Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021): Trans. AMMM
https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2021.2109570

Scaffolds, Implants and Drug Delivery Systems, ID 570

Fabrication of a steerable magnetic micro-robot

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Anna C. Bakenecker (Institute of Medical Engineering, University of Luebeck, Germany and Fraunhofer Research Institution for Individualized and Cell-Based Medical Engineering IMTE, Lübeck, Germany), Anselm von Gladiss (Institute of Medical Engineering, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; now with: Active Vision Group, Institute of Computational Visualistics, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany), Hannes Schwenke (Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23562 Lübeck, Germany), André Behrends (Fraunhofer Research Institution for Individualized and Cell-Based Medical Engineering IMTE, Lübeck, Germany), Thomas Friedrich (Fraunhofer Research Institution for Individualized and Cell-Based Medical Engineering IMTE, Lübeck, Germany), Kerstin Lüdtke-Buzug (Institute of Medical Engineering, University of Luebeck, Germany), Alexander Neumann (Institute of Medical Engineering, University of Luebeck, Germany), Zuzana Penxová (Institute of Medical Engineering, University of Luebeck, Germany), Joerg Barkhausen (Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center, Germany), Franz Wegner (Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center, Germany), Thorsten M. Buzug (Institute of Medical Engineering, University of Luebeck, Germany and Fraunhofer Research Institution for Individualized and Cell-Based Medical Engineering IMTE, Lübeck, Germany)

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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.

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Bakenecker, A. C., von Gladiss, A., Schwenke, H., Behrends, A., Friedrich, T., Lüdtke-Buzug, K., … Buzug, T. M. (2021). Fabrication of a steerable magnetic micro-robot . Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine, 3(1), 570. https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2021.2109570