Title :
Development of Micro-Tweezers for Tissue Micro-Manipulation
Author :
Mackay, Ruth E. ; Le, Huirong
Author_Institution :
Div. of Mech. Eng. & Mechatron., Univ. of Dundee, Dundee
Abstract :
This paper describes the design of an integrated electro-mechanical system for small scale tissue manipulation and stimulation. Finite element modeling was applied to simulate the electro-thermal mechanism for tissue gripping. The results revealed the effects of materials, input voltage, power consumption and media on the operation of micro-tweezers.
Keywords :
bioMEMS; biomedical equipment; finite element analysis; tissue engineering; electro-thermal mechanism; finite element modeling; integrated electromechanical system design; microtweezers development; small scale tissue manipulation; tissue engineering; tissue gripping; tissue micromanipulation; Biological materials; Finite element methods; Force measurement; Mechanical engineering; Mechatronics; Microelectromechanical systems; Muscles; Silicon; Springs; Tissue engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2008. ICBBE 2008. The 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1747-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1748-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBE.2008.717
