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biomedical
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Explore this rapidly growing field with
research from eight leading biomedical
engineering publications

contents
Introduction

Biomedical Materials

Biofabrication

Nanotechnology

Journal of Neural Engineering

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Physiological Measurement

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Physical Biology

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Physics in Medicine & Biology

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Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Journal of Breath Research

and Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

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biomedical engineering
Biomedical engineering is a rapidly growing discipline covering
the application of engineering principles and materials
technology to healthcare. The field seeks to bridge the gap
between engineering and medicine, combining the design
and problem-solving skills of engineering with medical and
biological sciences. This can include researching, designing
and developing medical therapeutic products and biological
systems, or optimizing/managing the use of clinical equipment
to improve diagnosis, monitoring and therapy for patients.

Cover image: Exposure to a single electrical

stimulus promoted robust neurite outgrowth
similar to that found in co-culture with permissive
glia (Schwann cells). Abigail N Koppes et al
2011 J. Neural Eng. 8 046023

In response to the rapid pace of research in this vibrant and

diverse field, IOP Publishing has launched an online compilation,
iopscience.org/biomedical-engineering, specially dedicated
to showcasing papers that we feel make a particularly significant
contribution to the biomedical engineering community.
The papers are taken from eight of our leading research
publications. We hope that you enjoy reading this collection,
and that you will consider submitting your research to these
journals.

Confocal microscopic observation of

cardiomyocytes co-stained for nuclei by DABI
after 21 days in culture. X P Bai et al 2011
Biomed. Mater. 6 045002

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Biomedical Materials
Biomedical Materials publishes original
research findings that contribute to our
knowledge of the composition, properties and
performance of materials for tissue engineering
and regenerative medicine applications.
Included within the scope are applications that utilize
biomedical materials in the treatment of the underlying
causes of loss of tissue (e.g. trauma, disease and ageing), in
concert with the role of the material in tissue engineering and
regenerative medicine, namely, a scaffold.

Worldwide visibility
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downloads in 2012

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The regeneration of tissue around long-term implants, so

critical for the successful performance of a wide range of
prostheses and other implantable devices, is also a focus.
The journal will continue to publish studies performed
invitro and in animal models as well as results from human
trials, reflecting the global recognition of the importance of
translational research.
Here you will find a selection of recent papers, highlighted
based on their novelty and readership interest. This has been
reflected in the number of downloads they have received,
which demonstrates the quality and the range of important
studies published in Biomedical Materials.

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FEATURED ARTICLE
Injectable perlecan domain 1-hyaluronan microgels potentiate the cartilage repair effect of BMP2 in a
murine model of early osteoarthritis
Padma P Srinivasan, Sarah Y McCoy, Amit K Jha, Weidong Yang, Xinqiao Jia, Mary C Farach-Carson
and Catherine B Kirn-Safran
2012 Biomed. Mater. 7 024109
Abstract
The goal of this study was to use bioengineered injectable microgels to enhance the action of bone
morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2) and stimulate cartilage matrix repair in a reversible animal model of
osteoarthritis (OA). A module of perlecan (PlnD1) bearing heparan sulfate (HS) chains was covalently
immobilized to hyaluronic acid (HA) microgels for the controlled release of BMP2 in vivo. Articular
cartilage damage was induced in mice using a reversible model of experimental OA and was treated
by intra-articular injection of PlnD1-HA particles with BMP2 bound to HS. Control injections consisted
of BMP2-free PlnD1-HA particles, HA particles, free BMP2 or saline. Knees dissected following these
injections were analyzed using histological, immunostaining and gene expression approaches. Our results
show that knees treated with PlnD1-HA/BMP2 had lesser OA-like damage compared to control knees.

