World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering September 7 - 12, 2009 Munich, Germany (eBook)

Preface 6
Table of Contents 9
Tissue-Engineered Corneal Stroma by Using Autologous Adipose Derived Stem Cell Tissue and Polylacticcocglycolic Acid 15
Design of an Artificial Cochlea Based on an Array of Resonators 23
Utility of a Radial Basis Function Classifier in the Detection of Red Lesions in Retinal Images 35
Preclinical Analysis of Stents for Microvascular Anastomoses: A Method to Anlayse the Tensile Strength 47
Novel Designs for Middle Ear Implants Produced by Micro Injection Molding 63
The mechanical response of the tectorial membrane in the frog inner ear 73
Neuromagnetic Responses Elicited by Tones and Chords of Different Intensities and Frequency Components 75
The The application application of of ultra ultra short short echo echo time time MRI MRI (UTE) UTE) for for the the structural structural assessment assessment of of dental dental hard hard tissue tissue components components components 79
The Precision of Neuronal Coding in the Auditory Brainstem and Implications for Cochlear Implants 82
Testing of Eustachian Tube Functioning via Strain Gauge Measurement of Tympanic Membrane Movement 86
FE-analysis of dental implants with sinus lift 90
Implants for Epiretinal Stimulation of Retinitis Pigmentosa Patients 94
Development of a Breath Alcohol Analyzer for Use on Patients in Emergency Care 98
The relation between eye movement and filling-in time 110
In-vivo monitoring of bruxism with an intelligent tooth splint – Reliability and validity 122
Dynamic Time Warping and Cross Correlation for the estimation of cell movements in conjunctival capillaries: a comparison through simulation 126
Computerized Detection of Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Defects in Retinal Fundus Images by Modified Polar Transformation and Gabor Filtering 138
Utilizing RFID Technology for Biomedical Sensor Applications 145
Long-Term Head Posture Monitoring Reduces Complications Following Vitrectomy 148
Fast adaptive axis-based segmentation of retinal vessels through matched filters 159
Parameterization and Classification of VEP After Selective Cone Excitation 182
Publicly available retinal image data and the use of competitions to standardize algorithm performance comparison 189
3D OCT retinal vessel segmentation based on boosting learning 193
Automated Measurement of Cup-to-Disc Ratio for Diagnosing Glaucoma in Retinal Fundus Images 212
Automated Measurements of Retinal Bifurcations 219
Recursive Algorithm for Blood Vessel Detection in Eye Fundus Images: Preliminary Results 226
In Vivo 3D Imaging of Carious Lesions and Dental Pulp Using Magnetic Resonance 230
Fundus Controlled Silent Substitution Stimulation of the Human Eye 233
Is Cornea Compliant with respect to Age? 237
Digital Color Stimulator for Vision Research 245
Virtual 3D Prosthetic and Implant Planning Using Cone Beam Imaging and CEREC 249
Texture Analysis of the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer in Fundus Images via Markov Random Fields 261
Automatic Rigid Registration and Analysis of Colour Fundus Image in Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy 265
Corneal Topography for Slit Lamps 269
Impact of Citric Acid Etching on Biocompatibility and Osseous Organisation of a Natural Bovine Bone Mineral: Preliminary Results of an In- Vitro/ In- Vivo Study 273
Mechanism of Oscillatory Rhythm of Retinal Ganglion cells in 277
Mouse Retina 277
Alterations in Eye Refraction under Non-ablative Laser irradiation of Cornea and Sclera. Sclera. Sclera. 289
Bright Retinal Lesions Detection using Color Fundus Images Containing Reflective Features 306
Retina Image Gradings’ Comparison by Weighted Matching Analysis 310
Electromyographic Evaluation of the Temporal Muscle After the Use of Interocclusal Splints with a Vibrating Device in Individuals with Sleep Bruxism 322
Evaluation of Blood-Retinal Barrier Function from Fourier Domain High- Definition Optical Coherence Tomography 330
Stress distribution around implants with different interproximal contacts: A photoelastic analysis 334
Characteristic Parameters of MTF of the Retina-Brain System 338
Dynamic Retinal Ultra-High Speed Optical Coherence Microscopy 357
Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels by Multi-scale Feature Extraction and Fuzzy Segmentation Methods 360