Blood vessel model equipped with ultrasound sensors for evaluation of intravascular treatment

Hiroshi Yoshida, Yasutomo Shimizu, Masaaki Shojima, Makoto Ohta, Tadao Matsunaga, Noriko Tsuruoka, Yoichi Haga

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Abstract

Intravascular surgery, such as coil embolization and stent placement, has been widely performed for treatment of cerebral aneurysms. Doctors must be skillful and sufficiently experienced to successfully manipulate and insert a guidewire and a catheter into the aneurysm via carotid and cerebral artery. Though blood vessel model is useful for training of the doctors in the field of the intravascular surgery, evaluation of doctor’s skill and efficacy of training is insufficient. In this study, an ultrasound sensor was fabricated and equipped in the cerebral blood vessel model to measure the displacement of the vessel wall that is contacted and pushed by a guidewire or a catheter. It is confirmed that the fabricated ultrasound sensor could measure the displacement of blood vessel wall by the inserted catheter.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)544-546
Number of pages3
JournalTransactions of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering
Volume55
Issue numberProc
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • Catheter procedure
  • Cerebral blood vessel model
  • Intravascular treatment
  • Ultrasound sensor

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biomedical Engineering

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