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An Overview of Laser-assisted Bioprinting (LAB) in Tissue Engineering Applications

  • Ventura, Reiza Dolendo
    • Medical Lasers
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.76-81
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    • 2021
  • Biological tissues and organs are composed of different arrays of cells, biochemical cues, and extracellular matrices arranged in a complex microarchitecture. Laser-Assisted Bioprinting (LAB) is an emerging and promising technology that is reproducible with high accuracy that can be used for fabricating complex bioengineered scaffolds that mimic tissues and organs. The LAB process allows researchers to print intricate structural scaffolds using cells and different biomaterials essential for facilitating cell-scaffold interaction and to induce tissue and organ regeneration which cannot be achieved in a traditional scaffold fabrication. This process can fabricate artificial cell niches or architecture without affecting cellular viability and material integrity. This review tackles the basic principles and key aspects of Laser-Assisted Bioprinting. Recent advances, limitations, and future perspectives are also discussed.

화기 부위에 따른 심비디움의 향기 패턴 및 성분 분석 (Fragrance Pattern and Volatile Components According to Floral Organs in Cymbidium)

  • 김예진;안명숙;이수영;박필만;안혜련;박부희
    • 한국자원식물학회지
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    • 제35권2호
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    • pp.362-371
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    • 2022
  • 본 연구는 화기 부위에 따른 국산 심비디움 '샐빛'과 '미단'의 향기 특성을 분석하고자 수행하였다. 시험 재료로 국립원예특작과학원 화훼과 시험포장에서 재배한 만개한 꽃을 꽃잎, 꽃받침, 순판, 컬럼으로 나누어 GC 기반 전자코를 통해 향기 패턴과 주요 향기 성분을 분석하였다. 그 결과, 두 품종 모두 화기 부위에 따라 PCA와 DFA plot에서 뚜렷한 향기 패턴 차이를 보였고, 각 화기 부위별 무취공기 대조구 간의 기하학적 거리는 꽃받침이 가장 멀었으며, 향기패턴 식별지수(PDI) 또한 대조구와 꽃받침 사이에서 가장 높게 나타났다. 주요 향기 성분 중 nootkatone 등의 성분은 '샐빛'과 '미단' 두 품종 모두네 개의 화기조직에서 공통적으로 검출된 반면, '미단'에서만 검출되는 decane과 같이 일부 성분은 특정 품종이나 화기 부위에서만 특이적으로 발견되었다. 따라서 본 연구결과는 품종과 화기 부위에 따른 향기패턴과 주요 향기 성분을 확인함으로써 향기 산업에 필요한 효율적인 원료 선택과 국산 품종의 이용 확대를 위해 유용한 정보를 제공할 것으로 기대된다. 특히 최근 인공 가향제에 대한 부정적 인식과 천연 향기 원료에 대한 수요가 증가하는 점을 감안했을 때, 앞으로도 지속적인 유향성 난 품종 육성과 이를 산업적으로 활용하기 위한 향기 연구가 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

Reproductive System of Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)

  • Yong, Hwan-Yul
    • 한국수정란이식학회지
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    • 제24권4호
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    • pp.293-295
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    • 2009
  • Two postmortem male and female reticulated giraffes were examined. The adult male giraffe showed sigmoid flexure of penis similar to most ungulates. Epididymis was well-developed and divided with head, body and tail parts. On the tip of penis, there was a urethral process. At the necropsy of a 20-month-old and nulliparous giraffe, ovaries, oviducts, two uterine horns with a septum and a cervix were distinctively shown. Understanding reproductive organs of giraffes would be beneficial to succeed in artificial breeding on this species especially in the difficult situation of importing hoofed animals.

Study on the Development of Two-Stage Centrifugal Blood Pump for Cardiopulmonary Support System

  • Horiguchi, Hironori;Tsukiya, Tomonori;Nomoto, Takeshi;Takemika, Toratarou;Tsujimoto, Yoshinobu
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • 제7권4호
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    • pp.142-150
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    • 2014
  • In the cardiopulmonary support system with an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), a higher pump head is demanded for a blood pump. In order to realize a blood pump with higher pump head, higher anti-hemolysis and thrombosis performances, a study on the development of unprecedented multistage blood pump was conducted. In consideration of the application of the blood pump for pediatric patients, a miniature two-stage centrifugal blood pump with the impeller's diameter of 40mm was designed and the performance was examined in experiments and computations. Some useful knowledge for a design of the blood pump with higher anti-hemolysis and thrombosis performances was obtained.

Improvement of Sound Quality of Voice Transmission by Finger

  • Park, Hyungwoo
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.218-226
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    • 2019
  • In modern society, people live in an environment with artificial or natural noise. Especially, the sound that corresponds to the artificial noise makes the noise itself and affects each other because many people live and work in the city. Sounds are generated by the activities and causes of various people, such as construction sites, aircraft, production machinery, or road traffic. These sounds are essential elements in human life and are recognized and judged by human auditory organs. Noise is a sound that you do not want to hear by subjective evaluation, and it is a loud sound that gives hearing damage or a sound that causes physical and mental harm. In this study, we introduce the method of stimulating the human hearing by finger vibration and explain the advantages of the proposed method in various kinds of a noise environment. And how to improve the sound quality to improve efficiency. In this paper, we propose a method to prevent the loss of hearing loss and the transmission of sound information based on proper signal to noise ratio when using portable IT equipment in various noise environments.

