Safety-active catheter with multiple-segments driven by micro-hydraulic actuators

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

Volumn 2488, Issue , 2002, Pages 182-191

  Ikuta, Koji ^a   Ichikawa, Hironobu ^a   Suzuki, Katsuya ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CATHETERS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACTIVE CATHETER; MEDICAL TOOLS; QUANTITATIVE DESIGN;

HYDRAULIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 84974687937     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45786-0_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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