Wanging Du, Vincent Liu, Pamela Tiet, Hanson Zhao
To address the IVF success rate variability, the Capstone team developed a hand-held device to enable high accuracy and precision delivery of an embryo to specific locations in the uterus, as is needed in IVF.
2012 SqueakPeak: Mouse Pup Birth Detector for Research Laboratories
Alexsandra Denisin, Davis Li, Pauline Luong, Chris Alabastro
The Capstone team developed a pup delivery detector to accurately determine birth time of pups such that researchers can age-match mice. Unlike manual inspection, this research sensor identifies the birth hour and day for age-matching individuals.
2012 Reduce malaria transmission by killing mosquitos without insecticides
Kellen Chen, Helen Wan, Richard Hwang
Our team designed an insecticide-free, durable, low-cost method to divert mosquitoes away from humans that could be used in Ugandan households to reduce the prevalence of malaria.
2012 Portable newborn health screening devices
Olga Miakicheva, Michael Nasr, Devi Khoday. Hosna Akhlaghpour
We developed a hand-held device with a pictorial interface where midwives enter data measurements (e.g. skin color, level of movement), and the device outputs an overall health assessment.
2012 An emergency medical transport solution for developing countries
Inbal Epstein, Tak Yau, Susanna Ly, Arthur King
Our team worked to develop an adaptable patient transportation system which is low cost, durable and can traverse a variety of terrains for use in Haiti and Nepal.
2012 Measure pressure applied with a device designed to stem bleeding during childbirth
Sandeep Prabhu, Atri Choksi, Alish Manandhar, Rebecca Farr
The LifeWrap is a full-body tourniquet that helps to slow blood loss, contract the uterus, and direct blood towards vital organs to avoid hemorrhagic shock. The LifeWrap is not always effective, primarily due to variability in how much pressure is applied to patients. Our team developed a device that can interface with the LifeWrap to monitor the pressure applied to the patient’s uterus over time.
2012 Noninvasive measuring of jugular vein pressure
Connor Landgraf, Sneha Thatipelli, Sachin Rangarajan, Zhuchen Xu
Measuring jugular venous pressure (JVP) is an indirect screening tool for the presence of heart disease, but the effectiveness of the current measurement technique varies from user to user. The pressure read by this device outputs a clear signal to a display that can be read unambiguously by the user.
2012 Enabling a Laparoscopic Imaging Device to Overcome the Need for Continual Clean Up
Nasim Barzanian, Neil Ray, Sakthivel Nagaraj, Jeffrey Yang
Our device uses a continuously rotating sphere on the end of the laparoscope camera to continuously clean debris and provide unobstructed images, without interfering with surgery.
2012 Imaging of mouse model retinas
Robert Chen, Shayan Fakurnejad, Ha Sung (Leo) Moon, Kimberly Chan
our team developed a restraint system for high resolution movement of a scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) about the fixed point of a mouse retina, a telescoping lens attachment, and a laser alignment system to adapt an SLO for use with mice