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Finite Element Simulation of Proportional, Integral, and Derivative-Controlled Bipolar Radiofrequency Ablation of Porcine Spinal Muscle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1/11/2023 )Radio frequency ablation (RFA) of the medial branch nerve is a widely used therapeutic intervention for back pain originating from the facet joint. However, multifidus denervation is a well-known adverse effect of this RFA ... -
Effects of Motion Vision and Neural Efficiency on Target Capture in Basketball Players
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1/27/2023 )Basketball players' visual and neurological characteristics may affect their sports performance. In this paper, 100 basketball players and 100 nonathletes received motion vision and a neurological efficiency tests. The ... -
Analysis and Optimization of Crucial Factors Affecting Efficacy of Microwave Ablation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1/4/2023 1)Microwave ablation (MA) has emerged as a better and more promising alternative to medicate the primitive stage of cancer. Significant advantages of MA include organ-specific treatment and the prospect of treating ≥3 cm ... -
Obstacle Avoidance for Omnidirectional Mobile Robot Using SLAM
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 10/22/2022)In the field of mobile robotics, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an algorithmic approach to the computational problem of creating and updating a map of an environment while simultaneously keeping track of ... -
Relations of Radial Vibration of the Arterial Wall to Pulsatile Parameters in Blood Flow for Extraction of Arterial Indices
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 10/3/2022 )Given the wide utility of radial vibration of the arterial wall for clinical values, this paper presents a theoretical study on the relations of radial vibration of the arterial wall to pulsatile parameters in blood flow. ... -
A Fenestrated Balloon Expandable Stent System for the Treatment of Aortoiliac Occlusive Disease
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 11/1/2022 )In aortoiliac occlusive disease, atherosclerotic plaques can occlude the distal aortic bifurcation and proximal bilateral iliac artery and thus cause ischemia in the lower extremity. This is typically treated by restoring ... -
Biaxial Tensile Prestress and Waveguide Effects on Estimates of the Complex Shear Modulus Using Optical-Based Dynamic Elastography in Plate-Like Soft Tissue Phantoms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 11/23/2022)Dynamic elastography attempts to reconstruct quantitative maps of the viscoelastic properties of biological tissue, properties altered by disease and injury, by noninvasively measuring mechanical wave motion in the tissue. ... -
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Effect of Paeoniae Radix Rubra on Sepsis-Induced Coagulopathy: A Network Pharmacology and Molecular Docking Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 11/23/2022)To investigate the effective components and underlying mechanism of Paeoniae radix rubra (PRR) in treating sepsis-induced coagulopathy (SIC) on the basis of network pharmacology and molecular docking approaches. At present, ... -
Prediction of Mechanical Responses of a Uniaxially Stretched Neural Fiber Bundle: Theoretical Approach for a Traumatic Loading Condition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 12/21/2022)Viscoelasticity of the spinal nerve roots may play a significant role in predicting nerve root damage caused by overall spinal motion. However, only a few studies have investigated the complex mechanical behavior of this ... -
Decoupling Uniaxial Tensile Prestress and Waveguide Effects From Estimates of the Complex Shear Modulus in a Cylindrical Structure Using Transverse-Polarized Dynamic Elastography
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 12/23/2022)Dynamic elastography, whether based on magnetic resonance, ultrasound, or optical modalities, attempts to reconstruct quantitative maps of the viscoelastic properties of biological tissue, properties altered by disease and ... -
Microwave Ablation Trocar Operated at Dual Tine Dual-Frequency: A Numerical Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 12/23/2022)Microwave ablation (MWA) is a minimally invasive thermal ablation technique that has the advantages of obtaining high intratumoral temperatures, less treatment time, and large ablation region as compared to other thermal ... -
Gesture Recognition and Master–Slave Control of a Manipulator Based on sEMG and Convolutional Neural Network–Gated Recurrent Unit
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 12/23/2022)Surface electromyography signal (sEMG) is the bio-electric signal accompanied by muscle contraction. For master–slave manipulation scenario such as patients with prosthetic hands, their upper limb sEMG signals can be ... -
Multi-Objective Optimal Regulation of Glucose Concentration in Type I Diabetes Mellitus
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 12/9/2022 )Type I, or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, is a chronic disease in which insulin is not adequately produced by the pancreatic β-cells, which leads to a high glucose concentration. In practice, external insulin delivery ... -
Axial Wall Displacement at the Common Carotid Artery is Associated With the Lamb Waves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 12/9/2022 )As compared with its radial wall displacement, axial wall displacement at the common carotid artery (CCA) carries independent clinical values, but its physical mechanisms are unclear. This study aims to investigate whether ... -
A Novel Finite Element Model to Assess the Effect of Solid Stress Inside Tumors on Elastographic Normal Strains and Fluid Pressure
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Ultrasound elastography is a noninvasive imaging modality used to assess the mechanical behavior of tissues, including cancers. Analytical and finite element (FE) models are useful and effective tools to understand the ... -
Modeling Decision Support System for Optimal Disease Diagnosis and Treatment of Cerebral Aneurysm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper presents a novel decision support system (DSS) to assist medics administer optimal clinical diagnosis and effective healthcare post-treatment solutions. The DSS model that evolved from the research work predicted ... -
A Computationally Efficient Computer-Aided Design Strategy for Iterative Combat Helmet Design and Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Assessing combat helmet ballistic performance is a costly endeavor using either an experimental or a computational process. Experimental assessment requires many iterations and helmets to acquire a sufficient data set. To ... -
The Role of Airway Shunt Elastance on the Compartmentalization of Respiratory System Impedance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)An inverse model consisting of two elastic compartments connected in series and served by two airway conduits has recently been fit to measurements of respiratory impedance in obese subjects. Increases in the resistance ... -
Acoustic Signatures of Left Ventricular Assist Device Thrombosis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are life-saving, surgically implanted mechanical heart pumps used to treat patients with advanced heart failure (HF). While life-saving, LVAD support is associated with a high incidence ... -
Plastic Energy Dissipation in Lumbar Spine Implants: A Contact Mechanics Point of View
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In this study, an elastoplastic contact model is developed for L1–L5 lumbar spine implants. Roughness effect is included to estimate energy loss which is an indication of wear and subsequently the issue of metal debris in ...