Medical Devices Journal Accepting Papers for Special Issue

Medical Devices Journal Accepting Papers for Special Issue Medical Devices Journal Accepting Papers for Special Issue Medical Devices Journal Accepting Papers for Special IssueMay 20, 2016 The editorial board for the ASME Journal of Medical Devices is currently accepting papers for a special issue of the journal, which is scheduled to be published this November. The deadline to submit a paper for the special journal issue, which will cover topics related to computer modeling for cardiovascular device development and safety assessment, is June 30.Cardiovascular devices must typically interact with a complex physiologic environment that can severely challenge device performance and longevity. These challenges include blood damage such as hemolysis and thrombosis changing contact conditions during each heartbeat high-cycle fatigue-to-fracture and the need to accommodate the highly variable geometric, material, and hemodynamic environment encountered across the target population. The c ardiovascular device industry increasingly relies on computer modeling as a controlled and repeatable methodology for assessing these device design-related factors. In addition, clinicians are evaluating computer modeling as a pre-interventional planning tool that can confirm the need for treatment and optimize treatment outcomes. The special issue of the Journal of Medical Devices will feature original research that highlights the use of computer models in all stages of cardiovascular device development and assessment. Potential topics for journal papers include, but are not limited to, cardiovascular biomechanics in health and disease, including soft tissue modeling the impact of image acquisition and/or segmentation on model uncertainty shape variability of anatomic structures in the population physiological responses to an intervention device-tissue interactions assessing and optimizing device performance regulatory or non-regulatory device safety assessment and surgical procedu re planning and improving diagnostics for clinical decision-making. Contributions are expected to employ one or more of a wide range of approaches, including computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, high- and low-frequency electromagnetics, reduced-order and lumped parameter approaches, multi-scale analysis, anatomic models, and statistical shape analysis. Submitted papers should also tie the work described to the design of a medical device, either by incorporating a simulated device as an example or by describing how the computational tool would be used in the design of a specific medical device.Papers for the special issue should be submitted to the ASME Journal paper submission website no later than June 30 by visiting http//journaltool.asme.org and choosing Medical Devices. For more information, contact guest editor Marc Horner, Ph.D., Technical Lead at ANSYS Inc. by e-mail at marc.horneransys.com or the secondary contacts and co-editors of the Journal of Medical D evices, Rupak K. Banerjee, Ph.D., of the University of Cincinnati at rupak.banerjeeuc.edu and William K. Durfee, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota at wkdurfeeumn.edu.