Implementation of microfabricated suture-less flexible parylene tissue anchors on minimally invasive biomedical implants

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, uTAS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 518-520

  Chen, Po Jui ^a   Rodger, Damien C ^a,b   Saati, Saloomeh ^c   Altamirano, Juan Carlos ^c   Lin, Chun Hui ^a   Agrawal, Rajat ^b,c   Varma, Rohit ^b,c   Humayun, Mark S ^b,c   Tai, Yu Chong ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical implant; Parylene; Tissue anchor

Indexed keywords

ANCHORS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; FLEXIBLE WINGS; MICROFABRICATION;

BIOIMPLANTS; BIOMEDICAL IMPLANTS; FLEXIBLE TISSUES; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE DEVICES; MICROFABRICATED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TUBE-TYPE; WING DESIGN;

TISSUE;

EID: 65949088980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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