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Dilated Residual Learning With Skip Connections for Real-Time Denoising of Laser Speckle Imaging of Blood Flow in a Log-Transformed Domain.

IEEE transactions on medical imaging
Laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) is a wide-field and noncontact imaging technology for mapping blood flow. Although the denoising method based on block-matching and three-dimensional transform-domain collaborative filtering (BM3D) was proposed t...

Rapid Manufacturing of Thin Soft Pneumatic Actuators and Robots.

Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
This protocol describes a method for rapid manufacturing of soft pneumatic actuators and robots with an ultrathin form factor using a heat press and a laser cutter machine. The method starts with the lamination of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) she...

Inexpensive robotic system for standard and fluorescent imaging of protein crystals.

Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications
Protein-crystallization imaging and classification is a labor-intensive process typically performed either by humans or by instruments that currently cost well over $100 000. This cost puts the use of crystallization-trial imaging outside the reach o...

Laser-based classification of olive oils assisted by machine learning.

Food chemistry
Olive oil is an essential diet component in all Mediterranean countries having a considerable impact on the local economies, which are producing almost 90% of the world production. Therefore, the quality assessment of olive oil in terms of its acidit...

Magnetically Driven Undulatory Microswimmers Integrating Multiple Rigid Segments.

Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Mimicking biological locomotion strategies offers important possibilities and motivations for robot design and control methods. Among bioinspired microrobots, flexible microrobots exhibit remarkable efficiency and agility. These microrobots tradition...

High-Sensitivity Determination of Nutrient Elements in by Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and Chemometric Methods.

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
High-accuracy and fast detection of nutritive elements in traditional Chinese medicine (PN) is beneficial for providing useful assessment of the healthy alimentation and pharmaceutical value of PN herbs. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) w...

Plasmonic MoO nanoparticles incorporated in Prussian blue frameworks exhibit highly efficient dual photothermal/photodynamic therapy.

Journal of materials chemistry. B
Development of near infrared (NIR) light-responsive nanomaterials for high performance multimodal phototherapy within a single nanoplatform is still challenging in technology and biomedicine. Herein, a new phototherapeutic nanoagent based on FDA-appr...

E-Skin Bimodal Sensors for Robotics and Prosthesis Using PDMS Molds Engraved by Laser.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Electronic skin (e-skin) is pursued as a key component in robotics and prosthesis to confer them sensing properties that mimic human skin. For pressure monitoring, a great emphasis on piezoresistive sensors was registered due to the simplicity of sen...

Assistive Grasping Based on Laser-point Detection with Application to Wheelchair-mounted Robotic Arms.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
As the aging of the population becomes more severe, wheelchair-mounted robotic arms (WMRAs) are gaining an increased amount of attention. Laser pointer interactions are an attractive method enabling humans to unambiguously point out objects and pick ...

A smartphone-based system for fluorescence polarization assays.

Biosensors & bioelectronics
This paper demonstrates the use of a smartphone-based sensor for fluorescence polarization (FP) analysis of biomolecules. The FP detection can rapidly sense ligand-analyte bindings by measuring molecule mobility, and thus, FP-based assays have been w...