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Neurovascular Catheter Measurement System Development For Process And Design Effect Evaluation, Cathal Tadhg Merz
Neurovascular Catheter Measurement System Development For Process And Design Effect Evaluation, Cathal Tadhg Merz
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Neurovascular guide catheters are used to treat problems affecting blood vessels within the brain through minimally invasive procedures. Catheters are inserted into the patient via their femoral or brachial arteries and manually navigated to the brain to deliver treatment. This procedure replaces the requirement to cut into the patient’s skull and brain tissue but is limited by reduction of blood vessel lumen diameter and increase in tortuosity of blood vessels deep in the brain. During these procedures, catheters can sometimes fail by kinking or fracturing into two pieces. The rate of failure by fracture of a particular neurovascular catheter device …