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Christensen, Douglas A.; Horch, Kenneth W. | Accelerated dual-degree BS/MS program - experience with the first three years | We have initiated a pilot program that accelerates the studies of a small group of highly qualified students early in their college careers and allows them to earn both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in about four years after starting college. It does this by introducing them early to res... | Accelerated dual-degree program | 2004 |
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Christensen, Douglas A.; Horch, Kenneth W. | Experience with the first three years of an accelerated dual-degree program in biomedical engineering | Our Department of Bioengineering has instituted a pilot program aimed at helping a select group of highly qualified students obtain both bachelor's and master's degrees in an accelerated timeframe-approximately four years from the beginning of their university studies. A key element of this progra... | Accelerated; Dual-degrees; Education | 2004 |
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Horch, Kenneth W.; Christensen, Douglas A. | Accelerated 4-year bachelors/masters degree program in biomedical engineering | In response to the need for providing advanced engineering education in a shorter time period than is currently possible by traditional curricula, we have created an Accelerated Dual Degree program in biomedical engineering. The purpose of this pilot program is to attract the brightest students, g... | Accelerated dual-degree program | 2002 |
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Horch, Kenneth W.; Christensen, Douglas A. | Accelerated 4-year bachelors/masters degree program in biomedical engineering | In response to the need for providing advanced engineering education in a shorter time period than is currently possible by traditional curricula, we have created an Accelerated Dual Degree program in biomedical engineering. The purpose of this pilot program is to attract the brightest students, g... | Accelerated; Dual-degrees; Education | 2002 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Information extraction from peripheral nerves | This work is directed toward providing better rehabilitation for people suffering from somatosensory loss and paralysis due to spinal cord injury, head trauma, or stroke. The goal of this project is to demonstrate that information suitable for controlling prosthetic devices, modulating functional el... | Peripheral nerve; Neural recordings; Intrafascicular electrodes | 1991 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Maynard, Edwin M. | Neural interface for a cortical vision prosthesis | The development of a cortically based vision prosthesis has been hampered by a lack of basic experiments on phosphene psychophysics. This basic research has been hampered by the lack of a means to safely stimulate large numbers of cortical neurons. Recently, a number of laboratories have developed a... | Neuroprosthetics; Artificial Vision; Electrode Arrays; Multielectrode Recordings; Biocompatibility | 1999 |
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Jenson, Justin Michael; Bock, Susan C. | Mitigating spinal cord injury | How would your life change if you became one of the 15,000 Americans to suffer a spinal cord injury this year? Trauma to the spinal cord causes immediate loss of function below the level of the injury. Then, in the hours and days after the accident, the body's secondary injury response may extend ... | Trapeze Interactive Poster | 2010-03-15 |
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Christensen, Douglas A.; Furse, Cynthia M. | Problem and treatment of DC offsets in FDTD simulations | This paper discusses the causes of and some solutions to the commonly observed problem of dc field offsets in finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations. DC electric and magnetic field offsets are shown to be valid calculated responses of the modeled systems, resulting from interaction betwee... | Finite-difference time-domain method; Direct current offsets; Waveforms | 2000-08 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Control of ankle position using neural feedback | This paper describes a closed loop control system that uses afferent neural activity from muscle spindle fibers as feedback for controlling ankle position. The gastrocnemius muscle was stimulated through a dual channel intrafascicular electrode implanted in a fascicle of the tibial nerve. Dual cha... | Neuromuscular stimulation; Peripheral nerve; Joint angle | 1994 |
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Christensen, Douglas A. | Using the cardiovascular system to illustrate fundamental laws and principles in a freshman course | Our Fundamentals of Bioengineering I course is organized around key physical and engineering laws and principles. A semester-long Major Project is assigned which integrates many of these principles by modeling the human systemic cardiovascular system, using both Matlab computer analysis and assembly... | Matlab | 2002 |
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Normann, Richard A. | Functional reorganization of primary visual cortex induced by electrical stimulation in the cat. | Compared to the high degree of plasticity observed in a juvenile, mature sensory cortices have long been held to be immutable but, recently, researchers have suggested some plasticity persists in the mature cortex. Cortical reorganization has particular saliency to the development of a cortically ba... | Cat; Electrophysiology; Phosphene; Plasticity; Receptive Field; Striate Cortex | 2005 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Perspectives on new electrode technology for stimulating peripheral nerves with implantable motor prostheses | Abstract-The limits of present electrode technology are being reached in current motor prostheses for restoring functional movement in paralyzed people. Improved devices require electrodes and stimulation methods that will activate muscles selectively and independently with less implanted hardwa... | Paralysis; Prostheses; Electrodes | 1995 |
