... study examined the biomechanical properties of healing rat skin wounds in vivo and ex vivo. Thirty male Sprague-Dawley rats, each with a 6 mm full-thickness circular punch biopsied wound at both posterior hind limbs were used. The mechanical stiffness at both the central and margins of the wound...

...Hongsheng Wang; Naiqaun (Nigel) Zheng Skin marker-based motion analysis has been widely used in biomechanical studies and clinical applications. Unfortunately, the accuracy of knee joint secondary motions is largely limited by the nonrigidity nature of human body segments. Numerous studies have...

...R. A. Guha; N. H. Shear; M. Papini The impact and penetration of high speed particles with the human skin is of interest for targeted drug delivery by transdermal powder injection. However, it is often difficult to perform penetration experiments on dermal tissue using micron scale particles...

... process. Some of the microneedles were manufactured to have sharper tips by changing the heat source during the melt-drawing process. All of the microneedles were individually inserted into ex vivo pig skin samples to demonstrate the feasibility of their application in human tissues. The force on each...

...Miriam Klous; Sander Klous The aim of skin-marker-based motion analysis is to reconstruct the motion of a kinematical model from noisy measured motion of skin markers. Existing kinematic models for reconstruction of chains of segments can be divided into two categories: analytical methods that do...

.... This study applied X-ray diffraction to the skin tissue-covered Ti. Characteristic X-rays of Mo K α were used and the X-rays diffracted from the Ti were detected through the covering skin tissue. The X-ray absorption by skin tissue is large under the diffracted X-rays detected in low angles because...

...Douglas A. Bourne; Anthony M. Choo; William D. Regan; Donna L. MacIntyre; Thomas R. Oxland Noninvasive measurement of scapular kinematics using skin surface markers presents technical challenges due to the relative movement between the scapula and the overlying skin. The objectives of this study...

...Devin McCormack; Mays Al-Shaer; Benjamin S. Goldschmidt; Paul S. Dale; Carolyn Henry; Chris Papageorgio; Kiran Bhattacharyya; John A. Viator Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer and has the fastest growth rate of all cancer types. Proper staging of melanoma is required for clinical...

...D. A. Grahn, Ph.D.; J. L. Dillon; H. C. Heller, Ph.D. Insulation reduces heat exchange between a body and the environment. Glabrous (nonhairy) skin surfaces (palms of the hands, soles of the feet, face, and ears) constitute a small percentage of total body surface area but contain specialized...

...F. Xu; T. J. Lu; K. A. Seffen Skin biothermomechanics is highly interdisciplinary, involving bioheat transfer, burn damage, biomechanics, and physiology. Characterization of the thermomechanical behavior of skin tissue is of great importance and can contribute to a variety of medical applications...

.... Exposures to warm and hot environments (ambient temperatures of 33 – 48 ° C ) were simulated with the current voxel model and with a recent compartment model. Results from the two models (core temperature, skin temperature, metabolic rate, and evaporative cooling rate) were compared with published...

... the Inflammatory Response in a Porcine Acute Wound Healing Model ,” Wounds , 19 ( 4 ), pp. 97 – 106 . Timmers , M. S. , Le , C. S. , Banwell , P. , and Jukema , G. N. , 2005 , “ The Effects of Varying Degrees of Pressure Delivered by Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy on Skin Perfusion...

...Olga Lokshin; Yoram Lanir In spite of impressive progress in developing general constitutive laws for soft tissues, there exists still no comprehensive model valid for any general deformation scheme. The present study focuses on the uniaxial response of the skin as a model for other multifibrous...

...F. Xu; T. Wen; T. J. Lu; K. A. Seffen All biological bodies live in a thermal environment with the human body as no exception, where skin is the interface with protecting function. When the temperature moves out of normal physiological range, skin fails to protect and pain sensation is evocated...

...Hsin-Ni Ho; Lynette A. Jones The objective of this research is to analyze and model the decreases in skin temperature when the hand makes contact with an object at room temperature so that thermal feedback can be incorporated into haptic displays. A thermal model is proposed that predicts...

...Kjartan Halvorsen; Christopher Johnston; Willem Back; Virgil Stokes; Håkan Lanshammar Motion capture for biomechanical applications involves in almost all cases sensors or markers that are applied to the skin of the body segments of interest. This paper deals with the problem of estimating...

...S. M. Becker; A. V. Kuznetsov Electroporation is an approach used to enhance transdermal transport of large molecules in which the skin is exposed to a series of electric pulses. Electroporation temporarily destabilizes the structure of the outer skin layer, the stratum corneum, by creating...

...S. M. Becker; A. V. Kuznetsov Electroporation is an approach used to enhance transdermal transport of large molecules in which the skin is exposed to a series of electric pulses. The structure of the transport inhibiting outer layer, the stratum corneum, is temporarily destabilized due...

...Malcolm M. Q. Xing; Zhiguo Sun; Ning Pan; Wen Zhong; Howard I. Maibach Skin and garment constitute a dynamic contact system for human body comfort and protection. Although dermatological injuries due to fabric actions during human body movement are common, there is still no general guidance...

... prosthetics patient monitoring dentistry patient diagnosis electrocardiography electromyography skin cardiology Chronic Titanium Canisters Programmable Subcutaneous Intraperitoneal Lithium Batteries Flash Memory Card Foreign Body Response Photos of the internal components...