Title
Injection system for cellular assembly of 3D bio-tissue engineered constructs
Abstract
Tissue engineering is an emerging discipline which seeks to overcome many of the limitations of current surgical approaches for the treatment of tissue and organ loss. The approach utilises patient derived biological tissue replacements. Traditional tissue engineering approaches involve the seeding of suspended single cells onto the surface of a 3D porous bio-material, where the seeded construct is incubated for a period of time before implantation back into the patient. A number of limitations exist with this approach which include low cell seeding density and the inability for accurate spatial control of cellular distribution within the construct. A novel approach pursued in our lab addresses these limitations, and an automated robotic system is currently being developed for the procedure. A key subsystem for the automation of the process is the injection system, which expands a pore before particle delivery ensuring particle containment. Results have given great insight into the various aspects involved with the injection process and proof of concept has been established.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/CoASE.2012.6386394
Automation Science and Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
biological tissues,cellular biophysics,medical robotics,porous materials,prosthetics,surgery,tissue engineering,3D biotissue engineered construction,3D porous biomaterial surface,automated robotic system,biological tissue replacements,cellular assembly,cellular distribution spatial control,current surgical approaches,injection system,low cell seeding density,organ loss,particle containment,patient implantation,process automation,proof of concept,suspended single cells,tissue treatment
Biomedical engineering,Robotic systems,Cellular biophysics,Medical robotics,Biochemical engineering,Automation,Proof of concept,Tissue engineering,Biological tissue,Engineering
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2161-8070
978-1-4673-0429-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Lang100.34
Xiaoqi Chen2214.19
Wenhui Wang39219.23
Timothy Bryan Francis Woodfield410.96