R. Pichardo, L. Eisenfeld, J. Adam, E. Rosow, M. Escabi, J. Enderle
{"title":"Validation of a vibrotactile stimulation system to treat apnea of prematurity","authors":"R. Pichardo, L. Eisenfeld, J. Adam, E. Rosow, M. Escabi, J. Enderle","doi":"10.1109/NEBC.2001.924696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.2001.924696","url":null,"abstract":"Apnea is a cessation of respiration. A system that uses vibrotactile stimulation to treat apnea in neonates was modified. Traditional (hand) stimulation, where the nurse stimulates the baby by hand contact, is compared to vibrotactile stimulation (VTS). Modifications and methods of conducting the clinical study are described.","PeriodicalId":269364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (Cat. No.01CH37201)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125481037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimation-based model predictive control of blood glucose in type I diabetics: a simulation study","authors":"S. M. Lynch, B. Bequette","doi":"10.1109/NEBC.2001.924729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.2001.924729","url":null,"abstract":"A constrained state space model predictive controller, designed based on a 3-state model of the human glucose-insulin interaction, was implemented on a 19-state simulation model of a Type I Diabetic patient. The controller maintained the blood sugar level of the patient plant between the values of 60 and 130 mg/dl, when subjected to a meal disturbance of 50 g, significantly lowering the risk of hypoglycemia/hyperglycemia.","PeriodicalId":269364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (Cat. No.01CH37201)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132499434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of a simple ultrasound/CT fusion image fusion solution for the evaluation of prostate seed brachytherapy","authors":"L. M. Taylor, J. Beaty, J. Enderle, M. Escabi","doi":"10.1109/NEBC.2001.924718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.2001.924718","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this project is to devise a solution that will enable physicians, medical physicists and dosimetrists to quantitatively evaluate the success of prostate brachytherapy procedures. It is proposed that a simple ultrasound/CT image fusion solution can be developed and implemented to improve the current post-surgical evaluation process.","PeriodicalId":269364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (Cat. No.01CH37201)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133257291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling the dynamic composition of engineered tissues","authors":"C. Wilson, S. Kohles, L. Bonassar","doi":"10.1109/NEBC.2001.924731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.2001.924731","url":null,"abstract":"Investigation of the mechanisms underlying scaffold degradation and neotissue synthesis is essential to predicting the mechanical and biological performance of engineered tissues. Modeling the dynamic composition of cell-polymer constructs may be useful in estimating the long-term mechanical performance of the engineered tissue. In this preliminary study, we fit mathematical models of scaffold mass loss and extracellular matrix synthesis to previously published data.","PeriodicalId":269364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (Cat. No.01CH37201)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122844283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of mechanical trauma on neuronal cell viability","authors":"G. Serbest, J. Horwitz, K. Barbee","doi":"10.1109/NEBC.2001.924706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.2001.924706","url":null,"abstract":"To understand the cellular mechanisms of neuronal injury, it is very important to mimic the mechanical loading conditions experienced by the cells in vivo. A cell culture model is an idealized system to investigate cell injury at the cellular and molecular levels. The authors developed a model that allows mechanical stimuli to be precisely controlled and cellular responses to be quantified. In this study, shear stress was dynamically applied to PC2 cells and cell viability assessed at 24 hours. Dynamic mechanical loading of cells produced graded levels of injury as assessed by long-term viability. This system can now be used to investigate further the mechanism of the injury and to assess various treatments of neuronal injury and subsequent degeneration.","PeriodicalId":269364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (Cat. No.01CH37201)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131171929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Krause, M. Faust, N. Sorvillo, J. Cezeaux, S. Schreiner, R. Mindek
{"title":"Design and validation of a system used to determine the physiological effects of noise and whole body vibrations on rats","authors":"S. Krause, M. Faust, N. Sorvillo, J. Cezeaux, S. Schreiner, R. Mindek","doi":"10.1109/NEBC.2001.924700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.2001.924700","url":null,"abstract":"A system was developed to evaluate the physiological effects of whole body vibration and noise on rats. The system design consists of a closed loop feedback method of ensuring the vibration generated matches the experimental parameters for vibration. Preliminary experimentation verifies that mechanical properties of the platform table will not alter the intended magnitude and frequency of vibration. This system holds promise for future studies for whole body vibration and noise research.","PeriodicalId":269364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (Cat. No.01CH37201)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123583696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polymer nanofiber thin films for biosensor applications","authors":"S. Kwoun, R. Lec, B. Han, F. Ko","doi":"10.1109/NEBC.2001.924694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.2001.924694","url":null,"abstract":"A nanofiber (NF) thin film is proposed as a new sensing interface for chemical and biochemical sensor applications. NFs made of Poly-Lactic Acid-Co-Glycolic Acid (PLAGA) polymer with the diameters about 500 nm were deposited on the gold surface of a thickness shear mode (TSM) micro viscoelastic sensor operating at 10 MHz. The NF thin film coated TSM sensors exposed to gaseous and liquid media under various ambient conditions.","PeriodicalId":269364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (Cat. No.01CH37201)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124814209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantitative measurement of bone porosity by mercury intrusion","authors":"C. F. Davis, David John Adams","doi":"10.1109/NEBC.2001.924698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.2001.924698","url":null,"abstract":"Bone porosity is important for several reasons. The use of mercury intrusion porosimetry is shown to be a promising technique for establishing pore size distribution and pore connectivity.","PeriodicalId":269364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (Cat. No.01CH37201)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122127102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Haugland, M. Lindstrom, M. Melinosky, W. Pruehsner, J. Enderle
{"title":"Rise and Shine automated Hoyer Lift","authors":"H. Haugland, M. Lindstrom, M. Melinosky, W. Pruehsner, J. Enderle","doi":"10.1109/NEBC.2001.924736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.2001.924736","url":null,"abstract":"Rise and Shine is designed to assist its user in accessing a bed and bathtub by a means similar to a standard Hoyer Lift. The boom is raised and lowered by the user as well as turned on its axis. The user can also control the movement of the entire device, bringing the device with him to either the bedroom or bathroom.","PeriodicalId":269364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (Cat. No.01CH37201)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125112874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"s-way parallel finite time Gibbs classification","authors":"I. Greenshields, Zhihong Yang","doi":"10.1109/NEBC.2001.924726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NEBC.2001.924726","url":null,"abstract":"Gibbs classification is usually performed by annealing relative to the Metropolis scheme. When the number of compute cycles is bounded, Azencott demonstrated that parallel annealing is a viable approach. Here we describe an s-way finite time schedule with a post-annealing merge strategy.","PeriodicalId":269364,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference (Cat. No.01CH37201)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114946435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}