A one-of-a-kind space designed for innovation

FACILITIES & EQUIPMENT

FACILITIES

  • Reconfigurable simulated OR suite
  • Pre-clinical GLP Facilities
  • Prototyping and wet labs
  • Confidential project rooms

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPING

  • Steeger 16 and 32 carrier medical braider 
  • Multi-filar catheter coiler 
  • Beahm 4-up catheter laminator 
  • Beahm 510-A catheter tipper  
  • Marker band swager 
  • ATS fluidized temperature bath for NiTi shape-setting 
  • Laser welder

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & PROTOTYPING

  • Laser cutter 
  • Yamato convection oven 
  • TPU and hydrophillic dip coating 
  • Desktop Metal 3D printer and furnace 
  • Tormach 1100MX CNC mill 
  • Tormach 8L CNC lathe 
  • FDM and SLA rapid prototyping 

TESTING & CHARACTERIZATION

  • Instron 68SC5 Universal Testing System 
  • Keyence VHS6000 digital microscope 
  • OGP SmartScope Flash 200 
  • Laser vibrometer and micrometer 

TESTING & CHARACTERIZATION

  • Bench flow models with flow and pressure measurement 
  • Programmable cardiac pulsatile pump 
  • TA Instruments HR20 rheometer 
  • Custom biologic clot analog production 
  • Advanced cadaveric and animal capabilities 

IMAGING

  • Canon high-def bi-plane fluoroscopy system 
  • OEC 9900 Elite Digital Mobile Standard C-Arm VAS15 
  • Toshiba SXT-2000A C-Arms 
  • IVUS (intravascular ultrasound) 
  • OCT (optical coherence tomography) 

IMAGING

  • O-Arm (intraoperative CT) 
  • 64 slice CT scanner 
  • Bruker 9.4 Tesla Microspec MR Imager 
  • Phillips MR770 3.0 Tesla MR Imager 
  • GE Discovery PET CT 690 

MODEL MANUFACTURING

  • Polyjet Digital Anatomy printers  
  • Vascular model post-processing equipment 
  • 510(k) cleared segmentation software

an environment unlike any other

COMMITMENT TO QUALITY

The Jacobs Institute is focused on accelerating the research, design, development and manufacture of innovative high-quality, clinically relevant engineering solutions and products to impact the treatment of vascular, neurological, and related diseases. 

The Jacobs Institute is certified to ISO 13485:2016, demonstrating compliance with international quality system requirements for the research, design, development, and manufacture of vascular and related medical devices and anatomical models, and for the delivery of engineering, validation, testing, simulation, and related technical services.