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This volume presents the proceedings of the 7th Asian-Pacific Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering (APCMBE 2008). Themed "Biomedical Engineering - Promoting Sustainable Development of Modern Medicine" the proceedings address a broad spectrum of topics from Bioengineering and Biomedicine, like Biomaterials, Artificial Organs, Tissue Engineering, Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine, Biomedical Imaging, Bio MEMS, Biosignal Processing, Digital Medicine, BME Education. It helps medical and biological engineering professionals to interact and exchange their ideas and experiences.

Contents:

1.- Pedorthic care of the arthritic foot.- Development and Biocompatibility evaluation of silk fibroin-based nerve grafts for peripheral nerve regeneration.- Synthesis and Gene Transfection Efficiency of PEG-chitosan-PEI copolymers.- Preparation and physicochemical characteristics of self-assembled nanoparticles of cholesterol succinate modified pullulan conjugates.- Structural investigations of novel triblock cationic copolymer/DNA complexes.- Alginate/hydroxyapatite hydrogel as biodegradable in situ forming scaffold.- Drug controlled release of novel alginate/poly-L-arginine microcapsules.- Targeted and Controlled Release of Indomethacin from a Prodrug of Amylose.- In Vitro Study of Alginate/Poly-L-Arginine Microcapsules as a Protein or Anticancer Drug Carrier.- Study of Solanine on Mitochondrion in HepG2 Cell.- Preparation and Biocompatibility of a Novel Scaffold Made from Small Intestinal Submucosa Powders.- 2.- Performance Comparison between Two Types of Miniature Axial Flow Pumps for Children.- Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring System for Artificial Heart Surgery.- A Speed Controller Design to a Heart Pump.- A visual prosthesis based on Optic Nerve Stimulation: In vivo Electrophysiological Study in Rabbits.- A Circuit System Design for Implantable Multi-channel neural stimulator.- Implementation of the Natural Heartbeat Synchronize Control for the Undulation Pump Ventricular Assist Device Using the Inflow Pressure.- Development of an Auto Calibration Method for the Implantable Blood Pressure Sensor in the Undulation pump ventricular assist device (UPVAD).- 3.- Coating preparation and drug delayed release of dexamethasone-eluting intravascular stents in vitro and in vivo.- 4.- A Comparative Study on the Expression of Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase in Different Development Stages of Human Epidermal Stem Cells in vitro.- The Location and the Telomerase Expression of the Different Development Stages of Human Skin Epidermal Stem Cells in vivo.- Differentiation of the Human Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells into Vascular Endothelium-like Cells in vitro.- Effect of microstructure on the mechanical properties and biology performance of bone tissue scaffolds using selective laser sintering.- Fabrication of porous ?-TCP scaffolds by combination of rapid prototyping and freeze drying technology.- The property of ion current in human amniotic mesenchymal stem cell (hAMSC).- 5.- Power density spectra of the velocity waveforms in Artificial heart valves.- Mechanotransduction of mandibular condylar chondrocytes under pressure.- Effect of femoral tunnel angle on tunnel enlargement in anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions.- Optimization of Anastomotic Configuration in CABG Surgery.- Numerical Simulation of Blood Flow in Stented Aneurysm using Lattice Boltzmann Method.- Improved Experimental System for Analyzing Biomechanical Properties of Iris Tissue.- Effect of Dynamic Stabilization Device Stiffness on Disc Loading under Compression.- An AAA-ICT Used to the Single Trial of SEP.- A Finite Element Study of The Response of Thoracolumbar Junction to Accidental Mine Blast Scenario.- Experimental modeling and biomechanical measurement of flatfoot deformity.- Numerical Simulation of A Bidirectional Cavopulmonary Anastomosis Connection with Antegrade Pulmonary Blood Flow.- Numerical Study on the Changes of the Pressure Waveform in a Large Artery.- A Lumped Parameters Dynamic Model for Cerebral Circulation.- The Motion Simulation of Human Lower Extremity Based on Dynamics.