Recent Progress in Medical Miniature Robots: from Bench to Bedside

ISBN-13: 9780443133855 / Angielski

Li Zhang; Philip Wai Yan Chiu; Kai Fung Chan

Spis treści

Part 1: Tethered Miniature Robots 1. Flow-assisted and flow-driven microcatheters 2. Magnetically controlled continuum miniature robot: design, control, and application 3. Magnetically actuated continuum robots for vascular interventions Part 2: Untethered Miniature Robots - Individual 4. A rotating magnetic gradient field-based drive system for microagent control in targeted therapy 5. The future of microrobotics in gynecological applications for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Asherman Syndrome 6. Design and Fabrication of a Magnetic Actuation Miniature Soft Robot for Biological Sampling 7. Functionalization of microrobots for biomedical applications 8. Clinical imaging of miniature robots in relevant biological scenarios Part 3: Untethered Miniature Robots - Swarm 9. Magnetic microrobots from individual to microswarm steering 10. Medical microrobots for in vivo assisted reproduction 11. Untethered microrobots for minimally invasive removal of blood clots 12. Micro-/nanorobots for combating biofilm infections Part 4: Microrobotic Platform 13. Title tbd 14. In Vitro Diagnosis via micro-/nanorobotic platform