Imaging
Research Highlights (with article links)
A sampling of student work at the interface between the biological, engineering, and design sciences
Elucidating structure-function relationships in sponge skeletal systems:
Hydrodynamic insights
Mechanical and hydrodynamic analyses of helical strake-like ridges in a glass sponge
Matheus C Fernandes, Mehdi Saadat, Patrick Cauchy-Dubois, Chikara Inamura, Ted Sirota, Garrett Milliron, Hossein Haj-Hariri, Katia Bertoldi, James C Weaver
Journal of the Royal Society Interface 18 (182), 20210559
Innovations in artificial heart valve design, fit testing, and functionality:
Heart valves that expand as a patient grows
A geometrically adaptable heart valve replacement
Sophie C Hofferberth, Mossab Y Saeed, Lara Tomholt, Matheus C Fernandes, Christopher J Payne, Karl Price, Gerald R Marx, Jesse J Esch, David W Brown, Jonathan Brown, Peter E Hammer, Richard W Bianco,
James C Weaver, Elazer R Edelman, Pedro J Del Nido
Science Translational Medicine 12 (531)
High-throughput modeling of complex multi-component skeletal systems:
Sea Stars as a Case Study
High-throughput segmentation, data visualization, and analysis of sea star skeletal networks
Lara Tomholt, Daniel Baum, Robert J. Wood, and
James C. Weaver
Journal of Structural Biology 215 (2), 107955
A new research platform for the development of tethered tissue-specific medical devices
Design and fabrication of a parasite-inspired millimeter-scale tissue anchoring mechanism
Gabriel Maquignaza, Rachel Zoll, Michael Karpelson, James C. Weaver, and Robert J. Wood
PNAS Nexus 3 (12)
Real-time 3D imaging of living biological surfaces
Imaging biological surface topography
in situ and in vivo
Dylan K Wainwright, George V Lauder, James C Weaver
Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8 (11), 1626-1638
High-resolution multi-material bitmap-based 3D printing of complex biomedical data sets
From improved diagnostics to presurgical planning: High-resolution functionally graded multimaterial 3D printing of biomedical tomographic data sets
Ahmed Hosny, Steven J Keating, Joshua D Dilley, Beth Ripley, Tatiana Kelil, Steve Pieper, Dominik Kolb, Christoph Bader, Anne-Marie Pobloth, Molly Griffin, Reza Nezafat, Georg Duda, Ennio A Chiocca, James R Stone, James S Michaelson, Mason N Dean, Neri Oxman, James C Weaver
3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing 5 (2), 103-113