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Retinal vein cannulation is a promising yet challenging eye surgical procedure currently not practised in clinic. Its goal is to inject a clot-dissolving drug into an occluded retinal vein. Given the scale and the fragility of retinal veins on one side and surgeons' limited positioning precision and force perception on the other side, performing this procedure manually is considered to be too risky...
Advances in miniature surgical instrumentation are key to less invasive and safer medical interventions. In cardiovascular procedures interventionalists turn towards catheter-based interventions, treating patients considered unfit for classical more invasive approaches. Improvements in design and steerability of catheters could further reduce the invasiveness of these interventions. For example, by...
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