Team Members
Nicole Rinaldi
Dale Glavin
Andrew Hirsh
Ihab Al-Atawneh
Supervisors
Dr. Edmund Lalor, Liaison Samuel Charpentier
Customers
Dr. Jonathon Stone, Simulated Inanimate Models (SIM), LLC., Dr. Michael Wilson
Description
The cautery phantom senior design team will engineer and improve a system that will arrest artificial blood flow in response to electrocautery in a tissue phantom manufactured by Simulated Inanimate Models, LLC (SIM). To solve this problem, we have investigated methods of vessel constriction by lining the tissue phantom blood vessel wall with a thermoresponsive material, coagulating the artificial blood by introducing proteins and chemicals into the mixture, and by making the blood vessel with a shape memory polymer.
