Babaiasl, Mahdieh
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This collection contains research and educational materials created by Mahdieh Babaiasl in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University.
Recent Submissions
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Fracture-directed Waterjet Needle Steering: Design, Modeling, and Path Planning
(2020-05)Steerable needle technology has the promise of improving outcomes by enhancing the accuracy of different therapies and biopsies, as they can be steered to a target location around obstacles. Achieving small radius of ... -
Resultant Radius of Curvature of Stylet-and-Tube Steerable Needles Based on the Mechanical Properties of the Soft Tissue, and the Needle
(2020)Steerable needles have been widely researched in recent years, and they have multiple potential roles in the medical area. The flexibility and capability of avoiding obstacles allow the steerable needles to be applied in ... -
Predictive Mathematical, and finite element model for cut depth of waterjet for medical applications
(2019)Water-jet has already been used in several industrial applications such as mining, cutting materials, drilling, and cleaning. Recently, this technology has been used in medical applications such as in surgery, dissection ... -
Waterjet fracture-directed steerable needles
(2018-07)The focus of this proposal is on the new classes of steerable needles namely fracture-directed steerable needles, and two approaches to achieve this that are tube and stylet method, and water-jet method. Steerable needles ... -
Water-jet Steerable Needles
(2018)Water-jet technology has been used extensively for decades industrially for many applications including mining, plastic, metal, stone, wood, and produce cutting. The use of water-jet in medical applications has been developed ... -
Fracture-Directed Steerable Needles
(3/11/19)Steerable needles hold the promise of improving the accuracy of both therapies and biopsies as they are able to steer to a target location around obstructions, correct for disturbances, and account for movement of internal ... -
Towards Water-jet Steerable Needles
(8/26/18)Water-jet technology has been used extensively for decades industrially for many applications including mining, plastic, metal, stone, wood, and produce cutting. The use of water-jet in medical applications has been developed ... -
Predicting Depth of Cut of Water-jet in Soft Tissue Simulants based on Finite Element Analysis with the Application to Fracture-directed Water-jet Steerable Needles
(4/3/19)Water-jet technology has been used recently in medical applications including surgery, soft tissue resection, bone cutting, and wound debridement. The ability to measure the depth of cut of water-jet is important in these ... -
Predictive Mechanics-based Model for Depth-of-Cut (DOC) of Waterjet in Soft-Tissue for Waterjet-assisted Medical Applications
(4/22/20)The use of waterjet technology is now prevalent in medical applications including surgery, soft tissue resection, bone cutting, waterjet steerable needles, and wound debridement. The depth of the cut (DOC) of a waterjet ... -
Duty Cycling of Waterjet Can Improve Steerability and Radius-of-Curvature (ROC) for Waterjet Steerable Needles
(4/23/20)Steerable needles are a type of medical devices that can steer around obstacles to reach to a target location and thus can improve the accuracy of medical procedures. Radius-of-Curvature (ROC) is of paramount importance ...