基于ADS8332的生理信号采集系统电路设计

本文介绍了医学生理信号的的特点,根据其特点设计出了针对医学生理信号进行采集的电路。该电路设计实现了基于16位的高精度A/D 转换芯片ADS8332 的医学生理信号采集系统,以基于Cortex-M3 内核的32 位微控制器STM32F103RD作为采集控制芯片,该系统电路可以实现对最多16 个通道的模拟医学生理信号进行采集。此电路设计充分利用了ADS8332 的高精度、低功耗、高采样速率的特点以及片上集成功能,并配合了信号调理电路和相应的抗干扰措施,因此保证了医学生理信号的采集精度和系统的稳定性。     

基于低相干光干涉的眼睛光学生物参数测量研究

目的 眼睛的光学生物参数中的眼轴长度(AL)和角膜曲率半径(CR)可以作为预防和监测眼球近视的两个重要参数。为了提高测量眼轴长度的速度与精度和同步实现角膜曲率高精度动态测量,本文提出一种基于低相干光干涉技术眼睛光学生物参数测量的系统。方法 该系统使用旋转光学延迟线快速改变参考光的光程,利用曲率半径为8 mm的标准件标定人眼角膜顶点到靶环之间的距离,利用角膜的干涉信号对相机和数据采集卡进行触发实现同步采集,从而实现眼轴长度的快速测量和精准定位靶环到角膜顶点之间的距离,同时保证成像系统的放大倍率恒定和数据的实时采集。结果 实验结果表明,这种低相干光干涉测量系统,可以实时测量眼轴长度和角膜曲率半径,眼轴长度误差低于40μm,人眼角膜曲率半径方差为2.082 36×10^-2μm。结论 该系统能够快速、精准地测量AL和CR,可在近视的预防和监测中发挥重要作用。     

基于 ADS8332 的生理信号采集系统电路设计 *

摘要： 本文介绍了医学生理信号的的特点, 根据其特点设计出了针对医学生理信号进行采集的电路。该电路设计实现了基于 16 位的高精度 A/D 转换芯片 ADS8332 的医学生理信号采集系统,以基于 Cortex-M3 内核的 32 位微控制器 STM32F103RD 作为采 集控制芯片, 该系统电路可以实现对最多 16 个通道的模拟医学生理信号进行采集。此电路设计充分利用了 ADS8332 的高精度、 低功耗、 高采样速率的特点以及片上集成功能, 并配合了信号调理电路和相应的抗干扰措施,因此保证了医学生理信号的采集精 度和系统的稳定性。     

多导联在线阻抗检测的实现与分析

目的：提出了一种基于多导联生理信号采集装置平台的快速、稳定、低功耗的在线阻抗测量方法。方法：在线阻抗测量的实现主要有两个关键技术：正弦信号恒流源和数字带通滤波器,都主要是采用软件的方式实现的。结果：单极性和双极性两种模式四组测量阻值的变异系数均不超过10%,测量值的稳定性较高,可以通过多次测量求平均值的办法来修正测量误差,修正后的误差明显优于修正之前的误差。结论：由单极性和双极性两种模式实际阻抗测量值可知,测量值能够准确反映电极与人体表皮的接触情况,此种方法稳定可靠。     

生物电阻抗特征参数测量数据采集系统的研究

为了实现生物电阻抗参数成像,我们建立了一个快速、精确的生物电阻抗特性参数测量的数据采集系统,采取多频率组合激励并扫基频的方法,在多个激励频率不同测量阻抗信息,同时采用了一种新的高精度解调方法;正交序列数字解调,并对阻抗模型参数的估算方法进行了改进。结果表明,系统可以在1．6kHz-380kHz的频带范围内以小于100Hz的跨度编程选择工作频率,最多时可同时在四种频率下测量阻抗信息,系统的噪声水平在－80dB左右。在每周期采样64点的情况下,解调算法可将信噪比提高5．6倍以上。     

北京新航兴业科贸有限公司新产品

1．XHl00型清醒大鼠血压测量装置（无创）： 该装置由光电脉搏换能器,标准信号压力换能器（免定标）,血压表、尾压表套、大鼠固定器、加压球等组成,可配国内外生物信号采集系统使用,能准确记录大鼠血压变化,精度5％,使用方便,操作简单。     

