http://scitation.aip.org/ RSI: Biology and Medicine http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/83/014301/1&agg=rss N. Smith, G. N. Sankin, W. N. Simmons, R. Nanke, J. Fehre et al.<br/> The performance of a newly developed light spot hydrophone (LSHD) in lithotripter field characterization was compared to that of the fiber optic probe hydrophone (FOPH). Pressure waveforms produced by a stable electromagnetic shock wave source were measured by the LSHD and FOPH under identical exper ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 83, 014301 (2012)] published Mon Jan 30, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/094301/1&agg=rss Habib Ahmad, Alex Sutherland, Young Shik Shin, Kiwook Hwang, Lidong Qin et al.<br/> Microfluidics flow-patterning has been utilized for the construction of chip-scale miniaturized DNA and protein barcode arrays. Such arrays have been used for specific clinical and fundamental investigations in which many proteins are assayed from single cells or other small sample sizes. However, f ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 094301 (2011)] published Fri Sep 16, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/084301/1&agg=rss J. J. Chieh and C. Y. Hong<br/> Although magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have been widely applied to animals in biomedicine, MNPs within animals should be examined in real time, in vivo, and without bio-damaged possibility to evaluate whether the bio-function of MNPs is valid or to further controls the biomedicinal process because o ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 084301 (2011)] published Fri Aug 12, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/074303/1&agg=rss Mariela I. Bellotti, Walter Bast, Alejandro Berra, and Fabian J. Bonetto<br/> We present a novel experimental technique to determine eye ulcers in animals using a spectral electrical impedance technique. We expect that this technique will be useful in dry eye syndrome. We used a sensor that is basically a platinum (Pt) microelectrode electrically insulated by glass from a cyl ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 074303 (2011)] published Fri Jul 29, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/074302/1&agg=rss Pavel Takmakov, Collin J. McKinney, Regina M. Carelli, and R. Mark Wightman<br/> Fast-scan cyclic voltammetry is a unique technique for sampling dopamine concentration in the brain of rodents in vivo in real time. The combination of in vivo voltammetry with single-unit electrophysiological recording from the same microelectrode has proved to be useful in studying the relationshi ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 074302 (2011)] published Tue Jul 26, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/074301/1&agg=rss Hoseok Song, Kiyoung Kim, and Jungju Lee<br/> Force feedback plays a very important role in medical surgery. In minimally invasive surgery (MIS), however, the very long and stiff bars of surgical instruments greatly diminish force feedback for the surgeon. In the case of minimally invasive robotic surgery (MIRS), force feedback is totally elim ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 074301 (2011)] published Tue Jul 19, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/064303/1&agg=rss Zahra Noroozi, Horacio Kido, Regis Peytavi, Rie Nakajima-Sasaki, Algimantas Jasinskas et al.<br/> A novel, centrifugal disk-based micro-total analysis system ([mu]TAS) for low cost and high throughput semi-automated immunoassay processing was developed. A key innovation in the disposable immunoassay disk design is in a fluidic structure that enables very efficient micro-mixing based on a recipro ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 064303 (2011)] published Tue Jun 21, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/064302/1&agg=rss Min-Haw Wang, Min-Feng Kao, and Ling-Sheng Jang<br/> This study presents an impedance measurement system for single-cell capture and measurement. The microwell structure which utilizes nDEP force is used to single-cell capture and a minimized impedance spectroscopy which includes a power supply chip, an impedance measurement chip and a USB microcontro ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 064302 (2011)] published Fri Jun 17, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/064301/1&agg=rss Yuquan Zhang, Xin Wang, Yijia Wang, Siwei Zhu, Bruce Z. Gao et al.<br/> A dynamic optical tweezers system is employed for generation of an optical trap in continuous rotation for manipulating a biological cell in an aqueous solution. When the rotating speed is increased, the trapped cell experiences an augmented viscous drag force, and eventually it escapes from the tra ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 064301 (2011)] published Wed Jun 15, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/054302/1&agg=rss Mai-Thu Khuc, Lucille Mendonca, Sapna Sharma, Xavier Solinas, Martin Volk et al.<br/> The use of a fast temperature jump (T-jump) is a very powerful experiment aiming at studying protein denaturation dynamics. However, probing the secondary structure is a difficult challenge and rarely yields quantitative values. We present the technical implementation of far-UV circular dichroism in ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 054302 (2011)] published Fri May 27, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/054301/1&agg=rss Ruipeng Ning, Guang Yang, and Gengying Li<br/> Hardware and software solutions for a versatile pulse programmer have been presented. The core of the pulse programmer is an FPGA device that provides flexibility to the design and reduces the number of electronics elements needed. The event of the pulse programmer consists of 16 bits. The main feat ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 054301 (2011)] published Mon May 9, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/034301/1&agg=rss J. Slobodan, R. Corbett, N. Wye, J. E. Schein, M. A. Marra et al.