BTC-2000™  Features:

• High-Resolution Target Laser (μm) and negative pressure (mmHg & mbar) transducer.
• Simple touchscreen interface, including easy 3-step skin test protocol.
• Portable-lightweight system with hard-shell mobile case.
• Real-time graphical screen updates, auto-calculations & immediate display of BTC results
  (Intact Skin or Material Characterization, Disruptive Incisional or Material Failure).
• Various glass chambers for observation and sterilization.
• Data management to review data
• An RS232 connection to transfer tests to BTC-2!; a file transfer and BTC Analysis program for importing and ranalyzing tests/files using Windows compatible systems. In addition, BTC-2! generates spreadsheets of results for statistical analysis.
• Optional Data Acquisition Parameters and pressure modes.
• Optional Stress-Strain calculations normalized to area and sample thickness.
• Printer connection and driver support for printing BTC results.
• On screen “HELP” for on-site support.
• Unlimited applications including skin, soft tissue & wound healing.

BTC-2000™  System Panels

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BTC

Application:

Systems for objective, quantitative and sensitive analyses of the biomechanical properties of skin, soft tissues, wound closure, wound healing & both intact and disruptive characterization of elastic materials.

SRLI’s patented technologies offer scientific value for R&D evaluations:

• Bridges methodology between the laboratory & clinic.
• Objective analysis for standardization & reproducibility.
• Fixed boundaries & minimal pre-stress for reliable analysis.
• Characterization and measurements of structural and material properties.
• Generous high-resolution deformation measurement range to detect ultra-sensitive differences.
• Non-Disruptive/Intact measurements of human skin, wounds & elastic materials.
• In-vivo biomechanical measurements of wound closure & the early phases of wound healing.
• Disruptive in-vivo elastic materials testing and analysis.
• Reduced sample preparation time allows for immediate testing (i.e. tissue adhesives & sealants)
• Non-Disruptive measurements permit multiple analyses of the same wound/tissue over time.
• Clinically relevant multi-axial stress in full thickness models.
• Intact materials characterization of the “actual product” 
  (no sample excision), including non-destructive testing.
• Provides data & results in real-time.

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• A Non-Disruptive In-Vivo Method for Biomechanical Characterization of Linear Incision Wound Healing: A Preliminary Report. Gingrass M., Perry L., Matrisian L., Hill D., Wright T., Robson M., Fisher J. Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 1998, Vol. 102, No. 3: 801-806.
  
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• A Technology and Methodology for Mechanical Characterization of Intact Elastic Materials, and In-vivo Biomechanical Analysis of Soft Tissues and Linear Incision Wounds. Perry, L., Maxwell, GP., Fisher, J., Proceedings from The Biomaterials Society Meeting, San Francisco California. March 1995.
  
• A New Technology for In-vivo biomechanical Tissue Analysis: Surgical Tissue Adhesives and Wound Healing. Vistnes D. M., Perry L. C., Fisher J., G. P. Maxwell. Proceedings from the Symposium on Surgical Tissues Adhesives, Atlanta, Georgia. October 1994.
  
• True In-Vivo Analysis of Linear Incision Wound Strength. Vistnes D. M., Perry L. C., G. P. Maxwell, Fisher J. Abstracts from Technologies to Assess Wound Healing Symposium. San Francisco, California, May 1994.
  
• In-Vivo Multiaxial Stress-Strain Analysis of Soft Tissue: An Advancement in the Analysis of Incisional Wound Strength. Vistnes D. M., Perry L. C., G. P. Maxwell, Fisher J. Proceedings from The Biomaterials Society Meeting, Boston, MA. April 1994.
  
• A New Method for Characterization of Elastic Materials: Compliance Analysis of Silicone Elastomer Shells. Vistnes D., Perry L., Fisher J., Maxwell P., Proceedings from The Biomaterials Society Meeting, Boston, MA. April 1994.
  
• Characterization of Silicone Elastomer Shells: The Role of Structural Modifications. Vistnes D. M., Perry L. C., Fisher J., Maxwell G. P. Abstracts from the 39th Annual Meeting of the Plastic Surgery Research Council. Ann Arbor, Michigan. June 1994.
  
• Evaluation of Silicone Gel Sheeting on the Wound Healing of Linear Incisions. Clugston P. A., Vistnes D. M., Perry L. C., Maxwell G. P., Fisher J. Annals of Plast. Surg. 1994, Vol. 34(1) 12-15.
  
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• A New In-Vivo System for Biomechanical Characterization of Skin and Wound Healing. Perry LC, Fisher J. J 11th Southern Eng Conf 1992:83-4.
  
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