Optimized deployment of heat-activated surgical staples using thermography

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1884-1886

  Ng, Y ^a   Song, C ^a   McLean, D ^a   Shimi, S M ^a   Frank, T G ^a   Cuschieri, A ^a   Campbell, P A ^b  

^a NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEATING; INFRARED IMAGING; NICKEL ALLOYS; SURGERY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY;

SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

EID: 0141522939     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1601305     Document Type: Article

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