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4D Simulator to Improve Micro Neurosurgical Training

A team of researchers from the ARTORG Image Guided Therapy group and the Neurosurgery Department of the Inselspital has together developed a neurosurgical simulator for intracranial aneurysm microsurgery. The realistic setup was tested by 25 neurosurgery residents and experienced neurosurgeons from various countries with very positive results, now published and presented to a broad audience at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons 2020 in Boston, USA.
Research IGT – Image-Guided Therapy (former) Surgical Technologies

14. August 2020

Improved Sound Localization for CI Users

For bilateral cochlear implant users, the localization of sound sources is a challenging everyday task. Researchers from the Hearing Research Laboratory (ARTORG Center and ENT Department, Inselspital) have recently shown in a clinical study, that an algorithm which imitates the function of the outer ear (pinna) improves the sound localization performance in bilateral cochlear implant users.
Research HRL – Hearing Research Laboratory Rehabilitation & Neural Engineering

03. August 2020

Finite Element Analysis can simulate Nucleotomy

In conclusion to a SNSF project the ARTORG Musculoskeletal Biomechanics group and their colleagues were able to show that finite element (FE) models are able to reproduce the effect of nucleotomy on the mechanical behavior of human intervertebral discs (IVD). The group measured the biomechanical behavior of three degenerated intervertebral discs in multiple loading scenarios, prior and post nucleotomy, and used MRI images to build the corresponding hyperelastic FE models.
Research MSB – Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Biomechanics

21. July 2020

Hadi Zolfaghari goes to Cambridge with SNSF mobility grant

Hadi Zolfaghari, PhD in Cardiovascular Engineering, will be going to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge on 20 July 2020 to conduct research on blood flows in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) at. Hadi Zolfaghari specializes in understanding the laminar-turbulent transition processes occurring in flow in and around the heart, with the long-term goal of controlling these phenomena in a clinically favourable way.
Grants & Awards CVE – Cardiovascular Engineering In-Vitro & Organs-on-Chip

17. July 2020

Impedance-based CI Insertion Depth Estimation

A team from the Hearing Research Laboratory of the ARTORG Center and the Inselspital ENT Department have developed a new method that enables surgeons to quickly estimate the insertion depth of a cochlear implant (CI) based on impedance telemetry. The method is a valuable alternative for objectively assessing the surgical outcome, especially when resources are not available for postoperative computed tomography scans.
Research HRL – Hearing Research Laboratory Surgical Technologies

13. July 2020

Solar Powered Electric Implants

Researchers in Cardiovascular Engineering from the ARTORG Center, Inselspital Department of Cardiology and sitem Center have investigated the possibility of powering a cardiac pacemaker via subdermal solar energy harvesting. In a first simulation, the team were able to show that a solar cell implanted subdermally at a depth of 3 mm on the patient's neck could supply a pacemaker by only 10 minutes of midday solar irradiation.
Research CVE – Cardiovascular Engineering Surgical Technologies

08. July 2020

Innosuisse Core Coaching for URODEA

The ARTORG startup with the world's first non-invasive solution for urinary retention has been awarded Core Coaching by the Swiss Innovation Agency. The coaching worth up to CHF 50'000 will support the startup for the coming three years, aiming at reaching the product launch by 2023. It will allow for clinical trials of the URODEA medical device as well as the refinement of the technology and of the business model.
Grants & Awards CVE – Cardiovascular Engineering UGE – Urogenital Engineering Biomechanics

06. July 2020

ARTORG receives 3RCC Grant

Three out of four project grants by the Swiss Competence Center dedicated to the 3R principles Replace, Reduce, Refine go to the University of Bern this year. One of the grantees is Olivier Guenat, Head of the Organs-on-Chip Technologies group at ARTORG (left). Together with Thomas Geiser from the Inselspital Department of Pneumology Guenat proposes to develop a new model to study idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a fatal lung disease that results in the scarring of the lungs, to replace the so far prevalent but flawed bleomycin-induced lung-injury and lung fibrosis model. Two other projects by Christiane Albrecht and Marianna Kruithof-de Julio are likewise funded.
Grants & Awards OOC – Organs-on-Chip Technologies In-Vitro & Organs-on-Chip

01. July 2020

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