Student Projects
Contact Information
University and Department:
UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas
DEB/FEEC - Departamento de Engenharia Biomédica da Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação Campinas, SP Brasil
CEB - Centro de Engenharia Biomédica
Team Members:
Eduardo de Lima Cheade
Faculty Advisors:
Eduardo Tavares Costa
Primary Email Address: eduardo.cheade@philips.com
Primary Telephone Number: +55 (11) 9280 3141
Project Information
List all parts used to design and complete your project:
NI-PCI6221
LabVIEW 7.1
ToollKit – Report Generation 1.1
The challenge the project is trying to solve:
The team's goal was to develop software capable of making acquisition and interpretation of the signals of flow and pressure proceeding from specific transducers, as well as the accomplishment of the necessary calculations for the generation of a resultant report of the hydrodynamics performance test of prosthetic heart valves.
The surgery to replace heart valves is one of the most widely used for clinical treatments of heart valve diseases. For the prosthetic valve, which can be used clinically, it is necessary to have an assessment of their behavior. The characterization of a prosthesis is made by in vitro studies from hydrodynamic performance tests, carried out by systems called duplicators pulse. The purpose of these systems is to reproduce the hydrodynamic behavior of the heart. The purpose of the pulse duplicators is to generate the curves of flow and pressure. Through analyzing this data, the team calculated all the necessary parameters.
How the team addressed the challenge through their project:
The team used the NI acquisition board to perform the acquisition of signals. They also used the LabVIEW platform programming to create routines of acquisition interpretation and generation of the test results report.
The team developed a program capable of acquiring and interpreting the signals of flow and pressure proceeding from specific transducers, as well as achieving the necessary calculations for the generation of a resultant report of the hydrodynamics performance test of prosthetic heart valves. This program will be used by the company Biomedical Braile.
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