Background Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have a
significant negative impact on both patients and healthcare systems. Currently, there are no …

Cardiotocography (simultaneous recording of fetal heart rate (FHR) and uterine contractions)
is one of the most used diagnostic techniques to evaluate fetal well-being and to …

Temperature estimation is a fundamental step in assessment of the efficacy of thermal therapy.
A thermochromic material sensitive within the temperature range 52.5C–75C has been …

Pulsed wave (PW) Doppler ultrasound is routinely used in the clinic to assess blood flow.
Our annual Doppler quality assurance tests revealed unexpectedly large errors in …

This paper reports how laboratory experiments and hydrocode simulations (of cavitation and
shock wave propagation) have been used to generate a clinical device which can deliver …

This thesis describes the research carried out by the author on the exploitation of acoustic
emissions detected during extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (a non-invasive procedure for …

The use of optical radiation in medicine is widespread and extends to many different
specialist areas. Artificial optical radiation may be further divided into coherent and non-coherent …

Background: Neural respiratory drive (NRD), obtained from parasternal muscle electromyography
(pEMG), is a useful physiological biomarker of clinical deterioration and readmission …

CONCLUSIONS: Our study confirmed the major correlation level with IIEF-5 score of 3D T2
ISO sequence in the morphologic MR depiction of NVBs alterations after a bilateral nerve …

… ’ prize to a collaborative team, consisting of Tim Leighton of the Institute of Sound and Vibration
Research (ISVR), University of Southampton, Andrew Coleman and Fiammetta Fedele of …