Characterisation and Design of Tissue Scaffolds

Paul Tomlins is a consultant in biomaterials and is active in promoting awareness in the area of tissue scaffold characterisation, partly through the development of ASTM International standards

1 Material types for tissue scaffolds

2 Designing and modelling pore size distribution in tissue scaffolds

3 Designing and modelling degradation behaviour in tissue scaffolds

4 Preparing natural matrices – de-cellularised materials

5 Preparing polymer-based – solid scaffolds

6 Measuring/Assessing degradation behaviour in tissue scaffolds

7 Drug release profiles

8 On the use of stereology in tissue scaffolds

9 Image analysis and quantification of tissue scaffolds

10 Sterilization of tissue scaffolds

11 Practical relevance and interpretation of characterisation data