Jeffrey Crompton

Use of Computational Simulation of Medical Technology – Part 6

Emerging Trends: Where Could PCM&S Go? As the use of simulation continues to expand, there are a few areas emerging as topics that may become increasingly significant in extending the implementation of simulation driven design and manufacturing. A selection of a few of these areas is provided in the remainder of this article. 6.1: Regulatory […]

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Use of Computational Simulation of Medical Technology – Part 5

Operating Safely: Patient Well-being The safe and effective operation of medical devices, instrumentation and related technologies are critical to ensuring satisfactory patient outcomes and maintaining healthcare worker safety through the product life cycle. To reduce the impact of potential risks associated with the use of any new medical device or technology, regulatory bodies such as

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Use of Computational Simulation of Medical Technology – Part 4

Making it Work: Manufacturing Technology Once a functional product design has demonstrated the ability to meet the technical and market needs, developers must turn their attention to manufacturing the product with the required degree of precision, reliability and cost. Simulation of all or part of the manufacturing process can be both informative as well as

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Use of Computational Simulation of Medical Technology – Part 3

Getting to Market: Product Design and Development After providing proof of concept for a new medical technology, device or development of second-generation devices, the next step is finalizing the product design. This is one of the most important stages in the development of a successful medical device since a flawed design may lead to it being

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Use of Computational Simulation of Medical Technology – Part 2

Proof-of-Concept: In the Beginning There Was… Innovative product concepts and technologies invariably need to provide some level of Proof of Concept before an organization or agency will commit significant investment in money and/or resources to support continued development and commercialization. PCM&S is being increasingly used during the proof-of-concept phase to demonstrate technical feasibility, identify critical

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Use of Computational Simulation of Medical Technology – Part 1

Introduction Medical devices continue to provide a crucial component in the diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, and treatment for diseases. Unlike drugs or biologics, a medical device can vary from the simple, which poses little or no risk to the user such as a tongue depressor or toothbrush, to the life-sustaining such as a pacemaker or medical

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STOP Analysis

Background Consistent behavior of high-performance optical structures requires maintenance of structural stability over the range of potential operating conditions. In practice, thermally induced aberrations are ubiquitous in optical systems and can limit the performance of optical devices such as gravitational wave detectors, deformable mirrors, lithographic systems, high power lasers, space optical instruments and telescopes, optical

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Thermal mitigation for high power electronics

HeatSinkSim

HeatSinkSim Changing Electronics Cooling   It has been a while since we have put out a Blog on electronics cooling and there is a very good reason for that – not much has changed, until now.   Progressive companies manufacturing electronic components and circuits consistently challenge the limits of component performance by offering increased functionality

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MRI – Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Simulation

MRI – Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Simulation Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the most widely used and safest imaging modalities for medical diagnostics. Despite this, one of the major technological challenges facing the biomedical imaging world has been the issues created when a patient with metallic medical implants suffers the need (for any

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Create The Future Design Contest Winners

Create the Future Design Contest Winners   Results are in, and it is time to congratulate all the winners in this year’s Create The Future Design Contest! Special congrats goes to the Grand Prize Winner, Behrokh Khoshnevis, Los Angeles, California. Learn all about his entry using the link below.   http://contest.techbriefs.com/2014/entries/machinery-automation-robotics/4737   Once again, our

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