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Fabrication and characterization of multiscale electrospun scaffolds for cartilage regeneration
Erica J Levorson, Perumcherry Raman Sreerekha, Krishna Prasad Chennazhi, F Kurtis Kasper,
Shantikumar V Nair and Antonios G Mikos
2013 Biomed. Mater. 8 014103
Decellularization for whole organ bioengineering
J E Arenas-Herrera, I K Ko, A Atala and J J Yoo
2013 Biomed. Mater. 8 014106
Injectable hydrogels for central nervous system therapy
Malgosia M Pakulska, Brian G Ballios and Molly S Shoichet
2012 Biomed. Mater. 7 024101
A comparative study on poly(xylitol sebacate) and poly(glycerol sebacate): mechanical properties,
biodegradation and cytocompatibility
Yuan Li, Wenchao Huang, Wayne D Cook and Qizhi Chen
2013 Biomed. Mater. 8 035006

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Biofabrication
Biofabrication focuses on the forefront research
and development of emerging technologies that
employ a range of physical, chemical, biological
and engineering methods to fabricate models,
systems, devices, interfaces and products
oriented for bio-applications using biologically
active or biologically derived components.

Worldwide visibility
545 average downloads per
article in 2012

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The journal presents research that uses cells, proteins

and biomaterials as building blocks to fabricate biological
structures and/or cellular systems for vastly diverse
applications in tissue science and engineering; in vitro
biological models for 3D biology, disease pathogeneses
studies and drug testing and discovery; cell/ tissue/organon-a-chip, cell printing, patterning, and assembly and organ
printing.
Biofabrication publishes high-quality and high-interest work,
such as the article by Faulkner-Jones et al on the development
of a 3D printer that produces human embryonic stem cell
spheroid aggregates. This article was covered in various
magazines and websites from Sky News to New Scientist and
The Wall Street Journal, to name but a few. Articles published
in Biofabrication regularly attract interest from the wider media
and this helps to provide even greater visibility to the work
published in this journal.
The Biofabrication Impact Factor is 3.480, as reported in
the 2011 Journal Citation Reports published by Thomson
Reuters.

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FEATURED ARTICLE
Development of a valve-based cell printer for the formation of human embryonic stem cell spheroid
aggregates
Alan Faulkner-Jones, Sebastian Greenhough, Jason A King, John Gardner, Aidan Courtney
and Wenmiao Shu
2013 Biofabrication 5 015013
Abstract
In this paper we report on the development of a valve-based cell printer that has been validated to print
highly viable cells in programmable patterns from two different bio-inks with independent control of the
volume of each droplet (with a lower limit of 2 nL or fewer than five cells per droplet). Human ESCs were
used to make spheroids by overprinting two opposing gradients of bio-ink; one of hESCs in medium and the
other of medium alone. The resulting array of uniform sized droplets with a gradient of cell concentrations
was inverted to allow cells to aggregate and form spheroids via gravity. The resulting aggregates have
controllable and repeatable sizes, and consequently they can be made to order for specific applications.
Spheroids with between 5 and 140 dissociated cells resulted in spheroids of 0.250.6 mm diameter.

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Hybrid printing of mechanically and biologically improved constructs for cartilage tissue engineering applications
Tao Xu, Kyle W Binder, Mohammad Z Albanna, Dennis Dice, Weixin Zhao, James J Yoo
and Anthony Atala
2013 Biofabrication 5 015001
Toward engineering functional organ modules by additive manufacturing
Francoise Marga, Karoly Jakab, Chirag Khatiwala, Benjamin Shepherd, Scott Dorfman,
Bradley Hubbard, Stephen Colbert and Forgacs Gabor
2012 Biofabrication 4 022001
Engineering three-dimensional cell mechanical microenvironment with hydrogels
Guoyou Huang, Lin Wang, ShuQi Wang, Yulong Han, Jinhui Wu, Qiancheng Zhang, Feng Xu
and Tian Jian Lu
2012 Biofabrication 4 042001
Laser direct-write of single microbeads into spatially-ordered patterns
Theresa B Phamduy, Nurazhani Abdul Raof, Nathan R Schiele, Zijie Yan, David T Corr, Yong Huang,
Yubing Xie and Douglas B Chrisey
2012 Biofabrication 4 025006
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Nanotechnology
When navigating the tiny intricacies of the human
body, nanoscale materials and structures are an
obvious choice. Nanotechnology has become a
hotbed for top research reports on developments
in biology and medicine that exploit the rare
combinations of useful properties observed in
nanomaterials.

