Steerable Catheters

Biomedical Applications of Electroactive Polymer Actuators

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 229-248

  Shoa, Tina ^a   Madden, John D ^a   Munce, Nigel R ^b   Yang, Victor X D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active steerable catheters; Catheter design challenges; Catheters history and current applications; Conjugated polymer based steerable catheters; EAP based steerable catheters; Non EAP based steerable catheters; Steerable catheters

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953349568     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470744697.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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