Print Email Facebook Twitter Design of an Affordable Total Ossicular Reconstruction Prosthesis(TORP) Title Design of an Affordable Total Ossicular Reconstruction Prosthesis(TORP) Author ten Have, Geert (TU Delft Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) Contributor Dankelman, J. (mentor) Knulst, A.J. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Biomedical Engineering Date 2022-08-25 Abstract The goal of this project is to design and create a low cost total ossicular reconstruction prosthesis (TORP) for use in low-middle income countries (LMIC). These middle ear prostheses are available on the market but are unaffordable for the general populace in LIMCs. A mould is designed with which a titanium wire TORP could be created . A multitude of wire TORPs are made and measured to test the performance of the mould. Transmission properties of the TORP are measured by using a Mechanical Middle ear Model(MMM), a synthetic recreation of the middle ear. This model is used to make a comparison of transfer functions between the wire TORP and a commercial model. The comparison showed slightly worse transmission properties for the wire TORP compared to its commercial counterpart. The result is a production method suitable for LIMCs that can create affordable TORPs that can fit in every middle ear. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:975cb939-15e7-4918-b39c-43c5cb24b1b1 Embargo date 2022-12-31 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2022 Geert ten Have Files PDF Final_report_Msc_GtenHave.pdf 3.44 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:975cb939-15e7-4918-b39c-43c5cb24b1b1/datastream/OBJ/view