Convenient and highly sensitive protein detection methods are in great demand for biomedical research and clinical diagnostics. Here, we present a magnetic bead-based proximity extension assay that achieves subfemtomo...
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Impellers are extensively employed across various industrial sectors and in different industrial systems, such as ducted-fan modules. The configuration of ducted-fan modules can be optimized to achieve high impeller p...
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In the realm of congenital cardiovascular diseases, the understanding, modeling, and visualization of such diseases as they develop during the neonatal growth period continues to be a challenge despite the current tec...
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Human body stiffness plays an important role in whole body vibration analysis and also athletic performance and motor control. In recent years researchers focused on calculating lower-extremity stiffness for better mo...
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Background: Snapping scapula syndrome (SSS) can result in crepitus and painful scapulae during motion and may be treated with bursectomy and/or superomedial angle resection. The medial scapula corpus angle (MSCA) meas...
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Background: Snapping scapula syndrome (SSS) can result in crepitus and painful scapulae during motion and may be treated with bursectomy and/or superomedial angle resection. The medial scapula corpus angle (MSCA) measures blade curvature on a transverse plane below the suprascapular fossa and may indicate SSS, yet a large overlapping range in MSCA exists between patients with and without SSS. This study quantified the effects of 3-dimensional scapula orientation in the imaging field, and the resulting variability in scapula type and MSCA. Methods: Computed tomography scans from 10 healthy controls (non-SSS) and 8 SSS patients were used to create 3-dimensional scapula models. The scapula type and MSCA were measured on a controlled reference imaging plane, and ones translated and rotated below the supraspinatus fossa to create 19 planes simulating variations due to scapulothoracic orientation. Planes translated and rotated above the reference plane also generated 13 modified MSCA planes to test areas modified during surgical resection. Statistical analyses compared the scapula type and MSCA between the reference and alternate planes within groups. Results: Scapula type commonly changed and the MSCA varied up to 104° within a subject depending on the imaging plane, regardless of location below or above the reference plane. Numerous statistical differences were detected in MSCA between the reference plane and those translated and rotated below that plane in both non-SSS and SSS groups. Planes translated above the reference plane showed consistent statistical differences in MSCA to the reference plane, but only in the SSS group. Discussion: Although scapula type and MSCA were previously shown to differentiate patients, the effect of viewing perspective was not considered. Differences in scapula orientation relative to the imaging plane dramatically varied the scapula type and MSCA, far exceeding differences between groups described previously. Herein, scapula type and MS
In this study, 1800 ultrasonic images of human diaphragm were captured for training Mask R-CNN. Then, an ultrasonic image tracking algorithm (UITA) was developed to calculate the mean pixel coordinates of the diaphrag...
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Buzzwords like Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber physical systems have been developed recently to describe future industrial systems (CPS). While Industry 4.0 and similar technologies have many pote...
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The amount of UltraViolet (UV) rays and the surrounding temperature have a general effect on the amount of energy produced by PV panels. In the case of optimal electrical power generation, PVs are angled perpendicular...
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In 21st century, traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) due to blast exposure or head impacts in contact sports, accidents are one of most critical research area. But the area of TBI is poorly investigated due to the limitati...
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In 21st century, traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) due to blast exposure or head impacts in contact sports, accidents are one of most critical research area. But the area of TBI is poorly investigated due to the limitation of brain tissue availability and related ethical/biosafety issues. In general, the brain tissue is difficult to acquire after the autopsy and test in laboratorial settings. In this work, a full-size human brain simulant was developed using a biofidelic multi-part polymeric material poured into a negative mould which was designed and 3D printed. Based on the number of mild to moderate traumatic brain injury cases reported in the literature, three TBI prominent locations were chosen. The prefrontal cortex of frontal lobe, top portion of parietal lobe and temporal lobe of right hemisphere of the brain were the locations where the experiments were conducted under compressive loading conditions. The load versus displacement data was recorded and converted to the stress-strain plots to analyse the result responses and its implications. Two constitutive hyperelastic models (Yeoh model and Neo-Hookean) were selected for curve fitting and characterizing the non-linear mechanical behavior of the full-scale brain model. Such precisely developed and characterized full-scale brain simulant has not been reported in the literature to date and would be beneficial for simulating a wide range of traumatic brain injuries and surgical training.
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