A finger or hand brace may be required to be worn for people who require physical support or ‘controlled motion’ support. Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS) patients have connective tissue disorders, and wear braces to support ...

According to statistics coronary heart disease is one of the most common causes of death in the world. Heart failure patients with these diseases are the most common one. External assisted Pumps help ventricular thrust can ...

In recent years, advances in lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices has led to separation, sorting and manipulation of cells and particles on miniaturized devices. Among the different mechanisms that have been used in this regard, ...

Recent investigations using image-based computational flow dynamics (CFD) have revealed turbulent-like blood flow instabilities (hemodynamics) within intracranial cerebral aneurysms and surrounding vasculature, which may ...

The reconstruction process following a mastectomy procedure may require the use of a tissue expander(s) to accommodate an implant. Over several months, the expanders are routinely filled with sterile saline solution to ...

Detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the exhaled breath is found to be a promising method to diagnose different diseases. The amount of alcohol or drugs absorbed/inhaled in the body can also be measured using ...

We present a microfluidic platform that is capable of controlled diamagnetic droplet displacement. In this method, monodisperse aqueous droplets are produced in a continuous phase of hydrophobic ferrofluid. Both phases are ...

This paper describes the evaluation of the MyoWare Electromyographic (EMG) sensor performance during a typical end-use application to help determine if it could be used for an EMG-based controller of an upper-limb robotic ...

In the last two decades, majority of the newly developed dental caries detection techniques have been optics-based, relying either on enhancement of light scattering in early carious lesion (e.g. optical coherent tomography ...

Heart valve replacement is still the optimal solution in young patients with severe symptomatic heart valve disease. In those patients, bileaflet mechanical heart valves (BMHV) are preferred to biological valves because ...