Non-invasive diagnosis of lung cancer based on CFD modeling and fractal analysis by Chen, Rou, Zhou, Ying, Yan, Weiwei, Li, Hua

“…Conventionally, lung cancer diagnostic approaches are costly, and they increase the health risks caused by invasiveness and radiation hazards. In this work, a new diagnostic technique using aerosol fingerprints in the breath test is explored based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling and fractal analysis. …”
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Island area and remoteness shape plant and soil bacterial diversity through land use and biological invasion by Xu, Mingshan, Yang, Anna, Yang, Xiaodong, Cao, Wenting, Zhang, Zengke, Li, Zengyan, Zhang, Yu, Zhang, Huaguo, You, Wenhui, Yan, En-Rong, Wardle, David A.

“…Historically island biogeography theory has focused solely on direct effects of island size and remoteness on biodiversity, but these factors can also indirectly affect species gain and/or loss through impacting land use change and biological invasion. 2. …”
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The effect of temperature on permittivity measurements of aqueous solutions of glucose for the development of non-invasive glucose sensors based on electromagnetic waves by Jayanthi, Renu, Virdee, Bal Singh, Lubangakene, Innocent, Ganguly, Priyanka, Mariyanayagam, Dion

“…It is shown here that the body temperature can affect the accuracy of the blood glucose measurements. …”
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Clinical Validation of Non-invasive Simulation-Based Determination of Vascular Impedance, Wave Intensity, and Hydraulic Work in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement by Brown, Jonathan Y., Fernandez, Gabriela V., De La Torre Hernández, Jose M., Murphy, Michael, Wessler, Benjamin S., Edelman, Elazer R.

“…Results In validation analysis comparing patient-specific simulation-based vascular impedance to non-invasively measured impedance, correlation between methods across a range of vascular parameters varied between R2 = 0.40 and 0.99. …”
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OCT Intensity of the Region between Outer Retina Band 2 and Band 3 as a Biomarker for Retinal Degeneration and Therapy by Zeng, Yong, Gao, Shasha, Li, Yichao, Marangoni, Dario, De Silva, Tharindu, Wong, Wai T., Chew, Emily Y., Sun, Xun, Li, Tiansen, Sieving, Paul A., Qian, Haohua

“…We propose that the ORB and Dip ratio can be used as non-invasive early biomarkers for retina health, which can be used to probe therapeutic gene expression and to evaluate the effectiveness of therapy.…”
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Terahertz dual-band metamaterial biosensor for cervical-cancer diagnostics by Hamza, Musa H., Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Hamad, Muhamad A., Khan, Salahuddin, Koziel, Slawomir, Limiti, Ernesto

“…This study highlights the potential of employing terahertz metamaterial structures as dual-band biosensors for the early detection of cancerous biological tissue. …”
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Bulk inversion asymmetry effect on band structure and optical transition of a new class all-inorganic cubic perovskite nanoplatelet by Fan, Wei Jun

“…The splitting of energy subbbands is observed at non-R point due to the bulk invasion asymmetry effect, however they are still two-fold degenerated at the R point. …”
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Microfluidics based cell-cell interaction model by Bak Thavatchalam, Subhashree

“…Micro fluidics is a term which defines the technology that is a combination of fluid mechanics, biology and chemistry .This technology facilitates the flow of micro and nano scale volumes through the miniaturized channels for many biological applications. …”
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Acoustic resolution photoacoustic microscopy imaging enhancement: learning based and model based approaches by Zhang, Zhengyuan

“…Photoacoustic Imaging, a novel medical imaging modality, holds great promise for non-invasive bio-tissue imaging and widespread clinical applications. …”
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NMR-based quantification of fat in mouse samples by Sreedhar, Sagaana Poongothai.

“…The applications of NMR Relaxometry are varied, and when the right algorithms are chosen for analysis, it can be an extremely useful tool for understanding the different components of any biological system.…”
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The implementation of photoacoustic microscopy system based on Zynq by Wang, Xijie

“…In this dissertation, a Zynq-based Photoacoustic Microscopy hardware system based is implemented. …”
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A paper-based glucose sensoring microneedle patch by Zheng, Shu

“…By diagnose this index can detect many diseases like diabetes. However, the current most methods of clinical analysis of the glucose level need to pierce skin to take blood sample or takes a long time to analyze which will cause skin infection and uncomfortable of patients. …”
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Electrochemical electrodes based on graphene materials for sensing and energy applications by Wang, Xuewan

“…Such needle-like electrode was employed for non-enzymatic glucose detection, which exhibited high sensitivity in a wide linear range of 50 to 300 μM. Using a bare graphene needle counter electrode and a graphene/Co3O4 hybrid working electrode, I glucose can be probed in a micro-droplet with a lower detection limit < 10μM. …”
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Study and design of a resonant inductive coupling based magnetic stimulator by Ma, Qiang

“…Among these stimulation modalities which are capable for non-invasive or minimally invasive treatment, magnetic stimulation has been proved to be both an effective and promising treating method by using time varying magnetic flux to drive currents and generate electric field in the human body tissue. …”
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Assembling a desktop robotic arm based hydrogel extrusion system by Khadijah Mohamed Hussain

“…This high levels of precision in nano- and microfabrications can only be replicated by machines, in this case, a robotic arm which has the flexibility in movements like a human arm, an unmatched capability of a human. …”
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Differences in pulse manifestations at Cunkou based on simplified modeling of tactile sensing by Shi, Yubing, Yang, Hongyi, Yeo, Joon Hock

“…This not only expands the scope of pulse diagnosis study effectively, but also provide a scientific basis for further technical upgrading and optimization of existing pulse diagnosis equipment.…”
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RNA thermosensors facilitate Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae immune evasion by Eichner, Hannes, Karlsson, Jens, Spelmink, Laura, Pathak, Anuj, Sham, Lok-To, Henriques-Normark, Birgitta, Loh, Edmund

“…However, what factors elicit them to disseminate and cause invasive diseases, remain unknown. Elevated temperature and fever are hallmarks of inflammation triggered by infections and can act as warning signals to pathogens. …”
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Deep Learning MRI-based Model for Prediction of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer by Yang, Janice

“…Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of death for men globally, despite many men being diagnosed with indolent tumors that do not warrant treatment. …”
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Application of smartphone-based biophotonic instrumentation for glucose sensing using photometric method by Aziz, Nur Anis Huda

“…Current methods involve invasive, expensive equipment and highly trained personnel to carry out the test, which can limit the detection and application of glucose at on-site determination. …”
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Physical unclonable function based solutions to unification of user, device and data authentication by Zheng, Yue

“…These solutions are typically realized using conventional techniques that require the safekeeping of a secret binary key in the non-volatile memory, or battery-backed SRAM of some device, or a token owned by the user, which have been proven to be vulnerable to various kinds of invasive, semi-invasive and side channel attacks. …”
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