Living three-dimensional micro fabricated constructs for the replacement of vital organ function

TRANSDUCERS 2003 - 12th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1754-1757

  Borenstein, J T ^a,d   Cheung, W ^c   Hartman, L ^c   Kaazempur Mofrad, M R ^b   King, K R ^a,b   Sevy, A ^c   Shin, M ^c   Weinberg, E J ^a,b   Vacanti, J P ^c,d  

^a CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomembranes; Blood vessels; Cells (biology); Computational fluid dynamics; Computational modeling; Liver; Microfluidics; Nanoporous materials; Polymers; Soft lithography

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BIOPOLYMERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FLUID DYNAMICS; LIVER; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSYSTEMS; POLYMERS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLID-STATE SENSORS; TRANSDUCERS;

BIOMEMBRANES; CAPILLARY NETWORK; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; NANO-POROUS MATERIALS; NANO-POROUS POLYMER MEMBRANES; ORGAN REPLACEMENT; SOFT LITHOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CHANNELS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 5544294716     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SENSOR.2003.1217125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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