25th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference 2009; 15 - 17 May, 2009, Miami, Florida, USA

1. Session 4:

   1. Rehabilitation

      1. Trunk Kinematics during Pediatric Gait

         • V. Chester, U. Kuruganti

         Pages 55-58

2. Session 5:

   1. Image Processing and Instrumentation

      1. A Respiratory Gating System for PET Imaging of Lung Cancer

         • M. F. Georgiou, Q. Shen, J. Bohórquez, W. Zhao, R. A. Kuker, G. N. Sfakianakis

         Pages 59-60

      2. Quantitation of Metabolic Change in Serial FDG-PET Brain Scans of Pediatric Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury

         • M. F. Georgiou, R. A. Kuker, J. Kuluz, G. N. Sfakianakis

         Pages 61-62

      3. Comparison of Respiratory Motion Correction Methods in PET Lung Tumor Quantification

         • J. Wang, J. Franquiz, A. McGoron

         Pages 63-66

      4. Using Two-Dimensional Edge Detection to Produce Three-Dimensional Medical Prototypes from MRI Data

         • J. E. Urban, J. T. Tester

         Pages 67-70

      5. New Image Processing Algorithm for ROI Extraction in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

         • S. Choi, S. -J. Hong, G. -J. Lee, J. -H. Park, S. Kang, B. Oh et al.

         Pages 71-72

      6. A Novel Method to Study DICOM Tags and Definitions for Structured Report and Image Analysis Purposes

         • A. Moein, K. Youssefi

         Pages 73-74

3. Session 6:

   1. Instrumentation, Signals and Systems

      1. Visual Display for the Acquisition of High Rate Pattern Reversal Electroretinograms

         • J. Toft-Nielsen, J. Bohórquez, Ö. Özdamar

         Pages 75-76

      2. System to Control Skin Temperature during Hyperthermic Treatment

         • E. M. O’Brien, S. Hyun

         Pages 77-80

      3. Design of Interoperability-Coupled Safe Infusion Therapy in a Telemetry Setting

         • S. M. Krishnan, M. Vanicatte, D. Arney, I. Lee, J. M. Goldman

         Pages 81-84

      4. Endobronchial Intratumoral Chemotherapy (EITC) for Improved Treatment of Lung Cancer

         • E. P. Goldberg, S. I. Celikoglu, F. Celikoglu

         Pages 85-86

      5. Evaluation of the Electromagnetic Compatibility of WiFi Technology with Life-Supporting Medical Devices

         • G. Calcagnini, E. Mattei, F. Censi, M. Triventi, R. Lo Sterzo, E. Marchetta et al.

         Pages 87-88

      6. Performance of Optimal IMC and PID Controllers for Blood Pressure Control

         • S. Enbiya, A. Hossain, F. Mahieddine

         Pages 89-94

4. Session 7:

   1. Orthopedics

      1. Biomechanical Evaluation of the Cylindrical TI Mesh Cage for the Treatment of Segmental Defects of the Tibia

         • P. A. Ostermann, L. L. Latta, L. Biedermann, E. L. Milne

         Pages 95-96

      2. A-Mode Ultrasound Bone Registration for Computer-Assisted Knee Surgery: Calibration and Robustness Test

         • T. C. Chang, A. Mozes, L. Arata, W. Zhao

         Pages 97-100

      3. Biomechanical Analysis of UCBL with Articulated Ankle AFO in a Surgical Stage II Posterior Tibial Tendon Dysfunction

         • M. Diamond, A. Bonner, D. Pedroso, E. Milne, L. Latta

         Pages 101-102

      4. Investigating the Tightening Torque of an Osseointegrated Transfemoral Implant System

         • M. L. Thompson, C. K. Mechefske

         Pages 103-106

      5. Effects of Temperature on the Performance of Footwear Foams Subjected to Quasi-Static Compression Loading

         • M. R. Shariatmadari, R. English, G. Rothwell

         Pages 107-110

5. Session 8:

   1. Nanomaterials

      1. Identification of Biomarkers for Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube Exposure in Mouse Macrophage Cells

         • K. D. Houston, N. H. Mack, S. K. Doorn, M. S. Park

         Pages 111-112

      2. Development of Cell Impedance Based Sensing System for the Nanotoxicity Assay

         • E. Hondroulis, C. Li

         Pages 113-114

th On behalf of the steering and organizing committees I would like to welcome you to sunny Miami Florida for the 25 Sou- ern Biomedical Engineering Conference. This year we are excited to have visitors from all over North America, South American, Europe and Asia to share exciting developments in all areas of Biomedical Engineering. The main objective of this conference is to bring together students, researchers and clinicians in Biomedical Engineering to disseminate technical information in this rapidly growing field, and provide a forum consisting of established as well as new and future researchers in this exciting engineering field. This year’s meeting features more than 140 high quality papers, many by students, for oral presentations and publication in the conference proceedings. The conference owes its success to the dedicated work of the keynote speakers, conference chairs, authors, participants, students, organizers, and the College of Engineering and Computing webmaster. We wish to especially acknowledge the work of the peer reviewers, program committee, staff of the BME Department, and the student organizing committee. We also wish to acknowledge the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation and the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering, and Simpleware, Ltd. We hope that you enjoy your experience, make new collaborations and lasting friendships.

• biomaterial
• biomechanics
• biomedical engineering
• nanomaterial
• tissue
• tissue engineering

• Dept. Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, USA

  Anthony J. McGoron, Chen-Zhong Li, Wei-Chiang Lin

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