June 11, 2010
Now in its third year, the FDA / NHLBI / NSF Workshop on Computer Methods for Cardiovascular Devices brings together a unusual mix of folks from industry, academia, regulatory, and funding organizations. This year’s theme focuses on the integration of nonclinical and computer models. Like previous years, a common thread has been the need for sharing and collaboration, especially in the area of biomechanics data and modeling methodologies. Last year, Craig advocated an open source model for medical development, and this year, he presented a collection of creative commons licensed resources for Open Stent Design. Read on for the slides… Read more »
June 9, 2010
At the recent SMST conference, we presented our Open Stent Design for the first time, and received lot of great feedback from the crowd. We previously introduced the idea here, and posted a detailed manuscript describing the CAD model and theory behind the calculations. Today. we have posted the Stent Calculator worksheet to the same page. Read more »
May 17, 2010
In this SMST-2010 presentation, Craig advocates for applying some principles from the open source and creative commons movements to medical implant design. Power to the people! This project was first introduced in a previous post, and has a permanent home at the Open Stent Design feature page. The slide show embedded below was presented at Asilomar today, and it’s offered under a creative commons attribution-share alike license – you’re free to download, adapt, and reuse the content within simple terms of the license. The presentation gives an overview of the Open Stent Design project, and presents results from some trend analysis and statistical exploration of inputs and outputs. Read on for more… Read more »
May 15, 2010
“Killer App” may not be the best term to use to describe a medical component, but if such a thing exists in the world of Nitinol, its the vascular stent. In the past fifteen years or so, these tiny metallic scaffolds have changed the practice of medicine, improved the lives of countless people around the world, and have dominated the landscape of Nitinol component manufacturing. At NDC, we’ve made more of these beautiful little objects than we can count, and we are frequently asked to help current and prospective customers improve their designs, develop new ones, perform testing and analysis, run simulations, and more. Today, we are pleased to release some resources and tools that we have developed to help new and experienced designers get started with stent design. Read on for more… Read more »
