoid complex (PAC) covering the brain plays an important role in the mechanical response of the brain during impact or inertial loading. Recent studies have revealed the complicated material behavior of the PAC. In this study, the nonlinear viscoelastic, transversely isotropic material properties of the P...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Jin X,Mao H,Yang KH,King AI

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here the first quantitative correlation for cell contact guidance in an oriented fibrillar network in terms of biased cell migration. The correlation is between the anisotropic cell diffusion parameter, DA = Dx/Dy, and the collagen gel birefringence, delta n, a measure of axially biased collagen fibril orie...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Dickinson RB,Guido S,Tranquillo RT

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have developed an integrated microfluidic platform for actively patterning mammalian cells, where poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogels play two important roles as a non-fouling layer and a dielectric structure. The developed system has an embedded array of PEG microwells fabricated on a planar indiu...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Tsutsui H,Yu E,Marquina S,Valamehr B,Wong I,Wu H,Ho CM

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wall Shear Stress (WSS) topological skeleton, composed by fixed points and the manifolds linking them, reflects the presence of blood flow features associated to adverse vascular response. However, the influence of WSS topological skeleton on vascular pathophysiology is still underexplored. This study aimed to identif...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Morbiducci U,Mazzi V,Domanin M,De Nisco G,Vergara C,Steinman DA,Gallo D

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pericellular matrix (PCM) is a region of tissue that surrounds chondrocytes in articular cartilage and together with the enclosed cells is termed the chondron. Previous studies suggest that the mechanical properties of the PCM, relative to those of the chondrocyte and the extracellular matrix (ECM), may significan...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Guilak F,Alexopoulos LG,Haider MA,Ting-Beall HP,Setton LA

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oscillometric fixed-ratio method is widely employed for non-invasive measurement of systolic and diastolic pressures (SP and DP) but is heuristic and prone to error. We investigated the accuracy of this method using an established mathematical model of oscillometry. First, to determine which factors materially aff...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Liu J,Hahn JO,Mukkamala R

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microfluidic devices aim at miniaturizing, automating, and lowering the cost of chemical and biological sample manipulation and detection, hence creating new opportunities for lab-on-a-chip platforms. Recently, optofluidic devices have also emerged where optics is used to enhance the functionality and the performance ...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Bishara W,Isikman SO,Ozcan A

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:We examine the low-frequency limit of hearing of the mammalian ear through the analytical modelling of the natural frequency of the tympanic membrane. The resulting equation of the natural frequency of the modelled tympanic membrane is numerically verified against previous theoretical studies, and is statistically val...

journal_title：Annals of biomedical engineering

authors： Jabaraj DJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 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