14th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics

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- Degradation of Bone Material in Time

- Biomechanics, Artificial Organs, Implants and Rehabilitation

- Real-Time EEG Parameterization for Shunt Decision Supporting System During Carotid Endarterectomy

- Automatic Quantification of Handwriting Characteristics Before and After Rehabilitation

- Reciprocating Orthotics Complex (ROC) for Children Suffering from Cerebral Paralysis and Spinal Diseases

- Muscle Movement and Electrodes Motion Artifact during Vibration Treatment

- Mandible and Temporomandibular Disc Movements on Physiological Subjects with Use of MRI

- Choice and Impact of a Non-Newtonian Blood Model for Wall Shear Stress Profiling of Coronary Arteries

- Validation of Individual Calibration Procedure in Prediction of One Repetition Maximum in Bench Press

- Prediction of One Repetition Maximum in Dumbbell Concentration Curl and Shoulder Press

- Feature Selection for Bayesian Evaluation of Trauma Death Risk

- Objective Evaluation of Stroke Patients' Movement

- Applying Consumer Technologies to Assistive Device Design

- Finite Element Analysis of Honeycomb-Core Foam on Shock-Absorbing Capability against Childhood Head Injury

- Results of Reciprocal Orthosis System with Kinematic Interdependence used in Children with Children Cerebral Paralysis and Spinal Patients

- Colorimetric Plantographic Diagnostics of Foot Pathology on the Footprint in Static and Dynamics

- Biomechanical Properties of Glutaraldehyde Treated Human Pericadium

- Eye Kinematics of Athletes in Non-Familiar Sports Situations

- Feasibility Experiment of Gait Training System Using Real-time Visual Feedback of Knee Joint Angle

- Investigation of Biomechanical Properties of Different Elements of Human Mitral Valve

- Development of Research for Machining of Implants with Novel Materials for Bone Surgery

- The Artificial Larynx: A Review of Current Technology and a Proposal for Future Development

- Power Density Spectra of the Velocity Waveforms in Artificial Heart Valves

- Development of a Generic Assistive Platform to Aid Patients with Motor Disabilities

- Usability Evaluation of Three Unilateral - Propelled Wheelchairs for Hemiplegic Patients

- The Effect of Gait Speed on Pre- and Postoperative Analysis of Gait Parameters after Total Knee Arthroplasty

- Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurements, Biosensors and Transducers

- Quantitative Analysis of the Activation Strategies during Freezing in Parkinson's Patients

- Precise Positioning of Electrodes at Transesophageal Atrial Stimulation Using Multichannel Transesophageal Pacemaker and Lead

- Automated multi-parametric label free 24 channel real-time screening system

- Decentralized Multi-channel Digitizing of Bioimpedance Signals

- Design and Implementation of Textile Sensors for Biotelemetry Applications

- The Suitability of Silver Yarn Electrodes for Mobile EKG Monitoring

- Drawback of ICA Procedure on EEG: Polarity Indeterminacy at Local Optimization

- Empirical Mode Decomposition on Mismatch Negativity

- Measurement and Control of Ultra-Low Liquid Flowrates for Drug Delivery Application

- Hardware Embedded System on a Chip for the Normal ECG Recognition

- Slit-lamp Based Ocular Fluorometry Scanning

- Epicardial Acceleration Signal Measured Using a Single Chip 3-axis Accelerometer

- Novel Conducting Polymer Composite pH Sensors for Medical Applications

- Future Trends in Robotic Neurosurgery

- Development and Evaluation of One Arm Electrode Based ECG Measurement System

- Diagnosing Acute Liver Graft Rejection: Experimental Application of an Implantable Telemetric Impedance Device in Native and Transplanted Porcine Livers

- Augmentation Index in Different Severity Coronary Heart Disease Patients

- Photoplethysmographic Measurements and Analysis

- Noninvasive Measurement of the Pressure Gradient between the Radial and Finger Arteries

- A Multicenter Study of Removed Uric Acid Estimated by Ultra Violet Absorbance in the Spent Dialysate

- Comparison of Tibial Nerve Somatosensory Evoked Potential Signal-to-Noise Ratios During Anaesthesia

- Phase Coupling in EEG Burst Suppression during Propofol Anesthesia

- Rhythmic Fluctuations in Intracellular Mg2+ in Spontaneously Beating Cultured Cardiac Myocytes

