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Current efforts to evaluate the performance of laparoscopic arterial fusion devices are limited to costly, time consuming, empirical studies. Thus, a finite element (FE) model, with the ability to predict device performance would improve device design and reduce development time and costs. This study introduces a model of the heat transfer through an artery during electrosurgical procedures that accounts...
A system was built to test the efficacy of bacterial biofilm disruption using laser generated shockwaves. The system is based on a Q-switched, ND:YAG pulsed laser operating at a rep rate of 10 Hz with 1500 mJ pulses centered at 1064 nm. The laser pulses were used to create shockwave pulses in Al coated polycarbonate substrates and a resulting peak stress of greater than 50 MPa was measured. These...
A controller for an upper-limb functional electrical stimulation system could use intended reach goal to generate a set of stimulation patterns that would move the hand to the desired location via a reasonably naturalistic velocity profile. Although discrete classifiers have been successfully used to predict movement goal from a fixed number of possible reach locations using neural activity recorded...
This paper describes a new theoretical approach to bone microdamage, in which a population of cracks is explicitly modelled. A given sample of bone is assumed to contain a certain number of cracks, whose growth characteristics are described with an equation containing stochastic variables to create statistical differences from one crack to another. This type of model allows us to predict a wide variety...
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