DEVELOPMENT OF A BLOOD FLOW SIMULATOR USING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AND MICRO-ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS)-BASED MEASUREMENT

• Main Author: Azzahra Dinata, Fara
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/73211
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

<p align="justify">Intravascular therapy is a minimally invasive treatment performed within blood vessels, requiring specific skills and understanding of the procedures. Training kits play a vital role in providing a platform to train and assess the proficiency of medical professionals in performing invasive procedures on realistic blood vessel models. These kits are designed to simulate the flow conditions within blood vessels, ensuring an accurate representation of their hemodynamics. Validation is essential in CFD modeling to ensure the accuracy and reliability of simulation results for intravascular fluid flow therapy using specific modeling and evaluation tools. Additive manufacturing technology allows for creating realistic vessel geometry models, integrating of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors to measure fluid flow rates within the models accurately. To meet this need, this final project will focus on developing a blood flow evaluation device (simulator) to represent the hemodynamic conditions within the vessels using a realistic blood vessel model with aneurysm fabricated using additive manufacturing and MEMS-based fluid flow rate will be tested for in situ measurements. The evaluation device with a realistic vascular geometry model with an aneurysm produces consistent flow rate conditions with the actual vessel characteristics within the Reynolds number range of 300 – 500. The testing of MEMS fluid flow sensors has encountered difficulties and requires further adjustments to enable accurate measurements.