Steerable catheters for minimally invasive surgery | 合法醫療器材資訊網

由XHu著作·2018·被引用30次—Thesteerablecatheterreferstothecatheterthatismanipulatedbyamechanismwhichmaybedrivenbyoperatorsorbyactuators(i.e., ...

Figure 1. Bard Stinger Ablation Catheter and its control unit (a) the catheter with the control unit; (b) the distal tip of the catheter; (c) the inside of the control unit.

The technology for the steerable catheter has been advanced greatly in the past decade. The commercial products of steerable catheters and robotic catheters (i.e., more advanced steerable cathteters) are available, such as Polaris XTM Steerable Diagnostic Catheters (Boston Scientific Inc., Marlborough, USA), Artisan Extend Control Catheter (Hansen Medical Inc., Mountain View, USA), and Niobe® Magnetic Navigation System (Stereotaxis Inc., St. Louis, USA). A number of minimally invasive clinical applications benefit from steerable catheters, including cardiac surgery [5,6], (Stereotaxis 2016), vascular surgery [7–9[1]], aneurysm surgery [10,11], neurosurgery [12,13], arthroscopy [14...