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  1. The high-resolution X-ray imaging system employing synchrotron radiation source, thin scintillator, optical lens and advanced CCD camera can achieve a resolution in the range of tens of nanometers to sub-micro...

    Authors: Guang Li, Shouhua Luo, Yuling Yan and Ning Gu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14(Suppl 1):120
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2016 15:68

  2. The computation of arterial wall deformation and stresses under physiologic conditions requires a coupled compliant arterial wall-blood flow interaction model. The in-vivo arterial wall motion is constrained by t...

    Authors: Ashish Das, Anup Paul, Michael D Taylor and Rupak K Banerjee
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14(Suppl 1):S18
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  3. As a dual-modality contrast agent, magnetic microbubbles (MMBs) can not only improve contrast of ultrasound (US) image, but can also serve as a contrast agent of magnetic resonance image (MRI). With the help o...

    Authors: Mo Hou, Chunxiao Chen, Dalin Tang, Shouhua Luo, Fang Yang and Ning Gu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14(Suppl 1):S14
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  4. The Circle of Willis (CoW) is the most important collateral pathway of the cerebral artery. The present study aims to investigate the collateral capacity of CoW with anatomical variation when unilateral intern...

    Authors: Yuan Ren, Qiang Chen and Zhi-Yong Li
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14(Suppl 1):S11
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  5. The Circle of Willis (CoW) is an important collateral pathway of the cerebral blood flow. An experimental study of the cerebral blood flow (CBF) distribution in different anatomical variations may help to a be...

    Authors: Guangyu Zhu, Qi Yuan, Jian Yang and Joon Hock Yeo
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14(Suppl 1):S10
    Content type: Research Published on:

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  6. Patients with repaired or palliated right heart congenital heart disease (CHD) are often left with residual lesions that progress and can result in significant morbidity. However, right ventricular-pulmonary a...

    Authors: Namheon Lee, Michael D Taylor and Rupak K Banerjee
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14(Suppl 1):S8
    Content type: Research Published on:

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  7. In literature, the effect of the inflow boundary condition was investigated by examining the impact of the waveform and the shape of the spatial profile of the inlet velocity on the cardiac hemodynamics. Howev...

    Authors: Biyue Liu, Jie Zheng, Richard Bach and Dalin Tang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14(Suppl 1):S6
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  8. Calcification is a marked pathological component in carotid artery plaque. Studies have suggested that calcification may induce regions of high stress concentrations therefore increasing the potential for rupt...

    Authors: Hilary E Barrett, John J Mulvihill, Eoghan M Cunnane and Michael T Walsh
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14(Suppl 1):S5
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  9. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is corrupted by Rician noise, which is image dependent and computed from both real and imaginary images. Rician noise makes image-based quantitative measurement difficult. The ...

    Authors: Jian Yang, Jingfan Fan, Danni Ai, Shoujun Zhou, Songyuan Tang and Yongtian Wang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:2
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  10. Wall shear stress (WSS) has been associated with sites of plaque localization and with changes in plaque composition in human coronary arteries. Different values have been suggested for categorizing WSS as low...

    Authors: David S Molony, Lucas H Timmins, Olivia Y Hung, Emad Rasoul-Arzrumly, Habib Samady and Don P Giddens
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14(Suppl 1):S2
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  11. Routine vascular surgery operations involve stitching of disconnected human arteries with themselves or with artificial grafts (arterial anastomosis). This study aims to extend current knowledge and provide be...

    Authors: Panayiotis C Roussis, Antonios E Giannakopoulos, Haralambia P Charalambous, Demetra C Demetriou and Georgios P Georghiou
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015 14:1
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  12. There is an established tradition of cardiovascular simulation tools, but the application of this kind of technology in the e-Learning arena is a novel approach. This paper presents an e-Learning environment a...

    Authors: Claudio De Lazzari, Igino Genuini, Domenico M Pisanelli, Alessandra D’Ambrosi and Francesco Fedele
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:172
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  15. Intensity inhomogeneity occurs in many medical images, especially in vessel images. Overcoming the difficulty due to image inhomogeneity is crucial for the segmentation of vessel image.

    Authors: Qingqi Hong, Qingde Li, Beizhan Wang, Yan Li, Junfeng Yao, Kunhong Liu and Qingqiang Wu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:169
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  16. Magnetic resonance (MR) techniques used to detect lesions of the ligament complex for articulation of the ankle lack the desired accuracy for the study of the calcaneofibular ligament (CFL). The lack of sensit...

