engineering design day 2012 - College of Engineering @ The ...

SImuLATED ANEuRYSm DEpLoYmENT moDEL
Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Program
CLASS
ENGR 498A/B
SpoNSoR
W.L. Gore & Associates
SpoNSoR mENToR/ADVISoR
Dan Gabrys
pRoJECT mENToR
Dr. Patrick Marcus
TEAm mEmBERS
Ahmad Al Matouq (SE)
German Castillo (ME)
Aaron Gibson (CoE/EE)
Erin Lauterbach (ME)
Isaac Tineo (ME)
Heeje Yang (ME)
CoE = Computer Engineering
EE = Electrical Engineering
ME = Mechanical Engineering
SE = Systems Engineering
TEAm 4941: pRoJECT SummARY
This project focuses on the GORE ®
EXCLUDER ® AAA Endoprosthesis,
an implantable device manufactured
by the Gore Medical Products
Division, used to treat an abdominal
aortic aneurysm (AAA), which
is a bulge in the aorta that could
rupture with life-threatening results.
Endovascular repair using this device
is less invasive than open surgery
and involves excluding (sealing off)
the aneurysm by placing the device inside of the diseased aorta, making a new path
for the blood to flow. The scope of this project was to design and build a simulated
abdominal aortic aneurysm deployment model which represents the anatomy for R&D
and demonstration of deployment of the GORE ® EXCLUDER ® AAA Endoprosthesis under
simulated use conditions. Some of the characteristics of the model include:
• Designed for delivery and deployment of the device within the model
• Simulate anatomical conditions of the body (geometry, temperature, flow, etc.)
• Portable and suitable for public demonstrations and of size to fit on a tabletop
• Allows visualization of device deployment
• Controls system inputs and displays outputs from a GUI application on a laptop
• Collects real-time data for temperature, pressure and flow rate
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