The Michael Uren Biomedical Engineering Research Hub

 

BME Hub

The MSk MEC is the centrepiece of the Sir Michael Uren Biomedical Engineering Research Hub (“BmE Hub”) which is based at Imperial’s translational research campus in White City, London.

The BmE Hub is a major new building comprising state-of-the-art laboratories for translational research at the interface of engineering and biomedical sciences.

This visionary development provides co-location space for engineers, scientists and clinical researchers in the musculoskeletal field from across College to come together to forge new interdisciplinary collaborations.

Other Resources

Software and database resources

Biodynamics Lab Database

This database is collected by the Biodynamics lab of Imperial College London. It consists of 180 subjects. Ground reactions forces (GRFs) are captured for all 3 axes: medio-lateral (GRF X), anterior-posterior (GRF Y), and vertical (GRF Z). 101 samples are captures per axis.

Data: Subject_Data.zip

Annotation: Subject Assessments.xlsx

Description:‌ README.txt

Licence: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (no adaptation of the work & no commercial use). 

Citation request: The Complexity of Human Walking: A Knee Osteoarthritis Study, by Margarita Kotti, Lynsey Duffell, Aldo Faisal, and Alison McGregor that is published in PLOS ONE.

Facilities available to MSk MEC researchers include:

 
   

Treadmill Analysis Laboratory 

Biodynamics Laboratory

Nick Davey Neurophysiology Laboratory

Surgical Skills Laboratory

3D Printer

 Confocal Microscopy

Motion Analysis Laboratory

 Histocutter 

 Histology Laboratory 

‌PALM microsystem

‌Temperature controlled water bath 

Adapted Oxford Knee Rig
ACL graft strength testing rig  TKR and UKR stability testing rigs

 Tekscan pressure sensitive film hardware and I-scan software

 

 Shoulder replacement testing rig
 Patella-femoral joint (PFJ) stability testing rig
 Diamond blade band saw
Polaris optical tracking camera and trackers for measuring rigid body kinematics

Single-axis screwdriven Instron Materials

Testing Machine

Dual-axis servohydraulic Instron Materials Testing Machine

 

Knee kinematics rig Ultrasonix Scanner
6 degree of freedom robot arm for joint motion simulation
  Photon Microscope   
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