Title
Novel endoscope system with plasma flushing for off-pump cardiac surgery.
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to develop a new endoscope for performing simple surgical tasks inside a cardiac atrium/chamber filled with blood, i.e., for performing "off-pump" cardiac surgeries. In general, it is very difficult to observe the inner wall of the vessels containing circulating blood because the light from the endoscope is scattered by the red blood cells. "Plasma flushing" performed using the separator system is developed to observe the inner side of the heart filled with blood and to remove blood cells from the front of the endoscope tip. The system was used in in vitro quantitative measurement of the device performance and in vivo experiments on a swine. In these experiments, we successfully obtained high-resolution images of the interior of the heart during off-pump surgery.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-04268-3_56
MICCAI
Keywords
Field
DocType
novel endoscope system,endoscope tip,blood cell,red blood cell,cardiac surgery,separator system,off-pump surgery,plasma flushing,inner wall,new endoscope,cardiac atrium,inner side,off-pump cardiac surgery
Biomedical engineering,Endoscope,Computer vision,Tricuspid valve,Cardiac atrium,Flushing,Cardiac surgery,Artificial intelligence,Remove blood,Surgery,Medicine
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
Pt 1
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
3
Authors
9