Artificial retinal vein model with semicircular cross-section for microcannulation

Author

Kato, Ippei ; Mitsuishi, Mamoru ; Sugita, Naohiko ; Harada, Kanako ; Tanaka, Shoji ; Noda, Yasuo ; Ueta, Takashi ; Arai, Fumihito

Author_Institution

Dept. of Micro-Nano Syst. Eng., Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

10-13 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

This paper reports fabrication of retinal microvessels model for evaluation of microcannulation. Because microcannulation as a new treatment for retinal vein occlusion is difficult surgery operation, development and evaluation of microsurgical robot systems to assistant vitreoretinal surgery is needed. Evaluation of microcannulation needs a retinal microvessels model without individual difference. Therefore, we fabricated artificial microvessel models with the scale and the cross-sectional shape simulating the actual vascular by using the micro-nano-processing technology.

Keywords

biomedical materials; blood vessels; diseases; eye; microfabrication; tissue engineering; artificial retinal vein model; assistant vitreoretinal surgery; cross-sectional shape simulation; micro-nanoprocessing technology; microcannulation; microsurgical robot system development; microsurgical robot system evaluation; retinal microvessel model fabrication; retinal vein occlusion treatment; semicircular cross-section; surgery operation; Fabrication; Microsurgery; Retina; Robots; Semiconductor device modeling; Veins;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science (MHS), 2013 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Nagoya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1527-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MHS.2013.6710418

Filename

6710418