Title of Document: ANALOG VLSI CIRCUITS FOR BIOSENSORS, NEURAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND PROSTHETICS. Alfred M. Haas Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor Martin Peckerar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Stroke, spinal cord injury and neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS and Parkinson’s debilitate their victims by suffocating, cleaving communication between, and/or p...

Surgical treatment of malignant and certain benign lesions of the trachea may require plastic reconstruction or segmental replacement. The ideal of a rigid yet elastic tube compatible with the tracheal environment remains a problem of great challenge. In spite of outstanding success with prosthetic materials in arterial replacement there has been no satisfactory solution to tracheal reconstruct...

F O R almost a dozen years the University of California has been active in prosthetics research. On the recommendation of the then Committee on Prosthetic Devices (now the Prosthetics Research Board) of the National Research Council, there was established in 1945, with the cosponsorship of the School of Medicine in San Francisco and the College of Engineering in Berkeley, the Prosthetic Devices...

Previous economic evaluations for health care have focused mainly on the clinical and pharmacological areas. This paper presents the implementation of a methodology for economic evaluation on technological research. The case of a new prosthetics design for partial foot amputee patients was used for analysis. The aim of this work was to calculate the cost of device manufacture and to separate it...

Data on mortality for the ten years following lower limb amputation were obtained from all the 16 surgical units in Southern Finland and the National Social Insurance Institution. In Southern Finland during the period 1984-1985, amputations of the lower limb were performed on 705 patients, of whom 382 (54%) were women and 323 (46%) men. The majority of the amputations, 47%, were performed for v...

This report documents the progress during the past two semesters of the Masters programme. The research area explored is on Upper limb prosthetic control. It summarizes the literature review and work performed towards two potential research directions. First; A coordinated joint control for upper limb prosthetics is presented. This includes a background of the particular field and preliminary w...

1 Chief, Bioengineering Laboratory, Veterans Administration Prosthetics Center, 252 Seventh Ave., New York 1, N. Y. M ANY factors affect the gait of an aboveknee, bilateral amputee as he walks on his prostheses. Among the factors are his general health and strength, the length and condition of his stumps, the alignment of his prostheses, his comfort, and the type of knee units employed. While s...