Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy: Recent submissions
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Hydrogel-Forming Microneedle Arrays for Sustained and Controlled Ocular Drug Delivery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Microneedles (MNs) provide a minimally invasive alternative to intravitreal injections and a promising means to sustainable ocular drug delivery. To optimize the sustained drug release profile and to ease the administration ... -
Enhancing Mucus Clearance by Cough Through Repeated Pulses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The aim of this study is to investigate the potential increase in the efficiency of the mucus clearance by repeated pulses of the same maximum speed and total air volume compared to single pulse simulated cough and to ... -
Soft Medical Robots-Revamping the Diagnostics and Therapeutics Technologies
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Stress–Strain Relationship of Polycaprolactone in Liquid Nitrogen for Finite Element Simulation of Cryogenic Micropunching Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In pursuit of research to create a synthetic tissue scaffold by a micropunching process, material properties of polycaprolactone (PCL) in liquid nitrogen were determined experimentally and used for finite element modeling ... -
Assessment System for Parkinson's Disease Tremor and Correlation Analysis With Applied Signal Processing Algorithms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Accurate measurement and assessment of Parkinson's disease (PD) tremor is important for patients, clinicians, and researchers to track changes in disease progression and the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions. This ... -
Special Issue on Rehabilitation Robots, Devices, and Methodologies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Most of the developed countries are encountering an aging society, which brings an increasing morbidity of neuromuscular disabilities and diseases, such as stroke, Alzheimer, etc. Rehabilitation has proven to be an effective ... -
Compliant Mechanism as a Motion-Preserving Artificial Spinal Disc: A Novel Concept
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Investigations of spinal disc replacement options have been conducted for several decades but, as yet, the suggested solutions have not been proven to correctly preserve the natural joint motion. This paper focuses on a ... -
Low-Cost Fabrication of Polyvinyl Alcohol-Based Personalized Vascular Phantoms for In Vitro Hemodynamic Studies: Three Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Vascular phantoms mimicking human vessels are commonly used to perform in vitro hemodynamic studies for a number of bioengineering applications, such as medical device testing, clinical simulators, and medical imaging ... -
Revisiting the Basis for Hip Fracture Prediction Through Bone Mineral Density Scans: Large Potential Errors and Improved Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Researchers have attempted to evaluate the likelihood of hip fracture as a function of an engineering concept called the moment of inertia, as applied to the cross-sectional area of hip bones. While the premise is sound, ... -
Human Pelvis Bayesian Injury Probability Curves From Whole Body Lateral Impact Experiments
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Injury criteria are used in military, automotive, and aviation environments to advance human safety. While injury risk curves (IRCs) for the human pelvis are published under vertical loading, there is a paucity of analysis ... -
Numerical Investigation on the Effect of Different Physiological Cancerous Breast Parameters on the Output of Microwave Ablation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Microwave ablation (MWA) is a newly developed minimally invasive tumor therapy which possesses several advantages over the existing thermal therapies. Despite the several advantages, MWA also suffers same disadvantages ... -
Reviewer's Recognition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The Reviewer of the Year Award is given to reviewers who have made an outstanding contribution to the journal in terms of the quantity, quality, and turnaround time of reviews completed during the past 12 months. The prize ... -
Assessing Sensorimotor Problems Via Bayesian Theory and Hidden Markov Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This work introduces a novel framework that combines Bayesian Statistics for motor control with a probabilistic graphical model to estimate sensorimotor problems. This problem is relevant because as we age, our motor skills ... -
Dynamic Analysis and Design of an Innovative Sit-to-Stand Gait Trainer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper illustrates three examples of how to implement dynamic lifting support, including the solution adopted in the Up n’ Free® (Easy-Walking Inc., Maple Glen, PA). The Up n' Free system can lift the user from a seated ... -
Dimensional Optimization for Minimally Invasive Surgery Robot Based on Double Space and Kinematic Accuracy Reliability Index
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)To improve the kinematic performance of the remote center mechanism for surgical robot, a double space index and kinematic accuracy reliability index are proposed to optimize the dimensional sizes of mechanism. First, the ... -
Closed-Form Solution of Inverse Kinematics for a Minimally Invasive Surgical Robot Slave Manipulator Similar to Da Vinci Robot System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Closed-form solution inverse kinematics has a unique advantage in robot control; it is quite difficult to be obtained through traditional methods as no effective analytic method has been identified so far, when the robot's ... -
Toward an Integrated Intervention and Assessment of Robot-Based Rehabilitation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This study presents robot-based rehabilitation and its assessment. Robotic devices have significantly been useful to help therapists do the training procedure consistently. However, as robotic devices interface with humans, ... -
Kinematic Design and Evaluation of a Six-Bar Knee-Ankle-Foot Orthosis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper presents a new two-step design procedure and preliminary kinematic evaluation of a novel, passive, six-bar knee-ankle-foot orthosis (KAFO). The kinematic design and preliminary kinematic gait analysis of the ... -
Task-Based Knee Rehabilitation With Assist-as-Needed Control Strategy and Recovery Tracking System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This research aims to design and implement a novel task-based knee rehabilitation strategy through kinematic synthesis, assist-as-needed control strategy, and recovery tracking system. Experimental kinematic data collected ... -
Development of a Soft Robotic Wearable Device to Assist Infant Reaching
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Existing devices to assist upper extremity (UE) movement in infants with or at risk for motor impairments remain limited and are mainly passive devices. The aim of this project was to develop and assess the validity and ...