Computer-aided tissue engineering: application to biomimetic modelling and design of tissue scaffolds

Biotechnol Appl Biochem. 2004 Feb;39(Pt 1):49-58. doi: 10.1042/BA20030109.

Abstract

Computer-aided tissue engineering (CATE) enables many novel approaches in modelling, design and fabrication of complex tissue substitutes with enhanced functionality and improved cell-matrix interactions. Central to CATE is its bio-tissue informatics model that represents tissue biological, biomechanical and biochemical information that serves as a central repository to interface design, simulation and tissue fabrication. The present paper discusses the application of a CATE approach to the biomimetic design of bone tissue scaffold. A general CATE-based process for biomimetic modelling, anatomic reconstruction, computer-assisted-design of tissue scaffold, quantitative-computed-tomography characterization, finite element analysis and freeform extruding deposition for fabrication of scaffold is presented.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Biocompatible Materials / chemical synthesis
  • Biomechanical Phenomena
  • Biomimetics / methods
  • Bone Substitutes
  • Computer-Aided Design*
  • Membranes, Artificial
  • Models, Anatomic*
  • Tissue Engineering / methods*

Substances

  • Biocompatible Materials
  • Bone Substitutes
  • Membranes, Artificial