Design and Development of Actuating System for Diagnostics Application in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS)

Abstract

This paper presents some initial concepts in the design and development of actuating systems based on shape memory alloy for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). Specially the motivation is to design tissue/fluid storage mechanism which can be used to collect samples from the surgical area for further diagnostic procedure. The proposed hybrid design combines passive source of energy with the active source. The passive source is based on the storage of spring energy and the active source is based on utilization of shape memory alloy as a part of switching mechanism, Various design concepts for the switching mechanism are presented combined with the design of their prototypes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 25, 2001
Accession Number
ADA410894

Entities

People

  • Ash Parameswaran
  • Jason Rothe
  • Shahram Payandeh

Organizations

  • Simon Fraser University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Actuators
  • Air Pressure
  • Body Fluids
  • British Columbia
  • Concept 1
  • Couplings
  • Engineering
  • Flexible Couplings
  • Leaf Springs
  • Low Voltage
  • Measurement
  • Optical Fibers
  • Prototypes
  • Sampling
  • Shape Memory Alloys
  • Springs
  • Surgery

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Oncology and Biomarker-Based Cancer Detection.
  • Robotics and Automation.