Sentences with word «prosthesis»

We hope that an implant could achieve an even greater level of prosthesis control because brain waves are recorded with higher quality.

It developed the first robotic prosthesis with both powered knee and ankle joints.

Nicolelis has faith that science will one day ferret out all the brain's information - processing tricks — or at least enough of them to yield huge improvements in neural prostheses for people who are paralyzed, blind, or otherwise disabled.

Since the early seventies, scientists have been developing brain - machine interfaces; the main application being the use of neural prosthesis in paralyzed patients or amputees.

Devices implanted in the brain as neural prosthesis for therapeutic brain stimulation technologies and interfaces for sensory and motor devices, such as artificial limbs, are an important goal for improving quality of life for patients.

Implanted in the brain, Lieber's electrodes might one day serve as prostheses to help damaged nerves regain their function.

Conductive hearing loss can be treated through surgical reconstruction using prostheses made from stainless steel struts and ceramic cups.

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

To confirm this approach, the researchers performed an external validation study including 710 patients (803 hips) who underwent MoM hip replacement with one of the two aforementioned MoM hip prostheses at three European hospitals.

«You can't underestimate the scope of the problem, particularly as the population gets older,» says James Morrison, a physiologist and principal investigator in the Retinal Prosthesis Group at the University of Glasgow's Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences.

Attempts to control prostheses with electrical sensors on the skin have not had much success, mainly because it is difficult to distinguish among the many electrical changes that activate muscles.

For instance, some companies market female - specific knee implants but may overlook other factors, such as a patient's height or ethnicity, that play an important role in getting a good prosthesis fit.

Handle tasks of measuring and taking impressions of patients» jaws and teeth to determine the size and shape of dental prostheses by using dental articulators, recording devices, and other equipment

«We wanted to test whether mice could learn to control a neural prosthesis by relying uniquely on an artificial sensory feedback signal,» explains Mario Prsa, researcher at UNIGE and the first author of the study.

Surgeons have implanted a new prosthesis in four patients to correct disabling dizziness.

Whereas at the same time we as a species rely on implants and prostheses more than ever before.

In older patients, bioprosthetic valves pose a low lifetime risk of reoperation for structural degeneration and avoid many of the complications associated with mechanical prostheses; bioprosthetic valves are therefore recommended in patients older than 70 years.

Thus, the «dangerous instrument» charge does not apply only to persons who wear prostheses.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's robotic prosthesis looks like something out of medieval times — a hand clad in chain mail more appropriate for wielding a broadsword than a mug of coffee.

In part, that's because passive prostheses do not adjust the amount of torque exerted as a person walks.

The cumulative incidence of stroke at l5 years after mitral valve replacement was significantly higher in the mechanical prosthesis group (14.0 percent) compared with the bioprosthesis group (6.8 percent), as was the cumulative incidence of bleeding events (14.9 percent vs. 9.0 percent).

Immunocompromised patients, indwelling medical devices, and surgically implanted prostheses provide suitable environments for Staphylococcus epidermidis to propagate and form biofilms.

• Deep insight into taking oral / dental impressions and measurements, aimed at creating prosthesis such as dentures, crowns and bridges

At Rank Xerox's EuroParc laboratory in Cambridge, a team of 30 computer scientists, psychologists and sociologists have been working on an electronic memory prosthesis.

He and former Harvard Medical School colleague Clay Reid first described their research into visual prostheses in a paper published last May in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

«We can adjust the test prosthesis perfectly for each person,» explains Fraunhofer IPA scientist Florian Blab.

Musclelike actuators could build better prostheses and robots that can work alongside people

Additionally, more than 1100 patients have consented to participate in a postmortem retrieval program, allowing for the retrieval of their joint prostheses in surrounding bone and the collection of various organ samples at the time of their death.

The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is the world's first FDA - approved «bionic» eye, a piece of technology that is helping the blind to see.

The skin grafts took a long time to heal, delaying the fitting of his first prosthesis until Aug. 1.

Today, the most advanced prostheses incorporate microprocessors that work with onboard gyroscopes, accelerometers, and hydraulics to enable a person to walk with a normal gait.

Moreover, in children, implanted heart valve prostheses need to be replaced even more often as they can not grow with the child.

In studies of cell lines from more than 20 Friedreich's patients, the molecular prosthesis restored expression of the frataxin protein.

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He would also like to work with neural speech prostheses in great apes.

With an electric motor, five internal microprocessors, and a quarter - size inertial measurement unit that tracks and adjusts its location in space, the PowerFoot One is a giant leap over existing prostheses.

The optimal prosthesis type for younger patients is less clear, according to background information in the article.

Existing controllable prostheses work by converting electrical signals in a person's arm or leg into movement.

The researchers are also looking at a different approach that would combine the 3 - D - printed prostheses with stem cells.

Handler went on to become a serial entrepreneur, starting a line of post-mastectomy prostheses after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

It encompasses ideas about size and shape, skin colour, birthmarks, scars, facial features, clothing and adornments related to personal religious beliefs, physical disabilities, and the use of equipment and aids like prostheses or wheelchairs.

While highly sophisticated prostheses with complex moving fingers and joints are available to mimic almost every hand motion, they remain frustratingly difficult and unnatural for the user.

«We wanted to create a prototype first to see whether molecular prostheses could even be used for such fine adjustments to metabolic processes,» he says.

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.

His baffling case serves as a reminder that four years after South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius propelled himself into history as the first amputee Olympic athlete to compete using blade prostheses, the technology's impact on performance remains unclear despite ongoing research.

One example, developed in collaboration with Professor Gill Pratt of Olin College in Needham, Massachusetts, is a leg prosthesis with a computer - controlled knee.