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Three-Degree-of-Freedom MR-Compatible Multisegment Cardiac Catheter Steering Mechanism.
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IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering . Nov2016, Vol. 63 Issue 11, p2425-2435. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- This paper presents a novel MR-compatible 3-DOF cardiac catheter steering mechanism. The catheter's steerable structure is tendon driven and consists of miniature deflectable, helical segments created by a precise rapid prototyping technique. The created catheter prototype has an outer diameter of 9 Fr (3 mm) and a steerable distal end that can be deflected in a 3-D space via four braided high-tensile Spectra fiber tendons. Any longitudinal twist commonly observed in helical structures is compensated for by employing clockwise (CW) and counter clockwise (CCW) helical segments in an alternating fashion. A 280 μm flexible carbon fiber rod is used as a backbone in a central channel to improve the structure's steering and positioning repeatability. In addition to the backbone, a carbon fiber tube can be inserted into the structure to a varying amount capable of changing the structure's forcibility and, thus, providing a means to change the curvature and to modify the deflectable length of the catheter leading to an extension of reachable points in the catheter-tip workspace. A unique feature of this helical segment structure is that the stiffness can be further adjusted by appropriately tensioning tendons simultaneously. An experimental study has been conducted examining the catheter-tip trajectory in a 3-D space and its positioning repeatability using a 5-DOF magnetic coil tracking system. Furthermore, MRI experiments in a 1.5-T scanner confirmed the MR-compatibility of the catheter prototype. The study shows that the proposed concept for catheter steering has great potential to be employed for robotically steered and MR-guided cardiac catheterization. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00189294
- Volume :
- 63
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 119014296
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2013.2276739