Vol. 31 (2008)

CMBEC31 Montreal, Quebec

Published: 2008-06-11

Clinical Engineering

ISO Quality System & Clinical Engineering Standards of Practice

Avril Sullivan
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Academic

Multi-Modal Acoustic-Photo-Acoustic Imaging for Small Animal Imaging

M. Abran, Y. Ono, C.K. Jen, M. Kobayashi, F. Lesage
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Nano-Spray Ionization Source Isolation on Proteomic Mass Spectrometers for Siloxane Contaminant Removal

Brian Carrillo, Pascal Pleynet, Daniel Boismenu, Robert E. Kearney
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Complement is Activated by Coagulation and not by Chitosan in Human Whole Blood and Plasma

Edward Baraghis, Catherine Marchand, Georges-Etienne Rivard, Caroline D. Hoemann
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Reducing the Impedance of Passive Stainless Steel Surface Electrodes

Adam W. Wilson, Denis F. Lovely
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Improved Adhesion and Growth of  Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in Cultures on Modified Polyethylene

Martin Parizek, Lucie Bacakova, Katerina Kolarova, Vera Lisa, Vaclav Svorcik, N Kasalkova
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A Multi-Rate Control Scheme for a Robotic Eye/Head System Integrating Visual and Self-Motion Cues

Elias Abou Zeid, Henrietta L. Galiana
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Measuring Cellular Activity Using Surface Plasmon Resonance

Vincent Chabot, Charles M. Cuerrier, Emanuel Escher, Vincent Aimez, Michel Gransbois, Paul G. Charette
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The ‘Analgoscore’: A Novel Score to Monitor Intraoperative Pain and its Use for Remifentanil Closed-Loop Application

Samer M. Charabati, Emile Salhab, Pierre A. Mathieu, Thomas M. Hemmerling
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Non-Linear Registration of Serial Histological Images of the Middle Ear

Shruti Nambiar, M. Mallar Chakravarty, W. Robert J. Funnell
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Structure and Function of the Compound Eye in Photinus Carolinus (Lampyridae): Regional Variation and Visual Performance

Hasan Al Marshad, Andrew Moisef, Andrew Corless
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Study of Tensile Cyclic Loading on Morphology of Endothelial Cell Line in Culture Medium: A Fractal and Topological Comparison.

Samira Amini, Mohammad Tafazzoli-Shadpour, Nooshin Haghighipour, Mohamad Reza Hashemi Golpayegani, Mohammad Ali Shokrgozar
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Instrumentation for Biomechanical Characterization of Biological Tissue by Simulataneous Coherent Imaging Using Coupled Photorefractive Holography and Speckle Shearography

Rémy Béland, Vanesssa Rosso, Sylvain Lecler, Yvon Renotte, Serge Habraken, Yves Lion, Paul Charette
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Calibration of a Simple, Low Cost, 3d Laser Light-Sectioning Scanner System for Biomedical Purposes

Beverly D. Bradley, Adrian D.C. Chan, John D. Hayes
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Sliding Window Autocorrelation for the Synchronous Unsupervised Segmentation of the Phonocardiogram

Sankua Chao, Adrain D.C. Chan
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Development and Performance of a Closed-Loop Propofol System

Samer M. Charabati, Pierre A. Mathieu, Thomas M. Hemmerling
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In Vivo Assessment of Spinal Cord Integrity Using Magnetic Resonance Diffusion Tensor Imaging

J. Cohen-Adad, S. Rossignol, H. Benali, R.D. Hodge
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Heart Sound Segmentation Based on Mel-Scaled Wavelet Transform

Karim Courtemanche, Véronique Millette, Natalie Baddour
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Evaluating the Loudness Exponent from Auditory Adaptation Data

Lisa M. D'Alessandro, Kenneth H. Norwich
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Muscle Activation Patterns of the Forearm: High Density Emg Data of Normally Limbed and Transradial Amputee Subjects

Heather Daley, Usha Kuruganti, Kevin Englehart, Levi Hargrove
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Clinical Engineering Electromechanical Program Are Your Patients AND Staff Safe Without One?

