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26th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference SBEC 2010, April 30 - May 2, 2010, College Park, Maryland, USA [2010]

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Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats Caused by Blast-Induced Hyper-Acceleration
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Early Metabolic and Structural Changes in the Rat Brain Following Trauma <Emphasis Type="Italic">in vivo</Emphasis> Using MRI
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Principal Components of Brain Deformation in Response to Skull Acceleration: The Roles of Sliding and Tethering between the Brain and Skull
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Investigations into Wave Propagation in Soft Tissue
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Correlating Tissue Response with Anatomical Location of mTBI Using a Human Head Finite Element Model under Simulated Blast Conditions
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Human Surrogate Head Response to Dynamic Overpressure Loading in Protected and Unprotected Conditions
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Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury: Using a Shock Tube to Recreate a Battlefield Injury in the Laboratory
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Wave Propagation in the Human Brain and Skull Imaged <Emphasis Type="Italic">in vivo </Emphasis>by MR Elastography
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Cavitation as a Possible Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Damage Mechanism
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Prognostic Ability of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Parameters among Severely Injured Traumatic Brain Injury Patients
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Hair Cell Regeneration in the Mammalian Ear, Is Gene Therapy the Answer?
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Magnetoencephalography and Auditory Neural Representations
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Voice Pitch Processing with Cochlear Implants
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a Tool for Investigating and Treating Tinnitus
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A Course Guideline for Biomedical Engineering Modeling and Design for Freshmen
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Classroom Nuclear Magnetic Resonance System
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The Basics of Bioengineering Education
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HealthiManage: An Individualized Prediction Algorithm for Type 2 Diabetes Chronic Disease Control
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Dynamic Movement and Property Changes in Live Mesangial Cells by Stimuli
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Cooperative Interactions between Myosin II and Cortexillin I Mediated by Actin Filaments during Cellular Deformation
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Constitutive Law for Miniaturized Quantitative Microdialysis
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Non-invasive Estimation of Intracranial Pressure by Means of Retinal Venous Pulsatility
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Apparatus for Quantitative Slit-Lamp Ocular Fluorometry
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Changes in Viscoelastic Properties of Latex Condoms Due to Personal Lubricants
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Towards the Objective Evaluation of Hand Disinfection
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<Emphasis Type="Italic">In vitro</Emphasis> Models for Measuring Charge Storage Capacity
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Discovery of Long-Latency Somatosensory Evoked Potentials as a Marker of Cardiac Arrest Induced Brain Injury
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<Emphasis Type="Italic">In vivo</Emphasis> Characterization of Epileptic Tissue with Time-Dependent, Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy
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Effects of Initial Grasping Forces, Axes, and Directions on Torque Production during Circular Object Manipulation
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Time Independent Functional Training of Inter-joint Arm Coordination Using the ARMin III Robot
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Kinematic Analysis in Robot Assisted Femur Fracture Reduction: Fuzzy Logic Approach
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Compensation for Weak Hip Abductors in Gait Assisted by a Novel Crutch-Like Device
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Measuring in vivo Effects of Chemotherapy Treatment on Cardiac Capillary Permeability
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Nanoscale “DNA Baskets” for the Delivery of siRNA
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Nanoscale Glutathione Patches Improve Organ Function
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Nanoscale Carnosine Patches Improve Organ Function
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Multiple Lumiphore-Bound Nanoparticles for <Emphasis Type="Italic">in vivo</Emphasis> Quantification of Localized Oxygen Levels
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Ion-Mobility Characterization of Functionalized and Aggregated Gold Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery
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Quantitative Mapping of Vascular Geometry for Implant Sites
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Failure Analysis and Materials Characterization of Hip Implants
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Nano-Wear-Particulates Elicit a Size and Dose Dependent Response by RAW 264.7 Cells
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Viscous Behavior of Different Concentrations of Bovine Calf Serum Used to Lubricate the Micro-textured CoCrMo Alloy Material before and after Wear Testing
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Progressive Wear Damage Analysis on Retrieved UHMWPE Tibial Implants
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Gum Arabic-Chitosan Composite Biopolymer Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering
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Modification of Hydrogel Scaffolds for the Modulation of Corneal Epithelial Cell Responses
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Making of Functional Tissue Engineered Heart Valve
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Ties That Bind: Evaluation of Collagen I and <Emphasis Type="Italic">α</Emphasis>-Chitin
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Chitosan/Poly (<Emphasis Type="Italic">ε</Emphasis>-Caprolactone) Composite Hydrogel for Tissue Engineering Applications
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Modeling and Control of HIV by Computational Intelligence Techniques
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Mathematical Modeling of Ebola Virus Dynamics as a Step towards Rational Vaccine Design
