Sara V Fernandez, Jin-Hoon Kim, David Sadat, Colin Marcus, Emma Suh, Rachel Mclntosh, Aastha Shah, Canan Dagdeviren
Tissue-mimicking phantoms are valuable tools that aid in improving the equipment and training available to medical professionals. However, current phantoms possess limited utility due to their inability to precisely simulate multiple physical properties simultaneously, which is crucial for achieving a system understanding of dynamic human tissues. In this work, novel materials design and fabrication processes to produce various tissue-mimicking materials (TMMs) for skin, adipose, muscle, and soft tissue at a human scale are developed...
April 22, 2024: Advanced Science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)