Jeremy Dann
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Efficient Three-Dimensional Simulation of Ultrasound Imaging Using a Parallel K -Space Method

Mohammad I. Daoud, James C. Lacefield
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Thermodynamic Model of Bone Remodeling: Numerical Implementation

Arnaud Divialle, Aurelian Vadean, Vaclav Klika, L'Hocine Yahia
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The Labpettm, a Fully Digital, Apd-Based, Positron Emission Tomography Scanner Dedicated to Molecular Imaging

Réjean Fontaine, Jean-Baptiste Michaud, Jean-Daniel Leroux, Nicolas Viscogliosi, Joel Riendeau, Hicham Semmaoui, François Lemieux, Camilia Yousefzadeh, Marc-André Tétrault, Philippe Bérard, Mélanie Bergeron, Catherine Pepin, Jean-François Beaudoin, Jules Cadorette, Roger Lecomte
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Monitorep : Monitorage Intra Thoracique Optique de la Réparation Pulmonaire in Vivo

Clément Fournier, Frédéric Chagnon, Steven Thomas, Daniel M. Payet, Paul Charette, Olivier Lesur, Peter Delaney
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Human Endocannabinoid System Emulator

Paul Frenger
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Cmbes Peer Review of London Health Sciences Centre, October 2007

Bill Gentles, Mike Capuano, Mario Ramirez
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A Method for the Characterisation of Spatial Structures Observed in Cerebral Fmri Data

Camille Gómez-Laberge, Andy Adler, Matthew J. Hogan
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Finite Element Analysis of a Fracture Fixation Plate: A Parametric Study

Kristina Haase, Gholamreza Rouhi
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Filtering Strategies for Robust Myoelectric Pattern Classification

Levi Hargrove, Erik Scheme, Kevin Englehart, Bernie Hudgins
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Structural Design Optimization of a Pediatric Stent for Pulmonary Artery Stenosis

Zineb Idrissi
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Emgsim: A Comprehensive Simulation Toolbox for Electromyography

P. Parker, K. Englehart, N. Jiang
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Effect of Mobility Devices on Orientation Sensors that Contain Magnetometers

Cynthia L. Kendell, Edward D. Lemaire
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Flow Dynamics in the Aortic Arch After a Valve Replacement by a Bileaflet Mechanical Valve

Zahra Keshavarz-Motamed, Roxanne Wosu, Lyes Kadem
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Flexible Ultrasonic Transducers and their Performance

M. Kobayashi, J.L. Shih, C.K. Jen, Y. Ono, F. Lesage
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Motion Detection in Fluoroscopic Image and its Application to Catheter Marker Tracking

Simon Lessard, Caroline Lau, Ramnada Chav, Daniel Roy, Gilles Soulez, Jacques A. de Guise
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A Multiple Camera Approach to Facial Gesture Recognition for Children with Severe Spastic Quadriplegia

Brian Leung, Tom Chau
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Residual Shoulder Motion Vector Projection

Yves Losier, Kevin Englehart, Bernard Hudgins
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Dynamics of Torque Responses to Visual Stimuli

Daniel Ludvig, Yong Zhao, Robert E. Kearney
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The Assessment of the Risk of Patient Entrapment in Hospital Beds Within the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

Gord McConnell, Tom Mazur, Charles Xiao
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Detecting Nonlinear Determinism of Eeg Signals in Parkinson’s Disease (PD)

Amir H. Meghadi, Reza Fazel-Rezai, Martin J. McKeow
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Biomedical Research Ethics in Developing Countries: Applying Global Guidelines to Local Contexts

Shauna Mullally
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Selection of Iv Technology With Drug Error Reduction System

Jean Ngoie, Mario Ramirez, Navtej Virdi, Helen Edwards, Maureen Maloney, Gary Nero
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Current Techniques for the Evaluation of Cross-Sectional Area in Rat Tail Tendons Generate Significant Errors

Gabriel Parent, Matthieu Cyr, Paule Cousineau-Pelletier, Frédérique Desbiens-Blais, Eve Langelier
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In-Room Hepa Air Cleaners: Simple Technology with Complicated Implications

