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. 

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