26th Southern Biomedical Engineering ConferenceSBEC 2010 April 30 - May 2, 2010 College Park, Maryland, USA

Slit-Lamp Ocular Fluorometry.- Changes in Viscoelastic Properties of Latex Condoms Due to Personal Lubricants.- Towards the Objective Evaluation of Hand Disinfection.- Neural Systems Engineering.- In vitro Models for Measuring Charge Storage Capacity.- Discovery of Long-Latency Somatosensory Evoked Potentials as a Marker of Cardiac Arrest Induced Brain Injury.- In vivo Characterization of Epileptic Tissue with Time-Dependent, Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy.- Kinematics.- Effects of Initial Grasping Forces, Axes, and Directions on Torque Production during Circular Object Manipulation.- Time Independent Functional Training of Inter-joint Arm Coordination Using the ARMin III Robot.- Kinematic Analysis in Robot Assisted Femur Fracture Reduction: Fuzzy Logic Approach.- Compensation for Weak Hip Abductors in Gait Assisted by a Novel Crutch-Like Device.- Nanotechnology.- Measuring in vivo Effects of Chemotherapy Treatment on Cardiac Capillary Permeability.- Nanoscale "DNA Baskets" for the Delivery of siRNA.- Nanoscale Glutathione Patches Improve Organ Function.- Nanoscale Carnosine Patches Improve Organ Function.- Multiple Lumiphore-Bound Nanoparticles for in vivo Quantification of Localized Oxygen Levels.- Ion-Mobility Characterization of Functionalized and Aggregated Gold Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery.- Implants.- Quantitative Mapping of Vascular Geometry for Implant Sites.- Failure Analysis and Materials Characterization of Hip Implants.- Nano-Wear-Particulates Elicit a Size and Dose Dependent Response by RAW 264.7 Cells.- Viscous Behavior of Different Concentrations of Bovine Calf Serum Used to Lubricate the Micro-textured CoCrMo Alloy Material before and after Wear Testing.- Progressive Wear Damage Analysis on Retrieved UHMWPE Tibial Implants.- Tissue Engineering.- Gum Arabic-Chitosan Composite Biopolymer Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering.- Modification of Hydrogel Scaffolds for the Modulation of Corneal Epithelial Cell Responses.- Making of Functional Tissue Engineered Heart Valve.- Ties That Bind: Evaluation of Collagen I and ?-Chitin.- Chitosan/Poly (?-Caprolactone) Composite Hydrogel for Tissue Engineering Applications.- Disease Modeling.- Modeling and Control of HIV by Computational Intelligence Techniques.- Mathematical Modeling of Ebola Virus Dynamics as a Step towards Rational Vaccine Design.- Respiratory Impedance Values in Adults Are Relatively Insensitive to Mead Model Lung Compliance and Chest Wall Compliance Parameters.- A Systems Biology Model of Alzheimer's Disease Incorporating Spatial-temporal Distribution of Beta Amyloid.- A Mathematical Model of the Primary T Cell Response with Contraction Governed by Adaptive Regulatory T Cells.- A Mathematical Model for Microenvironmental Control of Tumor Growth.- Assessing the Usability of Web-Based Personal Health Records.- Drug Delivery.- Real Time Monitoring of Extracellular Glutamate Release in Rat Ischemia Model Treated by Nimodipine.- Targeted Delivery of Doxorubicin by PLGA Nanoparticles Increases Drug Uptake in Cancer Cell Lines.- Cellular Uptake and Cytotoxicity of a Novel ICG-DOX-PLGA Dual Agent Polymer Nanoparticle Delivery System.- Electrospray - Differential Mobility Analysis (ES-DMA) for Characterization of Heat Induced Antibody Aggregates.- Mechanisms of Poly(amido amine) Dendrimer Transepithelial Transport and Tight Junction Modulation in Caco-2 Cells.- Absorbable Coatings: Structure and Drug Elution.- Special Topics.- A Brief Comparison of Adaptive Noise Cancellation, Wavelet and Cycle-by-Cycle Fourier Series Analysis for Reduction of Motional Artifacts from PPG Signals.