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  1. A serious complication with drug-eluting coronary stents is late thrombosis, caused by exposed stent struts not covered by endothelial cells in the healing process. Real-time detection of this healing process ...

    Authors: Katherine M Musick, Arthur C Coffey and Pedro P Irazoqui
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:67
  2. Electroporation-based gene therapy and DNA vaccination are promising medical applications that depend on transfer of pDNA into target tissues with use of electric pulses. Gene electrotransfer efficiency depend...

    Authors: Anze Zupanic, Selma Corovic, Damijan Miklavcic and Mojca Pavlin
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:66
  3. Tomographic imaging has revealed that the body mass index does not give a reliable state of overall fitness. However, high measurement costs make the tomographic imaging unsuitable for large scale studies or r...

    Authors: Kim H Blomqvist and Raimo E Sepponen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:65
  4. Recent studies have shown the potential suitability of magnesium alloys as biodegradable implants. The aim of the present study was to compare the soft tissue biocompatibility of MgCa0.8 and commonly used surg...

    Authors: Nina Erdmann, Alexandr Bondarenko, Marion Hewicker-Trautwein, Nina Angrisani, Janin Reifenrath, Arne Lucas and Andrea Meyer-Lindenberg
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:63
  5. The waveform morphology of intracranial pressure pulses (ICP) is an essential indicator for monitoring, and forecasting critical intracranial and cerebrovascular pathophysiological variations. While current IC...

    Authors: Fabien Scalzo, Shadnaz Asgari, Sunghan Kim, Marvin Bergsneider and Xiao Hu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:61
  6. The accuracy of texture analysis in clinical evaluation of magnetic resonance images depends considerably on imaging arrangements and various image quality parameters. In this paper, we study the effect of sli...

    Authors: Sami J Savio, Lara CV Harrison, Tiina Luukkaala, Tomi Heinonen, Prasun Dastidar, Seppo Soimakallio and Hannu J Eskola
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:60
  7. Surface roughness is the main factor determining bacterial adhesion, biofilm growth and plaque formation on the dental surfaces in vivo. Air-polishing of dental surfaces removes biofilm but can also damage the...

    Authors: Marco Salerno, Luca Giacomelli, Giacomo Derchi, Niranjan Patra and Alberto Diaspro
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:59
  8. A fundamental unsolved problem in psychophysical detection experiments is in discriminating guesses from the correct responses. This paper proposes a coherent solution to this problem by presenting a novel cla...

    Authors: Viprali V Bhatkar, Joseph D Skufca, Rakesh B Pilkar, Christopher M Storey and Charles J Robinson
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:58
  9. In this study, we have examined local non-viral gene delivery, transfection, and therapeutic efficacy of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) encoding plasmid DNA administered using coated stents in a rabb...

    Authors: Luis A Brito, Saradha Chandrasekhar, Steven R Little and Mansoor M Amiji
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:56
  10. Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death. Research and resulting technologies have contributed to rising numbers of cancer survivors. Cancer nanotechnology is a novel and burgeoning field with the pro...

    Authors: Nicole F Steinmetz
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:55
  11. Pre-operative imaging devices generate high-resolution images but intra-operative imaging devices generate low-resolution images. To use high-resolution pre-operative images during surgery, they must be deform...

    Authors: Hajar Hamidian, Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Reza Faraji-Dana and Masoumeh Gity
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:51
  12. The users of today's commercial prosthetic hands are not given any conscious sensory feedback. To overcome this deficiency in prosthetic hands we have recently proposed a sensory feedback system utilising a "t...

    Authors: Christian Antfolk, Christian Balkenius, Göran Lundborg, Birgitta Rosén and Fredrik Sebelius
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:50
  13. The proximal interphalange joint (PIP) is fundamental for the functional nature of the hand. The contracture in flexion of the PIP, secondary to traumatisms or illnesses leads to an important functional loss. ...

