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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1563-1567 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Procedia Engineering |
Volume | 168 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Event | Eurosensors 2016: The 30th anniversary Eurosensors Conference - Budapest, Hungary Duration: 4 Sept 2016 → 7 Sept 2016 |
Keywords
- Intravascular Ultrasound
- Assembly
- Microfabrication
- Platform Technology
- Flex-to-Rigid