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  1. In ultrasound imaging systems, the digital transmit beamformer is a critical module that generates accurate control over several transmission parameters. However, such transmit front-end module is not typicall...

    Authors: Amauri A Assef, Joaquim M Maia, Fábio K Schneider, Vera LSN Button and Eduardo T Costa
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:24
  2. Electrical biopsy illustrates a tissue’s electrical properties by electrical impedance spectroscopy. However, electrical biopsy parameters are different from conventional morphological-based examinations. The ...

    Authors: Yu-Jie Huang, Eng-Yen Huang and Kuo-Sheng Cheng
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:23
  3. Telepointer is a powerful tool in the telemedicine system that enhances the effectiveness of long-distance communication. Telepointer has been tested in telemedicine, and has potential to a big influence in im...

    Authors: Rohana Abdul Karim, Nor Farizan Zakaria, Mohd Asyraf Zulkifley, Mohd Marzuki Mustafa, Ismail Sagap and Nani Harlina Md Latar
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:21
  4. Predictions of the forces transmitted by the redundant force-bearing structures in the knee are often performed using optimization methods considering only moment equipollence as a result of simplified knee mo...

    Authors: Chih-Chung Hu, Tung-Wu Lu and Sheng-Chang Chen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:20
  5. Cardiac output (CO) and systemic vascular resistance (SVR) are two important parameters of the cardiovascular system. The ability to measure these parameters continuously and noninvasively may assist in diagno...

    Authors: Qim Y Lee, Stephen J Redmond, Gregory SH Chan, Paul M Middleton, Elizabeth Steel, Philip Malouf, Cristopher Critoph, Gordon Flynn, Emma O’Lone and Nigel H Lovell
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:19
  6. In the last years, several methods and devices have been proposed to record the human mandibular movements, since they provide quantitative parameters that support the diagnosis and treatment of temporomandibu...

    Authors: Daniel Antônio Furtado, Adriano Alves Pereira, Adriano de Oliveira Andrade, Douglas Peres Bellomo Junior and Marlete Ribeiro da Silva
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:17
  7. Electroporation based therapies and treatments (e.g. electrochemotherapy, gene electrotransfer for gene therapy and DNA vaccination, tissue ablation with irreversible electroporation and transdermal drug deliv...

    Authors: Selma Corovic, Igor Lackovic, Primoz Sustaric, Tomaz Sustar, Tomaz Rodic and Damijan Miklavcic
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:16
  8. The conventional expansion of human mesenchymal stromal cells (hMSC) for tissue engineering or (pre-) clinical investigation includes the use of 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS). However, there exists immense lot-...

    Authors: Jessica Wappler, Björn Rath, Tanja Läufer, Axel Heidenreich and Katrin Montzka
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:15
  9. In an attempt to characterize the intracranial pressure-volume compensatory reserve capacity, the correlation coefficient (R) between the ICP wave amplitude (A) and the ICP (P) level (RAP) has been applied in ...

    Authors: Per Kristian Eide and Wilhelm Sorteberg
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:14
  10. During a golf swing, analysis of the movement in upper torso and pelvis is a key step to determine a motion control strategy for accurate and consistent shots. However, a majority of previous studies that have...

    Authors: Seung-Hui Beak, Ahnryul Choi, Seung-Wook Choi, Seung Eel Oh, Joung Hwan Mun, Heegoo Yang, Taeyong Sim and Hae-Ryong Song
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:13
  11. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radio frequency (RF) field induced heating on external fixation devices can be very high in the vicinity of device screws. Such induced RF heating is related to device cons...

    Authors: Yan Liu, Jianxiang Shen, Wolfgang Kainz, Songsong Qian, Wen Wu and Ji Chen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:12
  12. The feasibility of selectively stimulating fascicles and fibers within peripheral nerves has been demonstrated by a number of groups. Although various multi-contact electrodes have been developed for this purp...

    Authors: Paweł Maciejasz, Wiesław Marcol, Roman Paśniczek, Joanna Lewin-Kowalik and Klaus-Peter Hoffmann
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:11
  13. Recently, a growing number of neuroimaging studies have begun to investigate the brains of schizophrenic patients and their healthy siblings to identify heritable biomarkers of this complex disorder. The objec...

    Authors: Yang Yu, Hui Shen, Huiran Zhang, Ling-Li Zeng, Zhimin Xue and Dewen Hu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:10
  14. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is characterized by inflammation, filling of the lung with fluid and the collapse of lung units. Mechanical ventilation (MV) is used to treat ARDS using positive end ...

    Authors: Erwin J van Drunen, J Geoffrey Chase, Yeong Shiong Chiew, Geoffrey M Shaw and Thomas Desaive
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:9
  15. The end-systolic pressure-volume relationship is often considered as a load-independent property of the heart and, for this reason, is widely used as an index of ventricular contractility. However, many critic...

