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Anatomically and dielectrically realistic microwave head phantom with circulation and reconfigurable lesions
McDermott, Barry; Porter, Emily; Santorelli, Adam; Divilly, Brendan; Morris, Liam; Jones, Marggie; McGinley, Brian; O'Halloran, Martin (The Electromagnetics Academy, 2017)Phantoms provide valuable test platforms for developing medical devices. Solid materials in particular allow fabrication of stable and robust models. This paper presents a novel, anatomically realistic, multi-layered head ... -
Broadband dielectric properties of adrenal gland for accurate anatomical modelling in medical applications
Shahzad, Atif; Clausing, D.; Prakash, Punit; Dennedy, Michael C.; O'Halloran, Martin (IEEE, 2017-09-11)Dielectric properties of biological tissue are important in safety assessment and evaluation of novel medical imaging and therapeutic devices. This paper reports frequency dependent dielectric properties of adrenal tissue, ... -
Classification applied to brain haemorrhage detection: Initial phantom studies using electrical impedance measurements
McDermott, Barry; O'Halloran, Martin; Santorelli, Adam; McGinley, Brian; Porter, Emily (EIT2018, 2018-06-11)Machine learning and classification algorithms are applied to data collected from an EIT system. The system is used with an anatomically accurate head phantom setup in a variety of situations modelling normal and haemorrhagic ... -
Estrogen deficiency impairs integrin αvβ3-mediated mechanosensation by osteocytes and alters osteoclastogenic paracrine signalling
Geoghegan, Ivor P.; Hoey, David A.; McNamara, Laoise M. (Nature Research (part of Springer Nature), 2019-03-15)The integrin alpha(v)beta(3) has been shown to play an important role in osteocyte mechanotransduction. It has been reported that there are fewer beta(3) integrin-containing cells in osteoporotic bone cells. Osteocytes ... -
An evaluation of the performance and optimization of a new wastewater treatment technology: the air suction flow-biofilm reactor
Forde, P.; Kennelly, Colm; Gerrity, Seán; Collins, Gavin; Clifford, Eoghan (Taylor & Francis, 2014-12-09)In this laboratory study, a novel wastewater treatment technology, the air suction flow-biofilm reactor (ASF-BR) - a sequencing batch biofilm reactor technology with a passive aeration mechanism - was investigated for its ... -
Experimental evaluation of the effective ablation zone on ex-vivo bovine liver samples
Bottiglieri, Anna; Elahi, Adnan; Shahzad, Atif; Donlon, Padraig T.; Dennedy, Michael C.; O'Halloran, Martin (IEEE, 2018-09-10)Microwave thermal ablation is under investigation for minimally invasive treatments. In the cases of small targets, such as adrenal glands, microwave thermal ablation is a valuable alternative to the traditional and ... -
A feasibility study on microwave imaging of bone for osteoporosis monitoring
Amin, Bilal; Shahzad, Atif; Crocco, Lorenzo; Wang, Mengchu; O'Halloran, Martin; González-Suárez, Ana; Elahi, Muhammad Adnan (Springer, 2021-03-30)The dielectric properties of bones are found to be influenced by the demineralisation of bones. Therefore, microwave imaging (MWI) can be used to monitor in vivo dielectric properties of human bones and hence aid in the ... -
Gamma band neural stimulation in humans and the promise of a new modality to prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease
McDermott, Barry; Porter, Emily; Hughes, Diarmaid; McAuley, Brian; Lang, Mark; O'Halloran, Martin; Jones, Marggie (IOS Press, 2018-07-19)Existing treatments for Alzheimer s Disease have questionable efficacy with a need for research into new and more effective therapies to both treat and possibly prevent the condition. This review examines a novel therapeutic ... -
Hydrogen sulfide oxidation in novel Horizontal-Flow Biofilm Reactors dominated by an Acidithiobacillus and a Thiobacillus species
Gerrity, Seán; Kennelly, Colm; Clifford, Eoghan; Collins, Gavin (Taylor & Francis, 2016-03-17)Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) is an odourous, highly toxic gas commonly encountered in various commercial and municipal sectors. Three novel, laboratory-scale, Horizontal-Flow Biofilm Reactors (HFBRs) were tested for the removal ... -
An investigation of the variation of dielectric properties of ovine lung tissue with temperature
Bonello, Julian; Elahi, Muhammad Adnan; Porter, Emily; O'Halloran, Martin; Farrugia, Lourdes; Sammut, Charles V. (IOP Publishing, 2019-06-24)Presently, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths. Microwave thermal ablation is commonly used for the treatment of lung cancer. During microwave ablation treatment, changing temperatures (up to 100 °C) cause ... -