- Design of Active Artificial Knee Joint.- Importance of Anterior Mitral Basal Stay Chords for Left Ventricular Outflow Hemodynamics: A Computational Study.- A Theoretical Model for Binary Adhesion of Cells in Flows.- A New Structure-Activity Relationship of Linear Cationic ?-helical Antimicrobial Peptides.- Numerical Simulations of Colliding Particle Distribution in Flow Chamber.- Analysing the effect of gas press's little wave in measuring result of velocity of ultra-sound.- A new respiratory training system for astronauts.- Computational Simulation for Osteoporosis at the Basic Multicellular Unit Level.- 6.- Synthesis, Characterization and Cell-uptake of Porphyrin-capped Gold Nanoparticle.- Preparation of nanoparticle of methoxy poly(ethylene glycol)/ poly(?-caprolactone)/ methoxy poly(ethylene glycol) triblock copolymer for drug delivery applications.- Biological responses of endothelial cells to aligned nanofibers of MWNT/PU by electrospinning.- Preparation, Characterization and Cellular Biological Impact of Water Soluble Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes.- Hapten-Modified Tumor Vaccines Enhance Lymphocytes' Cytotoxicity Against Human Breast Cancer Cells.- 7.- A New Heuristic Weighting Function for FDK-based reconstruction of Cone Beam Tomography.- Elementary Design and Implementation of Liver Treatment Planning System.- Deformation-Based Morphometric study on Blind men's brain structures.- Automated detection of exudates on color fundus image using region merging by k-NN graph.- An Investigation of Interpolation Methods in Rebinning Circular Cone-beam data into Parallel-fan-beam Data.- A Novel Fast Marching Segmentation Algorithm for Pulmonary Nodules in Chest Radiographs.- Approximate algorithms for 2N+1 sources cone-beam CT along saddle trajectories.- Using Fast Marching in Automatic Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels.- A Robust Fiber Tracking Method in Diffusion Tensor Imaging.- Detection of blood vessels in retinal images using improved iterative threshold probing of a matched filter response.- An Auto-Reference, Auto-Correlation and Adaptive Interference Cancellation Theories and Techniques (AAA-ICT) Used to the Single Trial of Slow Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials.- Study on the Algorithm of Surface Reconstruction of Defective Bone Based on Delaunay Triangulation.- An Anisotropic Diffusion Model for Medical Image Smoothing by Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method.- Lung region segmentation based on multi-resolution Active Shape Model.- A Fast Doppler Ultrasound Simulator Based on RF Beamlines.- Volumetric Non-rigid Registration via Thin-plate Spline Model.- Interactive Display Methods for Ultrasound Strain Imaging.- Adaptive Spatial Processing for Autocorrelation-based Ultrasound Color Flow Imaging.- Rationalized Gain Compensation for Ultrasound Imaging.- Interactive Frequency Compounding to Medical Ultrasound Images.- Study on a novel tumor cell recognition system based on orthogonal image moments.- Deformable Mesh based Motion Tracking for Ultrasound Strain Imaging.- 8.- Development of a noninvasive glucose measurement system based on orthogonal twin polarized lights and its primary experimental investigation.- Effect of Interface Characteristics of Substrates on Performance of Biosensors Based on Supported Mimetic Biomembranes.- A Novel Taste Sensor Based on Ion Channels Incorporated in Nano-lipid Bilayer Membranes.- Micro-Electrode Cell-Based Biosensor Using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy for Cancer Research.- Piezoelectric Biosensor Based on Olfactory Receptor Expressed in a Heterologous Cell System for Drug Discovery.- A Flexible Thin-film Microelectrode for Optic-Nerve Visual Prosthesis.- Study of enzyme biosensor for monitoring carbamate pesticides in seawater.- 9.- Spectral analysis of heart rate variability applied in the exercise of professional shooting athletes.- Using EMG to Evaluate Muscular Fatigue Induced during Video Display Terminal Keyboard Use Task.- The ERP Signal Analysis of Visual Influences on Auditory Intensity Perception.- Dipole Analysis of Eye Movement Artifacts from the EEG.- BLDA Approach for Classifying P300 Potential.