1. Warm welcome to the new MBEC Editor-in-Chief and his team

   • Ratko Magjarević

   Editorial 11 February 2013 Pages: 1 - 2

2. Editorial by Nitish Thakor

   • Nitish V. Thakor

   Editorial 17 February 2013 Pages: 3 - 5

3. A hybrid reconstruction algorithm for fluorescence tomography using Kirchhoff approximation and finite element method

   • Xin Wang
   • Xu Cao
   • Jing Bai

   Original Article 01 December 2012 Pages: 7 - 17

   

4. Patient-tailored plate for bone fixation and accurate 3D positioning in corrective osteotomy

   • J. G. G. Dobbe
   • J. C. Vroemen
   • G. J. Streekstra

   Original Article 10 October 2012 Pages: 19 - 27

   

5. A dynamic Bayesian network for estimating the risk of falls from real gait data

   • German Cuaya
   • Angélica Muñoz-Meléndez
   • Aldo Alessi

   Original Article 14 October 2012 Pages: 29 - 37

   

6. Ability of modal analysis to detect osseointegration of implants in transfemoral amputees: a physical model study

   • Nicola J. Cairns
   • Mark J. Pearcy
   • Clayton J. Adam

   Original Article 06 October 2012 Pages: 39 - 47

   

7. Wavelet-based sparse functional linear model with applications to EEGs seizure detection and epilepsy diagnosis

   • Shengkun Xie
   • Sridhar Krishnan

   Original Article 09 October 2012 Pages: 49 - 60

   

8. In vitro electroretinogram for the study of the functionality of differentiated retinal pigment epithelium cells

   • Niina Onnela
   • Leena Lehtonen
   • Jari Hyttinen

   Original Article 11 October 2012 Pages: 61 - 70

   

9. Off-line determination of the optimal number of iterations of the robust anisotropic diffusion filter applied to denoising of brain MR images

   • Ricardo J. Ferrari

   Original Article 03 November 2012 Pages: 71 - 88

   

10. Using three-dimensional multigrid-based snake and multiresolution image registration for reconstruction of cranial defect

    • Yuan-Lin Liao
    • Chia-Feng Lu
    • Yu-Te Wu

    Original Article 19 October 2012 Pages: 89 - 101

    

11. Self-mixing microprobe for monitoring microvascular perfusion in rat brain

    • Edite Figueiras
    • Ricardo Oliveira
    • Frits F. M. de Mul

    Original Article 12 October 2012 Pages: 103 - 112

    

12. Deformation and pressure propagation in deep tissue during mechanical painful pressure stimulation

    • Sara Finocchietti
    • Ken Takahashi
    • Kazue Mizumura

    Original Article 24 November 2012 Pages: 113 - 122

    

13. Geometry-based optimization of radio-frequency coils for powering neuroprosthetic implants

    • Jungsuk Kim
    • Eric Basham
    • Kenneth D. Pedrotti

    Original Article 21 October 2012 Pages: 123 - 134

    

14. Remote sensing of patterns of cardiac activity on an ambulatory subject using millimeter-wave interferometry and statistical methods

    • Ilya V. Mikhelson
    • Sasan Bakhtiari
    • Alan V. Sahakian

    Original Article 26 October 2012 Pages: 135 - 142

    

15. Effect of arm position on the prediction of kinematics from EMG in amputees

    • Ning Jiang
    • Silvia Muceli
    • Dario Farina

    Original Article Open access 23 October 2012 Pages: 143 - 151

    

16. A classification scheme for ventricular arrhythmias using wavelets analysis

    • K. Balasundaram
    • S. Masse
    • K. Umapathy

    Original Article 07 November 2012 Pages: 153 - 164

    

17. Comparison of displacement and acceleration transducers for the characterization of mechanics of muscle and subcutaneous tissues by system identification of a mechanomyogram

    • Takanori Uchiyama
    • Keita Shinohara

    Original Article 03 November 2012 Pages: 165 - 173

    

18. Biomechanical analysis of the wrist arthroplasty in rheumatoid arthritis: a finite element analysis

    • M. N. Bajuri
    • Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Kadir
    • T. Kamarul

    Original Article 03 November 2012 Pages: 175 - 186

    

19. Practical limits on muscle synergy identification by non-negative matrix factorization in systems with mechanical constraints

    • Thomas J. Burkholder
    • Keith W. van Antwerp

    Original Article 03 November 2012 Pages: 187 - 196

    

20. Local property characterization of prostate glands using inhomogeneous modeling based on tumor volume and location analysis

    • Yeongjin Kim
    • Bummo Ahn
    • Jung Kim

    Original Article 11 November 2012 Pages: 197 - 205

    

21. Effect of head posture on the healthy human carotid bifurcation hemodynamics

    • Yannis Papaharilaou
    • Nicolas Aristokleous
    • Andreas S. Anayiotos

    Original Article 10 November 2012 Pages: 207 - 218

    

22. A quasi-brittle continuum damage finite element model of the human proximal femur based on element deletion

    • Ridha Hambli

    Original Article 21 November 2012 Pages: 219 - 231

    

23. Deriving respiration from photoplethysmographic pulse width

    • Jesús Lázaro
    • Eduardo Gil
    • Pablo Laguna

    Original Article 21 September 2012 Pages: 233 - 242

    

24. Erratum to: Deriving respiration from photoplethysmographic pulse width

    • Jesús Lázaro
    • Eduardo Gil
    • Pablo Laguna

    Erratum 15 December 2012 Pages: 243 - 243