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URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.wpi.edu/news/calendar/events/robotics-engineering-
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SUMMARY:Robotics Engineering Master\'s Thesis Presentation: Dylan MacAllast
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DESCRIPTION:Developing a Magnetically Stabilized Catheter for Cardiac Ablat
 ion with On-Board Actuation\n\n\nImage\n  \n\n\n\nOne goal of heart surger
 y is to be as minimally invasive as possible. To achieve this, some proced
 ures employ a guidewire-based system where the surgeon will insert a guide
 wire to the femoral artery, following it into the heart where the procedur
 e can be performed. In the case of cardiac ablations, the ideal procedure 
 involves applying a consistent force to the inner walls of the heart while
  it is beating. I aim to show that by including actuatable magnets in the 
 tip of the catheter, the applied force can be made more consistent through
 out the procedure without the need for external magnetic field generation.
  To do this, a model is developed to predict the behavior of the robot's t
 ip under different actuation parameters, and a prototype is developed to v
 erify this model experimentally.\nAdvisor: Professor Giovanni PittiglioCom
 mittee: Professor Vincent Aloi, Professor Pratap Rao\nZoom link: https://w
 pi.zoom.us/j/97676564811\n
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