北京新航兴业科贸有限公司

新产品： 1．XH100型清醒大鼠血压测量装置（无创）： 该装置由光电脉搏换能器,标准信号压力换能器（免定标）,血压表、尾压表套、大鼠固定器、加压球等组成,可配国内外生物信号采集系统使用,能准确记录大鼠血压变化,精度5％,使用方便,操作简单。     

北京新航兴业科贸有限公司

新产品： 1．XH100型清醒大鼠血压测量装置（无创）： 该装置由光电脉搏换能器,标准信号压力换能器（免定标）,血压表、尾压表套、大鼠固定器、加压球等组成,可配国内外生物信号采集系统使用,能准确记录大鼠血压变化,精度5％,使用方便,操作简单。     

北京新航兴业科贸有限公司

新产品： 1．XH1l00型清醒大鼠血压测量装置（无创）： 该装置由光电脉搏换能器,标准信号压力换能器（免定标）,血压表、尾压表套、大鼠固定器、加压球等组成,可配国内外生物信号采集系统使用,能准确记录大鼠血压变化,精度5％,使用方便,操作简单。     

《生理通讯》编委会名单（按姓氏笔画排序）

新产品：1．XH100型清醒大鼠血压测量装置（无创）： 该装置由光电脉搏换能器,标准信号压力换能器（免定标）,血压表、尾压表套、大鼠固定器、加压球等组成,可配国内外生物信号采集系统使用,能准确记录大鼠血压变化,精度5％,使用方便,操作简单。     

Precision requirements and data compression in CryoEM/CryoET

With larger, higher speed detectors and improved automation, individual CryoEM instruments are capable of producing a prodigious amount of data each day, which must then be stored, processed and archived. While it has become routine to use lossless compression on raw counting-mode movies, the averages which result after correcting these movies no longer compress well. These averages could be considered sufficient for long term archival, yet they are conventionally stored with 32 bits of precision, despite high noise levels. Derived images are similarly stored with excess precision, providing an opportunity to decrease project sizes and improve processing speed. We present a simple argument based on propagation of uncertainty for safe bit truncation of flat-fielded images combined with lossless compression. The same method can be used for most derived images throughout the processing pipeline. We test the proposed strategy on two standard, data-limited CryoEM data sets, demonstrating that these limits are safe for real-world use. We find that 5 bits of precision is sufficient for virtually any raw CryoEM data and that 8–12 bits is sufficient for intermediate averages or final 3-D structures. Additionally, we detail and recommend specific rules for discretization of data as well as a practical compressed data representation that is tuned to the specific needs of CryoEM.     

利用SSR分子标记检测黄淮夏大豆(Glycine max)初选核心样本的代表性

作物核心种质是用最小的样本代表其全部遗传资源的最大遗传多样性。为了检测大豆初选核心样本取样的代表性,本研究从黄淮夏大豆初选核心样本中,随机选取两个类群,其材料数分别为20份和14份;从保留种质的相应奥群中,分别随机选取6份和5份,共计45份材料,进行14个农艺性状和20对SSR引物的分析。对两组材料进行农艺性状聚类．保菌种质与初选核心种质聚在了一起;利用SSR分子标记数据聚类,也得到了相同的结果。初选核心样本两个类群材料的等位变异数分别为129个,136个;保留种质相应类群材料的等位变异分别为76个,71个;初选核心种质两个类群材料分别包合了整个资源86.00％和86．62％的遗传多样性。本研究为大豆核心种质构建及检测提供分子水平的依据。     

Exploitation of biotechnology in a smaller company

The establishment of a research-orientated biotechnology company was one of the recommendations of the Spinks Committee. How the National Enterprise Board, the Medical Research Council and private sector financial institutions responded to this recommendation, leading to the formation of Celltech in November 1980, is described. The paper then outlines Celltech's current position (it is no longer a small company) and future plans and describes the two areas of technology in which the company has achieved a leading position: mammalian cell culture and the engineering of the genes coding for monoclonal antibodies. Celltech's methods of working with academia and the benefits to both are then described, and finally the paper tries to reach some conclusions about the part smaller companies play in technological innovation.     

A framework for increasing the availability of life cycle inventory data based on the role of multinational companies

Purpose

The aim of the paper is to assess the role and effectiveness of a proposed novel strategy for Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data collection in the food sector and associated supply chains. The study represents one of the first of its type and provides answers to some of the key questions regarding the data collection process developed, managed and implemented by a multinational food company across the supply chain.