- Importance of Nonlinear Signal Processing in Biomedicine

- An Intelligent Method for Identifying Cardiac Cycles from Tracheal Sounds during Sleep

- Ultrasonic Non-invasive Investigation of Arterial Elasticity

- EEG-fMRI Ballistocardiogram Removal: A New Non-linear Dynamic Time Warping Approach

- Local Filtered QRS Duration during Sodium-channel Blockade in Brugada Syndrome Patients

- Development of Flexible Thin Film Microelectrode Arrays for Neural Recordings

- Prediction of Epileptic Seizures for On-Demand Vagus Nerve Stimulation

- Apparatus for Short-Wave Inductothermy "Magnetotherm"

- What Conclusions does Rapid Image Classification by Eye Movements Provide for Machine Vision?

- Analysis of Foveation Sequences in Congenital Nystagmus

- Numerical Models of Skin Conductivity Changes during Electroporation

- An Experimental Study of PPG Probe Efficiency Coefficient Determination on Human Body

- Non-linear Assessment of Heart Rate Variability in Ovo-lactovegetarians, Vegans and Omnivores during Oral Glucose Tolerance Test

- Photoplethysmography Analysis of Artery Properties in Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases

- Dialysis Adequacy On-line Monitoring Using DiaSens Optical Sensor: Technique and Clinical Application

- Effects of ROI Size on Correlation between ROISR and SNR

- Effect of Microwave Radiation on EEG Coherence

- Stress Stages and Changes on EEG by low-level Physical (EMF) and Chemical Stressors

- Body Surface Potential Mapping for Noninvasive Ischemia Detection

- Effect of Lead Orientation on Bipolar ECG Measurement

- On the Mechanism of Low Frequency Bioelectromagnetism

- The Effect of Electrode Size on Cortical EEG Sensitivity Distributions

- Measurement of Dissolved Oxygen with Lab-on-Chip Systems

- Biomedical Optics and Lasers

- Effects of Optical Radiation on the Healing of Bone Defect in Rabbits

- Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization in Patients with Diffuse Coronary Artery Disease

- Evaluation of a Fiber-Optic Based Pulsed Laser System for Fluorescence Spectroscopy

- Effect of Light Scattering Simulation in the Eye on Different Color Stimuli Perception

- Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy During Experimental Radio Frequency Ablation

- Closed-Feedback Control of Laser Soldering of Rat Skin Using Diode Laser

- Characterization of Input-Output Relations in Single Neurons using Spatiotemporal Photo-stimulation

- Sensor for Measurement of Wear in Total Hip Arthroplasty

- Effects of Static and Dynamic Modes on Laser Tissue Soldering: An In-vitro Study

- Photoplethysmography Device for Detection of Changes in the Vasomotor Parameters of Small Laboratory Animals

- Potentialities of Wear Measurement in Total Knee Arthroplasty

- Optical Non-contact In-vitro Measurement of Total Hip Arthroplasty Wear

- Spectroscopic Studies on Binding of Cationic Pheophorbide-a Derivative to Model Polynucleotides

- Healthcare Management, Education and Training

- ICT and Knowledge Management for the ISO 9001:2000 Standards Compliance of I.R.C.C.S. "Burlo Garofolo" Maternal-children Hospital

- Biotelemetry

- Five Year Biomedical Engineering Curriculum - Experiences and Results from the First Eight Years

- Medical GRID and E-Learning in the Virtual Hospital

- Luebeck's International BME Master's Program - Aim and Experiences

- Developing Media Rich Virtual Learning Material for Biomedical Engineering Education

- Development of the Biomedical Electronics Course for e-Learning

- Cataract Surgery Simulator for Medical Education & Finite Element/3D Human Eye Model

- COMSOL Multiphysics in Undergraduate Education of Electromagnetic Field Biological Interactions

- Actual State of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Education in Poland

- The Practice for Medical Physics and Engineering Students

- Information Technology to Health

- Scientific Research, Telemedicine and Health Services: the "Burlo Garofolo" Hospital Web Portal

- A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach to the Classification of Fetal Cardiotocograms

- Visions in Modeling of Cardiac Arrhythmogenic Diseases and their Therapies

- Home Health Monitoring

- Time Domain Signal Processing of Tibial Nerve Somatosensory Evoked Potentials During Anesthesia

