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The accuracy of the models in the four groups was 18%, 18%, 19% and 25% higher than the minute volume models and the PetCO2 models (4% to 11%, respectively).

Our model based on noninvasive parameters was able to better estimate the PaCO
in mechanically ventilated children when compared to the traditional techniques.

ABG analysis is very important in ICU; it is the gold standard in respiratory and acid-base evaluation. ABG is invasive, painful and risky. Our approach, noninvasive and reliable, is an alternative for optimizing mechanical ventilator settings, thus providing better care for patients.
ABG analysis is very important in ICU; it is the gold standard in respiratory and acid-base evaluation. ABG is invasive, painful and risky. Our approach, noninvasive and reliable, is an alternative for optimizing mechanical ventilator settings, thus providing better care for patients.
Optogenetic manipulations of excitable cells enable activating or silencing specific types of neurons. By expressing two types of exogenous proteins, a single neuron can be depolarized using light of one wavelength and hyperpolarized with another. However, routing two distinct wavelengths into the same brain locality typically requires bulky optics that cannot be implanted on the head of a freely-moving animal.

We developed a lens-free approach for constructing dual-color head-mounted, fiber-based optical units any two wavelengths can be combined.

Here, each unit was comprised of one 450nm and one 638nm laser diode, yielding light power of 0.4mW and 8mW at the end of a 50 micrometer multimode fiber. To create a multi-color/multi-site optoelectronic device, a four-shank silicon probe mounted on a microdrive was equipped with two dual-color and two single-color units, for a total weight under 3 g. Devices were implanted in mice expressing the blue-light sensitive cation channel ChR2 and the red-light sensitive chloride pump Jaws in parvalbumin-immunoreactive (PV) inhibitory neurons. The combination of dual-color units with recording electrodes was free from electromagnetic interference, and device heating was under 7°C even after prolonged operation.

Using these devices, the same cortical PV cell could be activated and silenced. This was achieved for multiple cells both in neocortex and hippocampus of freely-moving mice.

This technology can be used for controlling spatially intermingled neurons that have distinct genetic profiles, and for controlling spike timing of cortical neurons during cognitive tasks.
This technology can be used for controlling spatially intermingled neurons that have distinct genetic profiles, and for controlling spike timing of cortical neurons during cognitive tasks.
Current intrapartum fetal monitoring technology is unable to provide physicians with an objective metric of fetal well-being, leading to degraded patient outcomes and increased litigation costs. Fetal oxygen saturation (SpO2) is a more suitable measure of fetal distress, but the inaccessibility of the fetus prior to birth makes this impossible to capture through current means. In this paper, we present a fully non-invasive, transabdominal fetal oximetry (TFO) system that provides in utero measures of fetal SpO2.

TFO is performed by placing a reflectance-mode optode on the maternal abdomen and sending photons into the body to investigate the underlying fetal tissue. The proposed TFO system design consists of a multi-detector optode, an embedded optode control system, and custom user-interface software. To evaluate the developed TFO system, we utilized an in utero hypoxic fetal lamb model and performed controlled desaturation experiments while capturing gold standard arterial blood gases (SaO2).

Various degrees of fetal hypoxia were induced with true SaO2 values ranging between 10.5% and 66%. The non-invasive TFO system was able to accurately measure these fetal SpO2 values, supported by a root mean-squared error of 6.37% and strong measures of agreement with the gold standard.

The results support the efficacy of the presented TFO system to non-invasively measure a wide-range of fetal SpO2 values and identify critical levels of fetal hypoxia.

TFO has the potential to improve fetal outcomes by providing obstetricians with a non-invasive measure of fetal oxygen saturation prior to delivery.
TFO has the potential to improve fetal outcomes by providing obstetricians with a non-invasive measure of fetal oxygen saturation prior to delivery.Acute ischemic stroke is a major health problem with a high mortality rate and a high risk for permanent disabilities. Selective brain hypothermia has the neuroprotective potential to possibly lower cerebral harm. A recently developed catheter system enables to combine endovascular blood cooling and thrombectomy using the same endovascular access. By using the penumbral perfusion via leptomeningeal collaterals, the catheter aims at enabling a cold reperfusion, which mitigates the risk of a reperfusion injury. However, cerebral circulation is highly patient-specific and can vary greatly. Since direct measurement of remaining perfusion and temperature decrease induced by the catheter is not possible without additional harm to the patient, computational modeling provides an alternative to gain knowledge about resulting cerebral temperature decrease. In this work, we present a brain temperature model with a realistic division into gray and white matter and consideration of spatially resolved perfusion. Furthermorence of direct intraparenchymal temperature probes.
7-Tesla MRI of the hippocampus enhances the visualization of its internal substructures. Among these substructures, the cornu Ammonis and subiculum form a contiguous folded ribbon of gray matter. Here, we propose a method to analyze local thickness measurements of this ribbon.

