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  5. The non-invasive nature of laser biostimulation has made lasers an attractive alternative in Medical Acupuncture at the last 25 years. However, there is still an uncertainty as to whether they work or their ef...

    Authors: Emil S Valchinov and Nicolas E Pallikarakis
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2005 4:5
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  6. It has been established that careful diabetes self-management is essential in avoiding chronic complications that compromise health. Disciplined diet control and regular exercise are the keys for the type 2 di...

    Authors: Hsin-i Wu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2005 4:4
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  9. Evolutionary autonomous agents are robots or robot simulations whose controller is a dynamical neural network and whose evolution occurs autonomously under the guidance of a fitness function without the detail...

    Authors: Donald S Borrett, Frank Jin and Hon C Kwan
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2005 4:1
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  11. The univariate approaches used to analyze heart rate variability have recently been extended by several bivariate approaches with respect to cardiorespiratory coordination. Some approaches are explicitly based...

    Authors: Dirk Cysarz, Henrik Bettermann, Silke Lange, Daniel Geue and Peter van Leeuwen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:44
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  13. Investigation of bioheat transfer problems requires the evaluation of temporal and spatial distributions of temperature. This class of problems has been traditionally addressed using the Pennes bioheat equatio...

    Authors: TR Gowrishankar, Donald A Stewart, Gregory T Martin and James C Weaver
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:42
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  16. This study evaluated the effects of stroke on regulation of cerebral blood flow in response to fluctuations in systemic blood pressure (BP). The autoregulatory dynamics are difficult to assess because of the n...

    Authors: Vera Novak, Albert CC Yang, Lukas Lepicovsky, Ary L Goldberger, Lewis A Lipsitz and Chung-Kang Peng
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:39
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  18. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) plays an important role in the genesis and maintenance of atrial fibrillation (AF), but quantification of its electrophysiologic effects is extremely complex and difficult. A...

    Authors: Luca T Mainardi, Valentina DA Corino, Leonida Lombardi, Claudio Tondo, Massimo Mantica, Federico Lombardi and Sergio Cerutti
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:37
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  20. Multivariate imaging techniques such as dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) have been shown to provide valuable information for medical diagnosis. Even though these techniques provid...

    Authors: Thorsten Twellmann, Axel Saalbach, Olaf Gerstung, Martin O Leach and Tim W Nattkemper
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:35
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  21. We reviewed articles using computational RF dosimetry to compare the Specific Anthropomorphic Mannequin (SAM) to anatomically correct models of the human head. Published conclusions based on such comparisons h...

    Authors: Brian B Beard and Wolfgang Kainz
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:34
    Content type: Review Published on:

  23. Finite element method (FEM) analysis for intraoperative modeling of the left ventricle (LV) is presently not possible. Since 3D structural data of the LV is now obtainable using standard transesophageal echoca...

    Authors: Janko F Verhey and Nadia S Nathan
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:32
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  26. Many arrhythmias are triggered by abnormal electrical activity at the ionic channel and cell level, and then evolve spatio-temporally within the heart. To understand arrhythmias better and to diagnose them mor...

    Authors: Hao Zhu, Yan Sun, Gunaretnam Rajagopal, Adrian Mondry and Pawan Dhar
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:29
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  31. Analysis of heart rate variation (HRV) has become a popular noninvasive tool for assessing the activities of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). HRV analysis is based on the concept that fast fluctuations may ...

    Authors: Rajendra Acharya U, Kannathal N, Ong Wai Sing, Luk Yi Ping and TjiLeng Chua
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:24
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  32. The function of the common bile duct is to transport bile from the liver and the gall bladder to the duodenum. Since the bile duct is a distensible tube consisting mainly of connective tissue, it is important ...

    Authors: Birgitte U Duch, Helle Andersen and Hans Gregersen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:23
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  33. Ivan Daskalov [1933–2004] was a friend who will be missed by many. Neither the quality of a man nor the concept of a friendship can be defined with words. We may only say that both will be missed.

    Authors: Alvin Wald
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:22
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  34. New technologies like echocardiography, color Doppler, CT, and MRI provide more direct and accurate evidence of heart disease than heart auscultation. However, these modalities are costly, large in size and op...

    Authors: Sotiris A Pavlopoulos, Antonis CH Stasis and Euripides N Loukis
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:21
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  38. Digital watermarking is a technique of hiding specific identification data for copyright authentication. This technique is adapted here for interleaving patient information with medical images, to reduce stora...

    Authors: Jagadish Nayak, P Subbanna Bhat, Rajendra Acharya U and Niranjan UC
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:17
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  41. Blunt trauma causes short-term compression of some or all parts of the chest, abdomen or pelvis and changes hemodynamics of the blood. Short-term compression caused by trauma also results in a short-term decre...

    Authors: Rovshan M Ismailov, Nikolai A Shevchuk, Joseph Schwerha, Lawrence Keller and Higmat Khusanov
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:14
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  42. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is recently developing as imaging modality used for mapping hemodynamics of neuronal and motor event related tissue blood oxygen level dependence (BOLD) in terms of...

    Authors: Rakesh Sharma and Avdhesh Sharma
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:13
    Content type: Review Published on:

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  45. Analytical imaging by secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) provides images representative of the distribution of a specific ion within a sample surface. For the last fifteen years, concerted collaborative re...

    Authors: Jean-Luc Guerquin-Kern, François Hillion, Jean-Claude Madelmont, Pierre Labarre, Janine Papon and Alain Croisy
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:10
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  47. Calcium phosphate manufactured samples, prepared with hydroxyapatite, are used as either spacers or fillers in orthopedic surgery, but these implants have never been used under conditions of mechanical stress....

    Authors: Anna Rita Calafiori, Marcello Marotta, Alfonso Nastro and Guglielmo Martino
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:8
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  48. The EEG (Electroencephalogram) is a representative signal containing information about the condition of the brain. The shape of the wave may contain useful information about the state of the brain. However, th...

    Authors: Kannathal Natarajan, Rajendra Acharya U, Fadhilah Alias, Thelma Tiboleng and Sadasivan K Puthusserypady
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:7
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  50. We previously examined transverse propagation of action potentials between 2 and 3 parallel chain of cardiac muscle cells (CMC) simulated using the PSpice program. The present study was done to examine transve...

    Authors: Nicholas Sperelakis and Bijoy Kalloor
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004 3:5
    Content type: Research Published on:
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