Improving radiation safety for hospital staff during interventional surgery

Radiation is increasingly used to treat otherwise dangerous operations such as valve replacements with minimal consequences for the patient using live X-ray and catheters. These minimal invasive interventions are beneficial for the patient but physicians are exposed to high doses of radiation as a result. Products in the market of radiation...

Design and Evaluation of the Epsilon Catheter: Single-Handed Control of a Five Degrees of Freedom Multi-Steerable Heart Catheter

Objectives – Over the past decades, more and more cardiac diseases have been treated in interventional cardiology. Catheters are generally used to access the heart through the blood vessels. The previously developed steerable Sigma catheter at Delft University of Technology, tackles cable related challenges of conventional mechanically...

Hydraulic catheter device for treating chronic total occlusion: A feasibility study

Chronic total occlusion (CTO) occurs in approximately a third of all patients with coronary artery disease and is one of the most challenging types of conditions to treat. Minimally invasive methods like percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) show a high treating potential as well as low costs, short hospital stay and fast recovery. However,...