Sentences with phrase «designs prostheses»

Even with the encouragement of Dr. McCarthy (Morgan Freeman), who designs prostheses for the soldiers, he struggles to see a future for himself.

The lab designed a prosthesis that uses a technique called electromyography to pick up on electrical signals in the upper arm muscles.

«We want our students doing the same kinds of tests [of their devices] that the experts do when they're designing prostheses,» Coronado says.

• Highly experienced in coordinating with lab companies to ensure that designed prosthesis are timely and accurately manufactured

Not exact matches

Hugh Herr is a classically understated, yet obviously determined, researcher and inventor whose work in novel prostheses and orthotics design and human motion study appears boundless.

In this case, a company that designs active - function artificial finger prostheses for partial - finger amputees needed high - resolution, 3 - D scans of two small hand casts.

«So this prosthesis design will be a solution for those folks around the world.»

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Bargar hopes it will be able to prepare bones for different joints, such as knees, or different designs of prosthesis that would be too difficult to do by conventional surgery.

Implantable prostheses designed to deliver electrical stimuli directly to the auditory nerve hold considerable promise for people with a type of deafness in which the sensory hair cells of the inner ear are damaged

Most amputees in developing countries wear passive prostheses — simple, cheap designs with no moving parts.

This design may provide unique opportunities for emerging classes of prostheses and peripheral nervous system interface technologies.

Biomedical engineers study, design, develop and evaluate biological and medical systems and products such as artificial organs, prostheses, medical instruments and information systems.

A V - OP provider should be able to design, manufacture and dispense a custom orthosis (brace) or prosthesis (artificial limb) for animal patients.

For the London Design Festival 2012 Gallery FUMI proudly presents Prostheses and Innesti by architect Marcio Kogan + Studio MK27, Manuela Verga and Paolo Boatti.

This New York dental clinic specializes in prosthodontics, which is an expertise in diagnosis and treatment planning, dental aesthetics, prosthesis design, occlusion (bite / function), and dental material science.