Publications related to Body cavity

Non-invasive, Brain-controlled Functional Electrical Stimulation for Locomotion Rehabilitation in Individuals with Paraplegia

Mohamed Bouri, Solaiman Shokur, Miguel Nicolelis

Spinal cord injury (SCI) impairs the flow of sensory and motor signals between the brain and the areas of the body located below the lesion level. Here, we describe a neurorehabilitation setup combining several approaches that were shown to have a positive ...

Nature Research2019

System for active skull replacement for brain interface and method of using the same

Catherine Dehollain, Gürkan Yilmaz, Kanber Mithat Silay

An active skull replacement system including an implant having an area A, an upper surface, and a bottom surface, adapted to be implanted at least in part into a skull of a subject so to substitute a portion of the skull, the bottom surface arranged to fac ...

2017

Cliques of Neurons Bound into Cavities Provide a Missing Link between Structure and Function

Henry Markram, Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Rodrigo de Campos Perin, Michael Reimann, Giuseppe Chindemi, Martina Scolamiero, Max Christian Nolte, Ran Levi, Katharine Felicity Turner, Pawel Tadeusz Dlotko

The lack of a formal link between neural network structure and its emergent function has hampered our understanding of how the brain processes information. We have now come closer to describing such a link by taking the direction of synaptic transmission i ...

Frontiers Media Sa2017

In-situ photopolymerized and monitored implants: successful application to an intervertebral disc replacement

Dominique Pioletti, Christophe Moser, Andreas Schmocker, Azadeh Khoushabi

Photopolymerization is a common method to harden materials initially in a liquid state. A surgeon can directly trigger the solidification of a dental implant or a bone or tissue filler by using ultra-violet light. Traditionally, photopolymerization has bee ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Proteomics of Cerebrospinal Fluid: Throughput and Robustness Using a Scalable Automated Analysis Pipeline for Biomarker Discovery

Loïc Dayon, Martin Kussmann

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a body fluid of high clinical relevance and an important source of potential biomarkers for brain-associated damages, such as traumatic brain injury and stroke, and for brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Herei ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Mechanical manipulator for surgical instruments

Hannes Bleuler, Reymond Clavel, Ricardo Daniel Rita Beira

A novel mechanical system, based on a new cable driven mechanical transmission, able to provide sufficient dexterity, stiffness, speed, precision and payload capacity to actuate multi-DOF micro-manipulators. Besides the possibility of being used in several ...

2012

Mechanical positioning system for surgical instruments

Hannes Bleuler, Reymond Clavel, Ricardo Daniel Rita Beira

An external manipulator for positioning surgical instruments within the abdominal cavity, comprising a hybrid kinematics with a parallel structure, able to provide four, active or passive, positional degrees of freedom to a endoscopic unit, placed in the d ...

2012

An ultra-thin PDMS membrane as a bio/micro-nano interface: fabrication and characterization

Melody Swartz

We report a method for making ultra-thin PDMS membrane devices. Freely suspended membranes as thin as 70 nm have been fabricated. Bulging tests were performed with a custom built fluidic cell to characterize large circular membranes. The fluidic cell allow ...

Springer Verlag2007

INJECTABLE SUPERPARAMAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES FOR TREATMENT BY HYPERTHERMIA AND USE FOR FORMING AN HYPERTHERMIC IMPLANT

Heinrich Hofmann, Alke Fink, Mathieu Chastellain, Olivier Jordan

The injectable formulation for treatment by hyperthermia comprises a liquid carrier and heat-generating superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles having a mean diameter not greater than 20 nm. Said injectable formulation is able to form in-situ a hyperthe ...

2006