Archive from the Spring 2001 semester.

MRI Insert to Provide Graded Pelvic Rotation.

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Table of Contents.

• Project Overview.
• Project Status.
• Project Timeline.
• Presentations and Reports.
• Weekly Progress Reports.
• Meet the Group.
• Contact Information.

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Project Overview.

Problem Statement: To design a system that will provide torque to the five lumbar vertebrae while minimizing lateral rotation of the spine, using the spine as the center of rotation. The apparatus must lie freely upon the existing MRI bench and fit inside the bore of the machine. The rotation allowed should be graded to obtain reproducible data at specified angles, and should be able to be applied and secured in place for an MRI scan.

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Project Status.

Updated AutoCAD drawings.

Updated Font View While Not Rotated (JPEG - 35kb)

Updated Front View While Roated (JPEG - 35 kb)

Please view the AutoCAD drawings below, each showing a front view to scale in JPEG format.
The second picture shows the bench rotated 16°.

Click to View "Front View While Not Rotated" (JPEG - 30 kb)

Click to View "Front View While Rotated" (JPEG - 31 kb)

The next two drawings were done in True Space 2. The first is in JPEG format, and the second is an AVI. Each depicts the proposed design, the movie showing how the bench will rotate. (Note these drawings are not to scale like the AutoCAD drawings.)

Click to View the Drawing (JPEG- 223 kb)

Click to View the Movie (zipped AVI movie - 2.74 Mb)

Check back later for updates to these pictures, as details are added.

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Project Timeline.

Start independent research project Fall 2001.

• Make final adjustments to design where necessary.
• Acquire complete bill of materials.
• Begin work on prototype.
• Complete prototype.
• Test prototype.
• Present final prototype to client by the end of the Fall semester 2001.
  

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Presentations and Reports.

Download Final Paper (PDF - 588 kb)

Download Final Presentation (Zipped PowerPoint 2000 PPT - 2.33 Mb)

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Download Mid-Semester Paper (PDF - 279 kb)

Product Design Specification (PDF - 18 kb)

Download Mid-Semester Presentation (Zipped PowerPoint 2000 PPT - 37 kb)

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Weekly Progress Reports.

• Week 01: 31 January 2001
• Week 02: 07 February 2001
• Week 03: 14 February 2001
• Week 04: 21 February 2001
• Week 05: 28 February 2001
• Week 06: 07 March 2001
• Week 7-8: 21 March 2001
• Week 09: 28 March 2001
• Week 10: 04 April 2001
• Week 11: 11 April 2001
• Week 12: 18 April 2001
• Week 13: 25 April 2001
• Final Progress Report: 2 May 2001

  (The above documents are all Adobe PDF Documents around 8 Kb each.)

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Meet the Group.

Back Row (left to right): Jeremy O'Brien, Rafael Connemara, Ryan Sydnor, Mike Hallam
Front Row (left to right): Brian Asti, John Puccinelli, Scott Wiese
Not Pictured: Anthony Nelson

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Contact Information.

Client: Victor Houghton
Vhaughton@mail.radiology.wisc.edu

Advisor: Professor Mark Nicosia
mnicosia@facstaff.wisc.edu

Web Master: John Puccinelli
Jppuccinelli@students.wisc.edu

Email the group: BME 201 MR Grantry Group

• Leader: Scott Wiese
• Communications: Mike Hallam
• BSAC: Anthony Nelson
• BWIG: John Puccinelli
• Brian Asti
• Rafael Connemara
• Jeremy O'Brien
• Ryan Sydnor

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