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Development of MEMS-based Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt System
We have developed a micro cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt system with a MEMS-based micro CSF shunt valve. This valve consists of flow nozzles with membrane connected to anchor by bridges. The up-down movement ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effects of Electromagnetic Pulses on the Rat Testis
AIM: The present paper investigated the effects of Electromagnetic pulses(EMP) on the male procreative system to establish personnel protection guidelines for the new type of electromagnetic radiation. MATERIA...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Experimental Study on Early Detection of Acute Cerebral Ischemic Stroke Using Electrical Impedance Tomography Method
In order to testify the feasibility of early detection of acute cerebral ischemic stroke by electrical impedance tomography (EIT) technique, an acute cerebral ischemic stroke animal model was established by em...
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Multivariate image analysis in gaussian multi-scale space for defect detection
Inspired by the coarse-to-fine visual perception process of human vision system, a new approach based on Gaussian multi-scale space for defect detection of industrial products was proposed. By selecting differ...
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Application of Population Dynamics to Study Heterotypic Cell Aggregations in the Near-Wall Region of a Shear Flow
Our research focused on the polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) tethering to the vascular endothelial cells (EC) and the subsequent melanoma cell emboli formation in a shear flow, an important process of tumo...
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Open AccessBiomechanical evaluation of three surgical scenarios of posterior lumbar interbody fusion by finite element analysis
For the treatment of low back pain, the following three scenarios of posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) were usually used, i.e., PLIF procedure with autogenous iliac bone (PAIB model), PLIF with cages ma...
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Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering: A Tip** Point
In January of 2011, the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) and the Society for Physical Regulation in Biology and Medicine (SPRBM) held its inaugural Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) conference....
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A radio-telemetry system for navigation and recording neuronal activity in free-roaming rats
A radio-telemetry recording system is presented which is applied to stimulate specific brain areas and record neuronal activity in a free-roaming rat. The system consists of two major parts: stationary section...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Effect of GRAPPA Parameters on Reconstruction Quality with 32-channel Coil
In the clinical routine, Generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisitions (GRAPPA) is widely used to increase the speed of the magnetic resonance image. However, there is no detailed analysis on the...
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Hertz Theory: Contact of Ellipsoidal Surfaces
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Hertz Theory: Contact of Spherical Surfaces
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EHL History (Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication)
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Open AccessAdrenomedullin delivery in microsphere-scaffold composite for remodeling of the alveolar bone following tooth extraction: an experimental study in the rat
Alveolar ridge resorption, as a significant problem in implant and restorative dentistry, has long been considered as an inevitable outcome following tooth extraction. Recently, adrenomedullin (ADM) is reporte...
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Engineering Biomaterials for Anchorage-Dependent and Non-anchorage-Dependent Therapeutic Cell Delivery in Translational Medicine
The delivery of functional and viable biological cells may potentially become a medical solution to replace the lost or abnormal cells, tissues, and organs. Cell delivery methods should deliver and localize vi...
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A droplet microfluidic approach to single-stream nucleic acid isolation and mutation detection
In this work, a droplet microfluidic platform for genetic mutation detection from crude biosample is described. Single-stream integration of nucleic acid isolation and amplification is realized on a simple fl...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dynamic Modeling of Planetary Gear Train for Vibration Characteristic Analysis
In this paper, a torsional-translational coupled nonlinear dynamic model for planetary gear train with three planet gears is developed to investigate its vibration characteristic. In this lumped-parameter mode...
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Discrete microfluidics based on aluminum nitride surface acoustic wave devices
To date, most surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices have been made from bulk piezoelectric materials, such as quartz, lithium niobate or lithium tantalite. These bulk materials are brittle, less easily integrate...
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A parallelized microfluidic DNA bisulfite conversion module for streamlined methylation analysis
Aberrant methylation of DNA has been identified as an epigenetic biomarker for numerous cancer types. The vast majority of techniques aimed at detecting methylation require bisulfite conversion of the DNA samp...
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Open AccessThe comparison of lesion outline and temperature field determined by different ways in atrial radiofrequency ablation
The aim of this study is to research the lesion outline and temperature field in different ways in atrial radiofrequency ablation by using finite element method.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Efficient Detection Method for Text of Arbitrary Orientations in Natural Images
Due to the high complexity of natural scenes, text detection is always a critical yet challenging task. On the basis of existing character detection method, a novel method is proposed in this paper, which ca...