Recent Patents on Biomedical Engineering

ISSN: 1874-7647 - Volume 3, 3 Issues 2010

Editor-in-Chief:

Biaoyang Lin
Swedish Medical Center; Seattle, WA, USA
Dept. of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Zhejiang-California International Nanosystems Institute (ZCNI), Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China

Co-Editor-in-Chief:

Wei Li
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, USA

Associate Editor:

Inan Guler
Faculty of Technology
Gazi University, Ankara
Turkey

Editorial Advisory Board:

S.A. Acharya (College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA)
K. Akca (Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey)
J. Alaeddini (Heart Institute of Spokane, Washington, DC, USA)
A.C. Albertsson (The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
P. Alexandridis (The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA)
D. Alexandre (Laboratoire de Tribologie Et Dynamique des Systèmes, Saint Etienne, France)
A. Alizadeh (Rajaie Cardiovascular Med. and Res. Ctr., Tehran, Iran
D. Antonelli (Ha'Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel)
R.L. Armentan (Universidad Favaloro, Argentina, USA)
A. Augousti (Kingston University, Kingston, UK)
D.W.F. Avrin (Insight Magnetics, San Diego, CA, USA)
S. Barinov (Inst. for Physical Chemistry of Ceramics RAS, Moscow, Russia)
O. Barnea (Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv, Israel)
A.M. Baruchin (Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel)
A. Bashashati (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
O. Baskurt (Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey)
R. Bauernschmitt (German Heart Center Munich, Munich, Germany)
R. Bawa (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA and Bawa Biotech., Ashburn, VA, USA)
R. Bayford (Middlesex Hospital, London, UK)
K. Bhalerao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA)
M. Binkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Bedzinska, Rome)
A. Biscarini (Univ. of Perugia, Perugia, Italy)
E . Borisova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)
B.D. Boyan (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA)
E. Bucci (Univ. of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore, MD, USA)
M.E. Byrne (Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA)
A. Carman (University of Otego, Dunedin, New Zealand)
P.R. Carney (Univ. of Florida, Florida, FL, USA)
A. Cereatti (Institute Universitario di Science Motorie, Rome, Italy)
A. Chan (Henderson Research Centre, Hamilton, ON, Canada)
Ki.H. Chon (Stony Brook University, New York, NY, USA)
S.M. Debbal (University A.B.Belkaid-Tlemcen, Tlemcen, Algeria)
A.C. deCarvalho (University of São Paulo, São Paulo Brazil)
A. Denizli (Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey)
C.A. Dobson (University of Hull, Hull, UK)
R.V. Donkelaar (Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
M.M. Doyley (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA)
M. Fatemi (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Florida, FL, USA)
A. Frangi (Pompeu Fabra Univ., Barcelona, Spain)
J.W. Freeman (Virginia Tech, Virginia, VA, USA)
K. Fukamachi (Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, OH, USA)
M. Giacomini (Univ. of Genoa, Genoa, Italy)
A. Goette (University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany)
M.S. Gold (University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA)
A.J.R.F. Guiomar (University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal)
A.L. Guyader (Dupuytren University Hospital, Limoges, France)
A. Hachol (Univ. of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland)
B.S. Harrison (Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC,USA)
J. He (Arizona State Univ., Arizona, AZ, USA)
A. Hirata (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan)
Al.H Hoffman (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA)
B.S. Hsiao (Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
C. Hu (Advanced Medical Optics, Santa Ana, CA, USA)
D.W. Hutmacher (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
J.T. Jacob (Louisiana State Univ., New Orleans, LA,USA)
A.A. Jumaily (Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand)
B.K. Kantharia (Univ. of Texas-Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, TX, USA)
A. Kara (Erciyes Univ., Kayseri, Turkey)
D.S. Katti (Indian Institute of Technology, Uttar Pradesh, India)
A. Kaviani (Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran)
A. Keshtkar (Univ. of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran)
L.M. Khachigian (University of New South Wales, South Wales, Sydney)
Y. Khan (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA)
M.D. Kofron (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA)
T. Kokubo (Chubu Univ., Aichi, Japan)
A. Kopustinskas (Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania)
A. Krisciukaitis (Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Italy)
M.N.V.R. Kumar (National Inst. of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Punjab, India)
B. Lambermont (Univ. of Liege, Liege, Belgium)
C.T. Laurencin (The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA)
Y.W. Lee (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA)
J. Li (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
D.Q. Lin (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China)
Y. Lin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA)
R. Lubart (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel)
A.F.T. Mak (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Kowloon, Hong Kong)
A. Mangoni (Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia)
J.F. Mano (University of Minho, Taipas Guimarães, Portugal)
A. Merolli (The Catholic University in Rome, Rome, Italy)
K. Miller (The Univ. of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia)
A. Mittal (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India)
A. Moglia (Center Micro and Nano Engineering, Pontedera, Italy)
L.S. Nair (University of Connecticut Health Center, CT, USA)
R.J. Narayan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
K.G. Neoh (National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore)
L. Padeletti (Univ. of Florence, Florence, Italy)
A. Pandit (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)
M.A. Papadopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece)
P. Pavlova (Technical University Sofia, Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
L. Poole-Warren (The Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
Z. Qian (Sichuan University, Chengdu, China)
H. Qi (Univ. of Tennessee, TN, USA)
L. Qin (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
R. Rada (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA)
A.K. Ray (University of London, London, UK)
A. Rinaldi (St. Thomas' Hospital, London, UK)
E.L. Ritman (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, NY, USA)
M. Roberto (Laboratory for Engineering of the Neuromuscular System, Torino, Italy)
A. Rowley (University of Oxford, London, UK)
S. Roy (Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA)
E. Ruppin (Tel-Aviv Univ., Tel-Aviv, Israel)
A.K. Salem (University of Iowa, Iowa, IA, USA)
A.J. Salgado (Univ. of Minho, Braga, Portugal)
J.D. Santos (Faculdade de Engenharia da Univdade do Porto, Porto, Portugal)
S. Sato (Akita Univ. School of Medicine, Akita, Japan)
M.A. Sanz (Univ. of Turin, Turin, Italy)
B.W. Schulz (James A Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL, USA)
M. Shahinpoor (University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA)
A. Shalaby (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA,USA)
J.I. Shapiro (Univ. of Toledo College of Medicine, Ohio, OH, USA)
M.S. Slaughter (Christ Hospital and Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL,USA)
K. Smetana (Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic)
C. Song (University of Dundee, Scotland, Dundee, UK)
A. Sosnik (University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
J.A. Sykes (Calvin College Engineering, Grand Rapids, MI, USA)
H. Sunan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
A.C. Tas (Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey)
N. Thakor (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD,USA)
A. Thor (Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden)
A. Tiedeu (Universite De Yaounde, Yaounde, France)
C. Traino (Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, Rome, Italy)
B.L. Tripp (Florida International Univ., FL, USA)
A. Valarakos (University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece)
B. Vanderstraeten (Ghent University, Gent, Belgium)
S.S. Venkatraman (Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore)
M. Viceconti (Labatorio di Tecnologia Medica, Bologna, Italy)
I.J. Vienken (Fresenius Medical Care, Bad Homburg, Germany)
A.S. Voloshin (Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA, USA)
T. Webster (Brown University, Providence, RI, USA)
C.A. Williams (Univ. of Exeter, Exeter, UK)
T.H. Yang (Cheng Shiu Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
H. Yukawa (RITE, Kyoto, Japan)
N.P. Ziats (Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, USA)
Y. Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
B. Zhang (East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC, USA)
Z.B. Zhong (Soochow University, Suzhou, China)
H. Zreiqat (University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)