Australian-made spiial vortex blood pump with vacumm-formed diaphragm was used to establish thebest coating technique for blood contacting surface. The inner surface of the pump was coated by three different coating materials(TM5+DMFE-380+THFE-380+Cyclohexanon)in tum by using a Singapore-made three-dimentional rotational moulding workstation. After several trials, it wasconcluded that the most uniform layer could be achieved under the rotational speeds of Major Minoraxis at1. 00 1. 25rpm, respectively. Moreover, hemocompatibility test was conducted betweencoated and uncoated pumps under the mean flow rate of5L mina. It was indicated that lessthrombi were formed at the coated surface, then advantage of our present coating technique wasverified.
The measurement of the blood flow velocity is important in assessing cardiac functions. There are two methods to measure the blood flow velocity by ultrasound, which are the Doppler frequency shift and the framewise cross-correlation. Generally, those methods has not very high accuracy. The reason is that the waveforms is reflected wavefbrms from the random red-blood cells distribution with superposed noise . This paper discusses the more effective use of the available data by the least-square-error approximation.