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Much of the work reported in Nanotechnology investigates the

potential of nanomaterials for effective medical diagnosis and
treatment that is less invasive than traditional approaches. For
example, one of our top papers from 2011 reported a study
on functionalization of carbon nanotubes for neuroscience
applications. With their high conductivity and nanoscale
diameter, it has been suggested that carbon nanotubes may
be useful in braincomputer interfacing that causes less
damage to the brain.
Nanotechnology also recognizes the value of overviews in
fields that see a particularly high level of research activity, such
as tissue engineering, as covered in a recent topical review.
As well as state-of-the-art research and topical reviews to set
the latest developments in context, we publish LabTalk news
articles and author interviews to highlight our top papers. Our
comprehensive portfolio makes Nanotechnology a key point
of call for researchers in the fast-paced world of biomedical
engineering research.

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FEATURED ARTICLE
Control of neuronal network organization by chemical surface functionalization of multi-walled carbon
nanotube arrays
Jie Liu, Florence Appaix, Olivier Bibari, Gilles Marchand, Alim-Louis Benabid, Fabien Sauter-Starace
and Michel De Waard
2011 Nanotechnology 22 195101
Abstract
Carbon nanotube substrates are promising candidates for biological applications and devices. Interfacing
of these carbon nanotubes with neurons can be controlled by chemical modifications. In this study, we
investigated how chemical surface functionalization of multi-walled carbon nanotube arrays (MWNT-A)
influences neuronal adhesion and network organization. Functionalization of MWNT-A dramatically
modifies the length of neurite fascicles, cluster inter-connection success rate, and the percentage of
neurites that escape from the clusters. We propose that chemical functionalization represents a method
of choice for developing applications in which neuronal patterning on MWNT-A substrates is required.

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Nanoscale tissue engineering: spatial control over cell-materials interactions
Ian Wheeldon, Arash Farhadi, Alexander G Bick, Esmaiel Jabbari and Ali Khademhosseini
2011 Nanotechnology 22 212001
Tailoring material properties of a nanofibrous extracellular matrix derived hydrogel
Todd D Johnson, Stephen Y Lin and Karen L Christman
2011 Nanotechnology 22 494015
Modeling the conductance and DNA blockade of solid-state nanopores
Stefan W Kowalczyk, Alexander Y Grosberg, Yitzhak Rabin and Cees Dekker
2011 Nanotechnology 22 315101
Magnetic multicore nanoparticles for hyperthermiainfluence of particle immobilization
in tumour tissue on magnetic properties
Silvio Dutz, Melanie Kettering, Ingrid Hilger, Robert Mller and Matthias Zeisberger
2011 Nanotechnology 22 265102

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Journal of Neural Engineering

Journal of Neural Engineering is a forum for
the interdisciplinary field of neural engineering
where neuroscientists, neurobiologists and
engineers can publish their work in one
periodical that bridges the gap between
neuroscience and engineering.

Worldwide visibility
The average number of
downloads per article published
in 2012 was more than 700

High Impact Factor

3.837

As listed in ISIs 2011 Science

Citation Index Journal citation reports

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The journal publishes cutting-edge papers in exciting areas

such as braincomputer interfaces, neural tissue regeneration
and neuromodulation, where engineers, neuroscientists
and clinicians are working together to understand, repair,
replace and enhance the nervous system. Journal of Neural
Engineering is the high-impact international journal that is
needed in this exciting and fast-developing field.
Included in this selection of some of the most popular articles
from the journal is a paper by Borton et al, which demonstrates
an implanted wireless broadband neural recording device
that will provide insight into how to advance human
neuroprostheses beyond the current early clinical trials. Neural
interface technology suitable for clinical translation has the
potential to significantly impact the lives of amputees, spinal
cord injury victims and those living with severe neuromotor
disease.

