Archive for January 2021
Capita Selecta #3 – Animal Models in MD Verification process
Jaume Amat will provide his insight on the use of animal model in preclinical studies. Abstract: MDR (Medical Device Regulation) is coming and it will have a high impact in new developments. Pre-clinical Studies become relevant in this process and engineers will have to cooperate with vets. Short bio: He is a Telecommunications Engineer and…
Read MoreCapita Selecta talk “Interventional Cardiology: what we currently do and future perspectives”
We will have the pleasure to host Dr. Giovanni Monizzi form Centro Cardiologico Monzino (Milan, Italy) that will give a talk entitled: “Interventional Cardiology: what we currently do and future perspectives” Abstract: Interventional cardiology deals specifically with the catheter-based treatment of heart diseases. In the last decades, the technological advancements in this field took giant steps making…
Read MoreJournal club: Zheng et al, 2019
Zheng, Jian-Qing, Xiao-Yun Zhou, Celia Riga, and Guang-Zhong Yang International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 8747-8753. IEEE, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793918 The current standard of intra-operative navigation during Fenestrated Endovascular Aortic Repair (FEVAR) calls for the need of 3D alignments between inserted devices and aortic branches. The navigation commonly via 2D fluoroscopic images, lacks…
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