DocumentCode
3685639
Title
The effect of jet shape on jet injection
Author
Geehoon Park;Ashin Modak;N. Catherine Hogan;Ian W. Hunter
Author_Institution
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 3-147, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, 02139, USA
fYear
2015
Firstpage
7350
Lastpage
7353
Abstract
The effects of the dispersion pattern of a needle-free jet injector are explored. The shape of the jets were compared using a high-speed video camera and jet injections of collimated and dispersed fluid jets with a Lorentz-force actuated jet injector were made into acrylamide gel and post-mortem porcine tissue. A custom-built high-speed X-ray imaging system was used in order to observe the dynamics of the dispersion mechanism for each injection in real time. We show that a collimated jet stream results in greater tissue penetration than a dispersed jet stream.
Keywords
"Shape","Fluids","Dispersion","X-ray imaging","Real-time systems","Streaming media","Skin"
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
ISSN
1094-687X
Electronic_ISBN
1558-4615
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/EMBC.2015.7320089
Filename
7320089
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