A study on the evaluation of artificial cartilage using synthetic biodegradable polymers

  • Oh, Ho-Jung;Lee, Nam-Kyung;Kim, Soon-Nam;Hong, Choong-Man;Lee, Ki-Hong;Yoo, Si-Hyung;Shin, In-Soo;Lim, Jae-Hyun;Choi, Seung-Eun
    • 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한약학회 2003년도 Proceedings of the Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Vol.2-2
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    • pp.100.1-100.1
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    • 2003
  • Tissue engineering has arisen to address the extreme shortage of tissues and organs for transplantation and repair. One of the most successful techniques has been the seeding and culturing cells on three-dimensional biodegradable scaffolds in vitro followed by implantaion in vivo. We used PLA and PLGA as biodegradable polymers and rabbit chondrocytes were isolated and applied to PLA and PLGA to make artificial cartilage. To evaluate the biocompatibility and biological safety of polymers, in vitro cytotoxicity and in vivo animal tests were investigated. (omitted)

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Development of Artificial Insemination Techniques with a Minimum Numbers of Insemination Spermatozoa using Laparoscopy

  • Lee, J. H.;Park, S. J.;I. S. Ryu;G. Y. Chung;Park, S. H.;D. Y. Ji;Kim, C. K.;S. H. Baek
    • 한국동물번식학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국동물번식학회 2004년도 춘계학술발표대회
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    • pp.250-250
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    • 2004
  • This study was conducted to investigate the effect of the number of spermatozoa and insemination section(field) of reproductive organs at artificial insemination using laparoscopy(Fiber optic laparoscopic system, Good-Gene Co., Korea) in deer(Elk) and cattle. Twenty six elk does and fifteen cows were inserted CIDR into virginia during 12∼14 days for synchronization of estrus. (omitted)

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IoT-based systemic lupus erythematosus prediction model using hybrid genetic algorithm integrated with ANN

  • Edison Prabhu K;Surendran D
    • ETRI Journal
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    • 제45권4호
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    • pp.594-602
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    • 2023
  • Internet of things (IoT) is commonly employed to detect different kinds of diseases in the health sector. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune illness that occurs when the body's immune system attacks its own connective tissues and organs. Because of the complicated interconnections between illness trigger exposure levels across time, humans have trouble predicting SLE symptom severity levels. An effective automated machine learning model that intakes IoT data was created to forecast SLE symptoms to solve this issue. IoT has several advantages in the healthcare industry, including interoperability, information exchange, machine-to-machine networking, and data transmission. An SLE symptom-predicting machine learning model was designed by integrating the hybrid marine predator algorithm and atom search optimization with an artificial neural network. The network is trained by the Gene Expression Omnibus dataset as input, and the patients' data are used as input to predict symptoms. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model's accuracy is higher than state-of-the-art prediction models at approximately 99.70%.

CT 정도관리를 위한 인공지능 모델 적용에 관한 연구 (Study on the Application of Artificial Intelligence Model for CT Quality Control)

  • 황호성;김동현;김호철
    • 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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    • 제44권3호
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    • pp.182-189
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    • 2023
  • CT is a medical device that acquires medical images based on Attenuation coefficient of human organs related to X-rays. In addition, using this theory, it can acquire sagittal and coronal planes and 3D images of the human body. Then, CT is essential device for universal diagnostic test. But Exposure of CT scan is so high that it is regulated and managed with special medical equipment. As the special medical equipment, CT must implement quality control. In detail of quality control, Spatial resolution of existing phantom imaging tests, Contrast resolution and clinical image evaluation are qualitative tests. These tests are not objective, so the reliability of the CT undermine trust. Therefore, by applying an artificial intelligence classification model, we wanted to confirm the possibility of quantitative evaluation of the qualitative evaluation part of the phantom test. We used intelligence classification models (VGG19, DenseNet201, EfficientNet B2, inception_resnet_v2, ResNet50V2, and Xception). And the fine-tuning process used for learning was additionally performed. As a result, in all classification models, the accuracy of spatial resolution was 0.9562 or higher, the precision was 0.9535, the recall was 1, the loss value was 0.1774, and the learning time was from a maximum of 14 minutes to a minimum of 8 minutes and 10 seconds. Through the experimental results, it was concluded that the artificial intelligence model can be applied to CT implements quality control in spatial resolution and contrast resolution.

PIV System for the Flow Pattern Anaysis of Artificial Organs ; Applied to the In Vitro Test of Artificial Heart Valves

  • Lee, Dong-Hyeok;Seh, Soo-Won;An, Hyuk;Min, Byoung-Goo
    • 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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    • 제15권4호
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    • pp.489-497
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    • 1994
  • The most serious problems related to the cardiovascular prothesis are thrombosis and hemolysis. It is known that the flow pattern of cardiovascular prostheses is highly correlated with thrombosis and hemolysis. Laser Doppler Anemometry (LDA) is a usual method to get flow pattern, which is difficult to operate and has narrow measure region. Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) can solve these problems. Because the flow speed of valve is too high to catch particles by CCD camera, high-speed camera (Hyspeed : Holland-Photonics) was used. The estimated maximum flow speed was 5m/sec and maximum trackable length is 0.5 cm, so the shutter speed was determined as 1000 frames per sec. Several image processing techniques (blurring, segmentation, morphology, etc) were used for the preprocessing. Particle tracking algorithm and 2-D interpolation technique which were necessary in making gridrized velocity pronto, were applied to this PIV program. By using Single-Pulse Multi-Frame particle tracking algorithm, some problems of PIV can be solved. To eliminate particles which penetrate the sheeted plane and to determine the direction of particle paths are these solving methods. 1-D relaxation fomula is modified to interpolate 2-D field. Parachute artificial heart valve which was developed by Seoul National University and Bjork-Shiely valve was testified. For each valve, different flow pattern, velocity profile, wall shear stress and mean velocity were obtained.

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