    Authors: Ibevan A Nogueira, Annie F Frère, Alessandro P Silva, Terigi A Scardovelli, Silvia RMS Boschi and Heverton C Oliveira
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:168
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  17. Robots are very useful tools in orthopedic research. They can provide force/torque controlled specimen motion with high repeatability and precision. A method to analyze dissipative energy outcome in an entire ...

    Authors: Evgenij Bobrowitsch, Andrea Lorenz, Nikolaus Wülker and Christian Walter
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:167
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  18. Intraoperative morphological and functional monitoring is essential for safe neurosurgery. Functional monitoring is based on electroencephalography (EEG), which uses silver electrodes. However, these electrode...

    Authors: Kousuke Awara, Ryuhei Kitai, Makoto Isozaki, Hiroyuki Neishi, Kenichiro Kikuta, Naoki Fushisato and Akira Kawamoto
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:166
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  19. This study investigates CAD/CAM ceramic cusp-replacing restoration resistance with and without buccal cusp replacement under static and dynamic cyclic loads, monitored using the acoustic emission (AE) technique.

    Authors: Yen-Hsiang Chang, Jin-Jie Yu and Chun-Li Lin
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:165
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  20. Externally irrigated radiofrequency (RF) electrodes have been widely used to thermally ablate tumors in surface tissue and to thermally coagulate the transection plane during a surgical resection. As far as we...

    Authors: Javier Arenas, Juan J Perez, Macarena Trujillo and Enrique Berjano
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:164
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  21. The fundamental assumptions for various kinds of fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) extraction methods are not consistent with each other, which is a very important problem needed to be ascertained.

    Authors: Huawen Yan, Hongxing Liu, Xiaolin Huang, Ying Zhao, Junfeng Si and Tiebing Liu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:163
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  22. Psoriasis arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory arthritis of joints of uncertain pathogenesis. PsA may lead to severe disabilities even in the absence of any clinical symptom. Therefore, PsA diagnosis in i...

    Authors: Enas Ismail, Alessandra Capo, Paolo Amerio and Arcangelo Merla
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:162
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  23. Assessing hand injury is of great interest given the level of involvement of the hand with the environment. Knowing different assessment systems and their limitations generates new perspectives. The integratio...

    Authors: Jaime Martin-Martin and Antonio I Cuesta-Vargas
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:161
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  24. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most lethal tumors and usually presented with locally advanced and distant metastasis disease, which prevent curative resection or treatments. In this rega...

    Authors: Shinuk Kim, Mee Joo Kang, Seungyeoun Lee, Soohyun Bae, Sangjo Han, Jin-Young Jang and Taesung Park
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13(Suppl 2):S5
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 2

  25. Modern medical advances have greatly increased the survival rate of infants, while they remain in the higher risk group for neurological problems later in life. For the infants with encephalopathy or seizures,...

    Authors: Weiting Chen, Yu Wang, Guitao Cao, Guoqiang Chen and Qiufang Gu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13(Suppl 2):S4
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 2

  26. Different from traditional information retrieval (IR), promoting diversity in IR takes consideration of relationship between documents in order to promote novelty and reduce redundancy thus to provide diversif...

    Authors: Jiajin Wu, Jimmy Xiangji Huang and Zheng Ye
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13(Suppl 2):S3
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 2

  27. Robust point matching (RPM) has been extensively used in non-rigid registration of images to robustly register two sets of image points. However, except for the location at control points, RPM cannot estimate ...

    Authors: Xuan Yang, Jihong Pei and Jingli Shi
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13(Suppl 2):S2
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 2

  28. The increasing number of daily published articles in the biomedical domain has become too large for humans to handle on their own. As a result, bio-text mining technologies have been developed to improve their...

    Authors: Claudiu Mihăilă and Sophia Ananiadou
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13(Suppl 2):S1
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 2

  29. Cardiac disease is one of the main causes of catastrophic mortality. Therefore, detecting the symptoms of cardiac disease as early as possible is important for increasing the patient’s survival. In this study,...

    Authors: Taegyun Jeon, Byoungho Kim, Moongu Jeon and Byung-Geun Lee
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:160
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  31. One of the difficulties for the implementation of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems for motor impaired patients is the time consumed in the system design process, since patients do not have the adequate p...

