Fabrication of a steerable magnetic micro-robot

Anna C. Bakenecker; Anselm von Gladiss; Hannes Schwenke; André Behrends; Thomas Friedrich; Kerstin Lüdtke-Buzug; Alexander Neumann; Zuzana Penxová; Joerg Barkhausen; Franz Wegner; Thorsten M. Buzug

doi:10.18416/AMMM.2021.2109570

Fabrication of a steerable magnetic micro-robot

Anna C. Bakenecker, Anselm von Gladiss, Hannes Schwenke, André Behrends, Thomas Friedrich, Kerstin Lüdtke-Buzug, Alexander Neumann, Zuzana Penxová, Joerg Barkhausen, Franz Wegner, Thorsten M. Buzug

Abstract

A magnetic micro-robot is fabricated by a stereolithographic printing technique. It only measures 3 mm in length and 1.2~mm in width. After printing, the micro-robot was coated with a sealing lacquer, containing magnetic nanoparticles. Thus, magnetic properties could be introduced and the micro-robot becomes steerable by rotating magnetic fields and visible by Magnetic Particle Imaging. A model of the middle cerebral artery containing an aneurysm was chosen. This phantom was designed from patient's angiography and 3D-printed. The micro-robot could be successfully steered through the middle cerebral artery into the aneurysm of the phantom, demonstrating a future application scenario of treating aneurysms.

Original language	English
Article number	570
Journal	Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine
Volume	2021
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2021.2109570
Publication status	Published - 08.09.2021

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Academic Focus: Biomedical Engineering

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2.22-30 Radiology
2.22-32 Medical Physics, Biomedical Technology

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Fabrication of a steerable magnetic micro-robot

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