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Ali. E. Dabiri^1,2,*, Richard Leigh³, Ghassan S. Kassab¹
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 225-233, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07962
Abstract Stroke is a life-threatening event that is expected to more than double over the next 40 years. Approximately 85% of strokes are ischemic in nature and result from thromboembolic occlusion of a major cerebral artery or its branches. One of the diagnostic methods for detection of the cerebral ischemia is the gadolinium-enhanced MRI imaging. It is mainly used in patients to detect brain tissue damaged by an ischemic stroke and brain hemorrhage. These techniques are expensive, require sophisticated machines and are time consuming. A recent study in acute stroke patients showed gadolinium leakage into ocular structures (GLOS) during MRI imaging… More >

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Akisue Kuramoto^1,*, Hitoshi Kimura², Norio Inou²
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 235-243, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.08123
Abstract Comfortable bedding is usually designed subjectively because of the difficulty in performing a quantitative evaluation. This paper proposes a quantitative evaluation method of comfortableness of beddings. The bedding shape determining how comfortable an individual may feel in using it depends on the body shape and normal posture of individuals. The internal physical load is expected to relate to the comfortableness of bedding. However, only a few quantitative discussions exist on the relation between the comfortableness of bedding and physical load. This study proposes a new evaluation method of physical load in a relaxed posture. The strain energy of muscles and… More >

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Yongqiang Li^1,#, Changxin Lai^1,#, Chengchen Zhang², Alexa Singer¹, Suhao Qiu¹, Boming Sun², Michael S. Sacks³, Yuan Feng^1,*
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 245-251, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07441
Abstract Surgeries such as implantation of deep brain stimulation devices require accurate placement of devices within the brain. Because placement affects performance, image guidance and robotic assistance techniques have been widely adopted. These methods require accurate prediction of brain deformation during and following implantation. In this study, a magnetic resonance (MR) image-based finite element (FE) model was proposed by using a coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian method. Anatomical accuracy was achieved by mapping image voxels directly to the volumetric mesh space. The potential utility was demonstrated by evaluating the effect of different surgical approaches on the deformation of the corpus callosum (CC) region. The… More >

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Qingyang Zang¹, Dongsheng Li¹, Chunxiao Chen^1,*, Jianfei Li¹
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 253-263, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.06999
Abstract Optical-CT dual-modality imaging requires the mapping between 2D fluorescence images and 3D body surface light flux. In this paper, we proposed an optical-CT dual-modality image mapping algorithm based on the Digitally Reconstructed Radiography (DRR) registration. In the process of registration, a series of DRR images were computed from CT data using the ray casting algorithm. Then, the improved HMNI similarity strategy based on Hausdorff distance was used to complete the registration of the white-light optical images and DRR virtual images. According to the corresponding relationship obtained by the image registration and the Lambert’s cosine law based on the pin-hole imaging… More >

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Haitong Zhao¹, Yi Li¹, Shouhua Luo^1,*
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 265-273, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07381
Abstract The ring artifacts introduced by the defective pixels with non-linear responses in the high-resolution detector, have a great impact on subsequent processing and quantitative analysis of the reconstructed images. In this paper, a multistep method is proposed to suppress the ring artifacts of micro CT images, which firstly locates the positions of the defective pixels in the sinogram, and then corrects the corresponding value in the projections. Since the defective pixels always appear as vertical stripes in the sinogram, a horizontal curve is derived by summing the pixel values along vertical direction, thus the abrupt segments related to the defective… More >

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Alireza Mohammadkarim¹, Manijhe Mokhtari-Dizaji^2,*, Ali Kazemian³, Hazhir Saberi⁴, Mohammad Mehdi Khani⁵, Mohsen Bakhshandeh⁶
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 275-287, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.06280
Abstract The mechanical properties of living cells are known to be promising biomarkers when investigating the health and functions of the human body. Ionizing irradiation results in vascular injury due to endothelial damage. Thus, the current study objective was to evaluate the influence of continuous radiation doses on the mechanical properties of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs), and to identify Young’s modulus (E) and viscoelastic behavior. Single-dose (0, 2, 4, 6, and 8 Gy) radiation was applied to HUVECs using a Cobalt-60 treatment machine in the current vitro irradiation study. Thereafter, a micropipette-aspiration technique was used to measure the elastic… More >

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