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Respiratory Impedance Values in Adults Are Relatively Insensitive to Mead Model Lung Compliance and Chest Wall Compliance Parameters
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A Systems Biology Model of Alzheimer’s Disease Incorporating Spatial-temporal Distribution of Beta Amyloid
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A Mathematical Model of the Primary T Cell Response with Contraction Governed by Adaptive Regulatory T Cells
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A Mathematical Model for Microenvironmental Control of Tumor Growth
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Assessing the Usability of Web-Based Personal Health Records
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Real Time Monitoring of Extracellular Glutamate Release in Rat Ischemia Model Treated by Nimodipine
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Targeted Delivery of Doxorubicin by PLGA Nanoparticles Increases Drug Uptake in Cancer Cell Lines
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Cellular Uptake and Cytotoxicity of a Novel ICG-DOX-PLGA Dual Agent Polymer Nanoparticle Delivery System
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Electrospray – Differential Mobility Analysis (ES-DMA) for Characterization of Heat Induced Antibody Aggregates
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Mechanisms of Poly(amido amine) Dendrimer Transepithelial Transport and Tight Junction Modulation in Caco-2 Cells
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Absorbable Coatings: Structure and Drug Elution
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A Brief Comparison of Adaptive Noise Cancellation, Wavelet and Cycle-by-Cycle Fourier Series Analysis for Reduction of Motional Artifacts from PPG Signals
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Respiratory Resistance Measurements during Exercise Using the Airflow Perturbation Device
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Comparison of IOS Parameters to aRIC Respiratory System Model Parameters in Normal and COPD Adults
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Effect of Waveform Shape and Duration on Defibrillation Threshold in Rabbit Hearts
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The Measurement and Processing of EEG Signals to Evaluate Fatigue
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Modeling for the Impact of Anesthesia on Neural Activity in the Auditory System
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Cortical Excitability Changes after Repetitive Self-regulated vs. Tracking Movements of the Hand
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What the ENT Wants in the OR: Bioengineering Prospects
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An <Emphasis Type="Italic">in vitro</Emphasis> Biomechanical Comparison of Human Dermis to a Silicone Biosimulant Material
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Telemetric Epilepsy Monitoring and Seizures Aid
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Spike Detection for Integrated Circuits: Comparative Study
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Effect of Ambient Humidity on the Electrical Conductance of a Titanium Oxide Coating Being Investigated for Potential Use in Biosensors
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Brain Computer Interface in Cerebellar Ataxia
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Effects of Stray Field Distribution Generated by Magnetic Beads on Giant Magnetoresistance Sensor for Biochip Applications
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Electrostatic Purification of Nucleic Acids for Micro Total Analysis Systems
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Applicability of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Determining the Concentration of Adenine and S-Adenosyl Homocysteine in a Microfluidic System
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Integration of Capillary Ring Resonator Biosensor with PDMS Microfluidics for Label-Free Biosensing
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Surface Plasmon-Coupled Emission from Rhodamine- 6G Aggregates for Ratiometric Detection of Ethanol Vapors
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Formation of Dendritic Silver Substrates by Galvanic Displacement for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
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High Specificity Binding of Lectins to Carbohydrate Functionalized Etched Fiber Bragg Grating Optical Sensors
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Oximetry and Blood Flow in the Retina
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Monitoring and Controlling Oxygen Levels in Microfluidic Devices
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An Imaging Pulse Oximeter Based on a Multi-Aperture Camera
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Fluorescent Microparticles for Sensing Cell Microenvironment Oxygen Levels within 3D Scaffolds
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Determination of in vivo Blood Oxygen Saturation and Blood Volume Fraction Using Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy
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Fredholm Integral Equations in Biophysical Data Analysis
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High-Resolution Autofluorescence Imaging for Mapping Molecular Processes within the Human Retina
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Local Histograms for Classifying H&E Stained Tissues
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Detecting and Classifying Cancers from Image Data Using Optimal Transportation
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Nanoscale Imaging of Chemical Elements in Biomedicine
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Sparse Representation and Variational Methods in Retinal Image Processing
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Optimization and Validation of a Biomechanical Model for Analyzing Running-Specific Prostheses
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Prehension Synergy: Use of Mechanical Advantage during Multi-finger Torque Production on Mechanically Fixed- and Free-Object
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Investigating Vortex Ring Propagation Speed Past Prosthetic Heart Valves: Implications for Assessing Valve Performance
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Transient Heat Transfer in a Dental Prosthesis Implanted in Mandibular Bone
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Characterization of Material Properties of Aorta from Oscillatory Pressure Tests
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Quasi-static Analysis of Electric Field Distributions by Disc Electrodes in a Rabbit Eye Model
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Optimizing the Geometry of Deep Brain Stimulating Electrodes
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Exploratory Parcellation of fMRI Data Based on Finite Mixture Models and Self-annealing Expectation Maximization
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