Delivery system
AssigneeWake Forest University Health Sciences
InventorsJames J. Yoo, Anthony Atala, Kyle W. Binder, Weixin Zhao, Dennis Dice, Tao Xu
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Abstract
Provided herein is a delivery system, including: (a) an optical sensor configured to detect data useful to create a map of a bodily surface; and (b) a printer operatively associated with the optical sensor and configured to deliver compositions (optionally including cells) to the bodily surface based upon the data or map. Methods of forming a tissue on a bodily surface of a patient in need thereof are also provided, as are methods, systems and computer program products useful for processing bodily surface data.
Claims10
A system for processing data of a bodily surface obtained from a three-dimensional optical detector to provide a path to a printer operatively associated to said optical detector, said system comprising:
- means for interpreting data from said optical detector to form a model of the bodily surface;
- means for transforming said model into a negative mold of the bodily surface, which mold is split into a plurality of Z-axis layers;
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- means for overlaying each of said layers of the negative mold with a series of lines which represents coverage of the bodily surface, wherein said lines provide a path for control software to use to control the printer to deliver cells and/or compositions to said bodily surface in situ based upon said bodily surface data,
- wherein the bodily surface data is wound surface data, and
- wherein said data is updated in real-time during delivery of the cells and/or compositions by said printer.
A computer program product for processing data of a bodily surface obtained from a three-dimensional optical detector to provide a path to a printer operatively associated to said optical detector, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code comprising:
- computer readable program code which interprets the data of the bodily surface from said optical detector to form a model of the bodily surface;
- computer readable program code which transforms said model into a negative mold of the bodily surface, which mold is split into a plurality of Z-axis layers;
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- computer readable program code which overlays each of said Z-axis layers of the negative mold with a series of lines which represents coverage of the bodily surface, wherein said lines provide a path for control software to use to control the printer to deliver cells and/or compositions to said bodily surface in situ based upon said data,
- wherein the bodily surface data is wound surface data,
- wherein said data is updated in real-time during delivery of the cells and/or compositions by said printer,
- wherein the data are represented as an object including the layers,
- wherein each of the layers are represented by a grid which comprises the series of lines, and
- wherein the computer readable program code is configured to direct the printer to deliver cells to a first location of the bodily surface associated with a first piece of the grid representing the object while analyzing a second piece of the grid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.