Imaging Techniques for Measuring Suture and Dermabond Displacement

Name: Vandana Sood

Class: BE 210

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Objectives

• To quantify planar displacements and strains and determine vertical mattress suture and Dermabond performance for resisting separation under quasi-static tensile load.
• Understand the experimental approaches and techniques needed to measure displacement of the surrogate sample flaps from one another (change in gap distance)
• Become familiar with the experimental challenges of using image data analysis for deformation analysis.

Hypothesis

It is hypothesized that the Dermabond liquid adhesive will result in a smaller change in gap distance under tension than the vertical mattress suture because Dermabond incorporates the entire length of the wound while vertical mattress stitch only connects the two skin flaps at certain finite points.