Microtechnology applications for medical instrumentation. |
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| Authors: | F Van Meer D Esteve |
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| Affiliation: | Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes (CNRS), 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, 31077 Toulouse, Cedex 4, France. fvanmeer@laas.fr |
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| Abstract: | The recent progresses in microtechnologies open new possibilities in terms of design, cost reductions, improve performances and, moreover, open new fields of applications in surgical instrumentation. Microtechnology techniques will lead to reconsider the design of medical instrumentation. Surgical tools should not be thought as mechanical systems but as surgical components ("surgical chips") designed with micro-technologies and including microsensors/microactuactors. |
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