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FEATURED ARTICLE
An implantable wireless neural interface for recording cortical circuit dynamics in moving primates
David A Borton, Ming Yin, Juan Aceros and Arto Nurmikko
2013 J. Neural Eng. 10 026010
Abstract
We have designed and implemented a neural interface microsystem, housed in a compact, subcutaneous
and hermetically sealed titanium enclosure. Device verification and early validation were performed in
both swine and non-human primate freely-moving animal models and showed that the wireless implant
was electrically stable, effective in capturing and delivering broadband neural data, and safe for over
one year of testing. In addition, we have used the multichannel data from these mobile animal models
to demonstrate the ability to decode neural population dynamics associated with motor activity. The
use of this new implantable neural interface technology can provide insight into how to advance human
neuroprostheses beyond the present early clinical trials. Further, such tools enable mobile patient use,
have the potential for wider diagnosis of neurological conditions and will advance brain research.

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An online braincomputer interface based on shifting attention to concurrent streams of auditory stimuli
N J Hill and B Schlkopf
2012 J. Neural Eng. 9 026011
Recording evoked potentials during deep brain stimulation: development and validation of
instrumentation to suppress the stimulus artefact
A R Kent and W M Grill
2012 J. Neural Eng. 9 036004
A physical model of sensorimotor interactions during locomotion
Theresa J Klein and M Anthony Lewis
2012 J. Neural Eng. 9 046011
Facilitation and restoration of cognitive function in primate prefrontal cortex by a neuroprosthesis
that utilizes minicolumn-specific neural firing
Robert E Hampson, Greg A Gerhardt, Vasilis Marmarelis, Dong Song, Ioan Opris, Lucas Santos,
Theodore W Berger and Sam A Deadwyler
2012 J. Neural Eng. 9 056012

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Physiological Measurement
A journal for sensors, instrumentation and
systems in physiology and medicine,
Physiological Measurement covers the
quantitative assessment and visualization
of physiological function in clinical
research and practice.

Worldwide visibility
More than 120000 article
downloads in 2012

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Physiological Measurement is a biomedical engineering

journal published by IOP Publishing on behalf of the
Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM). It
places emphasis on the development of new methods of
measurement and their validation. It occupies a niche that
allows it to bridge the gap between the laboratory and the
clinic. Physiological Measurement authors and readers are
based not only in universities but also in hospitals and
clinics across the world, allowing the journal to aid the flow
of ideas and understanding between organizations with
rather different objectives.
This collection consists of high-impact papers, which are
concerned with novel diagnostic methods, such as a method
for assessing the clinical utility of pulsatile waveforms. Other
papers describe new ways to monitor patients, such as the use
of a probe to measure gastroesophageal reflux.

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FEATURED ARTICLE
Dynamic time warping and machine learning for signal quality assessment of pulsatile signals
Q Li and G D Clifford
2012 Physiol. Meas. 33 1491
Abstract
In this work, we describe a beat-by-beat method for assessing the clinical utility of pulsatile waveforms,
primarily recorded from cardiovascular blood volume or pressure changes, concentrating on the
photoplethysmogram (PPG). Physiological blood flow is nonstationary, with pulses changing in height,
width and morphology due to changes in heart rate, cardiac output, sensor type and hardware or software
pre-processing requirements. Moreover, considerable inter-individual and sensor-location variability
exists. Simple template matching methods are therefore inappropriate, and a patient-specific adaptive
initialization is therefore required.

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A new noninvasive device for continuous arterial blood pressure monitoring in the superficial temporal artery
K Y Chin and R B Panerai
2013 Physiol. Meas. 34 407
Infrared thermal imaging in medicine
E F J Ring and K Ammer
2012 Physiol. Meas. 33 R33
Intraluminal ultrasonic probe for volumetric monitoring of liquid gastroesophageal reflux
X Gao, D C Sadowski and M P Mintchev
2012 Physiol. Meas. 33 487
Assessment of the dynamic interactions between heart rate and arterial pressure by the cross
timefrequency analysis
M Orini, P Laguna, L T Mainardi and R Bailn
2012 Physiol. Meas. 33 315

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Physical Biology
Physical Biology focuses on the interdisciplinary
field where physicists and engineers are
working with biologists to gain new insights into
biological systems at all scales of space and
time, and all levels of complexity. Research
areas covered include physical aspects of
disease, developmental processes and
neuronal dynamics.

