Reliability of the portable gait rhythmogram in post-stroke patients.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accelerated hydrothermal aging has long been one of the most widely accepted quality control tests for simulating low-temperature degradation (LTD) in zirconia-containing implants used in total hip arthroplasty (THA). However, it is still unclear how much consistency there is between the experimental predict...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Tateiwa T,Takahashi Y,Pezzotti G,Shishido T,Masaoka T,Sano K,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Stroke is a major cause of death and disability throughout the world. Subtotal occlusion of the carotid artery is an important risk factor for stroke. Carotid artery stenting (CAS) is increasingly being used for treatment of carotid artery stenosis. There are many reports on treating carotid artery stenosis by CAS; ho...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Zhang C,Wang Z,Zheng H,Qiu Y,He X,Yang H,Liu W

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Robotized endoscope holder in laparoscopic surgeries allows surgeons to control the endoscope without the assistants' intervention. In this paper, a new method is proposed for the automatic 3D-tracking of laparoscopic instruments in real-time to provide more convenient interactions between surgeons and the robotized e...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Zhao Z

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to determine the degradability of aliphatic polyurethanes, based on a different amount of synthetic, atactic poly[(R,S)-3-hydroxybutyrate] (a-PHB), in hydrolytic (phosphate buffer) and oxidative (H2O2/CoCl2) solutions. The soft segments were built with atactic poly[(R,S)-3-hydroxybutyr...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Brzeska J,Janeczek H,Janik H,Kowalczuk M,Rutkowska M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of hydroxyapatite sol (HAm) which is composed of unheating hydroxyapatite microcrystal particle on cell proliferation and alkaline phophatase activity in osteoblastic MC3T3-E1 cells, was examined in the presence or absence of fetal calfe serum (FCS) in the medium. In the absence of FCS, HAm inhibited the ce...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Iwakami T,Imai T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of helmets was considered to be one of the important prevention strategies employed on construction sites. The shock absorption performance of a construction (or industrial) helmet is its most important performance parameter. Industrial helmets will experience cumulative structural damage when being ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wu JZ,Pan CS,Ronaghi M,Wimer BM,Reischl U

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic grafting materials, such as calcium phosphates (hydroxyapatite, HA; tricalcium phosphate, TCP), polymers, or composites thereof, can be used as osteoconductive scaffolds and delivery vehicles for osteoinductive growth factors. Carrier materials must be engineered to deliver these factors in a controlled fash...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Santoni BG,Pluhar GE,Motta T,Wheeler DL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sunscreens that absorb UV light without photodegradation could reduce skin cancer. Polyvinyl silsesquioxanes are known to have greater thermal and photochemical stability than organic compounds, such as those in sunscreens. This paper evaluates the UV transparency of vinyl silsesquioxanes (VS) and its hybrids with SiO...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wang H,Lin D,Wang D,Hu L,Huang Y,Liu L,Loy DA

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Electroencephalograph (EEG) signals feature extraction and processing is one of the most difficult and important part in the brain-computer interface (BCI) research field. EEG signals are generally unstable, complex and have low signal-noise ratio, which is difficult to be analyzed and processed. To solve this problem...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wei Y,Jun Y,Lin S,Hong L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One goal of functional tissue engineering is to manufacture scaffolds infiltrated with chondrocytes which are suitable for transplantation into the lesion areas of articular cartilage. Various research strategies are used to fabricate cartilage transplants which would have the correct phenotype, contain enough extrace...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Pulkkinen H,Tiitu V,Lammentausta E,Laasanen MS,Hämäläinen ER,Kiviranta I,Lammi MJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The most common cause of coronary artery disease (CAD) is vascular damage with the cholesterol built-up and other materials on the inner arterial wall, known as atherosclerosis. OBJECTIVE:This paper aims to investigate the effect of stenosis on the hemodynamics in the four suspected coronary artery disease ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Kamangar S,Salman Ahmed NJ,Badruddin IA,Al-Rawahi N,Husain A,Govindaraju K,Yunus Khan TM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between carbon nanotubes and important biomolecules, above all collagen molecules, have not been studied in detail. This situation is partly due to the fact that CNT are solid entities, while most of the biomolecules can be prepared in solution. We used turbidity as a means of evaluating the interacti...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Kuboki Y,Terada M,Kitagawa Y,Abe S,Uo M,Watari F

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:to assess reliability and reproducibility of quantitative MRI (7 T) in assessing rat femoro-tibial cartilage volume. METHODS:5 healthy rat knees were scanned in vivo using a 7 T experimental imager. Sagittal high resolution 3D Gradient Echo with fat suppression sequences were performed with a dedicated home...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Goebel JC,Bolbos R,Pinzano A,Schaeffer M,Rengle A,Galois L,Etienne S,Netter P,Loeuille D,Beuf O,Gillet P

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to evaluate whether the accumulation model developed by Zarfl et al. (2008) could be used to predict the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of a group of antibacterial fluoroquinolones (FQs) for Escherichia coli (E. coli). Our model, which is based on the "Fick-Nernst-Planck" equatio...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Zhang W,Wang C,Tam KY

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sino-atrial node cells (SANCs) play a significant role in rhythmic firing. To investigate their role in arrhythmia and interactions with the atrium, computer simulations based on cellular dynamic mathematical models are generally used. However, the large-scale computation usually makes research difficult, given the li...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Zhang H,Xiao Z,Lin SF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores mouse kidney imaging with diffraction enhanced imaging (DEI) and inline outline X-ray imaging (IOXI) technology, and evaluates latent value of kidney imaging with phase contrast imaging technology. In our experiment, spatial resolution and tissue contrast serve as element evaluation and comparison....

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Xia C,Peng YF,Arun KY,Xiao T,Zhu P,He W

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：:The 5(and 6)-carboxyfluorescein diacetate (C-FDA) is used for a rapid and continuous counting of living cells. Nonfluorescent C-FDA is converted into fluorescent 5(and 6)-carboxyfluorescein (C-F) by the reaction with esterase, which is an enzyme of living cells. The conversion makes it possible to count the number of ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Sugata K,Ohnishi T,Matsumoto K

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:Aqueous poly(vinyl alcohol) solutions were frozen at -20 degrees C for 6-12 h, and subsequently thawed for 1-2 h. The above mentioned process repeated for 1-3 times. After the specimen was dehydrated in vacuum, a kind of artificial articular cartilage--PVA-hydrogel--was developed. The micromorphology of PVA-hydrogel h...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Gu ZQ,Xiao JM,Zhang XH

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The values of the propagation coefficient measured on a silicon rubber tube in the frequency range 1-15 Hz were compared, using four different equations. The first formula is based on three simultaneous pressure measurements performed at equidistant points; the remaining three equations are original, and make use of o...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Ursino M,Artioli E

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:The simulated Doppler blood flow signals are widely used to assess the performance of the clutter filters for removing wall components while reserving low-velocity signals scattered from physiological blood flow approaching the inner vessel-wall injured by a stenosed lesion. OBJECTIVE:By simultaneously taki...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Gao L,Zhang Y,Zhou Y,Hu X,Deng L,Zhang K,Cai G,Zhang J

更新日期：2016-08-12 00:00:00