Intravascular Ultrasound at the Tip of a Guidewire

Title

Intravascular Ultrasound at the Tip of a Guidewire: Concept and First Assembly Steps

 Author

Stoute, R. (TU Delft Electronic Components, Technology and Materials)
Louwerse, M.C. (Philips Research)
Henneken, VA (Philips Research)
Dekker, R. (TU Delft Electronic Components, Technology and Materials; Philips Research) ORCID 0000-0003-0839-4342

 Date

2016

 Abstract

Minimally invasive surgery of the most lethal disease worldwide, coronary artery disease, benefits from better diagnostic tools during the treatment. With this in mind, a novel concept is introduced for intravascular ultrasound on a 360 μm diameter guidewire. The complex manufacture of this medical instrument, and other devices that require extreme miniaturization, will benefit from our previously presented Flex-to-Rigid assembly platform. However, currently the scalability of this technology is limited by etch-dependent effects. But with an innovation on the process flow presented here, the required smaller, well-defined, arbitrary shaped rigid islands with flexible interconnects between them were fabricated, therefore making it possible to manufacture this device.

 Subject

Intravascular Ultrasound
Assembly
Microfabrication
Platform Technology
Flex-to-Rigid

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 DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.11.461

 ISSN

1877-7058

 Source

Procedia Engineering, 168, 1563-1567

 Event

Eurosensors 2016, 2016-09-04 → 2016-09-07, Budapest, Hungary

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

journal article

 Rights

© 2016 R. Stoute, M.C. Louwerse, VA Henneken, R. Dekker
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