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bulletThe 2006 SUWA Governing Board Meeting was held on 23 March 2006 at NTU in Singapore.
 
bulletSUWA co-organized the Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare in Washington, DC between April 2-4, 2006.

           

 
bulletSUWA co-organized the 2nd International Conference on Epithelial Technologies and Tissue Engineering in Washington, DC on April 2-4, 2006.

           

 
bulletThe 2006 SUWA Scientific Advisory Board Meeting was held on 9 May 2006 at NTU in Singapore.

Some SUWA Achievements

The following Patents have been filed under the SUWA programme:

  1. Method to induce Epithelial differentiation and Keratinization Using a Surface-immobilized Notch Ligand by Benjamin Beckstead and Cecilia M. Giachelli
     
  2. Home Ultrasound System by Yong Mo Yoo, Yongmin Kim, Anup Agarwal and Dong-Gyu Sim
     
  3. Method for Microfluidic High Throughput Screening of Enzyme Modulation (Microfluidic Enzyme Inhibition Using Embedded Cavities) by Paul Yager, Anson Hatch and Elena Garcia
     
  4. Eliminating Fluorescence Background Noise by Tjin Swee Chuan, Ng Lian Soon, Soh Cheong Boon, Rudi Irawan, Fang Xiaoqin


  5. New Biocompatible and Biodegradable Polymers by Buddy D. Ratner and Shrojal Desai


  6. Microfluidic Immunoassay Device by Tjin Swee Chuan and Rudi Irawan

   

The table below lists Journal Papers published under the SUWA programme:

No

Author

Title

Journal

1 B.H. Ong, X-C. Yuan, S.C. Tjin, J-W. Zhang and H.M. Ng Optimised film thickness for maximum evanescent field enhancement of a bimetallic film surface plasmon resonance biosensor Sens. & Act. B: Chemical (In Press), 2005
2 R. Irawan, S.C. Tjin, D. Zhang, and X. Fang Fluorescene Detection System and Laminate-based Disposable Microfluidic Chip Chineses Optics Letters, Vol. 3, S173-S176, 2005
3 E. Kim, A. Mayani, S. Modi, C.B. Soh and Y. Kim Evaluation of patient-centered electronic health record to overcome digital divide The 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE/EMBS, pp. 2415-2418, 2005
4 F. Zhang, Y.M. Yoo, L.M. Koh and Y. Kim Nonlinear diffusion in Laplacian pyramid domain for ultrasonic speckle reduction IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, submitted, September 2005
5 S. Sikdar, K.W. Beach, S. Vaezy, and Y. Kim Ultrasonic technique for imaging tissue vibrations: Prelimnary results Ultrasound Med. Biol., vol. 31, pp. 221-232, 2005
6 Y.M. Yoo, R. Managuli, and Y. Kim

 

New adaptive clutter rejection for ultrasound color Doppler imaging, SPIE Medical Imaging SPIE Medical Imaging, vol. 5750, pp. 139-147, 2005
7 V. Shamdasani, U. Bae, R. Managuli and Improving the visualization of 3D ultrasound data with 3D filtering SPIE Medical Imaging, vol. 5744, pp. 455-461, 2005
8 L. Gong, N. Lydia, S.D. Pathak, I. Tutar, P.S. Cho, D.R. Haynor and Y. Kim Prostate ultrasound image segmentation using level set-based region flow with shape guidance SPIE Medical Imaging, Vol. 5747, pp.1648-1657, 2005
9 R. Irawan, S.C. Tjin, D.W. Zhang and X.Q. Fang Fluorescence Detection System and Laminate-based Disposable Microfluidic Chip. International Symposium on Photonics, Biophotonics, and Nanophotonics (ISPBN '05), Nanjing, China, 2005
10 R. Irawan, S.C. Tjin, and X.Q. Fang Integration of Optical Fiber Light Guide, Fluorescence Detection System, and Multichannel Disposable Microfluidic Chip Singapore, 2005.

