Journal of Medical Devices: Recent submissions
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Erratum: “Simulation Method for Predicting Tissue Electrical Properties During Colonoscopy†[ASME J. Med. Devices, 2014, 8(2), p. 020945]
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Chen Tang, Randolph Robert, and JungHun Choi. -
Design Optimization of a Magnetic Field Based Localization Device for Enhanced Ventriculostomy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The accuracy of many freehand medical procedures can be improved with assistance from realtime localization. Magnetic localization systems based on harnessing passive permanent magnets (PMs) are of great interest to track ... -
A Magnetically Actuated Drug Delivery System for Robotic Endoscopic Capsules
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)There is an increasing need to incorporate an actively controlled drug delivery system (DDS) into the next generation of capsule endoscopy in order to treat diseases in the gastrointestinal tract in a noninvasive way. ... -
Validation of Cardiac Output as Reported by a Permanently Implanted Wireless Sensor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The CardioMEMS heart failure (HF) system was tested for cardiac output (CO) measurement accuracy using an in vitro mock circulatory system. A software algorithm calculates CO based on analysis of the pressure waveform as ... -
Design and Preliminary Evaluation of a Passive Spine Exoskeleton
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)This paper presents a design of a passive spine exoskeleton which implements a “push–pull†external assistive strategy. The spine exoskeleton was designed for reducing the risk of back injury. It applies a pulling ... -
Coating Techniques and Release Kinetics of Drug Eluting Stents
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Implantation of drugeluting stents (DESs) via percutaneous coronary intervention is the most popular treatment option to restore blood flow to occluded vasculature. The many devices currently used in clinic and under ... -
Liquid Metal Ink Enabled Rapid Prototyping of Electrochemical Sensor for Wireless Glucose Detection on the Platform of Mobile Phone
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Pervasive detection of blood glucose is rather critical for the realtime disease diagnosis which would provide valuable guidance for treatment planning. Here, we established a health care platform for this purpose through ... -
Design of a Transtibial Prosthesis With Active Transverse Plane Control
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This paper describes the design and bench testing of a transtibial prosthesis with active transverseplane control. The prosthesis allows direct control of transverse plane torque over the full physiological range. The ... -
Maxillary Cutting Guide for Executing a Simulated Osteotomy and Removing the Bony Interference During Orthognathic Surgery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The results of surgical simulation need to be transferred to the operation table with precision and confidence. We want to introduce a threedimensional (3D)printed maxillary cutting guide to perform the simulationbased ... -
Design of Novel Mixer and Applicator for Two Component Surgical Adhesives
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Current mixer and applicator devices on the market are not able to properly and efficiently mix twocomponent surgical adhesives in small volumes necessary to achieve economic viability. Furthermore, in these devices a ... -
Ability of a Novel Foot and Ankle Loading Device to Reproduce Loading Conditions in the Standing Position During Computed Tomography
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)To describe a loading device, we created for use with current computed tomography (CT) scanners and to evaluate its ability to reproduce loading conditions. Ten feet of five healthy volunteers (three men and two women) ... -
An On Site Thermoelectric Cooling Device for Cryotherapy and Control of Skin Blood Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Cryotherapy involves the surface application of low temperatures to enhance the healing of soft tissue injuries. Typical devices embody a remote source of chilled water that is pumped through a circulation bladder placed ... -
A Comparison of the Defect Rate Between Original Equipment Manufacturer and Reprocessed Single Use Bipolar and Ultrasound Diathermy Devices
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Reprocessing has emerged as an attempt to control the cost of singleuse bipolar and ultrasound diathermy devices despite limited data on defect rates. This study compares the defect rates, as reported by surgical teams, ... -
Design and Preliminary Evaluation of a Stiff Steerable Cutter for Arthroscopic Procedures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This article describes a novel and simple shaft actuated tip articulation (SATA) mechanism that allows arthroscopic instruments to articulate while remaining stiff. Since the SATA mechanism requires only independent rotation ... -
Evaluation of a Prototype Hybrid Vacuum Pump to Provide Vacuum Assisted Suspension for Above Knee Prostheses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Vacuumassisted suspension (VAS) of prosthetic sockets utilizes a pump to evacuate air from between the prosthetic liner and socket, and are available as mechanical or electric systems. This technical note describes a hybrid ... -
Modification of the ICARE System for Pediatric Therapy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Effective gait therapy is critical to children who have difficulty walking due to developmental, neurologic, or orthopedic conditions. Current gait training technologies can be cost prohibitive and often do not address the ... -
Sensorless Force Sensing for Minimally Invasive Surgery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Robotic minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) has achieved success in various procedures; however, the lack of haptic feedback is considered by some to be a limiting factor. The typical method to acquire tool–tissue reaction ... -
Inexpensive Vision Based System for the Direct Measurement of Ankle Stiffness During Quiet Standing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)We created a sensorfusion suite for the acquisition of biometric information that can be used for the estimation of human control strategy in a variety of everyday tasks. This work focuses on the experimental validation ... -
A Reconfigurable High Speed Stereo Radiography System for Sub Millimeter Measurement of In Vivo Joint Kinematics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Relative motions within normal and pathological joints of the human body can occur on the submillimeter and subdegree scale. Dynamic radiography can be used to create a rapid sequence of images from which measurements of ... -
Attention Aware Robotic Laparoscope Based on Fuzzy Interpretation of Eye Gaze Patterns
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Laparoscopic robots have been widely adopted in modern medical practice. However, explicitly interacting with these robots may increase the physical and cognitive load on the surgeon. An attentionaware robotic laparoscope ...