- A GPRS-based Wrist Type Pulse Wave and Body Temperature Monitor for Children Healthcare.- Design of Physiological Parameter Acquisition and Communication Module Based on CC2430.- Improved System of Artificial Heart Valve Detector Based on Windows XP.- Wireless monitoring system via ZigBee in ICUs.- Largest Lyapunov index of EHRV for analyzing status of cardiovascular system.- Wavelet transform for on-off switching BCI device.- Optimization of the Coil to Focalize the Electrical Field Induced by Magnetic Stimulation in the Human Brain.- A miniature telemetric system base on chip nRF24E1for recording EEG activity in freely moving rat.- Spatial Sensitivity of NIRS Tissue Oxygenation Measurement using a Simplified Instrument.- Adaptive Liver Segmentation from Multi-slice CT Scans.- Investigation of multifunctional cell physiological analysis instrument based on integrated chip.- AMS Based Spectrum Subtraction Algorithm with Confidence Interval Test.- System of magnetic coupled PPM transcutaneous wireless communication.- SPME-GC analysis of alkanes and aromatic hydrocarbons in human breath to screen lung cancer.- Application of Independent Component Analysis on Artifacts Removal in the Time-Frequency Analysis of Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions.- Based on the FPIA of high-throughput gene and protein detection analysis system.- Thresholding-based Wavelet Packet Methods for Doppler Ultrasound Signal Denoising.- Physiological Monitoring in the Ventilated Neonate: A Rationale.- Research on Multi-Parameter Physiological Monitor Based on CAN Bus.- The Study of C0 Complexity on Epileptic Absence Seizure.- Research of Virtual Nerve Induce Electrical Signal Auto-check Technology.- Development of Implantable Neuro-Stimulator Used for Brain and Nerve Stimulation.- 11.- 3D Vessel Tree Reconstruction from Rotational C-arm Projections by Multi-view Stereo Reconstruction.- Implementation of Convolution/Superposition Model of Photon Dose Calculation.- Quality assurance of helical tomotherapy intensity modulated radiation therapy.- Electron spectrum reconstruction as nonlinear programming model using micro-adjusting algorithm.- 12.- Effect of EMP on Superoxide Dismutase and Malondialdehyde in K562 cells.- Hsps expression in three human glioma cell lines after radio-frequency field exposure.- Effects of Electromagnetic Pulses on the Rat Testis.- Effect of EMP on lipid peroxidation of human gastric cancer cells MKN28.- Effects of electromagnetic pulse on the vimentin of mice testes.- Study on behavior of male rat 3 months after electromagnetic pulse irradiation.- 13.- Research of Environmental Control systems for Disabled people.- The reference research of exercise therapy of residual limb in post-operative of lower limb amputation.- Analysis of Emotional Expression of Finger Braille.- A Research on EMG Signal and Plantar Pressure Information for AK Prosthetic Control.- Pixelized Images Recognition in Simulated Prosthetic Vision.- Artificial Horse for Rehabilitation.- Effect of Shank Curve of High-heeled Shoe on the Plantar Pressure Distribution.- 14.- Effects of Qinglongyi Polysaccharide on complex biochemisty function with the core of Band 3 on Erythrocyte.- Studies on Effect of Saponins of Asparagus on Tumor Cell Apoptosis and its Mechanisms of Action.- Effects of electric pulses on apoptosis induction and mitochondrial transmembrane potential of cancer cells.- Preparation and Release Efficiency of Poly (lactic-co-glycolic) Acid Nanoparticles for Drug Loaded Paclitaxel.- Effects of Paclitaxel on human lung cancer cell lines in vitro and in vivo.- Magnetoviscous Effect of Magnetic Fluid Targeting Drug Delivery System.- Effects of Asparagus Polysaccharide on GPA and Band 3 from Erythrocyte Membrane of S180 Mice.- Study on S180 Tumor Mice Erythrocyte Membrance Function of Sargassum Fusiform Polysaccharides.- 15.- Enhancement of Liposome Delivery Efficiency Via Cell Membrane Permeability by ultrasound exposure.- Numerical Analysis of a Deformable Model for Ultrasound Border Detection.- Noninvasive Temperature Estimation Using B-Scan Image For Thermal Therapy.- The design of noninvasive temperature measure system and software.- Doppler US Nutrient Artery Waveform Change in Assessment of Non-pregnant Uterus Response to Oxytocin.