Methods

An integrated LCI data collection process for confectionery products was developed and implemented by Nestlé, a multinational food company. Some of the key features includes (1) management and implementation by a multinational food company; (2) types of roles to manage, provide and facilitate data exchange; (3) procedures to identify key products, suppliers and customers; (4) LCI questionnaire and cover letter and (5) data quality management based on the pedigree matrix. Overall, the combined features in an integrated framework provide a new way of thinking about the collection of LCI data from the perspective of a multinational food company.

Results and discussion

The integrated LCI collection framework spanned across 5 months and resulted in 87 new LCI datasets for confectionery products from raw material, primary resource use, emission and waste release data collected from suppliers across 19 countries. The data collected was found to be of medium to high quality compared with secondary data. However, for retailers and waste service companies, only partially completed questionnaires were returned. Some of the key challenges encountered during the collection and creation of data included lack of experience, identifying key actors, communication and technical language, commercial compromise, confidentiality protection and complexity of multi-tiered supplier systems. A range of recommendations are proposed to reconcile these challenges which include standardisation of environmental data from suppliers, concise and targeted LCI questionnaires and visualising complexity through drawings.

Conclusions

The integrated LCI data collection process and strategy has demonstrated the potential role of a multinational company to quickly engage and act as a strong enabler to unlock latent data for various aspects of the confectionery supply chain. Overall, it is recommended that the research findings serve as the foundations to transition towards a standardised procedure which can practically guide other multinational companies to considerably increase the availability of LCI data.

     

The Abbreviated Impactor Measurement (AIM) Concept: Part 1—Influence of Particle Bounce and Re-Entrainment—Evaluation with a “Dry” Pressurized Metered Dose Inhaler (pMDI)-Based Formulation

The abbreviated impactor measurement concept is a potential improvement to the labor-intensive full-resolution cascade impactor methodology for inhaler aerosol aerodynamic particle size distribution (APSD) measurement by virtue of being simpler and therefore quicker to execute. At the same time, improved measurement precision should be possible by eliminating stages upon which little or no drug mass is collected. Although several designs of abbreviated impactor systems have been developed in recent years, experimental work is lacking to validate the technique with aerosols produced by currently available inhalers. In part 1 of this two-part article that focuses on aerosols produced by pressurized metered dose inhalers (pMDIs), the evaluation of two abbreviated impactor systems (Copley fast screening Andersen impactor and Trudell fast screening Andersen impactor), based on the full-resolution eight-stage Andersen nonviable cascade impactor (ACI) operating principle, is reported with a formulation producing dry particles. The purpose was to investigate the potential for non-ideal collection behavior associated with particle bounce in relation to internal losses to surfaces from which particles containing active pharmaceutical ingredient are not normally recovered. Both abbreviated impactors were found to be substantially equivalent to the full-resolution ACI in terms of extra-fine and fine particle and coarse mass fractions used as metrics to characterize the APSD of these pMDI-produced aerosols when sampled at 28.3 L/min, provided that precautions are taken to coat collection plates to minimize bounce and entrainment.     

Population structure and genetic diversity in a rice core collection (Oryza sativa L.) investigated with SSR markers

The assessment of genetic diversity and population structure of a core collection would benefit to make use of these germplasm as well as applying them in association mapping. The objective of this study were to (1) examine the population structure of a rice core collection; (2) investigate the genetic diversity within and among subgroups of the rice core collection; (3) identify the extent of linkage disequilibrium (LD) of the rice core collection. A rice core collection consisting of 150 varieties which was established from 2260 varieties of Ting's collection of rice germplasm were genotyped with 274 SSR markers and used in this study. Two distinct subgroups (i.e. SG 1 and SG 2) were detected within the entire population by different statistical methods, which is in accordance with the differentiation of indica and japonica rice. MCLUST analysis might be an alternative method to STRUCTURE for population structure analysis. A percentage of 26% of the total markers could detect the population structure as the whole SSR marker set did with similar precision. Gene diversity and MRD between the two subspecies varied considerably across the genome, which might be used to identify candidate genes for the traits under domestication and artificial selection of indica and japonica rice. The percentage of SSR loci pairs in significant (P<0.05) LD is 46.8% in the entire population and the ratio of linked to unlinked loci pairs in LD is 1.06. Across the entire population as well as the subgroups and sub-subgroups, LD decays with genetic distance, indicating that linkage is one main cause of LD. The results of this study would provide valuable information for association mapping using the rice core collection in future.     

