{"title":"Magnetic Microactuators for MEMS-Enabled Ventricular Catheters for Hydrocephalus","authors":"S.A. Lee, J. Pinney, M. Bergsneider, J. Judy","doi":"10.1109/CNE.2007.369613","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The most common treatment for patients with hydrocephalus is the surgical implantation of a cerebrospinal-fluid (CSF) shunt. A leading cause of shunt failure is the obstruction of the ventricular catheter. The goal of this project is to design a ventricular catheter that will resist occlusion through the use of micromachining and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technologies. We designed, fabricated, and tested a second-generation magnetic microactuator. The preliminary results show that the fabricated microactuators can produce the force necessary to break an adherent cellular layer grown over the microactuator surface.","PeriodicalId":427054,"journal":{"name":"2007 3rd International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering","volume":"9 Suppl 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2007 3rd International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CNE.2007.369613","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The most common treatment for patients with hydrocephalus is the surgical implantation of a cerebrospinal-fluid (CSF) shunt. A leading cause of shunt failure is the obstruction of the ventricular catheter. The goal of this project is to design a ventricular catheter that will resist occlusion through the use of micromachining and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technologies. We designed, fabricated, and tested a second-generation magnetic microactuator. The preliminary results show that the fabricated microactuators can produce the force necessary to break an adherent cellular layer grown over the microactuator surface.
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