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Normann, Richard A. | Effects of GABA and related drugs on horizontal cells in the isolated turtle retina | The role of GABA in the outer plexiform layer of the turtle retina has been examined by intracellular recordings from L- and C-type horizontal cells in the isolated retina preparation. GABA (1-5 mM) slightly depolarized the L-type horizontal cells, reduced the amplitude of their photoresponses, and ... | Retina; Horizontal Cells; Synapse; Negative Feedback; GABA; Turtle | 1990 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Differential activation of nerve fibers with magnetic stimulation in humans | Earlier observations in our lab had indicated that large, time-varying magnetic fields could elicit action potentials that travel in only one direction in at least some of the myelinated axons in peripheral nerves. The objective of this study was to collect quantitative evidence for magnetically in... | Magnetic stimulation; Peripheral nerve; Electromyographic potential; Somatosensory potential | 2006 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Horch, Kenneth W.; Cha, Kichul | Mobility performance with a pixelized vision system | A visual prosthesis, based on electrical stimulation of the visual cortex, has been suggested as a means for partially restoring functional vision in the blind. The prosthesis would create a pixelized visual sense consisting of punctate spots of light (phosphenes). The present study investigated the... | Visual Prosthesis; Mobility; Phosphene Simulator | 1992 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Mechanical testing of metallic and polymeric intrafascicular electrodes | We are exploring alternatives to Pt/Ir wire for constructing ultra-flexible neural intrafascicular electrodes suitable for chronic implantation. In this study we measured the flexural properties of several kinds of fine metal wires and conducting polymer fibers. The fibers were made either of in... | Intrafascicular electrodes; Polymer fibers | 1994 |
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Christensen, Douglas A. | Resonant inductive applicator for neck hyperthermia | We have designed and phantom tested an inductive applicator especially suited for producing hyperthermia in cancerous regions in the neck. The applicator is tuned to resonate near 27 MHz; its inductive nature has the advantage of efficient coupling to the irregular neck anatomy. An inhomogeneou... | Hyperthermia applicator; Phantom tests | 1989 |
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Christensen, Douglas A. | Bringing an integrative modeling experience to a freshman biomedical engineering course | As an integrating lab experience in our Fundamentals of Bioengineering freshman course, we have included a Major Project that ties together many of the principles of biomechanics and bioelectricity covered in the lecture. It uses the human systemic cardiovascular system as a model. During the first... | Matlab | 2004 |
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Christensen, Douglas A. | Modeling sources in the FDTD formulation and their use in quantifying source and boundary condition errors | The modeling of voltage and current sources as either added or replaced sources in FDTD simulations is described and their differences discussed in terms of a transmission line analogy. An infinitesimal current element (ICE) is used to illustrate the validation of added source modeling and to study... | Finite-difference time-domain method; Infinitesimal current element | 1995-04 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Are the extrinsic muscles better suited for signaling joint angles or finger tip location? | We used a biomechanical model of the human long finger to determine whether the extrinsic muscles are better suited for estimating the finger's joint angles or for estimating location of the finger tip. We found that two of the extrinsic muscles together could provide information sufficient to direc... | Extrinsic muscles; Metacarpophalangeal joint; Biomechanical models | 1997 |
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Gesteland, Raymond F.; Krapcho, Karen J.; Talbot, Phil; Thulin, Craig | Crystallization of the MS2 translational repressor alone and complexed to bromouridine | The coat protein from the MS2 bacteriophage plays a dual role by encapsidating viral RNA and also by binding RNA as a translational repressor. In order to study the isolated dimer in a conformation not influenced by capsid interactions, a mutant molecule was crystallized that is defective in capsid ... | Crystallization; RNA Bacteriophage; RNA Hairpin; Translational Repressor | 1995 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Muscle recruitment with intrafascicular electrodes | We have studied muscle recruitment with Tefloninsulated, 25 pm diameter, Pt-Ir intrafasicular electrodes implanted in nerves innervating the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles of cats. The purpose of this study was to measure the performance of these bipolar electrodes, which had been designed to... | Functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS); Intrafascicular electrode | 1991 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Johansson,Torbjorn; Abbasi, Masoud; Huber, Robert J. | Three-dimensional architecture for a parallel processing photosensing array | A three-dimensional architecture for a photosensing array has been developed. This silicon based architecture consists of a 10 x 10 array of photosensors with 80 microns diameter, through chip interconnects to the back side of a 500 microns thick silicon wafer. Each photosensor consists of a 300 x 3... | Retina; Optics; Silicon; Photosensing | 1992 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Shoham, Shy | Encoding mechanisms for sensory neurons studied with a multielectrode array in the cat dorsal root ganglion | Recent advances in microelectrode array technology now permit a direct examination of the way populations of sensory neurons encode information about a limb's position in space. To address this issue, we recorded nerve impulses from about 100 single units simultaneously in the L6 and L7 dorsal root ... | Sensory; Encoding; Multielectrode; Dorsal Root Ganglion; Cutaneour; Muscle | 2004 |
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Christensen, Douglas A. | Computer-aided design of two-dimensional electric-type hyperthermia applicators using the finite-difference time-domain method | A hyperthermia applicator design tool consisting of a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique in combination with a graphical display of electric fields and normalized linear temperature rise is described. This technique calculates, rather than assumes, antenna current distributions; it incl... | Finite-difference time-domain method; Hyperthermia applicator | 1991-09 |