Design and fabrication of tubular shape memory alloy actuators for active catheters

Proceedings of the First IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2006, BioRob 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 775-780

  Tung, Alexander T ^a   Park, Byong Ho ^a   Koolwal, Aditya ^a   Nelson, Benjamin ^a   Niemeyer, Günter ^a   Liang, David ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active catheters; Actuators; Laser machining; Minimally invasive surgery; Shape memory alloy

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LASER APPLICATIONS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SURGERY;

ACTIVE CATHETERS; LASER MACHINING; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 33845586814     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2006.1639184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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