AIMC Topic: Equipment Design

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Robotic-assisted transradial diagnostic coronary angiography.

Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions
Robotic percutaneous coronary interventions have recently been introduced in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. Robotics offers benefits of greater precision for stent placement and occupational hazard protection for operators and staff. First g...

Automated tongue diagnosis on the smartphone and its applications.

Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Tongue features are important objective basis for clinical diagnosis and treatment in both western medicine and Chinese medicine. The need for continuous monitoring of health conditions inspires us to develop an automatic tongue diagnosis system base...

An efficient soil penetration strategy for explorative robots inspired by plant root circumnutation movements.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
This paper presents a comparative analysis in terms of energy required by an artificial probe to penetrate soil implementing two different strategies: a straight penetration movement and a circumnutation, which is an oscillatory movement performed by...

Development of an Inline Dry Powder Inhaler That Requires Low Air Volume.

Journal of aerosol medicine and pulmonary drug delivery
BACKGROUND: Inline dry powder inhalers (DPIs) are actuated by an external air source and have distinct advantages for delivering aerosols to infants and children, and to individuals with compromised lung function or who require ventilator support. Ho...

Design-validation of a hand exoskeleton using musculoskeletal modeling.

Applied ergonomics
Exoskeletons are progressively reaching homes and workplaces, allowing interaction with virtual environments, remote control of robots, or assisting human operators in carrying heavy loads. Their design is however still a challenge as these robots, b...

Aerosol delivery during spontaneous breathing with different types of nebulizers- in vitro/ex vivo models evaluation.

Pulmonary pharmacology & therapeutics
BACKGROUND: Nebulizers for spontaneous breathing have been evaluated through different study designs. There are limitations in simulated bench models related to patient and nebulizer factors. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation of ...

Design, characterisation and evaluation of a soft robotic sock device on healthy subjects for assisted ankle rehabilitation.

Journal of medical engineering & technology
Motor impairment is one of the common neurological conditions suffered by stroke patients, where this chronic immobility together with the absence of early limb mobilisation can lead to conditions such as joint contracture with spastic limbs. In this...

Catheter Ablation of Focal Atrial Tachycardia Using Remote Magnetic Navigation.

The Journal of invasive cardiology
OBJECTIVES: The outcomes of catheter ablation in focal atrial tachycardia (AT) using remote magnetic navigation (RMN) are still controversial. The objectives of this study were to assess the acute and long-term outcomes of catheter ablation in focal ...

Infrared actuation-induced simultaneous reconfiguration of surface color and morphology for soft robotics.

Scientific reports
Cephalopods, such as cuttlefish, demonstrate remarkable adaptability to the coloration and texture of their surroundings by modulating their skin color and surface morphology simultaneously, for the purpose of adaptive camouflage and signal communica...