Worldwide visibility
More than 95000 article
downloads in 2012

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The journal has an active programme of special issues

focusing on a particular topic, where collaborations between
biologists and physical scientists are producing exciting
new results and advances in our understanding of biological
systems. Recent examples include Signal transduction,
Physics of the immune system and Invasive cancer cells and
metastasis.
Included in this selection of some of the most popular articles
from the journal is an ambitious review article on the structure
and evolution of metabolism by Braakman and Smith: The
compositional and evolutionary logic of metabolism. It is
one of the most-read articles in Physical Biology, having been
downloaded more than 7000 times in just a few months.

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The compositional and evolutionary logic of metabolism
Rogier Braakman and Eric Smith
2013 Phys. Biol. 10 011001
Abstract
Metabolism is built on a foundation of organic chemistry, and employs structures and interactions at many
scales. Despite these sources of complexity, metabolism also displays striking and robust regularities
in the forms of modularity and hierarchy, which may be described compactly in terms of relatively few
principles of composition. These regularities render metabolic architecture comprehensible as a system,
and also suggests the order in which layers of that system came into existence. In addition metabolism also
serves as a foundational layer in other hierarchies, up to at least the levels of cellular integration including
bioenergetics and molecular replication, and trophic ecology. The recapitulation of patterns first seen
in metabolism, in these higher levels, motivates us to interpret metabolism as a source of causation or
constraint on many forms of organization in the biosphere. Many of the forms of modularity and hierarchy
exhibited by metabolism are readily interpreted as stages in the emergence of catalytic control by living
systems over organic chemistry, sometimes recapitulating or incorporating geochemical mechanisms.

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Fluid biopsy in patients with metastatic prostate, pancreatic and breast cancers
Dena Marrinucci et al
2012 Phys. Biol. 9 016003
Single-molecule studies of DNA transcription using atomic force microscopy
Daniel J Billingsley, William A Bonass, Neal Crampton, Jennifer Kirkham and Neil H Thomson
2012 Phys. Biol. 9 021001
Cell fate regulation in early mammalian development
Efrat Oron and Natalia Ivanova
2012 Phys. Biol. 9 045002
A method for computing association rate constants of atomistically represented proteins under
macromolecular crowding
Sanbo Qin, Lu Cai and Huan-Xiang Zhou
2012 Phys. Biol. 9 066008

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Physics in Medicine & Biology

Physics in Medicine & Biology is the leading
international journal covering the application
of physics and engineering to medicine,
physiology and biology. The journal is published
by IOP Publishing on behalf of the Institute of
Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM).
Key topics include biomedical imaging (e.g. x-ray, MR,
ultrasound, optical, nuclear medicine), radiation therapies
(including the use of non-ionizing radiation) and biomedical
optics.

Worldwide visibility
More than 650000 article
downloads in 2012

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Published in partnership with:
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Engineering in Medicine

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Physics in Medicine & Biology is receiving more submissions

than ever before, with more than 1500 received in 2012,
and our publication times are rapid. The journal is rated Q1 in
the ISI biomedical engineering category and has an Impact
Factor of 2.829.
These selected papers illustrate why this is the case: all have
already had an impact in their fields, having been highly
downloaded and highly cited. The papers also demonstrate
the strength of the journal in the field of advanced medical
imaging technologies, in particular multimodality imaging.

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FEATURED ARTICLE
Navigators for motion detection during real-time MRI-guided radiotherapy
Mette K Stam, Sjoerd P M Crijns, Bernard A Zonnenberg, Maurits M Barendrecht, Marco van Vulpen,
Jan J W Lagendijk and Bas W Raaymakers
2012 Phys. Med. Biol. 57 6797
Abstract
An MRI-linac system provides direct MRI feedback and with that the possibility of adapting radiation
treatments to the actual tumour position. This paper addresses the use of fast 1D MRI, pencil-beam
navigators, for this feedback. The accuracy of using navigators was determined on a moving phantom.
The possibility of organ tracking and breath-hold monitoring based on navigator guidance was shown for
the kidney. Navigators are accurate within 0.5 mm and the analysis has a minimal time lag smaller than
30ms as shown for the phantom measurements. The correlation of 2D kidney images and navigators
shows the possibility of complete organ tracking.

