Future of active catheters

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 113-121

  Lim, Geunbae ^a   Park, Kitae ^a   Sugihara, M ^a   Minami, Kazuyuki ^a   Esashi, Msayoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active catheters; Shape memory alloy

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; MICROMACHINING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; POLYMERS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACTIVE CATHETERS; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS (SMA) ACTUATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL SILICON MICROMACHINING;

CATHETERS;

EID: 0030205903     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0924-4247(96)01279-4     Document Type: Article

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