A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) method that focuses on neural magnetic fields has great potential to detect neural activities more directly than the conventional met...

Auditory steady-state responses (ASSR) to sinusoidal amplitude-modulated (SAM) tones or to repeated clicks presented at rates between 10 and 70Hz have been recorded since the 1980'...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is one of the techniques capable of detecting human brain function noninvasively. Although many fMRI studies have adopted echo-time (TE...

This study aimed to provide a simulation model for virtual ablation of soft tissue, focusing on simulating soft tissue deformation and destruction. The authors applied two hypothes...

In the management of patients with unstable hemodynamics as seen in myocardial infarction or after cardiac surgical procedures, cardiovascular drugs such as inotropes and/or vasodi...

For continuous evaluation of the effects of visually induced motion sickness (VIMS), we previously proposed a physiological index ρmax that represents the maximum cross-correlation...

Death rate of accidental drowning in the bathtub was the highest among casualties occurring at home, according to the annual report of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and W...

The laparoscopic stapler is a surgical instrument that automatically creates visceral anastomosis. Although the laparoscopic stapler is widely used, objective ergonomic assessments...

The goal of this study was to find feasible indices for quantitative evaluation of sagittal stratum abnormalities in schizophrenic patients, by automatically establishing the regio...

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is expected to be used in image reconstruction of accumulated visceral fat in the human abdomen, where the accumulated visceral fat may be rel...

Because touch is a mechanical interaction between the skin and an object, unconstrained tactile sensing is a challenging issue. In this research we studied spatial transparency, a ...

In this article, we propose a novel method for facilitating underwater electromyographic measurement, without using an adhesive waterproof film. This method employs a waterproofed ...

We evaluated the potential of using a compact, high-power quantum cascade laser (QCL) in the 5.7-µm wavelength range for less-invasive laser angioplasty, by observing the effects o...

Shock waves have recently attracted attention for their effects on biological soft tissues, such as angiogenesis. When shock waves are reflected at some surfaces of biological tiss...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) viral loads are reported to be lower in HCV-positive dialysis patients than in HCV-positive non-dialysis patients. Previously, we conducted in vitro experim...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) allows non-invasive and painless stimulation of local cerebral nerves using eddy current generated by electromagnetic induction with a TMS c...

There are typographical errors at the 3rd line in the caption of Fig. 3. "activated areas of VGS vs. AM, AM vs. Rest, and VGS vs. Rest, where BOLD signals" has been incorrectly pub...

Although hospital information systems (HIS) have recently become more widely used, data stored in HIS databases are not fully utilized in clinical research. One major reason is the...

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is an important marker of systemic atherosclerosis, and often leads to significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in patients with end-stage ...

Since the conventional method of electrical stimulation delivered using an extracellular electrode has poor selectivity in terms of nerve fiber type, it is difficult to avoid recru...