Design and implementation of MEMS based micro-needles for biomedical applications

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1505-1508

  Aggarwal, Priyanka ^a   Kaler, K V I S ^a   Badawy, Wael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood sampling; Drug delivery; Finite element modeling; MEMS forces; Micro needles; Skin force

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG PRODUCTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SKIN; SUBSTRATES;

DRUG DELIVERY;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0141539536     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. http://www.mems-exchange.org/MEMS/what-is.html
2. J.D.Zahn, N.H.Talbot, D.Liepmann, and A.P.Pisano, "Micro-fabricated Polysilicon Microneedles for Minimally Invasive Biomedical Devices" Biomedical Microdevices, vol. 2, pp. 295-303, 2000.
3. S. Henry, D.V. McAllister, M. G. Allen, and M. R. Prausnitz, "Microfabricated microneedles: A novel approach to transdermal drug delivery" Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, vol. 87, no. 8, pp. 922-925, August 1998.
4. Dong-Soo Kwon, Ki-Uk Kyung, Sung Min Kwon, Jong Beom Ra, and Hyun Wook Park " Realistic Force Reflection in a Spine Biopsy Simulator", Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seoul, Korea, pp. 21-26, may 2001.
5. J.Gere and S. Timoshenko, MECHANICS OF MATERIALS. BK&DK, May 1997.
6. Marc Madou, FUNDAMENTALS OF MICRO-FABRICATION. CRC Press, 1997.
7. A.C.Gracias, and A.N.Rios, " Experiments on Silicon-to-Silicon Direct Bonding" Rev. Bras. Aplic. Vacuo, vol. 19, pp. 19-22, 2000.