-
-Skip navigation
(Access key: S).
Contact information.
The current medical procedure of Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNAB) is unable many times to extract sufficient cell samples for detection of abnormal cells. Our goal is to improve both the technique and the extraction device to maintain the use of a 20 guage or smaller needle while extracting sufficient cells for accurate cytological diagnosis.
Testing on various tissues and using histological analysis to determine efficiency of our design compared to original technique. Initial testing has been done on posthumous cat tissues. Next, we plan to move onto testing using cancerous tissue in freshly sacrificed mice.
| Week | Reporting Period Beginning | Activities |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 24 | Assign jobs, Overview of goals |
| 2 | January 31 | Meet with Sandra Boehm at RARC to find PI’s, Find microscopes, Cytology contacts |
| 3 | February 7 | Contact PI’s, Schedule client meeting, Contact RARC for Tissue Instruction class |
| 4 | February 14 | Schedule meeting with Amy Moser, Cytology contacts, Microscope instruction |
| 5 | February 21 | Meet with Amy Moser, Microscope instruction, Schedule Tissue Instruction class, Schedule meeting with Dr. Kurtycz |
| 6 | February 28 | Prepare midsemester presentation, Meet with Dr. Kurtycz |
| 7 | March 7 | Meet with Eric Sandgren, prepare midsemester presentation, MIDSEMESTER PRESENTATIONS |
| 8 | March 14 | Get results from Eric Sandgren about slides, Schedule collections with Amy Moser and Eric Sandgren, Turn in notebooks on 3/14 |
| 9 | March 21 | ----------------------------------------------SPRING BREAK!!---------------------------------------------------- |
| 10 | March 28 | Meet with Amy Moser and schedule trials, Meet with Dr. Sandgren for slide results and scheduling more trials |
| 11 | April 4 | Trials with Amy Moser, Look into journals for publishing |
| 12 | April 11 | Meet with Dr. Kurtycz to look at newest slides, trials with Dr. Sandgren (and Dr. Kurtyz to help with technique) |
| 13 | April 18 | Work on final paper |
| 14 | April 25 | Prepare poster presentation, work on final paper |
| 15 | May 2 | FINAL POSTER PRESENTATIONS, finish paper, self/peer evaluations |
 |
BME 400 Final Paper (Feb 14 2003, 4253 kb) |
|
Product Design Specifications (Feb 14 2003, 14 kb) |
 |
BME 400 Final Poster (Feb 14 2003, 1448 kb) |
|
K-12 Presentation (Feb 14 2003, 178 kb) |
 |
First Sample Pictures (Feb 20 2003, 2 kb) |
|
Second Sample Pictures (Feb 20 2003, 2 kb) |
 |
BME 400 Final Poster Presentation Photo (Mar 3 2003, 438 kb) |
|
BME 402 Midsemester Presentation (Mar 7 2003, 1455 kb) |
|
BME 402 Final Poster Presentation (May 4 2003, 842 kb) |
|
BME 402 Final Paper (May 12 2003, 4443 kb) |
