Title :
Assembly techniques for artificial small diameter blood vessel structures
Author :
Nakajima, Masahiro ; Takeuchi, Masaru ; Yue Tao ; Chengzhi Hu ; Takei, N. ; Yamada, Makoto ; Seki, Morihiro ; Fukuda, Toshio
Author_Institution :
Center For Micro-nano Mechatron., Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan
Abstract :
We present our assembly techniques for artificial small diameter blood vessel structures. To rebuild large-scale 3D tissue architectures, it is needed to construct not only capillary blood vessel but also small-diameter blood vessel within them.
Keywords :
biomagnetism; biomedical materials; blood vessels; cellular biophysics; hydrogels; microfabrication; microfluidics; molecular magnetism; resins; self-assembly; tissue engineering; artificial small diameter blood vessel structures; assembled magnetic pillars; biodegradable scaffold; cell immobilisation; continuous seeding cells; large-scale 3D tissue architecture; magnetic hydrogel fibers; microfluidic device; microstructure assembly; patterned magnetic pillars; photocrosslinkable resin; reeling fiber system; self-assembly; Assembly; Fabrication; Magnetic resonance imaging; Microfluidics; Microstructure; Optical fiber devices; Three-dimensional displays; Bio-assembly; blood vessel; schaffold;
Conference_Titel :
Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Takamatsu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5557-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICMA.2013.6617930
