Title :
Preliminary design of a SIMO fuzzy controller for steering microparticles inside blood vessels by using a magnetic resonance imaging system
Author :
Peng, Ke ; Martel, Sylvain
Author_Institution :
NanoRobotics Laboratory, in Department of Computer Engineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, QC, H3T 1J4 Canada
fDate :
Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011
Abstract :
In this paper, a Single-Input-Multiple-Output (SIMO) fuzzy controller is designed to drive an upgraded clinical real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system to provide steering forces for an aggregation of ferromagnetic microparticles in the human cardiovascular system according to a pre-set pathway. This kind of endovascular navigation is considered as an important procedure of the catheter-based method for medical treatments against diseases such as some particular types of cancers. The validity of the fuzzy controller has been tested by preliminary simulation results.
Keywords :
Biomedical imaging; Blood vessels; Magnetic resonance imaging; Navigation; Niobium; Propulsion; Real time systems; Blood Vessels; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Feedback; Ferric Compounds; Fuzzy Logic; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Immunomagnetic Separation; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Micromanipulation; Microspheres; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4121-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090206
