Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy: Recent submissions
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Development of Validated Numerical Model for Study of Mechanical Properties and Permeability of Carbon Nanotube-Bioactive Glass Scaffolds
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This study aims to predict mechanical properties of scaffolds made of bioactive glass-carbon nanotube (CNT) composite through finite element analysis (FEA) and their permeability using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) ... -
Dual Fluorescence Emission by Irradiation of Single Optical Source for Fluorescein Sodium and 5-ALA Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Most brain surgeries aim to completely resection a tumor. However, the arrangement of blood vessels around brain tumors is often complex. Moreover, the tumors and blood vessels have similar colors, making it difficult to ... -
Photo-Responsive Hydrogel Microneedles With Interlocking Control for Easy Extraction in Sustained Ocular Drug Delivery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Microneedle arrays provide a minimally invasive platform for ocular drug delivery. Self-adhesive microneedle arrays, which incorporate barb-like locking features, have been developed to secure the array in place without ... -
Manufacturing of a Gelatin Phantom With Lymphedema for Ultrasonic Imaging Measurement
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)For diagnosis of secondary lymphedema, amplitude mode (A-mode) examination using a single ultrasound probe has been suggested as one of the possible diagnostic modalities due to its relatively low cost, ease of usage, and ... -
Manufacturing Capability of Three-Dimensional Printed Stereolithography Parts for Impact Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Three-dimensional (3D) printing with high-resolution stereolithography (SLA) has grown in popularity for creating personalized medical devices. 3D printing is now starting to expand to weight-bearing components, e.g., ... -
Potential of Infrared Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection: A Critical Evaluation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Screening for breast cancer to detect the disease in an early curable stage remains our most important tool to reduce breast cancer mortality, and routine screening mammography is recommended. Although the technique has ... -
Additive Manufacturing of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Bioactive Glass Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Scaffolds play an essential role in bone healing by providing temporary structural support to the native bone tissue and by hosting bone cells. To this end, several biomaterials and manufacturing methods have been proposed. ... -
Investigating the Design and Manufacture of PneuNet Actuators as a Prosthetic Tongue for Mimicking Human Deglutition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The number of total glossectomy cases in the United States is seeing an increasing trend as per the nationwide inpatient sample database. Patients, who have undergone such aggressive surgical procedures, have extensive ... -
The Lubricating Activity of Phospholipids on Charged and Neutral Surfaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this paper, the amphoteric character of cartilage surface is used to study friction between charged (+/+), (−/−), and uncharged (±/±) biological surfaces. The surface of the bovine articular cartilage at varying pH ... -
Study Correlating Lead (Pb) Level Exposure and Bone Shock Absorption Capacity Based on Damping Associated With Higher Modes of Vibration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Noninvasive vibration testing is one of the tools for characterizing the biomechanical properties of bones and muscle groups in humans and animals. They present alternatives for evaluating bone health quality and may serve ... -
A Proof of Concept Study of the Mechanical Behavior of Lattice Structures Used to Design a Shoulder Hemi-Prosthesis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Lattice structures offer great benefits when employed in medical implants for cell attachment and growth (osseointegration), minimization of stress shielding phenomena, and weight reduction. This study is focused on a proof ... -
Modeling of Looping Behavior in a Flexible Instrument Using a Bézier Curve
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Flexible medical instruments undergo looping during insertion and navigation inside the human body. It makes the control of the distal end difficult and raises safety concerns. This paper proposes the minimum strain energy ... -
An Encounter With Lattice Boltzmann for Biomedical Applications: Interactive Simulation to Support Clinical and Design Decisions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Medical device design for personalized medicine requires sophisticated tools for optimization of biomechanical and biofluidic devices. This paper investigates a new real-time tool for simulating structural and fluid ... -
The Effect of the Design of Surgical Electrodes on the Formation of Sparking Enhanced Burns
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Electrocautery is a safe and effective method of hemostasis during cutaneous surgery. Despite the unquestionable benefits, electrocautery sparks in the surgical field represent a significant fire risk that can be eliminated ... -
Magnetic Nanoparticle Hyperthermia for Cancer Treatment: A Review on Nanoparticle Types and Thermal Analyses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia (MNH) is a localized cancer treatment that uses an alternating magnetic field to excite magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) injected into a tumor, causing them to generate heat. Once the ... -
Feasibility Verification of Blood Viscosity Estimation by Two-Dimensional Ultrasonic-Measurement-Integrated Blood Flow Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Although blood viscosity has attracted much attention for its effect on hemodynamic parameters related to atherosclerosis, quantitative method for evaluating blood viscosity in vivo is not currently established. The purpose ... -
Effect of an Added Mass on the Vibration Characteristics for Raster Scanning of a Cantilevered Optical Fiber
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Piezoelectric tube actuators with cantilevered optical fibers have enabled the miniaturization of scanning image acquisition techniques for endoscopic implementation. To achieve raster scanning for such a miniaturized ... -
A Hypothesized Mechanistic Model of Longitudinal Wall Motion at the Common Carotid Artery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)By adopting a physics-physiology integrative approach, this work hypothesizes a mechanistic model of longitudinal wall motion ux(t) at the common carotid artery (CCA) and explores its antegrade amplitude ux0-ante and ... -
Multiphysics Hemodynamic Behavior of Polylactic Acid-Based Stent: A Coupled Simulation Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This study investigates the structural and hemodynamic behavior of bioresorbable polylactic acid (PLA)-based stent designs for applications in treating coronary artery disease. Three stent designs were chosen and their ... -
Biomechanical Study of Cervical Disc Arthroplasty Devices Using Finite Element Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Many artificial discs for have been introduced to overcome the disadvantages of conventional anterior discectomy and fusion. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of different U.S. Food and Drug ...