Human-scale navigation of magnetic microrobots in hepatic arteries

N Li, P Fei, C Tous, M Rezaei Adariani, ML Hautot… - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
Using external actuation sources to navigate untethered drug-eluting microrobots in the
bloodstream offers great promise in improving the selectivity of drug delivery, especially in …

Optimal structure of particles-based superparamagnetic microrobots: application to MRI guided targeted drug therapy

L Mellal, K Belharet, D Folio, A Ferreira - Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 2015 - Springer
This paper presents an optimal design strategy for therapeutic magnetic micro carriers
(TMMC) guided in real time by a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. As aggregates …

Magnetic navigation and tracking of multiple ferromagnetic microrobots inside an arterial phantom setup for MRI guided drug therapy

N Kumar, V Verma, L Behera - Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Magnetic steering of ferromagnetic microrobots facilitates active drug targeting and
minimally invasive treatment of deep seated tumour cells. Several techniques for magnetic …

MRI-based microrobotic system for the propulsion and navigation of ferromagnetic microcapsules

K Belharet, D Folio, A Ferreira - Minimally Invasive Therapy & …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents real-time MRI-based control of a ferromagnetic microcapsule for
endovascular navigation. The concept was studied for future development of microdevices …

Magnetic navigation system for the precise helical and translational motions of a microrobot in human blood vessels

SM Jeon, GH Jang, HC Choi, SH Park… - Journal of Applied …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Different magnetic navigation systems (MNSs) have been investigated for the wireless
manipulation of microrobots in human blood vessels. Here we propose a MNS and …

Combining pulsed and DC gradients in a clinical MRI-based microrobotic platform to guide therapeutic magnetic agents in the vascular network

S Martel - International Journal of Advanced Robotic …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Magnetic Resonance Navigation (MRN) relies on the use of an upgraded clinical Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner to navigate therapeutic, imaging, or diagnostic magnetic …

Multifunctional microrobot with real-time visualization and magnetic resonance imaging for chemoembolization therapy of liver cancer

G Go, A Yoo, KT Nguyen, M Nan, BA Darmawan… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Microrobots that can be precisely guided to target lesions have been studied for in vivo
medical applications. However, existing microrobots have challenges in vivo such as …

Microrobotic navigable entities for magnetic resonance targeting

S Martel - 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic Resonance Targeting (MRT) uses MRI for gathering tracking data to determine the
position of microscale entities with the goal of guiding them towards a specific target in the …

Utilization of magnetic gradients in a magnetic navigation system for the translational motion of a micro-robot in human blood vessels

SM Jeon, GH Jang, HC Choi, SH Park… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a method to generate the translational motions of a micro-robot in
human blood vessels by utilizing the magnetic gradients of a magnetic navigation system …

Two-dimensional robust magnetic resonance navigation of a ferromagnetic microrobot using pareto optimality

D Folio, A Ferreira - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a two-dimensional (2-D) autonomous navigation strategy of a 750-μm
steel microrobot along a complex fluidic vascular network inside the bore of a clinical 3.0 T …