Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

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Vibration Stimulation as a Non-Invasive Approach to Monitor the Severity of Meniscus Tears
Mohsen Safaei, Nicholas B. Bolus, Daniel C. Whittingslow, Hyeon Ki Jeong, Alper Erturk, Omer T. Inan
Musculoskeletal disorders and injuries are one of the most prevalent medical conditions across age groups. Due to a high load-bearing function, the knee is particularly susceptible to injuries such as meniscus tears. Imaging techniques are commonly used to assess meniscus... Read more
Posted on 26 MAR 2021
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Autonomous Robot for Removing Superficial Traumatic Blood
Baiquan Su, Yu Shi, Xintong Li, Yi Gong, Han Li, Zifeng Ren, Yijing Xia, He Wang, Yucheng Zhang, Wei Yao, Junchen Wang, Jie Tang
Objective: To remove blood from an incision and find the incision spot is a key task during surgery, or else over discharge of blood will endanger a patient’s life. However, the repetitive manual blood removal involves plenty of workload contributing... Read more
Posted on 3 FEB 2021
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Face Coverings, Aerosol Dispersion and Mitigation of Virus Transmission Risk
Ignazio Maria Viola, Brian Peterson, Gabriele Pisetta, Geethanjali Pavar, Hibbah Akhtar, Filippo Menolascina, Enzo Mangano, Katherine Dunn, Roman Gabl, Alex Nila, Emanuela Molinari, Cathal Cummins, Gerard Thompson, Milly T. Y. Lo, Fiona Charlotte Denison, Paul Digard, Omair Malik, Mark J. G. Dunn, Catherine M. Mcdougall, Felicity V. Mehendale
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is primarily transmitted through virus-laden fluid particles ejected from the mouth of infected people. Face covers can mitigate the risk of virus transmission but their outward effectiveness is not fully ascertained. Objective: by using a background oriented... Read more
Posted on 24 JAN 2021
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Registration Techniques for Clinical Applications of Three-Dimensional Augmented Reality Devices
Christopher M. Andrews, Alexander B. Henry, Ignacio M. Soriano, Michael K. Southworth, Jonathan R. Silva
Many clinical procedures would benefit from direct and intuitive real-time visualization of anatomy, surgical plans, or other information crucial to the procedure. Three-dimensional augmented reality (3D-AR) is an emerging technology that has the potential to assist physicians with spatial reasoning... Read more
Posted on 30 DEC 2020
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Ultrasound Based Planning and Navigation for Non-Anatomical Liver Resections – An Ex-Vivo Study
Daniel Candinas, Raluca-Maria Sandu, Federico Storni, Stefan Weber, Gian Andrea Prevost, Iwan Paolucci, Anja Lachenmayer, Luca Sahli
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
Posted on 27 FEB 2020
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Defining the Relationship Between Compressive Stress and Tissue Trauma During Laparoscopic Surgery Using Human Large Intestine
Amanda Farah Khan, Matthew Kenneth Macdonald, Catherine Streutker, Corwyn Rowsell, James Drake, Teodor Grantcharov
      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
Posted on 20 AUG 2019
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An Automated Method for Multi-DOF Cell Rotational Control Contributing to Orientation-based Cell Surgery Applications
Mingyang Xie, Adnan Shakoor, Yajing Shen, James K. Mills
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
Posted on 10 JAN 2019