| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
| Full papers | |
| Modelling, designing and simulating living systems with BlenX | p. 3 |
| Measurement system of the eye vergence and accommodation with 3D hologram stimulation | p. 15 |
| 3D modelling for FEM simulation of an obese foot | p. 19 |
| A breast modelling application for surgeons | p. 23 |
| A framework model for e-Health services | p. 29 |
| A possibility for pos-EVAR surveillance: A novel smart stent-graft | p. 35 |
| Analysis of the contraction of the pelvic floor through the finite element method considering different pathologies | p. 39 |
| Anticipatory postural adjustments in post-stroke subjects during reaching | p. 43 |
| Approaches to juxta-pleural nodule detection in CT images | p. 51 |
| Blood flow in artificial bypass graft: A numerical study | p. 57 |
| Calibration of free hand ultrasound probe tracked by optical system | p. 63 |
| Contact finite element with surface tension adhesion | p. 69 |
| Crystalline lens imaging with a slit-scanning system | p. 79 |
| Design of Medical Rehabilitation Devices: A case study | p. 83 |
| Development of a flexible pressure sensor for measurement of endotension | p. 89 |
| Development of an adaptable system for a stationary bike to convert mechanical energy into electric power applied in indoor cyclism training | p. 95 |
| Development of computational model to analyze the influence of fiber direction in the Tympanic Membrane | p. 101 |
| Electronic device for temperature monitoring during the decompression surgery of the facial nerve | p. 107 |
| Ethical aspects in the design of medical devices | p. 111 |
| Evaluation and implementation of technology in health care | p. 115 |
| Frequency domain validation of a tetrapolar bioimpedance spectroscopy system with tissue equivalent circuit | p. 119 |
| Highly Focalized Thermotherapy: A minimally invasive technique for the treatment of solid tumours | p. 123 |
| Identification of rib boundaries in chest X-ray images using elliptical models | p. 129 |
| Improving diagnosis processes through multidimensional analysis in medical institutions | p. 135 |
| In vivo measurement of skeletal muscle impedance from rest to fatigue | p. 143 |
| Influence on the mandible and on a condyle implant of the distribution of the fixation surgical screws | p. 147 |
| Intensity inhomogeneity corrections in MRI simulated images for segmentation | p. 151 |
| Interactive collaboration for Virtual Reality systems related to medical education and training | p. 157 |
| Lissajous scanning pattern simulation, for development of a FLO | p. 163 |
| Measuring the pressure in a laryngoscope blade | p. 169 |
| Mechanical properties of temporalis muscle: A preliminary study | p. 173 |
| Medial-lateral CoP-rearfoot relation during stance | p. 177 |
| Multidisciplinary interactions for the development of medical devices | p. 183 |
| Multi-objective optimization of bypass grafts in arteries | p. 191 |
| Multiple Sclerosis subjects plantar pressure-A new tool for postural instability diagnosis | p. 197 |
| Neurom: A motor treatment system for chronic stroke patients | p. 205 |
| Non-invasive diagnosis and monitoring of Cystic Fibrosis by mass spectrometry of the exhaled breath | p. 209 |
| Noninvasive assessment of Blood-Retinal Barrier function by High-Definition Optical Coherence Tomography | p. 215 |
| OCT noise despeckling using a 3D nonlinear complex diffusion filter | p. 221 |
| Possible relations between female pelvic pathologies and soft tissue properties | p. 227 |
| Processing and classification of biological images: Application to histology | p. 233 |
| Reducing and preventing drug interactions-An approach | p. 239 |
| Registration of bone ultrasound images to CT based 3D bone models | p. 245 |
| Segmentation and 3D reconstruction of the vocal tract from MR images-A comparative study | p. ? |
| Significance of fast and simple determination of catecholamines and their metabolites in patients with Down syndrome | p. 257 |
| Study of pressure sensors placement using an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) model | p. 261 |
| Termographic assement of internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint | p. 267 |
| The action of middle ear muscles using the finite element method | p. 271 |
| The contribution of the scapular patterns to the amplitude of shoulder external rotation on thrower athletes | p. 275 |
| Influence of an unstable shoe on compensatory postural adjustments | p. 279 |
| The use of muscle recruitment algorithms to better assess problems for children with gait deficiency | p. 285 |
| Using an Infra-red sensor to measure the dynamic behaviour of N2O gas escaping through different sized holes | p. 289 |
| Visual tracking of surgical instruments, application to laparoscopy | p. 293 |
| Wavelet analysis of the pupil's autonomic flow | p. 297 |
| White matter segmentation in simulated MRI images using the Channeler Ant Model | p. 301 |
| Abstracts | |
| In-silico models as a tool for the design of medical device technologies | p. 307 |
| 3D biomechanical model of the human hand using FEM | p. 309 |
| Using radiobiology simulators for evaluation of 99mTc Auger electrons for targeted tumor radiotherapy | p. 311 |
| Therapeutic contact lenses obtained by SCF-assisted imprinting processes: Improved drug loading/release capacity | p. 313 |
| Supercritical solvent impregnation of natural bioactive compounds in N-carboxybutyl chitosan membranes for the development of topical wound healing applications | p. 315 |
| Potential and suitability of Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS) for breath analysis | p. 317 |
| Phosphonium-based ionic liquids as new Greener plasticizers for polyvinyl chloride) biomedical applications | p. 319 |
| New approach to bone surface reconstruction from 2.5D sonographic dataset | p. 321 |
| Metal-Organic Framework as potential drug carriers against inflammation | p. 325 |
| Knowledge based system for medical applications | p. 327 |
| In vitro method for test and measure the accuracy of implant impression | p. 329 |
| Improving the resolution of scintigraphic images with super-resolution: Development of a dedicated device | p. 333 |
| Hyperbolic surfaces for scaffold design | p. 337 |
| Finite element analysis of a three layered cartilage | p. 339 |
| External breast radiotherapy treatment planning verification using advanced anthropomorphic phantoms | p. 341 |
| Blood Volume Pulse peak detector with a double adaptive threshold | p. 345 |
| Bilateral study on arterial stiffness assessment by a non-invasive optical technique of Photoplethysmography | p. 349 |
| A biomimetic strategy to prepare silica- and silica/biopolymer-based composites for biomedical applications | p. 351 |
| Non-invasive biomonitoring of human health: Technical developments in breath analysis | p. 353 |
| Author index | p. 355 |
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