The International journal of artificial organs
Jun 6, 2025
Ventricular assist devices (VADs) are essential for end-stage heart failure patients, but their design must balance hydraulic efficiency and hemocompatibility to minimize blood damage. This study presents a multi-objective optimization framework inte...
In response to the urgent issues faced by current bionic undulating fin robot propulsion mechanisms, such as low working efficiency, insufficient swimming speed, ignoring thickness parameters, and the need for further improvement in biomimetic degree...
Mammal-inspired quadruped robots excel in traversing diverse terrestrial terrains but often lack aquatic mobility, limiting their effectiveness in amphibious environments. To address this challenge, an amphibious robotic dog (ARD) was developed, inte...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
May 4, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: A model to predict patient-specific apparent viscosity as a computational condition in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis, which is used in research on intracranial aneurysms, is important. The purpose of this stud...
The artificial lateral line system, composed of velocity and pressure sensors, is the sensing system for fish-like robots by mimicking the lateral line system of aquatic organisms. However, accurately estimating the self-motion of the fish-like robot...
Numerical simulations of fluid dynamics in tube-like structures are important to biomedical research to model flow in blood vessels and airways. It is further useful to some clinical applications, such as predicting arterial fractional flow reserves,...
Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography
Feb 22, 2025
BACKGROUND: As a new noninvasive diagnostic technique, computed tomography-derived fraction flow reserve (FFRCT) has been used to identify hemodynamically significant coronary artery stenosis. FFRCT can be calculated using computational fluid dynamic...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
Feb 17, 2025
Aortic aneurysms pose a significant risk of rupture. Previous research has shown that areas exposed to low wall shear stress (WSS) are more prone to rupture. Therefore, precise WSS determination on the aneurysm is crucial for rupture risk assessment....
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Feb 13, 2025
Fluid dynamics of the heart chamber can provide critical biological cues for understanding cardiac health and disease and have the potential for supporting diagnosis and prognosis. However, directly acquiring fluid dynamics information from clinical ...
Efficient separation of blood plasma and Packed Cell Volume (PCV) is vital for rapid blood sensing and early disease detection, especially in point-of-care and resource-limited environments. Conventional centrifugation methods for separation are reso...
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