TY - GEN
T1 - Automated manufacturing of fiber-reinforced elastomeric enclosures for patient specific catheter robots
AU - Hamlen, Ben
AU - McDonald, Gillian
AU - Gilbertson, Mark D
AU - Ng, Daniel
AU - Kowalewski, Timothy
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - “No-option” patients have vasculature too tortuous for existing catheters to navigate. To treat these patients, new catheter technologies are needed that are easy to actuate and can be customized for each patient. We propose using fiber-reinforced elastomeric enclosures (FREEs), which have been shown to be capable of performing screwing, spiraling, twisting, extending, and other motions when the fiber wrap angles are adjusted. Here, we present and validate an automated system capable of manufacturing FREEs with wrap angles from 0-90 degrees. The prescribed fiber angles were within 5 percent error when manufactured.
AB - “No-option” patients have vasculature too tortuous for existing catheters to navigate. To treat these patients, new catheter technologies are needed that are easy to actuate and can be customized for each patient. We propose using fiber-reinforced elastomeric enclosures (FREEs), which have been shown to be capable of performing screwing, spiraling, twisting, extending, and other motions when the fiber wrap angles are adjusted. Here, we present and validate an automated system capable of manufacturing FREEs with wrap angles from 0-90 degrees. The prescribed fiber angles were within 5 percent error when manufactured.
KW - Catheters
KW - Patient-specific manufacturing
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U2 - 10.1115/DMD2019-3300
DO - 10.1115/DMD2019-3300
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2019 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2019
BT - Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2019 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2019
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - 2019 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2019
Y2 - 15 April 2019 through 18 April 2019
ER -