Abstract for Project in Biomedical Physics

Interesting!

I once worked on a project to make a vibrating knife for eye surgery. The students practiced on cows' eyes.

When we delivered the vibrating knife and the teaching surgeon used it for the first time, it resulted in a TFU (you won't find this acronym in any list I've ever seen, but it nonetheless is the term he used. hint: the "T" stands for "terminal.")

I used to work just down the hall from an Opthamology Dept, and they got ox eyes (maybe a couple dozen at a time from some kind of knacker) in small styrofoam drums that somewhat resembled an ice bucket. So, one day I'm checking in my UPS packages when the bigshot Vice-President of Development comes waltzing through with some potential donors. And, she's really putting on a show-and-tell performance when, for some unknown reason, she reaches over and opens a just-arrived drum and screams. And the guests don't know what just happened (they can't see the eyeballs) and she's afraid to tell them. But, she was good - she changed gears and got them the heck outta there.