Laser-machined shape memory alloy actuators for active catheters

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 439-446

  Tung, Alexander T ^a   Park, Byong Ho ^b,c   Niemeyer, Günter ^a   Liang, David H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fluid Medical Inc   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MANIPULATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SURGERY;

LASER MACHINING; MANIPULATIVE CONTROL; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY;

ACTUATORS;

ACTIVE CATHETER; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FATIGUE PROPERTIES; LASER MACHINING; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY ACTUATORS; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS(SMA);

EID: 34548560612     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2007.901926     Document Type: Article

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