International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies 2005 (ICMAT 2005), 9th International Conference on Advanced Materials (IUMRS-ICMA) - Symposium of Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation

11 Z.Q. Feng, N. Cai, V. Chan, P.S. Mhaisalka, K.S. Chian, B.D. Ratner, and K. Liao Novel Biophysical Techniques for Investigating Long-term Cell Adhesion Dynamics on Biomaterial Surfaces. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Springer Publisher, USA, 2005
12 Y. Zhu, Mary B. Chan-Park, and K.S. Chian Surface modification of Poly(DL-lactide-co-glycolide) copolymer with covalently immobilised collagen for esophageal tissue engineering. The 3rd International Conference on Advanced Materials Processing (ICAMP-3). Materials Forum Volume 29, 2005 (ISBN: 1 876855 20 7)
13 B.L. Beckstead, S. Pan, A.D. Bhrany, A.M. Bratt-Leal, B.D. Ratner, and C.M. Giachelli Esophageal epithelial cell interaction with synthetic and natural scaffolds for tissue engineering Biomaterials 26(31): 6217-28 (2005)
14 W. Yang, T.C. Fung, K.S. Chian, and C.K. Chong Directional, Regional and Layer Variations of Mechnical Properties of Esophageal Tissue and its interpretation using a structure-based constitutive model. Accepted for publication in Journal of Biomechanics, Oct 2005
15

Zhu, X., Chian, K.S. and Chan-Park, B.M., S.T.Lee

Effect of argon plasma treatment on proliferation of human derived skin fibroblast on chitosan membrane in vitro

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, Vol 73A, Issue 3, pp.264-274, 2005

16 E. Garcia, B. Finlayson, and P.Yager

Distribution of chemical concentrations in microchannels using embedded cavities of different shapes

Lab on a chip, February 2005 (submitted)
17

Irawan, R., Tjin, S.C., Yager, P. and Zhang, D.W.

Cross-talk problem on a  fluorescence muti-channel microfluidic chip system

Biomedical Microdevices. (Accepted and will be published in September 2005)

18

Irawan, R., Tjin, S.C. and Fu, C.Y.

Integration of fluorescence detection system and laminate-based disposable microfluidic chip

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, (Accepted and will be published in 2005)

19

Wang, M., Lau, C., Matsen, F.A. and Kim, Y.

Personal health management system and its application in referral management

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 8, pp. 287-297, 2004

20

Bratt-Leal, A., Linnes, M., Beckstead, B. and Giachelli, C.

Protein effects on cellular adhesion for esophageal tissue engineering

Journal of Undergraduate Research in Bioengineering 4(2):11-14 (2004)

21

Ratner, B.D.,  Chian, K.S., Giachelli, C.M., Beckstead, B.L. and Ritchie, A.C.

Esophagus: a tissue engineering challenge

The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, 3rd ed., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, (Originally planned to publish in 2004, currently in press)

22

Garcia, E., Kirkham, J.R., Hatch, A.V., Hawkins, K.R. and Yager, P.

Controlled microfluidic reconstitution of function protein from an anhydrous storage depot

Lab on a Chip, Vol. 4, pp. 78-82, 2004

23

Munson, M.S. and Yager, P.

Simple quantitative optical method for monitoring the extent of mixing applied to a novel microfluidic mixer

Analytica Chimica Acta,  507(1), pp. 63-71, 2004

24

Hatch, A., Garcia, E. and Yager, P.

Diffusion-based analysis of molecular interactions in microfluidic devices

Proceedings of The IEEE, 92 (1), pp. 126-139, 2004

25

Zhang, D.W., Yuan, X.C., Tjin, S.C. and Krishnan, S.

Rigorous time domain simulation of momentum transfer between light and microscopic particles in optical trapping

Optics Express, Vol. 12 No. 10, pp. 2220-2230, 2004

26

Shamdasani, V., Managuli, R., Sikdar, S. and Kim, Y.

