In this paper, we have presented an innovative methodology to convey connection between physical and mechanical properties of lung tissue in some lung cancer diseases. It is proposed in this method to combine computed tomography (CT) medical images, image processing and Finite Element (FE) technique to grasp the patient lung tissue response under gradual stages of lung cancer. Finite Element mo...

Background: Tissue engineering is a developing multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field involving the use of bioartificial implants for tissue remodeling with the target for repair and enhancing tissue or organ function. Acellular nerve has been used in experimental models as a peripheral nerve substitute. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the mechanical and histological cha...

Although bolometricand ponderomotive-induced deflection of device boundaries are widely used for laser cooling, the electrostrictive Brillouin scattering of light from sound was considered an acousto-optical amplification-only process1–7. It was suggested that cooling could be possible in multiresonance Brillouin systems5–8 when phonons experience lower damping than light8. However, this regime...

For many years, research efforts have been made to investigate whether the sound of a crying infant can be analyzed to determine various aspects concerning the infant’s health. In recent publications, possible acoustical indicators for several health disorders have been proposed. The goal of this thesis assignment is to investigate several combinations of these acoustical indicators in order to...

Endotracheal intubation is a method commonly applied nowadays in medicine, particularly in surgical procedures carried out under general anaesthetic. It is however an invasive method which may result in many complications, including mechanical injuries of the larynx [1]. The problem is not of purely medical nature. However from the research point of view the detailed analysis of vocal folds dam...

The aim of this review is to synthesize the published evidence regarding the benefits of identifying mechanical asynchrony before implantation of biventricular devices, and the role of echocardiography in the identification and quantification of mechanical asynchrony. It summarizes the published studies addressing the several echocardiographic parameters of dyssynchrony that have already proven...

Brain tissue mechanical properties are of importance to investigate child head injury using finite element (FE) method. However, these properties used in child head FE model normally vary in a large range in published literatures because of the insufficient child cadaver experiments. In this work, a head FE model with detailed anatomical structures is developed from the computed tomography (CT)...