- The Effects of Acoustic Interface Layer on Biological Focal Region By High Intensity Focused Ultrasound.- 16.- Certification of Biomedical Engineering Technicians and Clinical Engineers: Important or Not.- 17.- The Computer Model in View of Hemodynamic Effects of Electro Ventilation Double Pump CPR.- 18.- The research of the community healthcare network based on ZigBee technology.- A Design of Mobile Monitoring System Based on Tradition Chinese Medicine.- A ZigBee-based wearable Cardio-Pulmonary Monitor for Mobile Health Care.- Development of telemonitoring system for PCG by telephone transmission.- Research in Development on Wireless Health Care of Infants.- The research of medical services sharing platform base on semantic web services.- HealthED: An Opened Integrate Healthcare IT Architecture.- 19.- Study of the Ballistocardiogram signal in non-contact life detection system based on radar.- Research and application of physical protection technology and equipment against biological contamination in mainland of China.- PI3K-Mediated Epithelial Sodium Channel Activity by Regulating the Apical Membrane Morphology of Renal Epithelial Cells.- A Novel Method of Prokaryotic Promoter Regions Prediction with Feature Selection: Quadratic Discriminant Analysis Approach.- The vitro and vivo study of Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate) microspheres.- 20.- Designing "Diagnostic ultrasound device" course in high-vocation education of BME.- ECG-Analyzing Experimental System Based on Virtual Instrument.- Undergraduate Education on Biomedical Engineering of Comprehensive University in China.- Bioinformatics Education in Medical College.- Exploring Teaching Methods on Biomedical Courses in Engineering Universities.- Build a Characteristic Specialty to Cultivate Persons with Ability in Biomedical Engineering.- Integrated Training Model on Biomedical Engineering Undergraduates' Innovation Ability.- Biomedical Engineering Characteristics of Training Model of Education and Training Programme of Reform and Practice.- Prosthetics and Orthotics Engineering Professionals Training Mode and Curriculum Research and Development.- 22.- The Effect of Acupuncture at Point Neiguan on the Pulse Picture for Patients with Arrhythmia.- Primary Study on the Parameters and Methods to Evaluate Needling Sensation and Maneuvers in Acupuncture.- Development of Implantable stimulating system used for electroacupuncture.- Study of Acupuncture Manipulation Parameter Based on Data Mining Technique.- A fMRI Study on Electroacupuncture Intervening Heroin Abstainers' Cognitive Attention.- Effects of Acupuncture On Mitochondria of Muscle Cell In Rats of Acute Swimming Exercise.- Determination of Indirect Moxibustion's Temperature and Research on Thermal Conduction Model.- Quantitative Analysis of Different Consciousness Process Based on Multi-index Dynamic BEAM Technology.- Study of the urinary metabolite profile associated with osteoarthritis and the correlation with its TCM syndromes.- Research on the Cun-Guan-Chi Pulse Detecting System.- Traditional Chinese Medical Informatics and Virtual Body.- Study on Brain FMRI of the Mechanism of Tuina Analgesia.- Qualitative Frequency Response Calibration of Sonocardiography System to Sense Wrist Pulse.- The Effect of Electric Acupuncture on the Retinal Ganglion Cells in Rabbits with Acute High Intraocular Pressure.- Quantitative Research on Analgesic Effects of Electroacupuncture at Multiple Factors Parameters in Rats of Adjuvant-Induced Arthritis.- 23.- Computer-Aided analyzing system in root canal therapy.- The Research of an Optimized Boolean Operation Algorithm for Skull Defect Mending.- Study on the Application of Rapid Prototyping in Assistant Surgical Planning.- Augmented Reality Interactive Interface for Defective Bone Repair System.- Computer Aided Analysis in Maxillary Sinus Surgery.- MRI Compatible Rigid-flexible Outer Sheath Device Using Pneumatic Locking Mechanism for Endoscopic Treatment.- Development of interactive three-dimensional autostereoscopic image for surgical navigation system using Integral Videography.- Distortion Correction of Wedge Prism 3D Endoscopic Images.- Intraoperative Local Demarcation System of Brain Tumor Based on 5-Aminolaevulinic Acid Induced Porphyrin Fluorescence.