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Experimental characterization of a prototype detector system for carbon ion radiography and tomography
I Rinaldi, S Brons, J Gordon, R Panse, B Voss, O Jkel and K Parodi
2013 Phys. Med. Biol. 58 413
Design and performance evaluation of a whole-body Ingenuity TF PETMRI system
H Zaidi, N Ojha, M Morich, J Griesmer, Z Hu, P Maniawski, O Ratib, D Izquierdo-Garcia,
Z A Fayad and L Shao
2011 Phys. Med. Biol. 56 3091
Intensity-modulated arc therapy: principles, technologies and clinical implementation
Cedric X Yu and Grace Tang
2011 Phys. Med. Biol. 56 R31
Physical and clinical performance of the mCT time-of-flight PET/CT scanner
B W Jakoby, Y Bercier, M Conti, M E Casey, B Bendriem and D W Townsend
2010 Phys. Med. Biol. 55 2375

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medicalphysicsweb
medicalphysicsweb provides in-depth analysis and incisive
commentary on the fundamental research, emerging
technologies and clinical applications that underpin the core
disciplines of medical physics and engineering.
The website covers, in a highly accessible form, some of the most
interesting and timely research published in the fields of medical physics
and engineering. A number of the stories feature new research from the
prestigious journal Physics in Medicine & Biology, covering everything
from the latest technologies for delivering state-of-the-art radiation
therapy to the latest developments in PET detectors.
Other IOP Publishing journals covered include Physiological
Measurement, a broad-based biomedical engineering journal with
an emphasis on the development of new methods of measurement
and their validation, and Biofabrication, a tissue-engineering journal
focusing on using cells, proteins and biomaterials to manufacture
advanced biological systems and medical therapeutic products.

medicalphysicsweb.org

Video: the low-down on molecular imaging

Simon Cherry discusses recent progress in molecular
imaging and examines how these techniques are
increasingly being translated to the clinic.
http://medicalphysicsweb.org/cws/article/
multimedia/48076

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Article: Breast reconstruction:

enhanced techniques
Computer-aided design can improve breast tissue
reconstruction in cancer patients.
http://medicalphysicsweb.org/cws/article/
research/47264

Article: Xtal cube offers flexible

PET detection
A PET detector based on silicon photomultipliers
offers high spatial resolution in all three dimensions.
http://medicalphysicsweb.org/cws/article/
research/47588

Article: Diagnosing chronic fatigue

syndrome
A simple optical technique has the potential to
identify individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome.
http://medicalphysicsweb.org/cws/article/
research/48594

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Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics publishes research that applies principles
abstracted from natural systems to engineering and technological design
and applications, including both the design and practical applications of
biomimetics or bioinspired devices and systems.
The journal has grown significantly since its launch in 2006 and has become
well respected in its field. It is included in MEDLINE and Thomson Reuters
(ISI) Web of Knowledge, with an Impact Factor in 2011 of 1.952.

Journal of Breath Research

Journal of Breath Research: Volatiles for Medical Diagnosis publishes
research in all aspects of breath science, with the major focus on the analysis
of exhaled breath in physiology and medicine, and the diagnosis and
treatment of breath odours.
The journal has grown significantly since its launch in 2007 and has become
well respected in its field. It is abstracted in all major indexing services,
including PubMed/MEDLINE and Thomson Reuters (ISI) Web of Knowledge,
with an Impact Factor in 2011 of 2.541

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering publishes widely in the
biomedical engineering field, and will be publishing a Special Issue in
conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Microtechnologies in
Medicine and Biology (MMB 2013).
The journal is the longest established journal in the microengineering field,
and is included in Thompson Reuters (ISI) Web of Knowledge, with an
Impact Factor in 2011 of 2.105.
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Force Range

Cartilage

1.5 to
100 N

Indentation

Force
Resolution

Automatic
Mapping

Fits
Mechanical
Incubator Stimulation

to 75 N

Travel Range

50 to
250 mm

Shear

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