Research
Our research field covers advanced diagnostic and therapeutic medical engineering technologies for clinical medicine. The main themes are artificial organs (artificial heart, assist circulation, artificial lung, artificial valve, tissue engineered artificial organs, regenerative artificial organs, etc). Especially, artificial heart is the world famous research project having a long history since 1959 at the University of Tokyo. Almost all the researches and developments for driving mechanisms, energy converters, blood pumps, artificial valves, biomaterials, power transmissions, measurement techniques, control methods, anatomical compatibility, hemocompatibility, tissue compatibility, computer fluid dynamics, physiology, pathology, and so on, have been studied. All the stuffs and students are participating in the artificial heart project. In 1995, we succeeded to survive a goat for 532 days with the paracorporial total artificial heart (TAH), which is still the longest survival record of TAH animals in the world.
Typical researches at our laboratory
Implantable camera for observation of microcirculation and angiogenesis
