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Abstract: Recently, Optical Coherence Tomograhy (OCT) is widely used to investigate retinal pathologies.Quantitative methods are needed to support qualitative evaluation carried on by medical specialists. Besides retinal thickness measurement, tomographic imaging allows to study macula morphology and tissue structure of retinal ..

Abstract: Red blood cells (RBCs) deformability can be defined as the ability of the cells to deform when subjected to certain flow conditions. In this work, a microfluidic system composed of a microchannel with a hyperbolic-shaped contraction was used to investigate the effect of both diamide and glutaraldehyde on the cell defor..

Abstract: The cell-free layer (CFL) is a hemodynamic phenomenon that has an important contribution to the rheological properties of blood flowing in microvessels. The present work aims to find the closest function describing RBCs flowing around the cell depleted layer in a polydimethysiloxane (PDMS) microchannel with a diverging..

Abstract : Stem cell research has the potential to affect the lives of millions of people around the world. This research is now recently front page news because of the controversy surrounding the derivation of stem cells from human embryos. Realizing the promise of stem cells for yielding new medical therapies will require to gr..

Abstract : The blood vessel segmentation method described in this paper aims at minimizing the false positive rate, while maintaining high accuracy. Though developed for color retinal images, it can be applied to other tree-like vascular images as well. A computer vision approach is devised that mimics the image reading by expert..

Abstract: High blood uric acid level is a risk factor for gout. To reduce the gout complications, patients need to measure their blood uric acid levels and take medication if necessary. Several commercial blood uric acid meters are available in the market. The aim of this study is to investigate the accuracy of two commercial bl..

Abstract : We hypothesized that porous PMMA could maintain structural strength at porosities high enough to increase elution characteristics. Porous PMMA cylinders were formed and tested to failure in compression. Compositions of 11.1%, 20%, 27.3% and 33.7% sucrose by mass were tested and failure load compared to non-porous PMMA...

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that the ultrasonic energy used to melt the tip of an absorbable polylactide Pin (SonicPin) does not have a significant effect on the chemical characterization and associated degradation properties of the material. The results indicate that the polylactide Pin after ultrasou..

Abstract : The blood vessel segmentation method described in this paper aims at minimizing the false positive rate, while maintaining high accuracy. Though developed for color retinal images, it can be applied to other tree-like vascular images as well. A computer vision approach is devised that mimics the image reading by expert..

Abstract : Stem cell research has the potential to affect the lives of millions of people around the world. This research is now recently front page news because of the controversy surrounding the derivation of stem cells from human embryos. Realizing the promise of stem cells for yielding new medical therapies will require to gr..