    Authors: Sergio Puértolas, José M Pérez-García, Luis Gracia, José Cegoñino, Elena Ibarz, José A Puértolas and Antonio Herrera
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:49
  14. Sterilization and re-usage of tumour bone for reconstruction after tumour resection is now gaining popularity in the East. This recycle tumour bone needs to be sterilized in order to eradicate the tumour cells...

    Authors: Vivek Ajit Singh, Janarthan Nagalingam, Marniza Saad and Jayalakshmi Pailoor
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:48
  15. Photochemical tissue bonding (PTB) is a promising sutureless technique for tissue repair. PTB is often achieved by applying a solution of rose bengal (RB) between two tissue edges, which are irradiated by a gr...

    Authors: Antonio Lauto, Damia Mawad, Matthew Barton, Abhishek Gupta, Sabine C Piller and James Hook
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:47
  16. The results of an in vivo study on the "ratio method" used in electronic foramen locators (EFL) are presented. EFLs are becoming widely used in the determination of the working length (WL) during the root canal t...

    Authors: Marcos VH Rambo, Humberto R Gamba, Gustavo B Borba, Joaquim M Maia and Carlos AS Ramos
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:46
  17. Interpreting and controlling bioelectromagnetic phenomena require realistic physiological models and accurate numerical solvers. A semi-realistic model often used in practise is the piecewise constant conducti...

    Authors: Alexandre Gramfort, Théodore Papadopoulo, Emmanuel Olivi and Maureen Clerc
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:45
  18. Quantitative disease markers were developed to assess videocapsule images acquired from celiac disease patients with villous atrophy, and from control patients.

    Authors: Edward J Ciaccio, Christina A Tennyson, Govind Bhagat, Suzanne K Lewis and Peter HR Green
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:44
  19. Ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) are the most serious cardiac arrhythmias that require quick and accurate detection to save lives. Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) have be...

    Authors: Emran M Abu Anas, Soo Y Lee and Md K Hasan
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:43
  20. Segmentation of the coronary angiogram is important in computer-assisted artery motion analysis or reconstruction of 3D vascular structures from a single-plan or biplane angiographic system. Developing fully a...

    Authors: Zhou Shoujun, Yang Jian, Wang Yongtian and Chen Wufan
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:40
  21. Polysomnography (PSG) is used to define physiological sleep and different physiological sleep stages, to assess sleep quality and diagnose many types of sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea. However...

    Authors: Bülent Yılmaz, Musa H Asyalı, Eren Arıkan, Sinan Yetkin and Fuat Özgen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:39
  22. Recently, a novel single-switch access technology based on infrared thermography was proposed. The technology exploits the temperature differences between the inside and surrounding areas of the mouth as a swi...

    Authors: Negar Memarian, Anastasios N Venetsanopoulos and Tom Chau
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:38
  23. The advances in technology make possible the incorporation of sensors and actuators in rollators, building safer robots and extending the use of walkers to a more diverse population. This paper presents a new ...

    Authors: Anselmo Frizera Neto, Juan A Gallego, Eduardo Rocon, José L Pons and Ramón Ceres
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:37
  24. The positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) for the mechanical ventilation of small animals is frequently obtained with water seals or by using ventilators developed for human use. An alternative mechanism is ...

    Authors: Antonio Giannella-Neto, Gabriel C da Motta Ribeiro, Edil L Santos, João HN Soares, Marcelo V Leão Nunes and Frederico C Jandre
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:36
  25. It is known that tight control of glucose in the Intensive Care Unit reduces morbidity and mortality not only in diabetic patients but also in those non-diabetics who become transiently hyperglycemic. Taking a...

    Authors: José L Ortiz, Marcelo W Guarini, Gisella R Borzone and Pablo R Olmos
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:35
  26. The finite volume solver Fluent (Lebanon, NH, USA) is a computational fluid dynamics software employed to analyse biological mass-transport in the vasculature. A principal consideration for computational model...

