The goal of this project was to design and construct a deformable vascular tissue model, such as can be used in place of a human finger in a pulse oximeter, to test conditions otherwise physically and ethically restricted. This was achieved with a silicone and latex tissue analog surrounding a microsphere matrix mimicking a capillary bed and a silicone inner core mimicking the viscera. Preliminary pulse oximeter data from the constructed model correlated well with actual saturation levels with a r^2=0.98.

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Creator

• Roccisano, Anthony William
• Hannula, Eric Axel
• Griffin, Michael Joseph

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 00D153M

Advisor

• Kohles, Sean S.
• Mendelson, Yitzhak

Year

• 2000

Date created

• 2000-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Biomedical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright