Preface

The book presents a collection of papers originally presented in the Conference Technology Meets Surgery International (TMSi), held at Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo -EPUSP-Brasil, on the 18th and 19th of July 2005. The 3rd edition of TMSi gathered 27 papers from Brazil and Scotland, and was organized by Profs. Raul Gonzalez and Jayme Ortiz, from EPUSP, Prof. Alan Slade, from University of Dundee – Scotland, Prof. Marcos Pinotti from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UMFG and Prof. Aron Andrade from Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia – IDPC- São Paulo. The Editors are honored with the invitation of the TMSi Organizing Committee and the ABCM Bioengineering Committee to edit this Volume.

The authors who presented the papers in the Conference were invited to re-submit their papers to this book selection. These papers were reviewed by at least two members of a Board of Reviewers, and re-submitted by the authors after the revision. The Board of Reviewers is composed by engineers and researchers from biological related sciences. The Editors would like to expresses their grateful acknowledge to this Board.

ABCM Symposium Series in Bioengineering Vol. 1 represents a significant part of the effort that is being carried out by the ABCM Bioengineering Committee to strength, among the Brazilian mechanical engineering community, the research in the field of bioengineering, biomechanics and related disciplines.

Papers

• I.01:

  DRAG REDUCING POLYMERS IN VASCULAR SYSTEM: VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT AND POLYMERS TYPES AND CONCENTRATIONS

  Jayme Pinto Ortiz, Kleiber Lima de Bessa

• I.02:

  PHYSIOLOGICAL PULSATILE WAVEFORM THROUGH AXISYMMETRIC STENOSED ARTERIES: NUMERICAL SIMULATION

  Jayme Pinto Ortiz, Kleiber Lima de Bessa, Daniel Formariz Legendre, Rudolf Hellmuth de Almeida Prado

• I.03:

  MECHATRONIC ASSISTANCE FOR FEMORAL & TIBIAL OSTEOTOMIES

  Kaddour Bouazza-Marouf, Ian Browbank, James R. Hewit, Alan P. Slade, Stuart I Brown, Roger Phillips, James Ward, Amr M.M.A. Mohsen, Kevin P. Sherman

• I.04:

  COLON INSPECTION SYSTEM WITH AN INTERNAL SUPPORT STRUCTURE

  Alan Slade

• I.05:

  DEVELOPMENT OF A HIP ORTHOSIS USING PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES

  Claysson Bruno Santos Vimieiro, Breno Gontijo do Nascimento, Danilo Alves Pinto Nagem, Marcos Pinotti

• I.06:

  HOMOGENEOUS ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS APPLIED TO VIBRATION CONTROL

  A.K. El Wahed

• I.07:

  REVIEW OF THE SPIRAL PUMP PERFORMANCE TEST, DURING CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS, IN 43 PATIENTS

  Edivania Wada, Aron Andrade, Denys Emilio C. Nicolosi, Eduardo G.P. Bock, Jeison Fonseca, Juliana Leme, Jarbas J. Dinkhuysen, José Francisco Biscegli

• I.08:

   

  IN VIVO TESTS WITH THE AUXILIARY TOTAL ARTIFICIAL HEART AS A LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE IN CALVES

  Jeison W. Gomes da Fonseca, Aron José Pazin de Andrade, Eduardo Guy Perpétuo Bock, Juliana Leme, Jarbas Dinkhuysen, Paulo Paredes Paulista, Ricardo Manrique, Paulo Henrique Paulista, Paulo Valente, Denys Emilio C. Nicolosi, José Francisco Biscegli

• I.09:

  A NEW CONCEPT OF CENTRIFUGAL BLOOD PUMP USING PIVOT BEARING SYSTEM: THE CONVERSION OF THE SPIRAL PUMP INLET PORT

  Eduardo Guy Perpétuo Bock, Aron José Pazin de Andrade, Edivânia Aparecida Eugênio Wada, Jeison W. Gomes da Fonseca, Juliana Leme, Denys Emilio C. Nicolosi, José Francisco Biscegli, Antônio Celso Fonseca de Arruda

• I.10:

  TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION APPLIED TO 2D AND 3D ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY

  Cícero Ribeiro de Lima, Luis Augusto Motta Mello, Emílio Carlos Nelli Silva

• I.11:

  REGULARIZATIONS FOR A BLACK BOX EIT ALGORITHM

  Julio C. C. Aya, Fernando Silva de Moura, Pai Chi Nan, Ronaldo K. Schweder, Raul Gonzalez Lima

• I.12:

  AN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BACK-PROJECTION ALGORITHM ACCORDING TO SANTOSA AND VOGELIUS

  Pai Chi Nan, Julio C. C. Aya, Raul Gonzalez Lima

• I.13:

  ITERATED EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERWITH ADAPTIVE STATE NOISE ESTIMATION FOR ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY

  Flávio Celso Trigo, Raúl Gonzalez-Lima

• I.14:

  EFFECTS OF STATIC CONDENSATION ON ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY

  Iara Kazuyo Ike, Raul Gonzalez Lima

• I.15:

  ADVANCES IN TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY

  Carvalho, Rogério Teixeira de MD

• I.16:

  EVALUATION OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL BEHAVIOR OF PURE TITANIUM AND Ti-13Nb-13Zr ALLOY FOR USE AS BIOMATERIALS

  Sérgio Luiz de Assis, Isolda Costa

• I.17:

  SEM OBSERVATIONS AND ELECTROCHEMICAL BEHAVIOUR OF A STAINLESS STEEL IMPLANT DEVICE – A CASE STUDY

  Renato Altobelli Antunes, Maysa Terada, Isolda Costa

• I.18:

  SOFT LITHOGRAPHIC PATTERNING OF TETHERED EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX (ECM) MACRO-MOLECULES

  Dr Robert Keatch, Dr Kenneth Donnnelly, Prof. Seth Schor, Dr Kris Armoogum

Editorial Committee

The Editors

• Luciano Menegaldo, IME, lmeneg@ime.eb.br
• Jayme Pinto Ortiz, EPUSP, jportiz@usp.br
• Djenane C. Pamplona, PUC-Rio, djenane@civ.puc-rio.br

Editorial Board

• Agenor de Toledo Fleury, UNIFEI e EPUSP
• Alan Slade, University of Dundee
• Amancio Ramalho, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
• Andre Luis Pinto, IME
• Antonio Carlos Shimano, FMRP-USP
• Aura Conci, UFF
• Cecilia Zavaglia, FEM-Unicamp
• Cleudmar Araújo, UFU
• Emílio Nelli Silva, EPUSP
• Estevam Barbosa de Las Casas, UFMG
• Fabiana Leta, UFF
• Fabio Turri, INCOR
• Flavio Trigo, IMS-Engenharia
• Francesco Scofano, IME
• Hans Ingo Weber, PUC-Rio
• Isolda Costa, IPEN
• Jayme Pinto Ortiz, EPUSP
• Jorge Audrin Morgado de Góis, IME
• Jose Augusto Lopes, PUC-SP
• Josete Meira, Fac. Odontologia, USP
• Jurandir Itizo Yanagihara, EPUSP
• Macos Pinotti Barbosa, UFMG
• Marcelo José Colaço, IME
• Mauricio Silva Ferreira, UNIFEI
• Rafael Yague Ballester, Fac. Odontologia, USP
• Raul Gonzalez-Lima, EPUSP
• Rodrigo Castro Guedes, IME