Porous Structure Design in Tissue Engineering Using Anisotropic Radial Basis Function

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel anisotropic radial basis function method for designing porous tissue scaffolds, leveraging geometric models like volumetric meshes for flexible and straightforward scaffold fabrication.

Contribution

The paper presents a new ARBF-based approach for tissue scaffold design that effectively captures complex tissue characteristics using geometric models.

Findings

Flexible scaffold design using volumetric meshes

Method is straightforward and easy to implement

Effective in modeling complex tissue structures

Abstract

Development of additive manufacturing in last decade greatly improves tissue engineering. During the manufacturing of porous scaffold, simplified but functionally equivalent models are getting focused for practically reasons. Scaffolds can be classified into regular porous scaffolds and irregular porous scaffolds. Several methodologies are developed to design these scaffolds. A novel method is proposed in this paper using anisotropic radial basis function (ARBF) interpolation. This is method uses geometric models such as volumetric meshes as input and proves to be flexible because geometric models are able to capture the characteristics of complex tissues easily. Moreover, this method is straightforward and easy to implement.