Geode Mosaic

Geode Mosaic

Vivian Rachel Feig, Pier Giuseppe Rivano, Benjamin Neal Muller, Ashka Tejendra Patel, Sanghyun Park, Caroline Dial, Savannah Jinhee Kim, Giovanni Traverso

Koch Institute at MIT

The image shows a drug delivery implant. Size, shape, and porosity of long-term drug delivery implants like these can dramatically affect the pharmacokinetic profile. By being able to image these properties directly, the hope is that there will be the ability to tune these implant characteristics, and therefore, precisely program the drug release rate. 

Black and white image of a pile of small square crystals, placed diagonally with a black background. The crystallization looks like a geode in form.

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