Improvements for the Artificial Respiration of Mice

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Prototype Physical Components as of April 3, 2008

• Improvements for the Artificial Respiration of
  Mice
• Lewis Cox, Katie Murray, Bobby Neal, Geoff
  Tizard
• Advisor Dr. Michael Madigan
• The goal of this project is to further medical
  research by creating a mouse ventilator that
  reduces inaccurate results and costly time
  delays. Current mouse ventilators and their
  respective components will be evaluated in order
  to integrate existing technologies into a
  superior ventilating system. The results of this
  evaluation helped determine the design and
  construction of an improved ventilator prototype.
  The outputs from the prototype trials will be
  evaluated computationally using a mathematical
  lung model we developed.

• Scope of Project
• Evaluation of Current Ventilation Methods
• Development of an Improved Ventilator
• Assessment of Prototype
• Outputs
• Mathematical Lung Model
• Deliverables
• Mathematical Model of Lung Function
• Ventilator Design Matrix
• Experimental Design Approval Form
• Autodesk Inventor Design Drawings
• Functional Prototype
• Computational Analysis of Design Performance

4/10/08