AIMC Topic: Prostheses and Implants

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Biomedical optical fibers.

Lab on a chip
Optical fibers with the ability to propagate and transfer data via optical signals have been used for decades in medicine. Biomaterials featuring the properties of softness, biocompatibility, and biodegradability enable the introduction of optical fi...

Shunt Implants - Past, Present and Future.

Neurology India
BACKGROUND: The treatment of hydrocephalus has evolved over centuries from being an enigma to the use of complex bioprosthetics. Major developments have taken place in the past few decades in shunt hardware and technology, with the use of complex flo...

A Novel Underactuated Robotic Finger with Variable Stiffness Joints.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Existing robotic hands mostly consist of rigid finger mechanism with constant joint stiffness, leading to poor handling performance and even unexpected safety issues. This paper proposed a novel underactuated robotic finger with variable stiffness jo...

Investigating Upper Limb Movement Classification on Users with Tetraplegia as a Possible Neuroprosthesis Interface.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Spinal cord injury (SCI), stroke and other nervous system conditions can result in partial or total paralysis of individual's limbs. Numerous technologies have been proposed to assist neurorehabilitation or movement restoration, e.g. robotics or neur...

Convolutional Neural Network Based Metal Artifact Reduction in X-Ray Computed Tomography.

IEEE transactions on medical imaging
In the presence of metal implants, metal artifacts are introduced to x-ray computed tomography CT images. Although a large number of metal artifact reduction (MAR) methods have been proposed in the past decades, MAR is still one of the major problems...

Design and Validation of a Biosensor Implantation Capsule Robot.

Journal of biomechanical engineering
We have proposed a long-term, noninvasive, nonrestrictive method of delivering and implanting a biosensor within the body via a swallowable implantation capsule robot (ICR). The design and preliminary validation of the ICR's primary subsystem-the sen...