A novel tissue-mimicking material for phantom development in medical applications of EIT
McDermott, Barry; Porter, Emily; Jones, Marggie; McGinley, Brian; O'Halloran, Martin (EIT2017, 2017-06-21)A solid Tissue-Mimicking Material (TMM) with adjustable conductivity properties, which can be matched to those of biological tissue, is presented. TMM models of breast fat and gland matching the conductivity of real tissue ... -
Primary cilia expression in bone marrow in response to mechanical stimulation in explant bioreactor culture
Coughlin, T. R.; Schiavi, Jessica; Varsanik, M. Alyssa; Voisin, M.; Birmingham, E.; Haugh, M. G.; McNamara, L. M.; Niebur, G. L. (AO Research Institute Davos, 2016-07-19)Bone marrow contains a multitude of mechanically sensitive cells that may participate in mechanotransduction. Primary cilia are sensory organelles expressed on mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), osteoblasts, osteocytes, and ... -
RDF dataset profiling – a survey of features, methods, vocabularies and applications
Ellefi, Mohamed Ben; Bellahsene, Zohra; Breslin, John G.; Demidova, Elena; Dietze, Stefan; Szymanski, Julian; Todorov, Konstantin (IOS Press, 2018-07-12)The Web of Data, and in particular Linked Data, has seen tremendous growth over the past years. However, reuse and take-up of these rich data sources is often limited and focused on a few well-known and established RDF ... -
Realistic 3D finite element mesh of the adult human pelvis for electrical impedance tomography
Dunne, Eoghan; Porter, Emily; McGinley, Brian; O'Halloran, Martin (Zenodo, 2017-06-21)The finite element method is a numerical technique used to solve forward models for electrical impedance tomography. To date, realistic finite element models (FEMs) have been created for the head and thorax, but pelvic ... -
A realistic pelvic phantom for electrical impedance measurement
Dunne, Eoghan; McGinley, Brian; O'Halloran, Martin; Porter, Emily (IOP Publishing, 2018-03-15)Objective: To design and fabricate an anatomically and conductively accurate phantom for electrical impedance studies of non-invasive bladder volume monitoring. Approach: A modular pelvic phantom was designed and fabricated, ... -
Stable tissue-mimicking materials and an anatomically realistic, adjustable head phantom for electrical impedance tomography
McDermott, Barry; McGinley, Brian; Krukiewicz, Katarzyna; Divilly, Brendan; Jones, Marggie; Biggs, Manus; O'Halloran, Martin; Porter, Emily (IOP Publishing, 2017-11-27)Objective. To develop dielectrically accurate, easy to mould solid tissue-mimicking materials (TMMs) for use with electrical impedance tomography (EIT) and combine them into a head phantom with realistic anatomy and ... -
Supervised learning classifiers for electrical impedance-based bladder state detection
Dunne, Eoghan; Santorelli, Adam; McGinley, Brian; Leader, Geraldine; O’Halloran, Martin; Porter, Emily (Nature Publishing Group, 2018-03-29)Urinary Incontinence affects over 200 million people worldwide, severely impacting the quality of life of individuals. Bladder state detection technology has the potential to improve the lives of people with urinary ... -
Symmetry difference electrical impedance tomography-a novel modality for anomaly detection
McDermott, Barry; Porter, Emily; Jones, Marggie; McGinley, Brian; O'Halloran, Martin (IOP Publishing, 2018-04-26)Objective: The theoretical basis, experimental implementation, and proof of concept of a novel electrical impedance tomography (EIT) imaging technique, called symmetry difference EIT, is described. This technique is ... -
Tackling hypertension via adrenal ablation-the development of novel immunohistochemical ablation biomarkers
Donlon, Padraig T.; Shahzad, Atif; Eaton-Evans, Jimmy; Ruvio, Giuseppe; Prakash, Punit; O'Halloran, Martin; Dennedy, Michael C. (IEEE, 2018-04-09)Microwave thermal ablation is under consideration for minimally invasive treatment of unilateral and bilateral adrenal adenomas, symptomatic of Conn's syndrome. Currently available microwave technologies are illsuited to ... -
Technological requirements for microwave ablation of adrenal masses
Fallahi, Hojjatollah; Shahzad, Atif; Clausing, Daniel; O’Halloran, Martin; Dennedy, Michael Conall; Prakash, Punit (IEEE, 2017)Microwave thermal ablation is under consideration for minimally invasive treatment of bilateral adrenal adenomas, symptomatic of Conn's syndrome. Currently available microwave technologies are ill-suited to precise ablation ...