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Hertz Contact Based Scaling of Puncture Forces for Large Scale Needle Prototypes Using a Gelatinous Tissue Phantom
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: In order to test small scale medical devices, it is often necessary to prototype them on a larger scale such that proof-of-concept tests can be made more affordably and design details can ...
Design of an Endoscopic Biopsy Needle With Flexural Members
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: As a minimally invasive means of extracting a tissue sample from a patient, current endoscopic biopsy needles generally do not preserve tissue histology and often require multiple attempts to ...