A Vascular Intervention Assist Device Using Bi-Motional Roller Cartridge Structure and Clinical Evaluation.

Conventional vascular intervention procedures present issues including X-ray exposure during operation, and an experience-dependent success rate and clinical outcome. This paper presents a novel robotic system using modularized bi-motional roller cartridge assemblies for robotic vascular interventions, specifically percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). The patient-side robot manipulates instruments such as the guiding catheter, guidewire, balloon/stent catheter, and diagnostic sensor catheter via commands from the user interface device, which is controlled by the physician.

A Sarcopenia Detection System Using an RGB-D Camera and an Ultrasound Probe: Eye-in-Hand Approach.

Skeletal muscle mass deficiency and quality degradation constitute sarcopenia for elderly people. Sarcopenia can result in musculoskeletal damage and accompany various metabolic problems, which make early sarcopenia diagnosis important. Various modalities, such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), have been developed for screening sarcopenia.

Polymer wrapping-induced dispersion of single walled carbon nanotubes in ethylene glycol under mild sonication.

SWCNTs were individually dispersed in ethylne glycol (EG) mild bath-type sonication using quaternized poly(furfuryl methacrylate)--(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) p(FMA--QDMAEMA) as a dispersing agent. QDMAEMA, which has alkyl groups, was more favorable to the dispersion ability of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). The dispersion mechanism of SWCNTs in EG helical wrapping of polymer chains along their sidewalls was suggested based on transmission electron microscopic observation.