    Authors: Antoine Pironet, Thomas Desaive, Sarah Kosta, Alexandra Lucas, Sabine Paeme, Arnaud Collet, Christopher G Pretty, Philippe Kolh and Pierre C Dauby
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:8
  16. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can replace the lungs’ gas exchange capacity in refractory lung failure. However, its limited hemocompatibility, the activation of the coagulation and complement syst...

    Authors: Christian G Cornelissen, Maren Dietrich, Kai Gromann, Julia Frese, Stefan Krueger, Jörg S Sachweh and Stefan Jockenhoevel
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:7
  17. Ultrasonography is a convenient technique to investigate muscle properties and has been widely used to look into muscle functions since it is non-invasive and real-time. Muscle thickness, a quantification whic...

    Authors: Pan Han, Ye Chen, Lijuan Ao, Gaosheng Xie, Huihui Li, Lei Wang and Yongjin Zhou
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:6
  18. Stress shielding in the cemented hip prosthesis occurs due to the mismatching in the mechanical properties of metallic stem and bone. This mismatching in properties is considered as one of the main reasons for...

    Authors: Fawzi F Al-Jassir, H Fouad and Othaman Y Alothman
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:5
  19. The lumbar range of motion has traditionally been used to assess disability in patients with low back disorders. Controversy exists about how movement ranges in static positions or in a single straight plane i...

    Authors: Su-Chun Cheng, Chieh-Hsiang Hsu, Yi-Ting Ting, Li-Chieh Kuo, Ruey-Mo Lin and Fong-Chin Su
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:4
  20. Breast cancer continues to be a leading cause of cancer deaths among women, especially in Western countries. In the last two decades, many methods have been proposed to achieve a robust mammography‐based compu...

    Authors: Antonio García-Manso, Carlos J García-Orellana, Horacio González‐Velasco, Ramón Gallardo-Caballero and Miguel Macías Macías
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:2
  21. Importance of hereditary factors in the etiology of Idiopathic Scoliosis is widely accepted. In clinical practice some of the IS patients present with positive familial history of the deformity and some do not...

    Authors: Tomasz Waller, Roman Nowak, Magdalena Tkacz, Damian Zapart and Urszula Mazurek
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2013 12:1
  22. The aim of this study was to evaluate the concept of a wearable device and, specifically: 1) to design and implement analysis procedures to extract clinically relevant information from data recorded using the ...

    Authors: Paolo Tormene, Michelangelo Bartolo, Alessandro M De Nunzio, Federica Fecchio, Silvana Quaglini, Cristina Tassorelli and Giorgio Sandrini
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:95
  23. Bioartificial liver systems, designed to support patients with liver failure, are composed of bioreactors and functional hepatocytes. Immunological rejection of the embedded hepatocytes by the host immune syst...

    Authors: Masaya Iwamuro, Hidenori Shiraha, Shuhei Nakaji, Masumi Furutani, Naoya Kobayashi, Akinobu Takaki and Kazuhide Yamamoto
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:93
  24. Tissue engineering represents a promising new method for treating heart valve diseases. The aim of this study was evaluate the importance of conditioning procedures of tissue engineered polyurethane heart valv...

    Authors: Genoveva Aleksieva, Trixi Hollweck, Nikolaus Thierfelder, Ulrike Haas, Fabian Koenig, Cornelia Fano, Martin Dauner, Erich Wintermantel, Bruno Reichart, Christoph Schmitz and Bassil Akra
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:92
  25. This paper shows the influence of a measurement method of features in the diagnosis of Hashimoto’s disease. Sensitivity of the algorithm to changes in the parameters of the ROI, namely shift, resizing and rota...

    Authors: Robert Koprowski, Anna Korzyńska, Zygmunt Wróbel, Witold Zieleźnik, Agnieszka Witkowska, Justyna Małyszek and Waldemar Wójcik
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:91
  26. The objective of our study was to develop a novel capacitive force sensor that enables simultaneous measurements of yaw torque around the pressure axis and normal force and shear forces at a single point for t...

    Authors: Chisato Murakami, Yusuke Ishikuro and Makoto Takahashi
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:90
  27. We aimed to investigate the effect of rest interval, between successive contractions, on muscular fatigue.

    Authors: Daniel V Nogueira, Sidney B Silva, Luiz Carlos de Abreu, Vitor E Valenti, Mahmi Fujimori, Carlos Bandeira de Mello Monteiro, Charli Tortoza, Wellington Ribeiro, Rodrigo A Lazo-Osório and Carlos J Tierra-Criollo
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:89
  28. The early detection of skin cancer may highly increase the chances of its healing. One of the non-invasive methods of such detection based on the Oblique- Incidence Diffuse Reflectance (OIDR) measurements of t...

    Authors: Ahmed Mohammed Ali, Munqith Saleem Dawood, Mohammed Kadhim Taher and Faeza Aftan Zghair
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:88
  29. The rear-wheel camber, defined as the inclination of the rear wheels, is usually used in wheelchair sports, but it is becoming increasingly employed in daily propulsion. Although the rear-wheel camber can incr...

