Steerable intravitreal inserts for drug delivery: In vitro and ex vivo mobility experiments

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6891 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2011, Pages 33-40

  Bergeles, Christos ^a   Kummer, Michael P ^a   Kratochvil, Bradley E ^a   Framme, Carsten ^b   Nelson, Bradley J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; DRUG INJECTION; EX-VIVO; IN-VITRO; INTRAOCULAR; MAGNETIC IMPLANTS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; PORCINE EYE; VITREOUS HUMOR;

EXPERIMENTS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE FUNDUS; EYE SURGERY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRAVITREAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; RETINA; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SWINE; VISCOSITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

ANIMALS; CADAVER; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MOTION; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETINA; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; VISCOSITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 82255181904     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23623-5_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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