Successful Instrument Guidance through Deep and Convoluted Blood Vessel Networks (IMAGE)
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A team led by Professor Sylvain Martel at the Polytechnique Montréal Nanorobotics Laboratory has developed a novel approach to tackling one of the biggest challenges of endovascular surgery: how to reach the most difficult-to-access physiological locations. Their solution is a robotic platform that uses the fringe field generated by the superconducting magnet of a clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner to guide medical instruments through deeper and more complex vascular structures. The approach has been successfully demonstrated in-vivo.
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Massouh bioMEDia for the Polytechnique Montréal Nanorobotics Laboratory
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Credit: Massouh bioMEDia for the Polytechnique Montréal Nanorobotics Laboratory
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