Final Reminder: Papers Due July 31 for Special Journal Issue

July 22, 2016

The editorial board for the ASME Journal of Medical Devices is announcing its final call for papers for a special issue of the journal focusing on cardiovascular device development and safety assessment using computational and experimental approaches. The deadline to submit a paper for the special issue is July 31. 

Cardiovascular devices must typically interact with a complex physiologic environment that can severely challenge device performance and longevity. These challenges include blood damage such as hemolysis and thrombosis; changing contact conditions during each heartbeat; high-cycle fatigue-to-fracture; and the need to accommodate the highly variable geometric, material, and hemodynamic environment encountered across the target population.

The cardiovascular device industry increasingly relies on computer modeling as a controlled and repeatable methodology for assessing these device design-related factors. Clinicians are also evaluating computer modeling as a pre-interventional planning tool that can confirm the need for treatment and optimize treatment outcomes.

This special issue of the Journal of Medical Devices is intended to be a collection of original research that highlights the use of computer models in every phase of cardiovascular device development and assessment. Papers being submitted for the special issue should employ one or more of a variety of approaches, including computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis (FEA), high- and low-frequency electromagnetics, reduced-order and lumped parameter approaches, multi-scale analysis, anatomic models, and statistical shape analysis (PCA). Contributions are expected to tie the work described to the design of a medical device, either by incorporating a simulated device as an example or by describing how the computational tool would be used in the design of a specific medical device.

Papers for the Special Journal Issue on Cardiovascular Device Development and Safety Assessment Using Computational/Experimental Approaches should be submitted by July 31 using the ASME Journals Digital Submission Site. Authors should be sure to select the special issue “Medical Devices” from the menu on the left when submitting their papers.

For more information on the special journal issue, contact the journal’s guest editor, Marc Horner, Ph.D., Technical Lead, Healthcare, ANSYS Inc., at marc.horner@ansys.com. To learn more about the ASME Journals program, visit http://journaltool.asme.org.