Influence of tool rotation on 3D surface topography at the nanometric scale

The influence of the tool rotation on the 3D surface topography produced by the nano-cutting process is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. The least square mean method is utilized to model the evaluation criteria for the surface roughness parameters. The effects of the tool rotation on the cutting force and the chip formation at the nano-metric scale are also evaluated. It is found that the chip formation produced with tool rotation is dominated by the ploughing and the shearing forces. With increase of the adopted rotation velocity, the cutting force is sharply increased and the smaller elastic recovery of the machined surface is observed. The 3D surface roughness parameters at the nano-metric scale are significantly influenced by the tool rotation velocity and the feed speed, and the surface quality can be improved by decreasing the tool rotation velocity and the feed speed.     

Evaluation of five strategies for obtaining a core subset from a large genetic resource collection of durum wheat

The use of plant genetic resources contained in a large collection may be enhanced by specifying subsamples, called core samples. Five strategies for selecting a core sample from a collection of 3000 durum wheat accessions were applied and evaluated using four qualitative and eight quantitative spike characters. Each of the following strategies generated about 500 accessions for the core sample: random, random-systematic according to chronology of entry of the accessions into the collection, stratified by countryof-origin, stratified by log frequency by country-of-origin, and stratified by canonical variables. The first three strategies produced samples representative of the whole collection, but the remaining two produced the desired effect of increasing frequencies from less-represented countries-of-origin for several characters. The stratified canonical sample increased phenotypic variances. The quality of core samples is dependent upon good passport and evaluation data to partition the collection. The multivariate approach is extremely useful, but requires considerable data from the whole collection. Ecogeographic origin may be used in the absence of evaluation data on several characters to select useful core samples.     

Effect of speed and precision demands on human shoulder muscle electromyography during a repetitive task

Effects of speed and precision on electromyography (EMG) in human shoulder muscles were studied during a hand movement task where five points were marked repeatedly with a pencil. Six female subjects performed with three precision demands and at four speeds. Three of the speeds were predefined, while the last speed was performed as fast as possible. The EMG were recorded from 13 shoulder muscles or parts of muscles. Elbow velocity, acceleration and rectified EMG were calculated for each task. The mean elbow velocity and acceleration increased with speed and precision demands. There was an increase in EMG as the speed demand increased for all three precision demands (P < 0.001), and as the precision demand increased for the two highest predefined speed demands (P < 0.05). The combination of a high speed and a high precision demand resulted in the highest EMG. Different EMG levels were attained for the 13 muscles and the supraspinatus muscle always showed the highest normalized EMG. However, analysis of variance showed the same relative increase for all muscles with speed and precision demands. The EMG changes in response to precision demand can only be explained in part by the differences in movement velocity and acceleration, and other factors such as increased co-contraction must also be taken into account. Accepted: 25 May 1998     

Outcome-based residency education: teaching and evaluating the core competencies in plastic surgery

Through its oversight of residency education in the United States, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has mandated new structural changes in resident education with its newly created core competencies and an emphasis on outcomes-based education. These core competencies represent the central areas in which the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education believes a plastic surgery resident should receive adequate and appropriate education and training. In addition, as part of this outcomes-based education, residents are to be evaluated on their level of mastery in these core competencies. Increasingly, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education will assess the ability of residency programs to integrate the teaching and evaluating of the core competencies in their accreditation process of plastic surgery residency programs. This shift in residency evaluation initiated by the Outcomes Project by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education will have a significant impact in how plastic surgery residents are taught and, as importantly, evaluated in the coming years. The objectives of this work were as follows: (1) to outline the different methods available to foster a core competency-based plastic surgery training curriculum and (2) to serve as a primer to help both full-time academic and clinical faculty to further develop their curriculum to successfully teach and constructively evaluate their residents in the core competencies in accordance with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education guidelines. At the conclusion of this review, the reader should have a better understanding of what is necessary to formulate and help foster a plastic surgery core competency curriculum, particularly with an emphasis on the contemporary methods used for outcomes evaluations.