<br/> A high performance gel imaging system was constructed using a digital single lens reflex camera with epi-illumination to image 19 x 23 cm agarose gels with up to 10,000 DNA bands each. It was found to give equivalent performance to a laser scanner in this high throughput DNA fingerprinting applica ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 034301 (2011)] published Thu Mar 17, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/024303/1&agg=rss W. Riedel, S. Mieke, R. Seemann, and B. Ittermann<br/> A device was developed allowing to generate simulated human blood pressure signals for the purpose of testing the performance of automated noninvasive sphygmomanometers. The apparatus reproducibly generates blood-pressure oscillations synthesized from prerecorded measurements on human subjects. Thes ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 024303 (2011)] published Mon Feb 28, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/024302/1&agg=rss Dirk Grosenick, Axel Hagen, Oliver Steinkellner, Alexander Poellinger, Susen Burock et al.<br/> We present a scanning time-domain fluorescence mammograph capable to image the distribution of a fluorescent contrast agent within a female breast, slightly compressed between two parallel glass plates, with high sensitivity. Fluorescence of the contrast agent is excited using a near infrared picose ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 024302 (2011)] published Fri Feb 25, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/024301/1&agg=rss Paola Saccomandi, Emiliano Schena, and Sergio Silvestri<br/> An optoelectronic target-type volumetric air flow-rate transducer for bidirectional measurements is presented. The sensor is composed of a T-shaped target and two nominally identical LED-photodiode couples which are operated in differential mode. The sensitive surfaces of the photodiodes are differe ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 024301 (2011)] published Tue Feb 15, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/014302/1&agg=rss K. Ogata, A. Kandori, T. Miyashita, K. Sekihara, and K. Tsukada<br/> The aim of this study was to develop a method for converting the pseudo two-dimensional current given by a current-arrow map (CAM) into the physical current. The physical current distribution is obtained by the optimal solution in a least mean square sense with Tikhonov regularization (LMSTR). In th ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 014302 (2011)] published Mon Jan 31, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/82/014301/1&agg=rss Evert Pereira da Silva Junior, Guilherme Pompeu Esteves, Karla Kristine Dames, and Pedro Lopes de Melo<br/> Changes in thoracoabdominal motion are highly prevalent in patients with chronic respiratory diseases. Home care services that use telemedicine techniques and Internet-based monitoring have the potential to improve the management of these patients. However, there is no detailed description in the li ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 014301 (2011)] published Thu Jan 27, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/81/124301/1&agg=rss Han Yen Tan, Brandon Huey-Ping Cheong, Adrian Neild, Oi Wah Liew, and Tuck Wah Ng<br/> Detection and readout from small volume assays in microplates are a challenge. The capillary wells microplate approach [Ng et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 174105 (2008)] offers strong advantages in small liquid volume management. An adapted design is described and shown here to be able to detect, in a ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81, 124301 (2010)] published Thu Dec 2, 2010. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/81/094301/1&agg=rss Daisuke Nagae and Atsushi Mase<br/> In this paper, we present two robust signal processing techniques for stress evaluation using a microwave reflectometric cardiopulmonary sensing instrument. These techniques enable the heart rate variability (HRV) to be recovered from measurements of body-surface dynamic motion, which is subsequentl ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81, 094301 (2010)] published Mon Sep 13, 2010. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/81/084302/1&agg=rss Yoshihisa Suzuki, Masayuki Tsukamoto, Haruhiko Sakuraba, Masamitsu Matsumoto, Makoto Nagasawa et al.<br/> A standalone-type beryllium (Be) high-pressure crystallography vessel has been developed. Using a coupler-joint unit and a pressure valve, we could keep the pressure in the vessel constant at 1001 MPa for more than 24 h without connecting to a pressure-generating apparatus. Diffraction spots of a g ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81, 084302 (2010)] published Mon Aug 30, 2010. http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/81/084301/1&agg=rss Zak Frentz, Seppe Kuehn, Doeke Hekstra, and Stanislas Leibler<br/> Measurements of population dynamics are ubiquitous in experiments with microorganisms. Studies with microbes elucidating adaptation, selection, and competition rely on measurements of changing populations in time. Despite this importance, quantitative methods for measuring population dynamics micros ... [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81, 084301 (2010)] published Tue Aug 24, 2010.