World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/11 Biomedical Engineering for Audiology, Ophthalmology, Emergency & Dental Medicine

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Tissue-Engineered Corneal Stroma by Using Autologous Adipose Derived Stem Cell Tissue and Polylacticcocglycolic Acid....Pages 1-5
Applications of Microwave Sensors in Medicines....Pages 6-8
Design of an Artificial Cochlea Based on an Array of Resonators....Pages 9-12
Architecture Proposal for an Automated Biphasic External Defibrillator....Pages 13-16
Success of autogenous tooth transplantation: a retrospective and prospective approach....Pages 17-20
Utility of a Radial Basis Function Classifier in the Detection of Red Lesions in Retinal Images....Pages 21-24
Is fine structure in hearing threshold an indicator of a highly sensitive cochlea? Investigations on amplitude modulation detection....Pages 25-28
Antimicrobial effects of Ag/TiO 2 compound coatings and ZnO films on titanium based surface....Pages 29-32
Preclinical Analysis of Stents for Microvascular Anastomoses: A Method to Anlayse the Tensile Strength....Pages 33-36
Distortion product otoacoustic emissions - a tool for assessing the non-linear sound amplification of the ear....Pages 37-40
Impact of colored contact lenses on color vision....Pages 41-44
An Improved Biphasic Defibrillator for First Aid Pediatric Applications....Pages 45-48
Novel Designs for Middle Ear Implants Produced by Micro Injection Molding....Pages 49-51
Development of a High Performance Green Laser Cavity for Retinal Photocoagulation....Pages 52-55
Zoom Slit Lamp Adapter for Ophthalmological Green Laser....Pages 56-58
The mechanical response of the tectorial membrane in the frog inner ear....Pages 59-60
Neuromagnetic Responses Elicited by Tones and Chords of Different Intensities and Frequency Components....Pages 61-64
The application of ultra short echo time MRI (UTE) for the structural assessment of dental hard tissue components....Pages 65-67
The Precision of Neuronal Coding in the Auditory Brainstem and Implications for Cochlear Implants....Pages 68-71
Testing of Eustachian Tube Functioning via Strain Gauge Measurement of Tympanic Membrane Movement....Pages 72-75
FE-analysis of dental implants with sinus lift....Pages 76-79
Implants for Epiretinal Stimulation of Retinitis Pigmentosa Patients....Pages 80-83
Development of a Breath Alcohol Analyzer for Use on Patients in Emergency Care....Pages 84-87
Variation in Anterior Temporal Muscles’ Electromyogram in Accordance With Herbst in Situ....Pages 88-91
Sound Localization in Space and the Effect of Interfering Auditory Stimulation in Tinnitus: Diagnostic Power of the Auditory Reaction Perimeter ARP....Pages 92-95
The relation between eye movement and filling-in time....Pages 96-99
Determination of inertia forces at an intraocular lens implant during saccades....Pages 100-103
Morphological and functional vitreous body equivalents....Pages 104-107
In-vivo monitoring of bruxism with an intelligent tooth splint - Reliability and validity....Pages 108-111
Dynamic Time Warping and Cross Correlation for the estimation of cell movements in conjunctival capillaries: a comparison through simulation....Pages 112-115
Exploring Retinal Network with Multielectrode Array for Retinal Prosthesis....Pages 116-119
MEASURING UV SYSTEM FOR ”IN VITRO” CORNEAS....Pages 120-123
Computerized Detection of Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Defects in Retinal Fundus Images by Modified Polar Transformation and Gabor Filtering....Pages 124-126
Computer Assisted ‘Top-Down’ Assesment of Diabetic Retinopathy....Pages 127-130
Utilizing RFID Technology for Biomedical Sensor Applications....Pages 131-133
Long-Term Head Posture Monitoring Reduces Complications Following Vitrectomy....Pages 134-136
Retinal Vessel Axis Estimation through a Multi-Directional Graph Search Approach....Pages 137-140
Computer estimation of the AVR parameter in diabetic retinopathy....Pages 141-144
Fast adaptive axis-based segmentation of retinal vessels through matched filters....Pages 145-148
Development of an instrument to measure pupil dynamics in subjects suffering from Neuro-Ophthalmologic disorders....Pages 149-152
Analysis of fibroblasts of the suprachoroidal space for development of a new glaucoma micro stent....Pages 153-155
Objective Methods for the Detection of Pattern Electroretinograms (PERG)....Pages 156-159
Evaluating the Accuracy of Optic Nerve Detections in Retina Imaging Using Complementary Methods....Pages 160-163
Hybrid polymers as implant material for medical devices....Pages 164-167
Parameterization and Classification of VEP After Selective Cone Excitation....Pages 168-171
Simulation system for epiretinal implants....Pages 172-174
