IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology

Non-anatomical resections of liver tumors can be very challenging as the surgeon cannot use anatomical landmarks on the liver surface or in the ultrasound image for guidance. This makes it difficult to achieve negative resection margins (R0) and still preserve... Read more

      Excessive magnitudes of compressive stress exerted on gastrointestinal tissues can lead to pathological scar tissue or adhesion formation, bleeding, inflammation or even death from bowel perforation and sepsis. It is currently unknown however, at exactly what magnitude of compressive stress... Read more

Orientation control of biological cells has gained much attention recently due to the fact that cell rotation is both a basic and vital cell micromanipulation technique involved in many orientation-based cell surgery applications. These applications include cell injection, preimplantation genetic... Read more