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CASE 12 / Medical

Magnetic tentacles for deeper lung access

A 2.4 mm magnetic catheter combines shape sensing and an optical fiber for peripheral-airway navigation.

Leeds · Magnetic tentacles2023
Platform concept and experimental setup, Fig. 1 of the paper.
Platform concept and experimental setup, Fig. 1 of the paper.Pittiglio et al., 2023 · Fig. 1 · CC BY 4.0

Watch the video

Supplementary Video S1 · online shape sensing · Pittiglio et al. / Communications Engineering · 1080p source video

Original video sourceS2: airway-phantom navigation
01 / STUDY

Mechanism and experiments

The paper reports airway-phantom navigation and laser delivery, plus navigation comparisons in excised lung tissue.

02 / CONTEXT

Test conditions and scope

The work covers airway models and ex-vivo lung tissue. The video shows shape sensing; patient treatment was not validated in this study.

03 / SOURCE

Papers and primary sources

Personalized magnetic tentacles for targeted photothermal cancer therapy in peripheral lungs
Giovanni Pittiglio, James H. Chandler, Tomas da Veiga et al.
Communications Engineering 2, 50

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