Design of Medical Implants and Artificial Organs
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The official GTU curriculum for Design of Medical Implants and Artificial Organs (subject code ME02031011) as prescribed for BE · Semester 2 divides the course into 6 units, covering 38 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (ME02031011)Unit 1 Overview of Human System and Its Artificial Replacement
- Human Body’s Superficial Anatomy
- Body Size
- Type, and Proportion
- A Brief Outline of the Organization of the Human System
- Major Organ Systems
- Brief Idea of Artificial Organs
Unit 2 Mechanical Properties of Biological Materials, Basics of Design
- Process: Adoptive and Adaptive Design
- Introduction to Machine Design
- Principle of Science or Mechanism to Be Used
- Safety of Products: Material and Design Safety aspects
Unit 3 Dental Implants
- Their Design and Manufacture
- Types of Implants in Use, Surface Characteristics
- Loading Conditions
- Clinical and Biomechanical Considerations for Fixed Tooth Replacement
- The Eye and Its Artificial Replacement: Ophthalmic Disorders
- Types-Classification and Manufacturing of Contact Lenses
- Complications associated with contact lenses
- Bionic Eye
Unit 4 Orthopedic
- Fracture fixation: Clinical reasons and Functional requirements of fracture fixation devices
- Fracture fixation designs
- Clinical reasons
- Functional requirements
- Materials used and Design concerns in spinal implants
- knee replacements
- Hip implant and Its Artificial Replacement
- Engineering challenges and design constraints of orthopedic implants
Unit 5 The Lung, Its transplantation and Artificial replacement, Design of the
- Total Artificial Heart
- The Design of Heart Valves
- Skin and the Design of Artificial Skin
Unit 6 Rapid prototyping in biomedical engineering
- definition of RP systems
- Material properties of structural biomaterials
- Rapid prototyping – a novel manufacturing approach
- Patient-Specific Implants design
- Design of various artificial implants in CAD, their Design
- testing and characterization
- The Medical Device Market and Ethical Issues of Implants
- The Manufacturing
- Testing, and Sterilization of Implants