Blood Analogues and Flow Stress Visualization for Medical Device Testing

Updated: 3 months ago
Location: Gaithersburg, MARYLAND
Deadline: The position may have been removed or expired!

RAP opportunity at National Institute of Standards and Technology     NIST

Blood Analogues and Flow Stress Visualization for Medical Device Testing


Location

Material Measurement Laboratory, Materials Science and Engineering Division


opportunity location
50.64.21.C0601 Gaithersburg, MD

NIST only participates in the February and August reviews.


Advisers
name email phone
Keith Alan Gillis [email protected] 301 975 2468
Steven David Hudson [email protected] 240.688.7883
Jodie Gail Pope [email protected] 301.975.4586
Paul Francis Salipante [email protected] 301 975 2820
Description

Medical devices that pump blood should do so without damaging the blood. Damage may be either homolysis or thrombosis, which are both life-threatening conditions. To aid those responsible for medical device approval, we seek to develop methods to measure local stress states in benchmark constriction-flow geometries that lead to blood damage. For example, we seek improvements in flow-field imaging, flow birefringence imaging, and model fluids that replicate non-Newtonian blood rheology and that contain suitable probes. 

key words

blood; medical devices; flow metrology; non-Newtonian flow; fluid dynamics; stress; birefringence; velocimetry; particle tracking; colloid suspension; homolysis; thrombosis


Eligibility

citizenship

Open to U.S. citizens


level

Open to Postdoctoral applicants


Stipend
Base Stipend Travel Allotment Supplementation
$82,764.00 $3,000.00

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