Publicly available retinal image data and the use of competitions to standardize algorithm performance comparison....Pages 175-178
3D OCT retinal vessel segmentation based on boosting learning....Pages 179-182
System for Evaluating UV Radiation in Ophthalmic Lenses....Pages 183-185
Modeling of Craniofacial Soft and Hard Tissues for Prediction of Orthodontic Treatment....Pages 186-189
Development of Fitting Program for Fully Implantable Middle Ear Hearing Device....Pages 190-193
Long-term In vivo Biocompatibility Evaluation of MEMS Retinal Tack for Retinal Prosthesis....Pages 194-197
Automated Measurement of Cup-to-Disc Ratio for Diagnosing Glaucoma in Retinal Fundus Images....Pages 198-200
MEDICAL MANAGEMENT FOR EMERGENCIES THROUGH THE HELICOPTER 118 SERVICE IN CALABRIA AND MEDICAL DEVICES....Pages 201-204
Automated Measurements of Retinal Bifurcations....Pages 205-208
The calculation of teeth roots displacement which appears during orthodontical treatment....Pages 209-211
Recursive Algorithm for Blood Vessel Detection in Eye Fundus Images: Preliminary Results....Pages 212-215
In Vivo 3D Imaging of Carious Lesions and Dental Pulp Using Magnetic Resonance....Pages 216-218
Fundus Controlled Silent Substitution Stimulation of the Human Eye....Pages 219-222
Is Cornea Compliant with respect to Age?....Pages 223-226
Bayesian Transductive Markov Random Fields for Interactive Segmentation in Retinal Disorders....Pages 227-230
Digital Color Stimulator for Vision Research....Pages 231-234
Virtual 3D Prosthetic and Implant Planning Using Cone Beam Imaging and CEREC....Pages 235-238
3D Dynamic Sensing of Human Eye Toward Evaluation of Cornea Stiffness....Pages 239-242
Navigating Comfortably across the Retina....Pages 243-246
Texture Analysis of the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer in Fundus Images via Markov Random Fields....Pages 247-250
Automatic Rigid Registration and Analysis of Colour Fundus Image in Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy....Pages 251-254
Corneal Topography for Slit Lamps....Pages 255-258
Impact of Citric Acid Etching on Biocompatibility and Osseous Organisation of a Natural Bovine Bone Mineral: Preliminary Results of an In-Vitro/In-Vivo Study....Pages 259-262
Mechanism of Oscillatory Rhythm of Retinal Ganglion cells in rd 1 Mouse Retina....Pages 263-266
Wearable video-based eye tracking system with a webcam....Pages 267-270
Development of the eyeglasses-based electrooculogram (EOG) for the objective measurement of the visual acuity....Pages 271-274
Alterations in Eye Refraction under Non-ablative Laser irradiation of Cornea and Sclera.....Pages 275-276
Automated measurement of retinal vessel diameters on digital fundus photographs....Pages 277-280
Automatic Change Detection of Retinal Images....Pages 281-284
Laserinterferometrically measured distortion product otoacoustic emissions....Pages 285-288
Fourier Domain Mode Locking (FDML): Wavelength Swept Lasers for Ultrahigh Speed Optical Coherence Tomography....Pages 289-291
Bright Retinal Lesions Detection using Color Fundus Images Containing Reflective Features....Pages 292-295
Retina Image Gradings’ Comparison by Weighted Matching Analysis....Pages 296-299
EFFECT OF VISUAL SPECTRUM ON THE DYNAMIC PUPILLARY IN SUBJECTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS ON POISONING ON LEAD Pb....Pages 300-303
A Robust Lesion Boundary Segmentation Algorithm using Level Set Methods....Pages 304-307
Electromyographic Evaluation of the Temporal Muscle After the Use of Interocclusal Splints with a Vibrating Device in Individuals with Sleep Bruxism....Pages 308-311
Frictional Forces of Conventional and Improved Superelastic NiTi-Alloy Orthodontic Archwires in Stainless Steel and Plastic Brackets....Pages 312-315
Evaluation of Blood-Retinal Barrier Function from Fourier Domain High-Definition Optical Coherence Tomography....Pages 316-319
Stress distribution around implants with different interproximal contacts: A photoelastic analysis....Pages 320-323
Characteristic Parameters of MTF of the Retina-Brain System....Pages 324-326
Improvement of Vessel Segmentation by Matched Filtering in Colour Retinal Images....Pages 327-330
Effect of an Eyesight Recovering Stereoscopic Movie System on Visual Acuity of middle-aged and Myopic Young People....Pages 331-334
Short-term stress relaxation of porcine periodontal ligament - finding an appropriate visco-elastic model....Pages 335-338
Dynamic palpation device to evaluate IOP; simulation on a mechanical eyeball system....Pages 339-342
Dynamic Retinal Ultra-High Speed Optical Coherence Microscopy....Pages 343-345
Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels by Multi-scale Feature Extraction and Fuzzy Segmentation Methods....Pages 346-349
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