Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
Apr 1, 2025
AIMS: Muscle morphology provides important information in differentiating disease aetiology, but its measurement remains challenging because of the lack of an efficient and objective method. This study aimed to quantitatively refine the morphological...
The maintenance of an appropriate ratio of body fat to muscle mass is essential for the preservation of health and performance, as excessive body fat is associated with an increased risk of various diseases. Accurate body composition assessment requi...
Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapy
Jan 1, 2025
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Throwing a baseball involves intense exposure of the arm to high speeds and powerful forces, which contributes to an increasing prevalence of arm injuries among athletes. Traditional rigid exoskeletons and rehabilitation equip...
MOTIVATION: Skeletal muscle cells (skMCs) combine together to create long, multi-nucleated structures called myotubes. By studying the size, length, and number of nuclei in these myotubes, we can gain a deeper understanding of skeletal muscle develop...
OBJECTIVES: Body composition assessment using CT images at the L3-level is increasingly applied in cancer research and has been shown to be strongly associated with long-term survival. Robust high-throughput automated segmentation is key to assess la...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
Studying the soft robot-tissue mechanical interaction in muscle stimulation devices poses a significant challenge due to the complex behavior of the materials involved. To advance this field, this paper models computationally three types of soft elas...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
Patients who suffer from stroke often experience synergistic movements that make completion of activities of daily living (ADL) difficult. Robotics is useful for therapy for these patients due to providing varying levels of assistance to complete tas...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
Soft and flexible robots are being developed as an alternative to traditional robotics. While they offer significant adaptability to the external environment, the integration of biological tissues as actuators presents several challenges. One of the ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
Soft artificial muscles possess inherent compliance and safety features, rendering them highly suitable for applications in wearable robots and unstructured environments. However, accurately modeling the nonlinearity of soft actuators proves to be a ...
Annual review of biomedical engineering
Jul 1, 2024
The impact of tissue engineering has extended beyond a traditional focus in medicine to the rapidly growing realm of biohybrid robotics. Leveraging living actuators as functional components in machines has been a central focus of this field, generati...
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