- Respiratory Resistance Measurements during Exercise Using the Airflow Perturbation Device.- Comparison of IOS Parameters to aRIC Respiratory System Model Parameters in Normal and COPD Adults.- Effect of Waveform Shape and Duration on Defibrillation Threshold in Rabbit Hearts.- The Measurement and Processing of EEG Signals to Evaluate Fatigue.- Modeling for the Impact of Anesthesia on Neural Activity in the Auditory System.- Cortical Excitability Changes after Repetitive Self-regulated vs. Tracking Movements of the Hand.- What the ENT Wants in the OR: Bioengineering Prospects.- An in vitro Biomechanical Comparison of Human Dermis to a Silicone Biosimulant Material.- Telemetric Epilepsy Monitoring and Seizures Aid.- Spike Detection for Integrated Circuits: Comparative Study.- Effect of Ambient Humidity on the Electrical Conductance of a Titanium Oxide Coating Being Investigated for Potential Use in Biosensors.- Brain Computer Interface in Cerebellar Ataxia.- Biosensors.- Effects of Stray Field Distribution Generated by Magnetic Beads on Giant Magnetoresistance Sensor for Biochip Applications.- Electrostatic Purification of Nucleic Acids for Micro Total Analysis Systems.- Applicability of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Determining the Concentration of Adenine and S-Adenosyl Homocysteine in a Microfluidic System.- Integration of Capillary Ring Resonator Biosensor with PDMS Microfluidics for Label-Free Biosensing.- Surface Plasmon-Coupled Emission from Rhodamine- 6G Aggregates for Ratiometric Detection of Ethanol Vapors.- Formation of Dendritic Silver Substrates by Galvanic Displacement for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy.- High Specificity Binding of Lectins to Carbohydrate Functionalized Etched Fiber Bragg Grating Optical Sensors.- Oximetry.- Oximetry and Blood Flow in the Retina.- Monitoring and Controlling Oxygen Levels in Microfluidic Devices.- An Imaging Pulse Oximeter Based on a Multi-Aperture Camera.- Fluorescent Microparticles for Sensing Cell Microenvironment Oxygen Levels within 3D Scaffolds.- Determination of in vivo Blood Oxygen Saturation and Blood Volume Fraction Using Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy.- Image Analysis.- Fredholm Integral Equations in Biophysical Data Analysis.- High-Resolution Autofluorescence Imaging for Mapping Molecular Processes within the Human Retina.- Local Histograms for Classifying H&E Stained Tissues.- Detecting and Classifying Cancers from Image Data Using Optimal Transportation.- Nanoscale Imaging of Chemical Elements in Biomedicine.- Sparse Representation and Variational Methods in Retinal Image Processing.- Neuromechanics & Rehabilitation.- Optimization and Validation of a Biomechanical Model for Analyzing Running-Specific Prostheses.- Prehension Synergy: Use of Mechanical Advantage during Multi-finger Torque Production on Mechanically Fixed- and Free-Object.- Modeling, Optimizing & Monitoring.- Investigating Vortex Ring Propagation Speed Past Prosthetic Heart Valves: Implications for Assessing Valve Performance.- Transient Heat Transfer in a Dental Prosthesis Implanted in Mandibular Bone.- Characterization of Material Properties of Aorta from Oscillatory Pressure Tests.- Quasi-static Analysis of Electric Field Distributions by Disc Electrodes in a Rabbit Eye Model.- Optimizing the Geometry of Deep Brain Stimulating Electrodes.- Exploratory Parcellation of fMRI Data Based on Finite Mixture Models and Self-annealing Expectation Maximization.- Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling of the Airflow Perturbation Device.- Biomaterials.- Mechanism and Direct Visualization of Electrodeposition of the Polysaccharide Chitosan.- Chito-Cotton: Chitosan Coated Cotton-Based Scaffold.