    Authors: Gráinne T Carroll, Paul D Devereux, David N Ku, Timothy M McGloughlin and Michael T Walsh
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:34
  27. The main problem of tremor is the damage caused to the quality of the life of patients, especially those at more advanced ages. There is not a consensus yet about the origins of this disorder, but it can be ex...

    Authors: Paulo HG Mansur, Lacordaire KP Cury, José OB Leite, Adriano A Pereira, Nilson Penha-Silva and Adriano O Andrade
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:29
  28. Non-invasive planar fluorescence reflectance imaging (FRI) is used for accessing physiological and molecular processes in biological tissue. This method is efficiently used to detect superficial fluorescent in...

    Authors: Marjaneh Hejazi, Florian Stuker, Divya Vats and Markus Rudin
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:28
  29. Retina degenerative disorders represent the primary cause of blindness in UK and in the developed world. In particular, Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Retina Pigmentosa (RP) diseases are of interes...

    Authors: Walid I Al-Atabany, Muhammad A Memon, Susan M Downes and Patrick A Degenaar
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:27
  30. Autonomic neuropathy is a common and serious complication of diabetes. Early detection is essential to enable appropriate interventional therapy and management. Dynamic pupillometry has been proposed as a simp...

    Authors: Giselle L Ferrari, Jefferson LB Marques, Rajiv A Gandhi, Simon R Heller, Fábio K Schneider, Solomon Tesfaye and Humberto R Gamba
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:26
  31. Brain oscillatory activities are stochastic and non-linearly dynamic, due to their non-phase-locked nature and inter-trial variability. Non-phase-locked rhythmic signals can vary from trial-to-trial dependent ...

    Authors: Chia-Lung Yeh, Hsiang-Chih Chang, Chi-Hsun Wu and Po-Lei Lee
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:25
  32. Material wear testing is an important technique in the development and evaluation of materials for use in implant for total knee arthroplasty. Since a knee joint induces a complex rolling-gliding movement, sta...

    Authors: Berna I Richter, Sven Ostermeier, Anke Turger, Berend Denkena and Christof Hurschler
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:24
  33. Recently, pattern recognition methods have been deployed in the classification of multiple activation states from mechanomyogram (MMG) signals for the purpose of controlling switching interfaces. Given the pro...

    Authors: Natasha Alves, Ervin Sejdić, Bhupinder Sahota and Tom Chau
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:23
  34. A hip replacement with a cemented or cementless femoral stem produces an effect on the bone called adaptive remodelling, attributable to mechanical and biological factors. All of the cementless prostheses desi...

    Authors: Luis Gracia, Elena Ibarz, Sergio Puértolas, José Cegoñino, Fernando López-Prats, Juan J Panisello and Antonio Herrera
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:22
  35. Published studies of the past decades have established that mass transfer across the dialyzer membrane is governed by diffusion, convection and osmosis. While the former is independent of the pressure in the l...

    Authors: Edmond Rambod, Masoud Beizai and Moshe Rosenfeld
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:21
  36. The inverse problem of fluorescent molecular tomography (FMT) often involves complex large-scale matrix operations, which may lead to unacceptable computational errors and complexity. In this research, a tree ...

    Authors: Wei Zou, Jiajun Wang and David Dagan Feng
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:20
  37. We present measurements of the bulk Young's moduli of early chick embryos at Hamburger-Hamilton stage 10. Using a micropipette probe with a force constant k ~0.025 N/m, we applied a known force in the plane of th...

    Authors: Ubirajara Agero, James A Glazier and Michael Hosek
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:19
  38. Pennes Bio Heat Transfer Equation (PBHTE) has been widely used to approximate the overall temperature distribution in tissue using a perfusion parameter term in the equation during hyperthermia treatment. In t...

    Authors: Huang-Wen Huang, Tzu-Ching Shih and Chihng-Tsung Liauh
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010 9:18