Projects

• Investigative Studies on Cardiac Support Systems and Technical Support of Clinical Applications

• Numerical Simulation Of The Circulatory System For Investigation Of Cardiac Assist Devicess

• Development of an Automatic Speed Adaptation System for Rotary Blood Pumps

• Development of a Hydromagnetically Beared Diagonal Blood Pump

• Endovascular versus Extracorporeal Veno-venous Cooling in Pigs

• Electrospinning of synthetic and natural polymers

• Development of Driving Units for Implantable Blood Pumps

• Development of Implantable Rotary Blood Pumps

• In-vivo Evaluation of Blood Pumps

• Mechanical Characterization of Soft Tissue and Vascular Implants

• Ultrasound Evaluation of the Thromboembolic Activity of Extracorporeal Circulation and Cardiac Assist Systems

• Ultrasound Diagnostics on Cardiac Valves, Mechanical Heart Valve Prosteheses and Cardiovascular Doppler in vitro

• Mechanical Simulator of Cardiac Contractility and Vascular Compliance with Electronical Parameter Control

• Visualization of Fluid Dynamics in Vascular Prostheses and Anastomoses

• Hydrodynamic and Mechanical Effects of Compliance Mismatch in Aortic Prostheses

• Simulation of the Hemodynamic Performance of Skeletal Muscle Ventricles

• In-vitro Simulation of Arterial Flow Conditions for Hemocompatibility and Cell Culture Studies

• In-vitro Evaluation of Hemolysis and Thrombogenicity of Blood Pumps and Cardiovascular Prostheses

• Blood Purification with Microspheres

• Noninvasive Determination of Blood Pressure in "Nonpulsatile" Patients