Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Flexible electronics help in cardiac procedures

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a catheter which makes use of stretchable electronics.

This means a number of different catheter functions can be included on one catheter, reducing the trauma involved in using a series of different catheters.

To read more about this development, follow one of the university links above.



Story courtesy of theengineer.co.uk.

Image courtesy of University of Illinois.

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