- Effects of Temperature on the Performance of Footwear Foams: Review of Developments.- A Tissue Equivalent Phantom of the Human Torso for in vivo Biocompatible Communications.- Identification of Bacteria and Sterilization of Crustacean Exoskeleton Used as a Biomaterial.- Neural Stem Cell Differentiation in 2D and 3D Microenvironments.- A Microfluidic Platform for Optical Monitoring of Bacterial Biofilms.- Conduction Properties of Decellularized Nerve Biomaterials.- Reverse Cholesterol Transport (RCT) Modeling with Integrated Software Configurator.- Biomechanics.- Modeling Linear Head Impact and the Effect of Brain-Skull Interface.- Mechanics of CSF Flow through Trabecular Architecture in the Brain.- Impact of Mechanical Loading to Normal and Aneurysmal Cerebral Arteries.- Identification of Material Properties of Human Brain under Large Shear Deformation: Analytical versus Finite Element Approach.- Mechanisms of Traumatic Rupture of the Aorta: Recent Multi-scale Investigations.- Head Impact Response: Pressure Analysis Simulation.- Imaging.- An Introduction to the Next Generation of Radiology in the Web 2.0 World.- Novel Detection Method for Monitoring of Dental Caries Using Single Digital Subtraction Radiography.- Targeted Delivery of Molecular Probes for in vivo Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Imaging.- New Tools for Image-Based Mesh Generation of 3D Imaging Data.- Characterization of Speed and Accuracy of a Nonrigid Registration Accelerator on Pre- and Intraprocedural Images.- Assessment of Kidney Structure and Function Using GRIN Lens Based Laparoscope with Optical Coherence Tomography.- Reliability of Structural Equation Modeling of the Motor Cortex in Resting State Functional MRI.- Quantitative Characterization of Radiofrequency Ablation Lesions in Tissue Using Optical Coherence Tomography.- Clinically Relevant Hand Held Two Lead EEG Device.- A Simple Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Method for 3D Mapping between Head Skin Tattoos and Brain Landmarks.- Frame Potential Classification Algorithm for Retinal Data.- Raman-AFM Instrumentation and Characterization of SERS Substrates and Carbon Nanotubes.- A Novel Model of Skin Electrical Injury.- Design, Construction, and Evaluation of an Electrical Impedance Myographer.- The Role of Imaging Tools in Biomedical Research: Preclinical Stent Implant Study.- Hard Tissue and Posture.- Optimization of Screw Positioning in Mandible during Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy Using Finite Element Method.- Extraction and Characterization of a Soluble Chicken Bone Collagen.- A Model for Human Postural Regulation.- Development of an Average Chest Shape for Objective Evaluation of the Aesthetic Outcome in the Nuss Procedure Planning Process.- Sickle Cell and Blood Cell.- Sickle Hemoglobin Fiber Growth Rates Revealed by Optical Pattern Generation.- Sickle Cell Occlusion in Microchannels.- Engineering Microfluidics Based Technologies for Rapid Sorting of White Blood Cells.- Peripheral Arterial Tonometry in Assessing Endothelial Dysfunction in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease.- Comparison of Shear Stress, Residence Time and Lagrangian Estimates of Hemolysis in Different Ventricular Assist Devices.- Cancer.- Drug Resistance always Depends on the Turnover Rate.- Design and Ex Vivo Evaluation of a 3D High Intensity Focused Ultrasound System for Tumor Treatment with Tissue Ablation.- The Dr. James W. Jacobson Symposium on Technologies for Cancer Diagnostics.- Clinical Applications of Multispectral Imaging Flow Cytometry.- Multispectral Imaging, Image Analysis, and Pathology.- Sensitive Characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells for Improving Therapy Selection.- Nanohole Array Sensor Technology: Multiplexed Label-Free Protein Binding Assays.