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Design and Fabrication of Integrated Microfluidic Circuits using Normally- Closed Elastomeric Valves.
(2010)
Microfluidics and other fluid-handling technologies are valuable tools both for biochemical assays and for patterning biomolecules and cells to better mimic in vivo microenvironments. However, many of these techniques are ...
The Effects of Designed Scaffold Architecture and Biodegradable Material on Chondrogenesis in vitro and in vivo.
(2010)
Poly (1, 8-octanediol-co-citric acid) (POC) is a synthetic biodegradable biocompatible elastomer that can be processed by solid freeform fabrication into 3D scaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering. We investigated the ...
An Experimental Model of Human Aortic Dissection.
(2011)
Vascular diseases such as aortic dissections, aneurysms and stenosis are becoming frequent disorders in the industrialized world, and aortic diseases constitute an emerging share of these. An acute aortic dissection of ...
Temporal Regularization Use in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI.
(2011)
Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) studies demand both high spatial and high temporal resolution. We need high spatial resolution to accurately visualize tissue morphology, and we need high ...
Hirarchical Design and Simulation of Tissue Engineering Scaffold Mechanical, Mass Transport, and Degradation Properties.
(2010)
In this study, a computational design framework was developed and demonstrated for hierarchical scaffold mechanical, mass transport and degradation properties. As a composite, multiscale structure, the tissue engineering ...
Spatially Controlled Organic/Inorganic Hybrids Designed to Enhance Cellular Response.
(2011)
Bone is a complex organ that serves many functions. However, in cases of trauma, congenital malformations, and skeletal disorders, impaired healing occurs. Bone tissue engineering is an alternative to conventional therapies ...
Optimized Beamforming and Limited Angle Tomography of the Compressed Breast
(2012)
Breast cancer is one of the most predominant forms of cancer, comprising of 22.9% of all cancers in women, causing approximately 450,000 deaths in 2008. The conventional imaging standard procedure for screening studies ...
Engineering the Quantitative PCR Assay for Decreased Cost and Complexity.
(2011)
The quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is an assay of target nucleic acid concentration. Clinical applications of quantitative PCR include measurement of HIV viral load, measurement of bacterial infection, and ...