• DocumentCode
    1769392
  • Title

    Real-time epidural anesthesia guidance using optical coherence tomography needle probe

  • Author

    Qinggong Tang ; Chia-Pin Liang ; Wu, Kaijie ; Sandler, Anthony ; Yu Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Fischell Dept. of Bioeng., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Epidural anesthesia is one of the most widely used anesthesia methods. We developed a small hand-held OCT forward-imaging needle device for real-time epidural anesthesia surgery guidance and demonstrated its feasibility through ex vivo experiments.
  • Keywords
    epidemics; needles; optical tomography; surgery; ex vivo experiments; needle probe; optical coherence tomography; real-time epidural anesthesia surgery guidance; small hand-held OCT forward-imaging needle device; Anesthesia; Biomedical optical imaging; Needles; Optical imaging; Real-time systems; Surgery;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6988308
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1769392