- Modelling Interrupter Measurements of Respiratory Resistance

- Coupling Axis-Length Profiles with Bezier Splines in Finite Element Head Models

- Analysis of Bioelectrical Uterine Activity for Detection of Threatening Premature Labour

- Medical Imaging, Telemedicine and E-Health

- Comparison of DT-CWT Based Rotation Variant and Invariant Methods on Tissue Characterization

- CdZnTe Pixel Detectors for Medical Imaging

- The Analysis of Craniofacial Morphology in Posteroanterior View

- VAMP - A Vision Based Sensor Network for Health Care Hygiene

- An Augmented Reality Application for Minimally Invasive Surgery

- Methods for Counting Cells Supported by Digital Image Processing

- Two Aspects of Calibrating a 3D Ultrasonic Computed-Tomography System

- A Combined Bayesian Approach to Classifying Venous Flow during Contrast-Agent Injection using Doppler Ultrasound

- Optimization of fMRI Processing Parameters for Simutaneous Acquisition of EEG/fMRI in Focal Epilepsy

- Telemetric Personal Health Monitoring Systems for Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

- Clinical Relevance of Preoperative CT- based Computer Aided 3D- Planning in Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic Surgery and Living Donor Liver Transplantation

- Assessing the Effects of Apneusis on Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Symbolic Dynamics

- Breast Ultrasound Segmentation Using Morphologic Operators and a Gaussian Function Constraint

- Image Analysis of DNA Repair and Apoptosis in Tumor Cells with Differing Sensitivity to DNA Damage

- Parameterization of the Optic Nerve Disk in Eye Fundus Images

- 3D Medical Image Visualization and Volume Estimation of Pathology Zones

- Biomedical Image Processing Based on Regression Models

- Analysis of Outliers Effects in Voxel-Based Morphometry by means of Virtual Phantoms

- Stroke Monitor as a Device Improving Diagnostic Value of Computed Tomography in Hyperacute Stroke

- Morphological and Brainstem Physiology Assessment of Patients with Congenital Craniocervical Anomalies

- Medical Physics

- Quality of the Computed Radiography Image Acquired with Decreased Doses

- Evaluation of Acceptance Criteria for IMRT Plan Verification Based on Results of Film Dosimetry

- Sensitivity of the Brain to Microwave Radiation

- The Impact of the Anomalous Magnetic Field of the Earth on Demographic Indices (using Latvia as an example)

- Development of the Positron Emission Tomography Center: Medical and Physical Aspects

- Modulated Microwave Effects on Visual Event-related Potentials during Oddball Task

- Evaluation of the Independent Dose Calculation Algorithm

- Dosimetric Properties of Detectors for Quality Control of Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy

- Considering Dose Rate in Routine X-ray Examination by Thermoluminescent Dosimetry (TLD) in Radiology units of Mazandaran Hospitals

- Cost-Effectiveness of the Positron Emission Tomography with [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose for the Staging and Management of Lung Cancer in Russia

- Design of an Ultra-Near-Field System for Planar Coded Aperture Nuclear Medicine Imaging

- Micro- and Nanoobjects, Nanostructured Systems, Biophysics

- Semiconductors and Biomedical Structures for Nanobiometric Applications

- Microcells Development and Endocytosis Ability Morphological and Quantitative Characterization in HeLa Cancer Cells

- Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Yeast Cells Influenced by High Voltage Electrical Discharge

- Dependence of DNA Electrotransfer into Cells In vitro on Cell Electroporation and DNA Electrophoresis

- Measurement of Temperature Synchronized Yeast Cells kHz Electrical Oscillations

- Self - Assembled System: Semiconductor and Virus Like Particles

- Quantum Chemical Simulation of Cytochrome P450 Catalyzed Oxidation and Carcinogenic potency of Benzene Derivatives

- Evaluation of Highly-Water Soluble Drug Physical State in Biodegradable Microcapsules

- Time-dependent Model of Induced Transmembrane Voltage and Electroporation on Clusters of Cells

- Mg2+ and Ni2+ ion Effects on Phase Transitions in AU and A2U under Conditions Close to Physiological Ones

- Studies of Mechanical Treatment on Surface Charge of Bioactive Composites