    Authors: Chung-Ying Tsai, Chien-Ju Lin, Yueh-Chu Huang, Po-Chou Lin and Fong-Chin Su
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:87
  30. The analysis of the Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) is of fundamental importance to the investigation of the auditory system behaviour, though its interpretation has a subjective nature because of the manual...

    Authors: Kheline FP Naves, Adriano A Pereira, Slawomir J Nasuto, Ieda PC Russo and Adriano O Andrade
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:86
  31. The recent developments in microarray technology has allowed for the simultaneous measurement of gene expression levels. The large amount of captured data challenges conventional statistical tools for analysin...

    Authors: Steven C Dinger, Michael A Van Wyk, Sergio Carmona and David M Rubin
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:85
  32. Osteoporotic hip fractures represent major cause of disability, loss of quality of life and even mortality among the elderly population. Decisions on drug therapy are based on the assessment of risk factors fo...

    Authors: Enrique López, Elena Ibarz, Antonio Herrera, Jesús Mateo, Antonio Lobo-Escolar, Sergio Puértolas and Luis Gracia
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:84
  33. Across the globe, breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death among women and, currently, Fine Needle Aspirate (FNA) with visual interpretation is the easiest and fastest biopsy technique for the diagn...

    Authors: Gláucia RMA Sizilio, Cicília RM Leite, Ana MG Guerreiro and Adrião D Dória Neto
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:83
  34. Computer-assisted surgical navigation aims to provide surgeons with anatomical target localization and critical structure observation, where medical image processing methods such as segmentation, registration ...

    Authors: Fan Yang, Wenjian Qin, Yaoqin Xie, Tiexiang Wen and Jia Gu
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:82
  35. The extracellular matrix (ECM) provides a supportive microenvironment for cells, which is suitable as a tissue engineering scaffold. Mechanical stimulus plays a significant role in the fate of osteoblast, sugg...

    Authors: Yong Guo, Chun-qiu Zhang, Qiang-cheng Zeng, Rui-xin Li, Lu Liu, Qin-xin Hao, Cai-hong Shi, Xi-zheng Zhang and Yu-xian Yan
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:80
  36. A one-parameter model was previously proposed to characterize the short axis motion of the LV wall at the mid-ventricle level. The single parameter of this model was associated with the radial contraction of m...

    Authors: Jack J Shi, Mohammed Alenezy, Irina V Smirnova and Mehmet Bilgen
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:79
  37. Silica nanoparticles are being developed as a host of biomedical and biotechnological applications. For this reason, there are more studies about biocompatibility of silica with amorphous and crystalline struc...

    Authors: Marlen Hernández-Ortiz, Laura S Acosta-Torres, Genoveva Hernández-Padrón, Alicia I Mendieta, Rodolfo Bernal, Catalina Cruz-Vázquez and Victor M Castaño
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:78
  38. A fiber optic sensor developed for the measurement of tendon forces was designed, numerically modeled, fabricated, and experimentally evaluated. The sensor incorporated fiber Bragg gratings and micro-fabricate...

    Authors: Gregory P Behrmann, Joseph Hidler and Mark S Mirotznik
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:77
  39. The prevalence of flexible flatfoot is high among preschool-aged children, but the effects of treatment are inconclusive due to the unclear definitions of normal flatfoot. To date, a universally accepted evalu...

    Authors: Hsun-Wen Chang, Chien-Ju Lin, Li-Chieh Kuo, Ming-June Tsai, Hsiao-Feng Chieh and Fong-Chin Su
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:76
  40. Malignant breast tumor tissue has a significantly different electrical impedance spectrum than surrounding normal tissues. This has led to the development of impedance imaging as a supplementary or alternative...

    Authors: Mingkang Zhao, Hun Wi, Abu Hena Mostofa Kamal, Alistair Lee McEwan, Eung Je Woo and Tong In Oh
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:75
  41. Functional time-varying cardiac elastances (FTVE) contain a rich amount of information about the specific cardiac state of a patient. However, a FTVE waveform is very invasive to directly measure, and is thus ...

    Authors: David Stevenson, James Revie, J Geoffrey Chase, Christopher E Hann, Geoffrey M Shaw, Bernard Lambermont, Alexandre Ghuysen, Philippe Kolh and Thomas Desaive
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:73
  42. The paper presents a newly researched acoustic system for blood volume measurements for the developed family of Polish ventricular assist devices. The pneumatic heart-supporting devices are still the preferred...

    Authors: Grzegorz Konieczny, Zbigniew Opilski, Tadeusz Pustelny and Maciej Gawlikowski
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:72
  43. Micro bubbles were initially introduced as contrast agents for ultrasound examinations as they are able to modify the signal-to-noise ratio in imaging, thus improving the assessment of clinical information on ...

    Authors: Walter Duartede Araujo Filho, Fábio Kurt Schneider and Rigoberto EM Morales
    Citation: BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012 11:71