Development of a tethered epicardial crawler for minimally invasive cardiac therapies

Proceedings of the IEEE Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, NEBEC

Volumn 30, Issue , 2004, Pages 239-240

  Patronik, Nicholas A ^a   Zenati, Marco A ^b   Riviere, Cameron N ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; COMPUTER CONTROL; DRUG THERAPY; MOTION CONTROL; POSITION CONTROL; PULMONARY DISEASES; ROBOTICS; TISSUE;

DIFFERENTIAL VENTILATION; INTRAPERICARDIAL THERAPIES; ROBOTIC DEVICES; TETHERED EPICARDIAL CRAWLERS (TEC);

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM;

EID: 2942555195     PISSN: 1071121X     EISSN: 21607001     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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