Sonia Pinkney, Nancy Sikich, Anthony Easty
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Health Canada’s New Guidance on Hospital Bed Safety: Patient Entrapment, Side Rail Latching Reliability, and Other Hazards

Denis G. Roy, Graham Ladner
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Sensitivity to the Polarity of External Loads in Bone Remodeling Process

Mustafa Sasal, Gholamreza Rouhi, Ali Vahdati
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Improving Safety and Efficiency Within Air Ambulances in Ontario

Judith Seary, Vicki LeBlanc, Patricia Trbovich, Anthony Easty
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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulation of Blood Flow in the Left Ventricle in Diastolic Phase

Shahrokh Shahriari, Ibrahim Hassan, Lyes Kadem
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Hyperthermia Via Ac Electromagnetic Field and Magnetic Nanoparticles Integrated in Micro-Carriers Navigable in Blood Vessels 

Sayed Nasr Tabatabaei, Sylvain Martel
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Multi-Scale Analysis of Myoelectric Signals: Assessment of Long-Range Dependencies and Fractal-Scaling-Break

Mehran Talebinejad, Adrian Chan, Ali Miri
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Spectrum-Based Fractal Analysis of Myoelectric Signals Using Piecewise Statistically Self-Affine Power-Laws

Mehran Talebinejad, Adrain D.C. Chan, Ali Miri
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Is Reliability-Centred Maintenance a Valid Maintenance Strategy?

Phil Thorburn, Rebecca Jucha
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Computer Controlled, Surface Based Instrumentation Technique for Tendon Vibration Studies

Kenneth Tsang, Hubert deBruin, Mark Archambeault
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Reflex Changes During Anticipatory Postural Adjustments Preceding Voluntary Arm Movements in Standing Humans

Siddarth Vedula, Paul J. Stapley, Robert E. Kearney
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Experimental Investigation of the Human Grip Force System

Alejandro Villaseñor-Herrera, Sophie J. De Serres, Ross Wagner, Robert E. Kearney
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Design and Testing of an Instrumentation System to Determine the Efficacy of Pain Reduction During Muscle Stimulation

Michael Willand, Hubert deBruin
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Design And Development of an Angular-Velocity Activated Hydraulic Knee Orthosis

Terris Yakimovich, Edward D. Lemaire, Louis Goudreau, Jonathan Kofman
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Ultra-Fast Wiener Filter Based Crystal Identification Algorithm Applied to the Labpet Phoswich Detectors

H. Camilia Yousefzadeh, Nicolas Viscogliosi, Marc-André Tétrault, Hicham Semmaoui, Catherine M. Pepin, Philippe Bérard, Mélanie Bergeron, Roger Lecompte, Réjean Fontaine
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Stove Top Thermal Monitoring for Assisted Living at Home

Ming Ye Yuan, James R. Green, Rafik Goubran
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Decomposition of Multi-Contact Nerve Cuff Signals Into Velocity- Specific Components 

José Zariffa, Milos R. Popovic
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Artery Stiffness Assessed by Pulse Counter Analysis

Gong Zhang, Simon Liao, Yong Liu, Shaohong Xu
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Pulse Wave Analysis for Cardiovascular Information Monitoring in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure: Effects of Coq10 Treatment

Gong Zhang, Xiaolin Kong, Simon Liao, James Deng
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Improved Phoneme-Based Myoelectric Speech Recognition

Zhou Quan, Jiang Ning, Kevin Englehart, Bernie Hudgins
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A Computational Model of Nerve Signal Detection and Recognition During Voluntary Muscle Contractions

Rui Zhou, Ning Jiang, Kevin Englehart, Phillip Parker
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Interconnection of 802.11b Wireless Physiologic Monitors with a 802.11a/B/G Wireless Voip Network at Santa Cabrini Hospital’s Emergency Care Unit

Gnahou Zoabli, James Knights, Denis Giguère, Ken Thomason
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Automated Pattern Classification for Pcg Signal Based on Adaptive Spectral K-Means Clustering Algorithm

Abas K. Abas, Rasha Bassam
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