CSF lab.com

Welcome to the Cerebrospinal Fluid Laboratory wiki page.

Overview

Welcome to CSF lab.com, a website dedicated to investigation of the underlying biomechanical and hydrodynamic mechanisms responsible for pathologies of the cerebrospinal and cerebrovascular system.

Purpose

• foster collaboration and discussion between cerebrospinal fluid and cerebrovascular researchers
• provide in vivo and in vitro experimental data to computational researchers
• increase interest in cerebrospinal fluid research

Research Projects

• cerebral blood flow and cerebrospinal fluid pulsation coupling
• relative distribution of spinal subarachnoid space compliance
• cerebral blood flow and continuous positive airway pressure
• MR measurement of wave transmission in the spinal subarachnoid space
• in silico modeling of CSF wave transmission
• syringomyelia and Chiari malformation

Student Projects Available

• design and development of an improved vascular graft
• implementation of a 4DMR flow sequence

External Links

Research laboratories

• University of Akron Biofluids Lab
• University of Illinois at Chicago Acoustics and Vibrations Lab
• EPFL Hemodynamics and Cardiovascular Technology Lab
• CMU Vascular Biomechanics Lab
• UPitt Engineered Tissue Mechanics and Mechanobiology Lab
• UPitt Vascular Bioengineering Lab
• ETH measurement and control laboratory
• ETH smart shunt hydrocephalus project
• ETH laboratory of thermodynamics in emerging technologies

Organizations

• Conquer Chiari.org
• American Syringomyelia Alliance Project
• Column of Hope
• Chiari Syringomyelia Foundation
• ASME
• BMES News Bulletin
• National Kidney Foundation
• Whitaker Foundation
• NIH Search for Grants CRISP