We introduce an original approach based upon the estimation of a diffeomorphic vector field that traverses the ribbon. The method is designed to handle specificities of the hippocampus and corresponding 7-Tesla acquisitions highly convoluted surface, non-closed ribbon, incompletely defined inner/outer boundaries, anisotropic acquisitions. We furthermore propose to conduct group comparisons using a population template built from the central surfaces of individual subjects.

We first assessed the robustness of our approach to anisotropy, as well as to inter-rater variability, on a post-mortem scan and on in vivo acquisitions respectively. We then conducted a group study on a dataset of in vivo MRI from temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) pa3533264).
The zebrafish has been proven to be a significant model organism in various research fields. For investigating the in vivo properties of biologics within zebrafish with developed organs, an automated zebrafish larva organ injection system is crucially needed. However, current zebrafish larva manipulation techniques cannot accomplish this operation efficiently and continuously.

In this paper, we present a novel zebrafish larva manipulation technique with two key steps in the microinjection system orienting and aspirating zebrafish larvae automatically. The orientation control is realized in a customized microfluidic chip, after which the larva moves tail-first until reaching the channel exit. Then a dynamic model of larva aspiration is established and an adaptive robust controller is designed.

Experimental results demonstrate that high success rate can be reached and damage to larva body is reduced.

The presented strategy is capable of orienting and aspirating zebrafish larvae smoothly and efficiently.

The proposed methods have the advantage of low cost, easy implementability and good stability.
The proposed methods have the advantage of low cost, easy implementability and good stability.Ultrasound-guided procedures have been applied in many clinical therapies, such as cardiac catheterization and regional anesthesia. Medical instrument detection in 3D Ultrasound (US) is highly desired, but the existing approaches are far from real-time performance. Our objective is to investigate an efficient instrument detection method in 3D US for practical clinical use. We propose a novel Multi-dimensional Mixed Network for efficient instrument detection in 3D US, which extracts the discriminating features at 3D full-image level by a 3D encoder, and then applies a specially designed dimension reduction block to reduce the spatial complexity of the feature maps by projecting from 3D space into 2D space. A 2D decoder is adopted to detect the instrument along the specified axes. By projecting the predicted 2D outputs, the instrument is detected or visualized in the 3D volume. Furthermore, to enable the network to better learn the discriminative information, we propose a multi-level loss function to capture both pixel- and image-level differences. We carried out extensive experiments on two datasets for two tasks (1) catheter detection for cardiac RF-ablation and (2) needle detection for regional anesthesia. Our experiments show that our proposed method achieves a detection error of 2-3 voxels with an efficiency of about 0.12 sec per 3D US volume. The proposed method is 3-8 times faster than the state-of-the-art methods, leading to real-time performance. The results show that our proposed method has significant clinical value for real-time 3D US-guided intervention.Skin temperature has long been used as a natural indicator of vascular diseases in the extremities. Considerable correlation between oscillations in skin surface temperature and oscillations of skin blood flow has previously been demonstrated. We hypothesised that the impairment of blood flow in stenotic (subcutaneous) peripheral arteries would influence cutaneous temperature such that, by measuring gradients in the temperature distribution over skin surfaces, one may be able to diagnose or quantify the progression of vascular conditions in whose pathogenesis a reduction in subcutaneous blood perfusion plays a critical role (e.g. peripheral artery disease). As proof of principle, this study investigates the local changes in the skin temperature of healthy humans (15 male, [Formula see text] years old, BMI [Formula see text] kg/m 2) undergoing two physical challenges designed to vary their haemodynamic status. Skin temperature was measured in four central regions (forehead, neck, chest, and left shoulder) and four peripheral regions (left upper arm, forearm, wrist, and hand) using an infrared thermal camera. We compare inter-region patterns. Median temperature over the peripheral regions decreased from baseline after both challenges (maximum decrease [Formula see text] °C at 60 s after exercise; [Formula see text] and [Formula see text] °C at 180 s of cold-water immersion; [Formula see text]). Median temperature over the central regions showed no significant changes. Our results show that the non-contact measurement of perfusion-related changes in peripheral temperature from infrared video data is feasible. Further research will be directed towards the thermographic study of patients with symptomatic peripheral vascular disease.
A new numerical modeling approach is proposed which provides forward-problem solutions for both noninvasive recordings (EEG/MEG) and higher-resolution intracranial recordings (iEEG).

The algorithm is our recently developed boundary element fast multipole method or BEM-FMM. It is based on the integration of the boundary element formulation in terms of surface charge density and the fast multipole method originating from its inventors. The algorithm still possesses the major advantage of the conventional BEM - high speed - but is simultaneously capable of processing a very large number of surface-based unknowns. As a result, an unprecedented spatial resolution could be achieved, which enables multiscale modeling.

For non-invasive EEG/MEG, we are able to accurately solve the forward problem with approximately 1 mm anatomical resolution in the cortex within 1-2 min given several thousand cortical dipoles. check details Targeting high-resolution iEEG, we are able to compute, for the first time, an integrated electromagnetic response for an ensemble (2,450) of tightly packed realistic pyramidal neocortical neurons in a full-head model with 0.
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