Ultrasound color-flow imaging on a programmable system

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in  Biomedicine, Vol. 8, pp. 191-199, 2004

27

Xiao, T., Fang, N., Chan, V. and Liao, K.

A quantitative contour analysis of axisymmetric vesicles spontaneously adhering on a substrate

Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces, Vol.34, No.1, pp. 25-31, 2004

28 L. Gong, S.D. Pathak, D.R. Haynor, P.S. Cho, and Y. Kim Parametric shape modeling using deformable superellipses for prostate segmentation IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 23, pp.340-349, 2004
29

Sikdar, S., Managuli, R., Gong, L., Shamdasani, V., Mitake, T., Hayashi, T. and Kim, Y.

A single mediaprocessor-based programmable ultrasound system

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 7, pp. 64-70, 2003

30

Yoo, Y.M., Managuli, R. and Kim, Y.

Adaptive clutter filtering for ultrasound color flow imaging

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 29, pp. 1311-1320, 2003

31

Dutt, D.N., Krishnan, S.M. and Srinivasan, N.

A dynamic nonlinear time domain model for reconstruction and compression of cardiovascular signals with application to telemedicine

Computers in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 45-63, 2003

32

Agarwal, A., Rowberg, A. and Kim, Y.

Fast JPEG 2000 decoder and its use in medical imaging

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 7, pp. 184-190, 2003

33

Cuy, J.L., Beckstead, B.L., Brown, C.D., Hoffman, A.S. and Giachelli, C.M.

Adhesive protein interactions with chitosan: consequences for valve endothelial cell growth on tissue-engineering materials

J Biomed Mater Res, Part A, 67:  538-547, 2003

34 B.M. Chan-Park, X. Zhu, A.I.W. Ng, and K.S. Chian Surface Modification of Asymmetric Chitosan Membrane for wound dressing Macro, Beijing, 2002
35

Lau, C., Churchill, R.S., Kim, J., Matsen, F.A. and Kim, Y.

Asynchronous Web-based patient-centered home telemedicine system

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 49, pp. 1452-1462, 2002

36

Ge, D., Srinivasan, N. and Krishnan, S.M.

Cardiac arrhythmia classification using autoregressive modeling

Biomedical Engineering Online, Vol. 1, 5, 2002

37

Zhu, Y., Chan-Park, B.M. and Chian, K.S.

The growth improvement of porcine esophageal smooth muscle cells on collagen grafted poly(DL-lactide-co-glycolide) membrane

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B, Applied Biomaterials (Accepted)

38

Zhu, Y., Chian, K.S., Chan-Park, B. M., Mhaisalkar, P.S. and Ratner, B.D.

Protein bonding on biodegradable poly(L-lactide-co-caprolactone) membrane for esophageal tissue engineering

Biomaterials (Accepted)

39 Bhrany, A.D., B.L. Beckstead, T.C. Lang, G.D. Farwell, C.M. Giachelli, and B.D. Ratner Tissue Engineering of the Espophagus: the development of an esophagus acellular matrix scaffold Tissue Engineering (in Press)
40

Beckstead, B.L., Pan, S., Bhrany, A.D., Bratt-Leal, A.M., Ratner, B.D. and Giachelli, C.M.

Esophageal epithelial cell interaction with synthetic and natural scaffolds for tissue engineering

Biomaterials (in press)

 

 

41

Pan, S. and Ratner, B.D.

Fabrication highly porous biodegradable tubular scaffolds for tissue engineering

J. Biomat Sci, Polym. Ed. (Accepted.)

42 X.Y. Fang, O.K. Tan, Q. Wei, M.W. Yao and S.C. Tjin Dielectric Film for Biosensor Application Sensors and Acutuators B: Chemical, In Press
43 X.Y. Fang, O.K. Tan,  and S.C. Tjin Biosensor using ferroelectric particles EEE Sensors Journal (Submitted)

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