Development, manufacturing, and preliminary validation of a reusable half-face respirator during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Vahid Anwari ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vahid Anwari, William C. K. Ng, Arnaud Romeo Mbadjeu Hondjeu, Azad Mashari

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Joint Department of Medical Imaging, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Lynn and Arnold Irwin Advanced Perioperative Imaging Lab, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5104-2276

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• William C. K. Ng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vahid Anwari, William C. K. Ng, Arnaud Romeo Mbadjeu Hondjeu, Azad Mashari

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: DrWilliam.Ng@mail.utoronto.ca

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0183-8951

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• Arnaud Romeo Mbadjeu Hondjeu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vahid Anwari, William C. K. Ng, Arnaud Romeo Mbadjeu Hondjeu, Azad Mashari

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6470-4574

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• Zixuan Xiao ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7534-6079

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• Edem Afenu ,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Jessica Trac ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Kate Kazlovich ,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations The Lynn and Arnold Irwin Advanced Perioperative Imaging Lab, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Joshua Hiansen ,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The Lynn and Arnold Irwin Advanced Perioperative Imaging Lab, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Azad Mashari

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vahid Anwari, William C. K. Ng, Arnaud Romeo Mbadjeu Hondjeu, Azad Mashari

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Lynn and Arnold Irwin Advanced Perioperative Imaging Lab, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8403-1271

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