    Authors: Jessica Cantillo-Negrete, Josefina Gutierrez-Martinez, Ruben I Carino-Escobar, Paul Carrillo-Mora and David Elias-Vinas
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:158
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  32. Disorders of rotator cuff tendons results in acute pain limiting the normal range of motion for shoulder. Of all the tendons in rotator cuff, supraspinatus (SSP) tendon is affected first of any pathological ch...

    Authors: Rishu Gupta, Irraivan Elamvazuthi, Sarat Chandra Dass, Ibrahima Faye, Pandian Vasant, John George and Faizatul Izza
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:157
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  33. The capacity to diagnosys, quantify and evaluate movement beyond the general confines of a clinical environment under effectiveness conditions may alleviate rampant strain on limited, expensive and highly spec...

    Authors: Alejandro Galán-Mercant, Francisco Javier Barón-López, María T Labajos-Manzanares and Antonio I Cuesta-Vargas
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:156
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  34. Automatic and accurate identification of elbow angle from surface electromyogram (sEMG) is essential for myoelectric controlled upper limb exoskeleton systems. This requires appropriate selection of sEMG featu...

    Authors: Maria Claudia F Castro, Esther L Colombini, Plinio T Aquino Junior, Sridhar P Arjunan and Dinesh K Kumar
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:155
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  36. In many telemedicine applications, the correct use of medical device at the point of need is essential to provide an appropriate service. Some applications may require untrained people to interact with medical...

    Authors: Paolo Bifulco, Fabio Narducci, Raffaele Vertucci, Pasquale Ambruosi, Mario Cesarelli and Maria Romano
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:153
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  37. Blood pressure (BP) is associated with early atherosclerosis and plaque rupture because the BP variability can significantly affect the blood flow velocity and shear stress over the plaque. However, the mechan...

    Authors: Huahua Xiong, Xin Liu, Xiaohong Tian, Lina Pu, Heye Zhang, Minhua Lu, Wenhua Huang and Yuan-Ting Zhang
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:152
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  42. The Baculovirus Expression Vector System (BEVS) is a very popular expression vector system in gene engineering. An effective host cell line cultivation protocol can facilitate the baculovirus preparation and f...

    Authors: Dong Sui, Kuanquan Wang, Heemin Park and Jinseok Chae
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:147
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  43. Kinematics measures from inertial sensors have a value in the clinical assessment of pathological gait, to track quantitatively the outcome of interventions and rehabilitation programs. To become a standard to...

    Authors: Francesca Buganè, Maria Grazia Benedetti, Valentina D’Angeli and Alberto Leardini
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:146
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  44. The switching exercise (e.g., Interval Training) has been a commonly used exercise protocol nowadays for the enhancement of exerciser’s cardiovascular fitness. The current difficulty for simulating human onset...

    Authors: Yi Zhang, Azzam Haddad, Steven W Su, Branko G Celler, Aaron J Coutts, Rob Duffield, Cheyne E Donges and Hung T Nguyen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:145
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  45. In radiotherapy, temporary translocations of the internal organs and tumor induced by respiratory and cardiac activities can undesirably lead to significantly lower radiation dose on the targeted tumor but mor...

    Authors: Kirpal Kohli, Jeff Liu, Devin Schellenberg, Anand Karvat, Ash Parameswaran, Parvind Grewal and Steven Thomas
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:144
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  47. Non-destructive continuous monitoring of regenerative tissue is required throughout the entire period of in vitro tissue culture. Microscopic electrical impedance tomography (micro-EIT) has the potential to monit...

    Authors: Eun Jung Lee, Hun Wi, Alistair Lee McEwan, Adnan Farooq, Harsh Sohal, Eung Je Woo, Jin Keun Seo and Tong In Oh
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:142
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  49. Real-time patient respiratory mechanics estimation can be used to guide mechanical ventilation settings, particularly, positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP). This work presents a software, Clinical Utilisati...

    Authors: Akos Szlavecz, Yeong Shiong Chiew, Daniel Redmond, Alex Beatson, Daniel Glassenbury, Simon Corbett, Vincent Major, Christopher Pretty, Geoffrey M Shaw, Balazs Benyo, Thomas Desaive and J Geoffrey Chase
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:140
    Content type: Software Published on:

  50. Analyzing acceleration photoplethysmogram (APG) signals measured after exercise is challenging. In this paper, a novel algorithm that can detect a waves and consequently b waves under these conditions is proposed...

    Authors: Mohamed Elgendi, Ian Norton, Matt Brearley, Derek Abbott and Dale Schuurmans
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2014 13:139
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